Re: Back in action!

On 1/25/2025 10:30 PM, vallor wrote:

So got Mrs. vallor's Linux workstation set up -- with X52 pro
HOTAS and everything -- and we booted up Elite Dangerous Odyssey
this evening.
 She's flown before, but it was just a test flight with auto-docking.
This time she flew the first tutorial, which is through an asteroid
field to an outpost (but no docking).  Then she did the second
tutorial, a cargo run where she undocked (manually), flew through the
mail slot, cleared the station, targeted the nearby destination
system, and jumped there.
 I got her to back off on the throttle before she crashed
into the star, then she flew to the destination Coriolis
station, where I showed her how to set 75% throttle.  She
got through the mail slot, then it was time to dock...where
she had the most difficulty.  I showed her how to use the
lateral thrusters to get over the pad, and we finally got
her docked.
 Now I need to make her a cheat sheet of what all the controls
do.  She's bound and determined to learn to fly spaceships.  (She's
watched me for years, and asked, "when do I get to do that?"  Now
you can, Honey -- now you can.)
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Ah for the days when you got a big old card with the physical game with all the controls on it.  WC 3 & 4 I think had that.
I remember in some old space games (maybe even Elite?) docking was a great pain, but you could eventually unlock auto-docking, or in many it was the only way to dock.
Also Elite seems a bit on the ahem 'elite' end of things for space sims, it seems like it'd be better to start with something simpler like one of the Star Wars games.

Our ultimate goal is to go off exploring.  Our immediate goal
is to get her able to dock a little better, and for that,
she can just fly in solo at my carrier, where it's safe... and
no "hurry up" pressure from the tutorial voice.
 Her new Linux workstation:
 Gigabyte B760I AORUS PRO
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700F
32G of RAM (DDR5)
1T NVMe drive
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER (AD104-A) (12G)
Linux Mint 22.1
 

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