Greetings Commanders!
Yet Another Middle Aged American (YAMAA) here! I'll try to keep it straight-forward, A-B-C, and then leave other commentary folded under 'Spoilers' if you really want to read more.
A) Callsign ...My call-sign is straight-forward, "BS" are my initials IRL, and often referred to by my colleagues given how much I love to talk, often of useless information and trivia. Given it is so short, I've increased it to
"TheBS" to fit most character requirements.**
B) Purpose ...I'm looking for fellow CMDRs in largely the
southeastern US (although I'm open to anywhere too), especially those like me who are only extremely casual gamers. I have avoided Open Play, and want to stick with friends only. A colleague at my new client turned me on to this PvE group.
C) Hangout ...When I'm not exploring, of which I've only just started doing, I tend to hang out in the still prestine
Delkar system (e.g., metallic rings of Delkar 7) and either mine myself or kill raiders (of my fellow miners).
I'm kinda getting bored of the Delkar system, and might be moving to another, prestine system with a metallic ring (or two) in the near future. Feel free to suggest an area with lots of fellow Mobius members.
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I've been playing since 1.0's release, all Solo, starting around last July, being an American and totally missing the Kickstarter and knowing nothing that my beloved Elite (largely played II and First Contact on PC) and that Braben et al. had been quite busy. This is very likely due to me being an extremely casual gamer, largely because I have traveled almost 100% for over 10 of the last 15 years, which makes it difficult to lug a workstation (even a 15.6-17.3") with the prerequisite specs.
In fact, I probably download to, and play on, my phone Lave Radio podcasts and Obsidian Ant videos more than I play the game, just because of how much I travel. But I'm not traveling as much currently, hence the re-interest in friending people to play on-line with.
I'm hovering around a total worth of only 45M credits, largely from trading, then mining and, only more recently, exploring, with a few planets discovered by me within 200ly of the Coal Sack (yes, even this late, in 2016 April). My goal is to get enough worth to purchase a Python, probably need a worth around 100M total to outfit it well.
Until then, my primary combat and mining ship is just a simple Vulture, with a single Class 3 Gimbaled Beam Weapon (one is just right for the power plant), and a Class 2 Mining Laser. I find it adequate to just have 32 units for cargo, a 6 bin Refinery and just a single Collector Limpet, which takes me less than a hour to fill with my favorite 4-5 metals. Anyone who screws with me mining gets the C3 Beam and has a bad day.
This is in addition to the obvious need for a well-equipped Asp Explorer for exploration, although I still have 64 units of cargo space in it too.
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Living 30 minutes from the beach, when I'm home on the weekends, I also enjoy body boarding regularly. Being in Florida with well over 100" (a good 3m) of rain per year, I have a weather sealed Pentax K-mount system for photography.
I have nothing against Ferraris, Lambos, Porsches, and am an avid watcher of Le Mans, including our American Le Mans (although United SportsCar has been disappointing), some of the ADAC (especially with the new Callaway C7 GT3), and even some of the more local series like German GTM and the Aussie V8 Supercars. But being an American with our low-cost, domestic options, I'm your classic, pushrod V8 lover. So we (wife and I of ~20 years) have an 6.2L LT1 in our '16 Camaro SS, along with an older 6.2L LS3 in our (albeit recently sold) '09 Corvette Coupe Z51 and a 5.7L L98 in our '87 Corvette Convertible (more for using in parades, than performance).
Being an American, being a spectator of American football is a common given, although I prefer college, non-Power 5. My Alma Mater is UCF, but I follow a lot of non-P5 teams, from Boise to Navy.
In my professional life, being an Free and Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) "[white hat] hacker" and Subject Matter Expert (SME), I have a lot of interest in Infrastructure (e.g., KVM/oVirt, OpenStack, CloudFoundry, OpenShift, et al.), including SDN/SDS (Software Defined Networking/Storage), as well as Automation (e.g., Cobbler, Foreman, Katello, Puppet, Ansible, et al.).**
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CMDR TheBS**P.S. If you've been around Free and Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS), I also go by "bjs"(e.g., @redhat.com, @hp.com) over the years, as those select clients/employers of mine would not allow me to use just "BS" or "TheBS" for obvious, professional reasons.
