Elite: Dangerous - Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

[@taynor22]

What most people forget, when they tell you about the Hutton Orbital outpost and the free Anaconda is that you have to land there in a large ship. Just take a Type-7, it's relatively cheap. If you manage to land it there, you'll get your shiny new Conda

[@daszieher]

@The Bog 'Ole oh, no! He's just sparing a hapless noob from the large disappointment of showing up in an Asp, only to find out, he should have come in a "large" ship to trade it in for.

[@jacksonms212]

@The Bog 'Ole nope ... thats a lot evil ;) o7

[@jacksonms212]

don't listen to him Hutton only has Med. and small docking platforms ....

[@tomriley5790]

There's also a Prince in Tau Ceti who wants to send you some money, he just needs you to pay some into an account for it.

[@glenmcgillivray4707]

Obviously folks haven't properly mapped the Proxima Centauri system. If you scan carefully you will discover the path to the large research station in the Oort Cloud or it's rough equivalent. Remember to pack full fuel tanks and enough beer of your choosing to get the crew there drunk to complete the mission and get your reward. (Yes yes I know it is a warning beacon in a military ordinance testing ground and the only 'people' are automated repair robots so the beer is worthless. Let the Noobs enjoy the experience for themselves dodging weapon systems designed to take down Stations up close and personal)

[@deelkar]

I have been 5 times to Hutton Orbital (or close enough as makes no difference), in my Anaconda, as a Fuel Rat.

[@NYC-Gardener]

Lol I feel like as fuel rats we end up at Hutton because of that damn joke almost as much as the Hutton Truckers lol

[@Parabueto]

My only trips to Hutton Started as rescues too XD

[@JimmyCrawford]

Yes, people do not ever learn. Least it wasn't a faceplant into a star. Those are fun.

[@magecraft2]

You know in star wars when Alderaan is destroyed Ben feels a great disturbance in the force, well when Jingles crashed in Elite it was the complete opposite and Jedi's everywhere said they felt a sudden balance in the force :)

[@Ariana321]

"Grade 5 shield booster upgrades. Nice to have but not essential." ...Probably one of the most overpowered upgrades in the game, actually.

[@Majima_Nowhere]

A chieftain with g5 thermal resist bi-weaves and 2-3 g5 resistance augmented boosters is a force to be reckoned with. It'll have almost 1000mj effective shielding against thermal, but when the shields FINALLY come down they only have about one minute to recharge.

[@Angelis99]

Not Probably, IS! A Buddy got a corvette with 7 modded boosters, a heatsink, a 7B shield cell bank, 7A modded shields, and he can sit in the middle of a high conflict zone for 20 to 30 minutes before needing to move out, longer if he synths reloads for the sinks.

[@celestinonatale]

Yeah, my engineered Cutter agrees with you.

[@KenS1267]

You meant the most overpowered upgrade in the game.

[@powerline4564]

@@Angelis99 you wont even need a heatsink, just get 8 boosters, one booster means up to 1k mj more

[@aciarduce]

Jingles Landing. I'm so proud to see the original in action once more!!!

[@MrGrimsmith]

Yup, as soon as he said "removed shield generator" I knew we were going to see an epic Jingles landing. It never gets old :P

[@lairdcummings9092]

Foreshadowing, working as intended.

[@Reddotzebra]

He forgot to add "When carrying a cargo of LAND MINES" XD

[@jgass8522]

18:01 Jingles just because people show as lawless doesnt mean they're pirates! In a lawless system you need to scan them with a kill warrant scanner to see if they're wanted or not; in this section you were literally just murdering innocent miners and their escorts!

[@Gibby34340]

Actually, "lawless" means that nothing done to or against them won't be seen as a crime, or just won't be reported. You'll usually only see "lawless" NPC's when entering trespass zones and you trigger a defense response. It does seem very inconsistent though, I've killed "lawless" criminal NPC's at surface installations labelled and accrued a bounty for it...

[@jgass8522]

@@Gibby34340 yea i know theres no penalty, but jingles aint getting anything for it either.

[@Danspy501st]

Good thing that I more or less know what ships the wanteds are flying in

[@Angelis99]

Yes and No. But using a Kill Warrant Scanner on them before you kill them "WILL" get you money "IF" they have bounties outside of said lawless system.

[@KintchD]

Holy crap, he is just massacring miners left and right and calling them "pirates"... this is even more Jingles moment than the "landing" he did...!

