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.)

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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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.)
>

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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