Flux-Hunting-Contest – Results

Here are the results of the Festival! 123 Flux-Hunting-Contest:

• 1st place: Sinver, with 425 conflux killed, wins the Defender of the Barrier award and has a 1st pick of a prize
• 2nd place: Hammer-BS, with 257 conflux killed, wins the Tache’s Crest medal
• 3rd place: Aristafan, with 61 conflux killed, wins the Tache’s Crest medal and has a 2nd pick of a prize

FluxBuster patches will go to Nalym (53), Prof_Chaos (41), Peng (29), Gus (29) and Trogdor223 (24) who each killed 20 or more conflux.

Since I don’t pick a prize from myself, I decided to give Nalym a 3rd pick, Prof_Chaos a 4th pick and Peng & Gus a shared 5th pick of a prize as they all killed at least 20 conflux.

All winners will be contacted by me via PM on Discord to choose a prize.
All prizes can be obtained at Quantar Core Station.

Prizes:
There will be the following prize-pool:
PCS-3
PCP-4
Stack of EB-3-2-1
Antiflux-ECM
10 million credits

Bonus prize:
No one achieved 500 conflux kills during the event

Congratulations to all pilots and thanks for your participation!

Festival Lights – Results

Here are the results of the Festival! 123 Beacon Contest:

• 1st place: Hammer-BS, with 67 beacons held, wins the Cesium medal
• 2nd place: Gus, with 21 beacons held, wins the Platinum medal and has a 1st pick of a prize
• 3rd place: Peng, with 17 beacons held, wins the Antimony medal and has a 2nd pick of a prize

Captain’s Commendation awards will go to Sinver (13) and A_Powers (12) who each held 10 or more beacons.

Since I don’t pick a prize from myself, I decided to give Sinver and A_Powers (in that order) a 3rd to 4th pick of a prize as they held at least 10 beacons.

All winners will be contacted by me via PM on Discord to choose a prize.
All prizes can be obtained at Quantar Core Station.

Prizes:
There will be the following prize-pool:
PCM-AB3
2x PCE-3
2x PCE-5
4x RB-4
10 million credits

Bonus prize 1:
No one achieved 200 beacons during the event

Bonus prize 2:
The factional results are:
Quantar: 70 (Hammer-BS 67, CptYokom 3)
Solrain: 38 (Gus 21, Sinver 13, Whodatt 4)
Octavius: 29 (Peng 17, A_Powers 12)
-> Quantar is the winner. Hammer-BS will receive an Antiflux from factional reserve (CptYokom does not meet the minimum requirements of 10 beacons).

Congratulations to all pilots and thanks for your participation!

Festival! 123: Festival Lights

This year’s Festival! holiday will be from 123.11.23 to 123.11.26. To have some space activities I will be sponsoring this year’s Beacon-Tuning-Contest on Saturday 123.11.25 from 0:00 to 24:00 UTC.

The goal is to “light up” the beacons around space by tuning/re-tuning and holding* them.  The pilots with the MOST beacons held will win the following awards:

• 1st place: the Cesium-medal and a 1st prize-pick
• 2nd place: the Platinum-medal and a 2nd prize-pick
• 3nd place: the Antimony-medal and a 3rd prize-pick

All others with 10 or more beacons held will receive a Captain’s Commendation badge.

* “Holding” means that the beacon must remain tuned (and not flipped or re-tuned by another pilot) for 25 consecutive cycles (2.5 hours).

All pilots’ stats will be obtained automatically – no one has to send in screenshots.

Prizes:
There will be the following prize-pool:
PCM-AB3
2x PCE-3
2x PCE-5
4x RB-4
10 million credits

Bonus prize 1:
5 million credits for every pilot who held at least 200 beacons during the event

Bonus prize 2:
Every held beacon during the event will be counted for the pilots’ factions (Quant/Oct/Sol). The faction with the most held beacons is the contest winner. All pilots of the winning faction that have held at least 10 beacons will each win an Antiflux-ECM (provided by factional reserve).

Festival! 123: Flux-Hunting-Contest

This year’s Festival! holiday will be from 123.11.23 to 123.11.26. To have some space activities I will be sponsoring this year’s Flux-Hunting-Contest on Sunday 123.11.26 from 0:00 to 24:00 UTC.

The goal is to kill as many conflux as possible. The pilots with the MOST conflux-kills will win the following awards:

• 1st place: the Defender of the Barrier award and a 1st prize-pick
• 2nd place: the Tache’s Crest medal and a 2nd prize-pick
• 3nd place: the Tache’s Crest medal and a 3rd prize-pick

All others with 20 or more flux-kills will receive a FluxBuster patch.

All pilots’ stats will be obtained automatically – no one has to send in screenshots.

Prizes:
There will be the following prize-pool:
PCS-3
PCP-4
Stack of EB-3-2-1
Antiflux-ECM
10 million credits

Bonus prize:
5 million credits for every pilot that achieves 500 flux-kills during the event.

Dangers of exploration – methods of E.R.I

1. Intentionally dumps Conflux on miner

2. Unautorized military operation by RED3, scanning in disputed sector Main Gate

3. Planned destruction of mining vessel through Conflux drones dumped in multiple numbers

4. Blackmailing and attack in sector Klatsches Hold

This is for you Edgar!