[@Gibby34340]

17:20 THERE is the Jingles landing we've all been waiting for

[@Kernub]

Those were not pirates, you were in a low-security/anarchy system, you got no bounty out of them, you attacked a miner with his escort. Jingles please never change Edit: look at the lawless tags instead of wanted, you get one too when you go in those systems

[@travishabursky4362]

They know what they did. They deserved it.

[@ValentineC137]

@@travishabursky4362 Just look at that innocent rock being torn apart, absolute animals

[@darkhawkgaming3238]

@@ValentineC137 me deep core mining.... nothing to see here

[@shiron1158]

Jingles saying he’s doing nothing interesting in the description. Oh boy how’s he gonna embarrassingly screw up this time? Edit: Yep, there it is. Just when you think Jingles has hit bedrock and can’t dig any lower, he finds a portal to another dimension and digs there.

[@TheCaptainCrack]

And he will smash that dimension up to the next level! I cant wait to see him take the neutron highway xD

[@georgevana]

Coming up next: Jingles: "And this is how you call Hull Seals and Fuel Rats, kids."

[@usp211816]

Just googled Hull Seals, could have used that last week when I was 2kly from the nearest station and accidentally face planted a moon, limping away with 30% hull.

[@VolatileBullfrog]

"Knock on wood " Thousands of dogs across the planet begin barking in unison

[@Gibby34340]

Just waiting for the moment that Jingles crashes at his first orbital visit in Colonia, only to see his last-visited station 10k+ light years away. xD

[@mercurylamp4009]

I could feel the sinking feeling in my stomach reach its peak when I heard that second boost while you were trying to request a landing at Liz Ryder's base. 300+ tons of ship full of explosives sure as hell doesn't come to a stop gently. This is why whenever I'm making planetary approaches or landings, I always, always let myself take the extra 20-30 seconds to ensure a shallow landing trajectory. In both game and in real life, the laws of physics are a cruel and heartless bitch if a mere mortal gets cocky with them.

[@Gibby34340]

It also doesn't help that despite apparently having reverse thrusters, we're unable to use them as brakes, for whatever reason...

[@Ryuk1shi]

@@Gibby34340 They are used and you can see them a lot during his approach - they are just no match to your main engines especially right after boosting. I have to commend Jingles for his maneuver though - if he had boosted once realigned he might have survived even!

[@darthkarl99]

Or as the old quote goes. "Sir Issac Newton Is The Deadliest Motherfucker In Space" Pardon the language it's a quote.

[@tobiasstamenkovic9628]

Or you just dont skimp out on your shields, to retain your "face breaking" capabilities. ;) Which actually speeds up landings quite a bit. Just slam right into the center of the landing pad and BAM, positioned perfectly without the need for a docking computer.

[@elmateo77]

I just always run with the docking computer. The extra 2 tons of cargo space you get isn't worth the hassle. If you need to transport more just go grab a python.

[@ryanhinson7329]

After doing missions in alpha Centauri I’ve learned two things: one, don’t go there. And two, going 1.5 million light seconds gives you enough time to watch whatever tv show you want.

[@Danspy501st]

What I normally do is that I dont take any missions to that system, unless I see more of them. That way I still get a good payout for the time of travel. Basically a data transport mission from Sol to Hutton Orbital can be something like 1,2 or so million credits

[@elmateo77]

@@Danspy501st Or you could just go mine LTDs and get like 150-200 million credits in an hour...

[@Danspy501st]

@@elmateo77 I cold, but I dont want to bother with as I can live with to do, as I fine with what I do to get the credits. Beside after the patch had came out, profit for LTD had been lowered. Also I dont want set around to find LTDs in the first place. I take what I can, but right now Im more then 1k light year away from the bubble exploring systems

[@TheGeoCheese]

Daniel Jensen the profit for it wasn’t lowered. The quantity of LTDs that you could get within minutes has. Stop misleading the uninformed.

[@ryanhinson7329]

Elf Loved actually the price of Ltd and the spawn rate were both nerfed as if rate now until the commodity markets fix themselves the highest prices we are seeing for Ltds are under a million

[@Apollad2]

Why do i get the feeling we're going to see Jingles mess up on the Neutron Highway, not by getting caught in the jetstream, but from not having an Auto-Field Maintenance Unit and burning out his frame shift drive. It was the one thing he didn't mention in his loadout

[@LucaRuggier]

I know I haven't played World of Tanks in a while, but damn it looks different

[@BloodsplatterBE]

Gameplay seems to have improved massively as well!

[@nazamroth8427]

Much less toxic since the FTL update.

