What are you doing (ingame) now?

[Schmobius]

Collecting so many shiny rocks to make Jumponium. Gearing up for a short-ish exploration expedition, and doing what I can before I can start grinding on engineers stuff to upgrade my FSD. I plan to truck out there without stripping down my ship too much, so I really need to become buddies with an engineer...

[Geopan]

Psi Octantis Compromised Nav Beacon. I started at Aerial to boost my combat rank before 2.1 , but got me a bounty while helping a wingman who was attacked by clean NPC's for having a bounty in a different system. Is that valid by the way? I mean he was not wanted in Aerial but after the scan, he was immediately stormed by NPC bounty hunters and I had to help him.

Anyway, after two attempts to make my bounty dormant by Suicidewinders, I got fed up with my bounty being reinstated because of involuntary fire on clean NPC's and fled the system.

I changed ships too. Instead of the Battleconda I took my Fer de Lance. Slower progress, true, but much more fun to fly. I encountered 2 cases though, where I could not get the kill as easily. In both cases it was a Federal Gunship, and while I stripped them of their shields pretty quickly, I had trouble damaging hull with burst and one large pulse. Is its armour so strong?

[Schmobius]

Yes, they are tanks.

[OLd_Sarg]

Like a few of us here, I have been upping my combat rank, last night I got Expert
so that will be as far as I get till 2.1 drops.
sounds like then it gets harder.

[Darwin]

Ran a mission from Apathaam, then switched to beta.

As it is the last day or so, I decided to try the 'Achenar Challenge', in a Cutter.

I failed so far.

Achenar 3 is high G - 6.73G and the challenge is to land. You have to keep full boost up just to slow the decent.
Bounced 6 times trying to land (could not find a suitable surface). First 4 took out the shields, 5th did hull damage and the 6th showed the beta re-buy screen.

Got to test it too I guess

[Schmobius]

Ran a mission from Apathaam, then switched to beta.

As it is the last day or so, I decided to try the 'Achenar Challenge', in a Cutter.

I failed so far.

Achenar 3 is high G - 6.73G and the challenge is to land. You have to keep full boost up just to slow the decent.
Bounced 6 times trying to land (could not find a suitable surface). First 4 took out the shields, 5th did hull damage and the 6th showed the beta re-buy screen.

Got to test it too I guess

It can be done, I've seen it in videos, but I usually have trouble landing at planetary ports in a Cutter even at 2g. I will smack into buildings and bounce off the pad a bit.

[Darwin]

As it is the last day or so of beta, I decided to try the 'Achenar Challenge', in a Cutter.

I failed so far.

Achenar 3 is high G - 6.73G and the challenge is to land.
(SNIP)
Rebuy
(SNIP)
Got to test it too I guess

It can be done, I've seen it in videos
(SNIP)

I now have one that shows how not to

[Rimsplitter]

Been trying out different weapons on my FAS just because all-pulses is dull despite being so effective. Gave up on the Imperial Hammer pretty quickly.

Also got Baron rank with surprisingly little effort.

[Orkekum]

Been trying out different weapons on my FAS just because all-pulses is dull despite being so effective. Gave up on the Imperial Hammer pretty quickly.

Also got Baron rank with surprisingly little effort.

I wasnt a fan of the hardpoints and terrible shields so i sold mine >_>
Back to fdl and python

[Schmobius]

Been trying out different weapons on my FAS just because all-pulses is dull despite being so effective. Gave up on the Imperial Hammer pretty quickly.

Also got Baron rank with surprisingly little effort.

I'll take dull but effective any day. I run all pulse on my Cutter, though I am eagerly awaiting the addition of a huge pulse. Hopefully it's not too heavy/warm/power-hungry.

Right now, I have like 15 jumps worth of Jumponium of various grades I've collected over the last few days, and I'm anxious to get started on engineers upgrades to my FSD, if nothing else.