Am 26.08.2014 00:39, schrieb Stephen:

>> Rakapila? OMG - you should have told me earlier. I found myself stranded
>> there couple of hours ago in my petty Sidewinder, and decided to restart
>> from scratch; for some reasons, it seems an all-empty Sidewinder can
>> just about make it /in/ to Rakapila but not /back/ - and there's not
>> much profit to be made there to upgrade to a ship with more jump range.
>
> This is true. I had to drop some cheep cargo to get to Bolg & Ross 1015
> I'll head back towards the centre. And we can meet up there,
>
>> I'm currently making cargo runs between Ovid and... uh, dunno, that
>> neighboring system beginning with O... hauling fish and crop harvesters.
>
> There is a good run between Aulin and I Bootis.

Hm... I prefer to avoid Aulin because it tends to be overcrowded, and 
the docking computer seems to freak out in such situations...

Speaking of profit and dropping cargo: A few hours ago I had to jettison 
a can of algae and a barrel of fish into space; including the fines for 
littering the surroundings of a space station that was a loss of about 
800 credits. Totally worth it though when you have the unexpected 
opportunity to scoop in two crates of battle weapons from an annihilated 
ship - they sold at about 5,000 bucks each :-D (I could probably have 
made even more profit if I hadn't sold at the first opportunity, but I 
didn't like flying around with those crates being labeled "stolen".)


> With, Terrain Enrichment Systems and Fish.
> Round trip profit with 4 Tons is 2800 + 600
>
> And with a 100t hauler it is 83000.

Maybe I should indeed get me one of these for a change, until I've got 
the money together to buy that Cobra Mk III.


> I do remember playing M$ Flight Simulator with the keyboard. That must
> have been able to use a joystick. Back in the BBS days.

Certainly so. If you had one of those fancy new SoundBlaster cards of 
course.

I suspect it could also make good use of the CH Flightstick Pro - you 
know, the one with the four buttons, coolie hat, and throttle slider.


>>> But to read some of the posters in the forum it is like hand coding SDL.
>>> The only TRUE path. ;-)
>>
>> .... except for (air and space) flight simulations, which you
>> absolutely, positively /never/ play without.
>
> Well I did but I'm talking twenty odd years ago.
> And I knew at the time I wanted a joystick.

I had always been into flight sims, so I got me a joystick quite early - 
I had quite a collection at the end of the gameport era. Some were 
pretty useless, usually because they would never calibrate properly - an 
ailment that was annoyingly widespread in the gameport world. But I got 
one yoke that was ok, and the CH products were always reliable in this 
respect (and actually in any other respect as well).

I always thought the CH product line to be the top of them all; somehow 
they felt more precise and less toy-ish as all the other brands (let 
alone non-brands) - maybe because CH also has expertise in actual 
airplane equipment.

But you ain't seen nothin' yet until you get your hands on the 
Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog. If Microsoft, Saitek and Logitech (and even 
the other Thrustmaster stuff) are pop or rock & roll, and the CH stuff 
is hard rock, then this is heavy metal - literally, as a matter of fact.

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