[@paulvamos7319]

Lol.

[@davidandmartinealbon3155]

From what I can tell there was no gold ammo used in this entire video

[@dirkwink9470]

I'm enjoying your E:D series and it got me back into playing (although maybe a bit late seeing as they've stopped with things like Galnet acommunity goals). Could you at some point mention EDDN (Elite Dangerous Data Network)and EDMC (Elite Dangerous Market Connector). Al those sites like Inara and EDDB get their data from the EDDN, which in turn gets it from individual players who are running EDMC in the background. EDMC uploads System, Station and market data every time you dock at a station. New players may not realize that the EDDN and EDMC exist or that those sites don't hack directly into the background simulation. The more players that use EDMC the more accurate those sites become and the more up to date the information is.

[@demandred992]

Jingles, when you come out of supercruise, position yourself between the Station and the body it is orbiting, you will drop in front of the Mailslot

[@Gibby34340]

Really? All this time, I could never figure out how to get myself positioned better for landing at orbitals, thnx for the tip!!!

[@demandred992]

@@Gibby34340 no problem! it will take some practice but eventually you'll get a feel for coming around the station and dropping directly in front of it.

[@Ryuk1shi]

Or just use your target display. Though this information is helpful for coriolis stations where you can't see the mailslot from your location.

[@Gibby34340]

@@Ryuk1shi For coriolis stations, I just learned to look at the nearby flying ships and the rotation axis of the station to find the mailslot. Things like this become second nature after playing the game for years.

[@EvoraGT430]

This is faithful to the very original Elite.

[@Dumbrarere]

Jingles: "There IS one commodity at Hutton Orbital that you can't get anywhere else." Me: "Oh? Do tell, Jingles!" Jingles: "It's a Hutton... Orbital... mug." *Shows off a literal coffee mug with the Hutton Orbital logo on it.* Me: "Well, that is an insult if there ever was one."

[@ronaldthompson4989]

Made from the drives of ships that ran out of fuel trying to get there XD

[@stiimuli]

Looking forward to the next couple videos. Never felt the need to go as far out as Colonia so I'll just be a passenger (mission) on your 'conda and enjoy the sightseeing cruise =) Oh, before we leave, I should probably mention that i may be wanted in multiple systems. Hope that's not a problem, Captain.

[@Uktarget67]

Lave station I remember it well, especially when you get it right that one time and your speccy crashed.

[@Montrala]

When I just got into ED I took courier mission in my Sidewinder to ... Hutton Orbital. Gave up half way. Later I did several trips to Hutton Orbital during The Mug event. I even still have conmemorative stickerc on my old notebook. BTW Even „FA off” flight model is not „Newtonian”. It still is has speed limit and rotation speed tied in to movement speed. Actually only game that I remeber having one was first I-War (aka Independence War).

[@therdku]

What you lack in any kind of flying skill, you make up for in video titles and editing. Hats off to you sir.

[@cynicalcygnus763]

Shield booster upgrades are amazing! Seriously, look in to them.

[@FlammeNoel]

I have been to Sag A* two times, exploration was the first Elite rank I got. Now, seeing you taking a 4A fuel scoop on an anaconda hurts me deep down, you know. Fuel tanks are not that important because you can just filter the stars you can scoop fuel from and apply the filters to your route. Bi-weave shields made me laugh, just take D class shields they are lighter. And in the thousands and thousands of jumps I made I never ever needed weapons because I haven't seen a single soul in any of my deep space explorations. Keep up the great content though. It's always a pleasure to follow your achievements on this beautiful game

[@jeggredbaenre2191]

Shield boosters are the single most OP items in the game, Jingles. Just strap a couple of fully engineered ones onto your Cutter and enjoy your then truly legendary shields.

[@alexbrentnall4412]

"Where can I get 200 landmines?".... Why do I have a picture in my head of the Police asking Jingles why he googled "where to get landmines?" :p

[@rcairnut]

I did the Colonia trip in a stock Sidewinder for the Outlander Challenge when there was almost nothing but Jacques there. it was a fun trip for sure!

[@MrRavenBlackwing]

Wednesday Jingles: "I won't f--- it up." Saturday Jingles: "So, I f---ed it up."

[@error404namenotfound7]

I just looove these videos about Elite. They are entertaining and relaxing at the same time. Hope for many many videos to come.

[@tonypenfold926]

More red dwarf references, Jingles this is one of your best series. Been laughing my bo11ocks off all the way through. Even bought the game for myself 😁. Awesome stuff

[@peterwouldes3925]

I knew I recognized the reference from somewhere. Thank you for clearing that up. It was bugging me that I couldn't pin it down.

