Anaconda convention?

Poro · Post by **Poro** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 8:04 pm

When I entered the Qutiri system (Sector 1) there were a crap-load of Anacondas already in there - just past the witchpoint beacon. Each of course had its full panoply of escorts and each group was pressed up against the other. This meant that the pirates who were unfortunate enough to get in the way were torn apart by frantic exchanges of laser fire

Unfortunately that was happening too far away for me to get a good screenshot, so I include only these ones, to show how many were registering on my scanner. Does this happen often? I have a few OXPs installed, but I've never seen anything like this... and it happened twice within the same playing session. It felt great flying in amongst so many other ships, and later on 'we' encountered more pirates (though I was too busy dogfighting to pause for screenies), and I was ducking and weaving between various ships. Here is Qutiri (click for full images):

And again in Aronar:

Lucidor · Post by **Lucidor** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 8:29 pm

How could you resist dropping a q-mine in there?

Poro · Post by **Poro** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 8:45 pm

Sir, I worry about you.

pagroove · Post by **pagroove** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:44 pm

Oolite randomness can create some really memorable moments

9000Parts · Post by **9000Parts** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:56 pm

Ive seen some large formations flying about but not sure ive seen that many at one time. That really would have suited my 'drop an energy bomb and scoop the cargo' tactic down to the ground

Chrisfs · Post by **Chrisfs** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:48 am

Does this happen often?

About once a year, at the annual Anaconda Fanciers convention held at Quitri.

Killer Wolf · Post by **Killer Wolf** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:08 am

Welcome to 'CondaCon 2010!

bigmike20vt · Post by **bigmike20vt** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 8:21 am

wow, my gup (onboard 4200 with amd X2 4200cpu can just about run this game with nice settings. i suspect it would collapse with that lot going on.

did your frame rate suffer much?

i would love to get in the middle of all that lot, esp as not the centre of attenton so just pick a few "baddies" off.

Chrisfs · Post by **Chrisfs** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 8:36 am

Killer Wolf wrote:
Welcome to 'CondaCon 2010!

Dabny Kwijibo, CEO of Beerbaum and ThruSpace Inc., is going to be the keynote speaker this year.

In addition to announcements from both shipbuilders and fan organizations, there will of course be the traditional Conda Space Slalom.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:09 am

I will be there, too, for my traditional fill-my-IC's-belly-with-ex-Conda-cargo feast.

BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA!

Poro · Post by **Poro** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:32 pm

pagroove wrote:
Oolite randomness can create some really memorable moments.

My thoughts exactly! Just as I think that I have become used to what Oolite throws at me... somethng like this happens.

bigmike20vt wrote:
did your frame rate suffer much?

If it dropped, it wasn't enough for me to consciously notice (and nowhere near the drop I experience when I'm close to a system_redux planetary texture), and I'm running this on a netbook. 630MHz CPU, 2GB RAM, Intel 915GM GPU (feel my pain), non-shaderfied game. This really made me appreciate the simplicity of the core meshes - this many ships (in the screenshots above) were fine, but when I drop in a few of Simon B.'s ships, that's when I get framerate drops

I agree with the CondaCon comments though - it was as if one enterprising 'Conda commander said: "Fellas, form up! We're just gonna bulldoze our way through the next couple o' systems!"

Oh, and remember to pick up your 'I was at CondaCon '10 and all I got was this lousy screenshot' sticker on your way out guys.

Killer Wolf · Post by **Killer Wolf** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:03 pm

here's my contribution to lush groupings :

i've seen groups of cops before but this is the first time i've seen a gorgeous "vulcan bomber" formation, and they were mostly my Dominatrixes too! Dunno what that Reaper was doing w/ them tho.

Poro · Post by **Poro** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:25 pm

Nice. I've also seen 6-8 Vipers at a time flying in a rough V wedge shape. I thought there might be a script for them going on a training mission or something, or maybe a Thargoid scouting party was coming, so I watched them for a while. They sailed past the witchpoint beacon, and just went on... and on...

Poro · Post by **Poro** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 7:17 pm

Here's another Viper partol/training mission with DeepSpace's recent graphical update (not that you can make out much from this angle), I wonder what it is in a script that creates these large groups of GalCop vessels?

snork · Post by **snork** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 8:40 pm

I would love to meet such giant gathering.

I have met a strange fleet of Cobras - all without status.
They ignored me (clean).

Within the same system there were one or two other ships without status, all others showed status just fine. No idea why.