[@Slayer_Jesse]

Well it still doesn't top getting a sun stuck on the sea floor, but there's the jingles landing we know and love!

[@FutureCanadaBlue]

26:19...the Red Dwarf theme would sound great laid over this glamour shot of your ship!

[@southtexasprepper1837]

You had the punctuation on "Scylla" right the first time, "Jingles"' "Scylla" is also mentioned in the Sci-Fi movie "Wing Commander" (1999) several times.

[@5chr4pn3ll]

Never fly without rebuy, and always keep a shield generator. Even if you downsize it, it can save your ass.

[@elmateo77]

Yeah I usually have a class 3A on my asp, it won't do much in combat but it's enough to stop you from exploding if you bump into a wall or something.

[@raymondmccune6830]

Somewhere in space is a Thargoid going "Nom nom nom! Good eats!"

[@Answinpunk]

Well, There it is. The Question. At what Speed did Jingles finish his subtle Cut about the distance comparison between Pluto and Edision Gateway? 42C.

[@idcgaming518]

8:27 light takes about a day and a fith to get there from the entry point. Luckily, you dont have to travel at the speed of light, Jingles.

[@The_MightyJingles]

Yeah, I should probably have said that myself. And I did.

[@idcgaming518]

@@The_MightyJingles fair enough. Posted this comment before you said that, but yeah, you said that.

[@Cailus3542]

IDCGaming Light lag really is a wonderfully mind-bending concept.

[@roguerunner14]

it brings me joy that we get to see a jingles landing for the first time in elite........in the same episode that he announces his trip to colonia. what could possibly go wrong

[@daszieher]

Oh, you are soooo crap! Great stuff! I remember my transition from assisted to unassisted flight. Once you've managed, you don't want to go back. You stop "flying" like a plane, but start vectoring the thrust of the main engine. Much, much more effective.

[@elmateo77]

I still leave the flight assist on most of the time, and just turn it off during combat. Mining with flight assist off is a pain.

[@daszieher]

@@elmateo77 ah, that. true.

[@AnvilAirsoftTV]

Great to hear a jingles Cameo on Drachinfels latest warship history video. Of course it’s for the HMS Warspite sections.

[@nazamroth8427]

230 KLS....yep... That was a joy... Can't wait for them to add something important at Hutton Orbital.

[@Truex007]

An epic size cruise in an epic size ship through systems so distant that we only looked at them through a telescope. I have GOT to get this game.

[@theverlorenguardsman]

Well, greetings to all fellow American insomniacs this morn.

[@paulvamos7319]

Greetings

[@Mr.P.Griffith]

I hold my coffee mug up to you from Ontario.

[@davidandmartinealbon3155]

I am laughing at you from across the pond because I get a full night's sleep before watching a Jingles video. Wait... I'm not allowed to make fun of other salt mines workers and now I have to take a double shift? Ok, I'll go back to work now...

[@henryrodgers7386]

Good morning, ghostletters. Currently 5 'till 5 AM in Arkansas. Coffee time.

[@henryrodgers7386]

@@davidandmartinealbon3155 Just for that jab, I'm gonna go brew Earl Grey in an old 12-cup Mr. Coffee... And drink it at *room temperature* . Mua ha ha ha! The nocturnal Yank striketh.

[@riculfriculfson7243]

You'd line up for a perfect approach (finally) and the port authority would schedule a departure, straight into your face. The docking computer was the only thing you NEEDED to get :D

[@paulvamos7319]

Great video Jingles and Yay, finally gaves us a Jingles Landing (Ya really need to copyright that and put it on a shirt)

[@patrickavis5475]

Loving the journey's in the great beyond - I remember playing Frontier on the Amiga and was into Eve when that first came out.....I've bought Elite on the back of this series and looking forward to exploring the galaxy soon

[@nfsu2189]

To be honest, the limit on the Lavian brandy goes way back to when rare commodities first came out. You used to be able to buy way more of it and so it turned into an extremely, stupidly profitable way of making credits. People were making many millions of credits with just a few jumps away from the stations. The way frontier combatted that was to severely limit the amount of them you could buy at one time.

[@nfsu2189]

There also used to be no cap on the profit gains from distance if I remember correctly. They were a truly broken way of making money.

[@Duececoupe]

The edited highlights....ie, watching Jingles walking to and from the toilet, improve his knitting and trying to outsmart himself with an EASY or two! 😉😆😂🧐🎩

[@gsylass]

Hutton Orbital now offers free Corvettes as long as you can dock a large ship there - traded in my Type 9 for one. Well worth the trip!

[@SianiAnne]

Hmm. I've gone to Colonia and back in my Asp-X, a T-10 Defender, an Anaconda, and a Krait Mk II. The lowest jump range as about 38 in the T-10. It took a while; I don't have hours each day to play so it took me a couple of weeks. Still, worth it! Here soon I'm moving out there lock, stock, and barrel. :) Rock on!

[@markus.-frank.kumitsch6]

Since 7:17 when You said "one easy jump" I was waiting for the catastrophic incident happening. 10 Mins later You made it happening.

[@BrisketChef]

Thank you for these videos, I've learned more watching your escapades then getting info from anywhere else. I've only been playing E.D. for a few weeks now, and this bloody game could have a flight manual 3 inches thick. Fly safe good sir, looking forward to the next vid!

[@jackee-is-silent2938]

When I unlocked Marco Qwent a few days ago, it was the same as you experienced Liz Ryder: got friendly with Sirius Corporation (thanks to the Sidewinder Syndicate expedition to the Rosette Nebula last weekend), had a mission to go to a nearby system and station, then got an invite message. Now to get 50 Modular Terminals....

[@Luciferdesrea]

"At least it's not Hutton Orbital." Jingles, we don't talk about Hutton Orbital. And because you talked about Hutton Orbital, you get your landing Jingles style.

[@idcgaming518]

8:50 227,000 ls is 6.805289e+10km. it is also 2.6 light days. That's right, days. Light, which takes 8 mins to get to us here on earth from the sun (already a mind-bogglingly large distance), takes over TWO AND A HALF DAYS to come from Scilla to Edison Gateway.

[@CMDRunematti]

at 17:30... i did that at least 5-6 times in my cutter... NEVER boost towards ANY planet XD

[@elmateo77]

I just always run with a docking computer. It takes up a class 1 slot, and the lost 2 tons of cargo space is well worth it for not having to worry about manually landing, especially in bigger ships with hundreds of tons of space.

[@theAessaya]

Learned that he hard way when I almost splattered my 'conda on a 1.1G planet :D God bless the shields.

[@billyhyde1415]

We've seen Jingles Landings, and this time we see the "Slow Down" cartwheel, but we have yet to see a Loop of Shame . . .

[@Paladin327]

ackshullalee jingles, HMS Scylla and HMS Charybdis were also Dido-class cruisers

[@folcotook3049]

All rares (including Lavian Brandy) have a fluctuating supply limit (per CMDR) based on the controlling faction state. One way around the supply limit is to have a friend help you. If they buy the limit and fly out past 10 km (to avoid fines), they can jettison and abandon the cargo. You scoop that up and they go back and buy up another load of the rare good. That's how Hutton Truckers fill up a ship full of mugs and gin out at Hutton Orbital.

[@folcotook3049]

And just got to the Hutton section for the video... "shitty little outpost?" His fluffiness, Lord Alvin growls in your general direction. And you can get there in under 90 minutes. Current record from the jump in point to landing at Hutton is 1 hour 22 minutes 31 seconds. Also, there are 2 rares at Hutton the Mug (#ForTheMug) and Centauri Mega Gin. hot.forthemug.com/the-hutton-run/ (Note: the shorter runs are due to fleet carriers and don't count as an "official" run).

[@agentmahou6222]

"Pirates," he says as he murders random, innocent, unarmed miners.

[@edstretton2214]

Watching Jingles boost directly at the surface of a planet with dirty drives really made my day! Only 0.68g too :)

[@iustinianmihailfocsa]

G5 shield boosters, the most OP things in Elite. Jingles: nothing essential. Also, I can't wait, Jingles. On your way to Colonia which will you do first? Crash terribly into a planet, break your FSD in those neutron stars, or call the fuel rats? Aaand a little PSA: there's a carrier selling landmines above that engineer (or was a bit ago when I happened to need it). Demands a pretty penny, but well worth it.

[@jonathanbair523]

@The Mighty Jingles Hey there Jingles. I got a question for you about Dede's brandy pick up.. I am wondering why you didn't leave and turn around going back into the station while staying in the system. Wouldn't that of saved you the 3 round trips for the 50 brandy.

[@NiskaMagnusson]

jingles actually shoots at something in Elite ? good lord! he must have caught the virus!

[@elmateo77]

Don't worry, he made sure to attack innocent miners instead of actual outlaws because he mistook the lawless icon for the wanted one...

[@Frosty301289]

Fun fact: Scylla and CHaribdis were two giant monsters in the greek mythology, both not related to the Hydra, which the greeks thought to be the reason of the Sea having ebb and flood, they were thought to be so giant that they swallowed sea water and spat it out again, causing the tides

[@jwn2003]

17:13. You can actually hear jingles thoughts “oh shit, maybe if i...no no im fucked...”

[@1Scimetar]

If Boo were anything like my dogs, he'd be charging either into the computer room or as straight at the front door as fast as he can, barking the whole way.

[@Bourinos02]

17:00 The foreshadowing is real... Edit : 17:30 Well, yeah, this happened... A true Jingles landing :D

[@lostcosmonaut1000]

Yes I was one of the noobs who feel for the proxima centuari meme, i put my ship on super cruise and had enough time to watch a hockey game and finish my homework before it was done

[@cakeboss4194]

It's nice to hear the series history, as the originals are pretty obscure these days.

[@DenmarkRadar]

1:20 Acshually Jingles: The Orignal Elite from 1984 had an automatic docking computer - was just expensive and you did not start with it.

[@davidcopplestone6266]

IIRC it was a serious investment, and a must have.

[@unfluffydave8798]

and it cheated, it could reduce your forward speed to zero when docking but you couldn't.

[@dapprman]

Presently toying with Coloinia to see if that will help me get close to Elite in exploration. For the 5k required for the engineers I actually did ~7.5k each way (over several sessions) - was 136 jumps each direction, don;t think I did more than 100 at a time (think I got about 50% on the Pathfinder level). Didn't know about the Hutton Orbital mug - when you mentioned it I did think about doing the slog to get one to take to Colonia until you mentioned that was another prank (not for me as it was more the distance thing, not expecting to make money).

[@SurplusMarket]

Jingles what are you doing!? You’re supposed to go through the mail slot on the side with green lights!

[@Banzai51]

Glad I wasn't the only one bugged by that.

[@tspencer227]

Three words: Neutron Star Superhighway. Also, you REALLY don't need an extra fuel tank. You've got plenty of capacity.

[@lynchkid003]

Congratulations on your first botched planetary landing, you've joined a widespread unity of angry little salt miners.

[@AshenVictor]

It's not really a botch unless you've got at least a hundred mill in exploration data in the computer when you do it.

[@Parabueto]

That's one of the really infuriating things about Elite's flight modelling. Even with assist off you maximum momentum is capped in space. Go into the gravity well of a planet though and that cap disappears. I once lost an absolute fortune smashing an Anaconda into the surface at over 2km/s after a glitch dumped me 200km from the surface and I flew down manually.

[@anfumu]

I love me a properly executed Jingles Landing. Keep it up, Commander.

[@lefr33man]

"planet Makalu" Does this planet yells at you to kill the Rifter?

[@theAessaya]

No, it tells you to just warp away.

[@Neryman]

Shut up an Warp Warp Warp Warp Warp AWAYYY!!!! :-) ... Had to think of him immediately when I saw the name of the planet.

[@gouriel]

I would pay good good money for a jingles audio retelling of the Hitchhiker's Guide

[@smith040799]

Was doing a quest to get the modular terminals to unlock Marco Qwent and had to land on a moon. Didn't realise it wasn't low gravity. I experienced a Jingles landing that day.

[@TrangleC]

Engineering-wise, I am about at the same stage where Jingles was when he made those recent videos. You can get pretty good jump ranges on a Anaconda, even at that stage. I build one that has all the essential stuff for long range exploration, except a SRV hangar, but including 2 small repair modules, a repair limpet controller and a small cargo space for repair limpets and still gets a unladen jump range of 77 light years. With a cargo of 16 limpets, the range is still 73 LY or so. You can do that by unlocking the Guardian FSD Booster and by going really small and minimalist on the other modules. I only got a 4D power plant, a 1D power distributor (which means I can't boost, but it is enough to supply every system in normal use) and a 4D shield generator. The drives are undersized too. All those undersized modules have the added secondary benefit that the ship runs really cool. The regular resting and cruising temperature is 20% and you can fuel scoop as much as you want and the ship never goes over 68% temperature. I did the 5000 LY engineer unlocking trip in it and I never saw steam rise from the dash board once, despite all the scooping I did. Also it takes like 3 to 4 seconds to cool down from 60% to 20%. Because of that great heat management, I could have gone with a much smaller and lighter fuel scoop and could have increased the jump range even more, I suppose. I don't consider the lack of a SRV a drawback. The chance that I find something super interesting on the surface of a planet is minuscule and if it would happen, I could bookmark the planet and come back later with a SRV. And honestly, what can you even do with a SRV - exploration-wise - that you can't also do hovering at low altitude in your ship? You won't find any new mineral to collect that nobody ever heard of before, or anything like that. Especially the route to Colonia is such a much traveled path that you won't find anything new on your way there anyways, unless you make a significant detour. I also don't understand why people take additional fuel tanks on their exploration ships. With the regular tank my Anaconda can make 4 max distance jumps. That is over 300 light years. Even if I carelessly do 3 jumps before worrying about fuel, that still leaves me with a 150 LY diameter bubble of space to find a scoopable star in, even more if I would do several smaller jumps instead of one big one with my last 25% fuel. What is the point of schlepping around additional fuel?

[@AshenVictor]

You can probably downsize your powerplant further. You could in principle go down to a 2A Overcharged 3/Stripped but for a long range ship I use a 3A Armoured 1/Stripped. More power than a 4D, 50% more integrity as it's the only module you can't repair, for nearly half the weight and even less thermal load (A rated power plants are more heat efficient, and D rates are less weight efficient than other modules). I use a Krait Phantom not a 'conda though, which means I can boost on that 1D distributor now it's engineered to Engine Focus 4/Stripped, the Krait's cockpit is fantastic for being out in the black, but the same powerplant would work. And yeah, you never need additional fuel tanks. If in doubt just filter the star map to the main sequence whilst you travel (OBAFGKM) and you'll always land somewhere scopable. (Personally I like to leave out class M as well, low chance of earthlike worlds on those).

[@TrangleC]

@@AshenVictor Yes. Thanks for the advise. If I remember correctly, I even tried using a 3A power plant, but I think even when engineered, it didn't provide enough power for the repair modules, so I went with the 4D. Yeah, the Krait's cockpit is the coolest. Would like to use it, but I wanted to go for the maximum possible jump range, especially since it was mostly for that mandatory 5000 LY journey and exploration was an after thought. I really could have not taken the repair modules and limpets. Didn't even come close to needing them and I think the only thing that could have made me need them would have been if I crashed into something while jumping into a system and I don't even know if that is still possible. I played the game for a few months back in early Beta and then quit and came back to it recently, almost the same as Jingles, just with the difference that I wasn't a Alpha backer. Back then I did a longer exploration trip and if I remember correctly, it happened to me that there was a secondary star in the way, on my jump vector to its bigger sibling, when I jumped into the system. Even then I'm not sure anymore if the engine damage I took was unavoidable, or whether it was heat damage that occured because I didn't use the heat sink fast enough. I saw more experienced players use repair modules and repair limpets in their exploration builds, so I thought "Better save than sorry." and aped it, but the more I think about it, the less I think I need that stuff. Those experienced players also used additional fuel tanks and as you agreed, they don't make much sense either. Maybe when you operate at the outer edge of the galaxy, where stars are rare and far between, but even there I think you can just be careful and plan your jumps ahead properly, as you said. I'm not 100% sure anymore, maybe I was just too dumb to know what I am doing, but I think back in Beta, 6 years ago, the galaxy map did not show you what kind of star you were jumping to and you had to arrive to find out. Whether that was actually the case or whether I just wasn't using the map correctly, it was pretty harrowing to try to navigate my way at the sparse rim in a Type 6 transport with barely 30 LY jump range, hehehe.

[@AshenVictor]

@@TrangleC The secret with AFMUs is to turn them off. You never need to run your AMFU and thrusters at the same time because you have to turn modules off to repair them, so you can just turn your thrusters off, repair everything, and turn them back on last. Don't bother carrying limpets either, you can synthesise them if you need them.

[@TrangleC]

@@AshenVictor I didn't know that, thanks.

[@NYC-Gardener]

"Now shooting up pirates like this......" as he kills innocent miners that were merely tagged as "lawless" not "WANTED"

[@cynicalcygnus763]

Trading runs between Diso, Leesti and Lave. There's some flashbacks.

[@daszieher]

Jeesus, really! It was 1987, when I first saw the game on my friend's Commodore C64. I later played it on my Amiga.

[@flipsix3]

Looking forward to your Colonia expedition. As I'm watching this I'm around 130 jumps into my 420+ jump route in my 50+ly Aspx - exciting times. Hopefully I don't do a Jingles landing at the other end!

[@WandererRTF]

As to the annoying systems... there were some really mindbogglingly hard to reach planets in Frontier: Elite II and in Frontier: First Encounters too. Can't remember the name of the moon or planet which was in an utterly insane quaternary or quintenary system. The joke was that it had had utterly insane rotational speed. If you had a ship with insufficient acceleration (like a Imperial Courier...) you simply could not catch it. And it with bad enough luck you ended up being on its route as the wrecking ball of a planet just whacked through your ship. The only way to 'catch' it was to try to get close and then using the maximum time acceleration hax.

[@JimmyCrawford]

Also, go into the galaxy map and untick all the stars that you can't scoop from. You dont want to run out of fuel all the way out there.

[@derptomistic]

Despite never playing Elite, as soon as I heard "Long distance travel" and "Alpha Centauri" my inner astronomy nerd went "You evil bastards..."

[@dwaynelangerher3287]

thanks to fleet carriers you now can jump straight to the Planet that Hutton orbits.

[@Reddotzebra]

I actually thought that I could SELL landmines to her as well, so I loaded up my cutter with boom-snacks and took the trip over. However, It turns out that no, after the initial 200 she wants nothing to do with them. So the rest of them... Mysteriously fell out of my cargo hold, at two kilometers up, over her base... Hey, she's getting them for free so no complaining!

[@Autumn_Able]

On the next episode: Jingles goes Star Trekkin'!

[@attilavarga35]

Nice Christmas decorations mate, only about 5 months away. :D Time to start all the usual music soon... xD

[@dannythehonestgamer6051]

I have one rule in Elite. NEVER ever throw out the shield generator. For reasons that should be obvious from seeing this Jingles landing.

[@Ryuk1shi]

Or if you really have/want to throw out the shields, have an advanced docking computer.

[@dannythehonestgamer6051]

@@Ryuk1shi No. I do not know what happened. But once the docking computer kept ramming my Python into the control tower for the landing pad i was supposed to be put down on. If i did not have any shields at that time it would have hurt, a lot. It battered down the shield to a third strength before it finally stopped retarding and realized that it did something wrong and finally landed the ship. This have happened a few times since then with various of my ships when the docking computer for whatever reason goes full retard out. So no, no ditching the shield generator ever for me. It may just be a bug in the game, but it will still either kill you or give you a fat repair bill before you have time to turn the docking computer off if you do not have a shield up and running.

[@AshenVictor]

No shield generator in the game would have saved this. All it would have done is maybe add a bounce and make the rebuy more expensive.

[@adyl4fs590]

80s Elite docking with a keyboard... was our brief 5th year high school lunchtime challenge: roll up, I'd say, use this BBC B running Elite - just launch from Lave, turn about and dock. Easy. Quid a go, fiver if you manage it. I made a bastard fortune 😊 ...well, fortune for a 5th year, kept me in Iron Maiden albums for a while anyways. Didn't tell them I could only 100% dock without blowing up using an analogue joystick, slipped my mind. Ace until I was rumbled - misuse of school tech my arse. Right, I think a sub is in order, sir, after binge watching E:D, WoT and WoW when I should've been SQL coding...

[@AonghasMcTavish]

Me chilling in colonia listening to Jingles talk about pranking noobs, Nice.

[@baziwan9407]

The moment I saw him hit the Afterburner with no shields, It was at that point I knew Jungles fucked up.

[@Midas8610]

Honestly, can't wait for the journey. Cheers buddy!

[@AshenVictor]

It really is better to get your Guardian FSD Booster before taking the trip out, because all the guardian sites are near the bubble. A size 5 will give you a flat 10.5LY boost to your jump range. I'm actually just on my way back from Colonia, having spent the last couple of months based there so I can get my baby star destroyer and do a bit of powerplay for prismatic shields and packhounds. (And I did slow road all the way out and back, good way to hit explorer elite).

[@leelime9857]

"Shield boosters are non essential" ......go home jingles your drunk !! They feel pretty fucking essential to me when I'm under sustained fire 😂

[@NaughtyShepherd]

Thank you for this engineering series! Using my 76ly Conda, I started my 5000ly hike yesterday. I have 9 jumps left... then I turn around. Using FSS at every system 😂

[@tomasbancak8752]

Haha bro, me too. I bought anaconda and engineerined it to 77 Ly and my first trip was 5000 Ly too

[@NaughtyShepherd]

@@tomasbancak8752 nice! I didn’t know anyone was still playing Elite anymore