Pure Mining Contest – Results

Here are the results of the Miners’ Days 123 Pure Mining Contest:

• 1st place: Sinver, with 76 pures mined, wins the Spade of Karadron award and has a 1st pick of a prize
• 2nd place: Hammer-BS, with 73 pures mined, wins the Keval’s Thanks award
• 3rd place: Algore, with 51 pures mined, wins the Keval’s Thanks award and has a 2nd pick of a prize

Captain’s Commendation awards will go to Jimbo (20), Nalym (20), Radar (19) and Peng (5) who each mined-out 5 or more pure asteroids.

Jimbo, Nalym and Radar (in that order) will have a 3rd to 5th pick of a prize.

All winners will be contacted by me via PM on Discord to choose a prize.
All prizes can be obtained at Quantar Core Station.

Prizes:
There will be the following prize-pool:
PCM-CM4
PCM-CM3
PCM-CM2
Antiflux-ECM
10 million credits

Congratulations to all pilots and thanks for your participation!

Miners’ Days 123 “Mining Trivia” Results

This year’s trivia had a mining theme. 5 contestants have sent in answers.

• Peng got 5/5 and the bonus question correct. He will earn the Seeker of Knowledge medal along with 4 million credits.
• Big_Iron and Radar got 5/5 correct. They will each earn the Seeker of Knowledge medal along with 3 million credits.
• GrimGriz got 3/5 correct and Nessos (after being so keen to send in answers without consulting further sources) got 2/5 correct. They will each receive the Keval’s Thanks award and 1 million credits.

All credit prizes can be obtained at Quantar Core Station or will be transferred inflight.
Congratulations to all pilots and thanks for your participation!

This years questions and answers were as follows:

1. Who is the winner of the Roidmania!-event in 121?
   -> Andanwen
   (http://jumpgate-tri.org/)
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2. Which components are needed to produce Quantar’s best size-2 mining laser?
   -> Iron, carbon, magnetics and laser components
   (https://tridatabank.wordpress.com/2015/12/18/banker/)
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3. How many units of ore (exact number) does a pilot have to sell in one go to receive the Miner’s Heart medal for the 8th Skill Star level?
   -> 12.8
   (https://tridatabank.wordpress.com/category/medals-awards/)
   (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pDYEQukjfCvPSfuiUPt4vUrEv7Yx_K1W4GZOvSg22cQ/edit?usp=sharing)
   (or calculate: 8 x 8 x 0.2)
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4. For the 117 Miners’ Days the Tahirs have decided not to run any space-based events. A famous Quantar factional squad that opposes Hyperial on every front launched a mission to find non-common roids in Quantar space that have not been listed before. How many new asteroid locations were identified?
   -> 18
   (https://tripilotlog.wordpress.com/2017/09/02/the-brotherhoods-rockhunter-contest/)
   (https://tripilotlog.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/rockhunter-mission-results/)
   –
5. According to the Refining Charts of a recently passed Quantar Hero, which chemical element do you gain most when refinining radioactive ore?
   -> Cobalt (28 %)
   Bonus question: How long did he spend on mining and mapping?
   -> 10 years
   (https://jgnewsnet.wordpress.com/2022/10/24/quantar-announces-passing-of-a-hero/)
   (https://jglibrary.wordpress.com/2018/10/27/yasars-mining-notes/)

Miners’ Days 123 “Mining Trivia” Questions

This year’s Quantar Miners’ Days includes a mining related trivia contest.
Answers must be submitted to hammer-bs@gmx.de by 24:00 (UTC) on Friday 123.9.1.

Here are the five questions:

1. Who is the winner of the Roidmania!-event in 121?
2. Which components are needed to produce Quantar’s best size-2 mining laser?
3. How many units of ore (exact number) does a pilot have to sell in one go to receive the Miner’s Heart medal for the 8th Skill Star level?
4. For the 117 Miners’ Days the Tahirs have decided not to run any space-based events. A famous Quantar factional squad that opposes Hyperial on every front launched a mission to find non-common roids in Quantar space that have not been listed before. How many new asteroid locations were identified?
5. According to the Refining Charts of a recently passed Quantar Hero, which chemical element do you gain most when refinining radioactive ore?
   Bonus question: How long did he spend on mining and mapping?

(Answers to all questions can be found using jumpgate-tri.org, UUNN, TRI-Databank, TRI-PLOG or The Sarath V Memorial Library.)

The awards are as follows:
– All 5 answers correct: Seeker of Knowledge medal and 3 million credits (additional 1 million for correctly answering the bonus question)
– 1 to 4 answers correct: Keval’s Thanks medal and 1 million credits
– 0 for 5: Captain’s Commendation

GrimGriz’s OPTILAP

15:03; you’re no boyscout – well, i’ll skip the fancy repair scenario then – OPTILAP AWAY!!
15:04; oh yeah, gotta get something out of storage
15:04; lmk if you scan it
15:06; oh no Vomir! Please don’t Nuke it again because your sol PR is totally still over 104!
15:07; let’s see what happens when I vouch for you when I dock there
15:09; with the luxurious 60 cargo and 433v cruise speed, the OPTILAP QUARRIER is GrimGriz’s ship of choice
15:10; oh noes! He has tuned the beacons along his villainous escape route!
15:10; people in this sector can’t hear me say:
15:11; with the luxurious 60 cargo and 433v cruise speed, the OPTILAP QUARRIER is Hall of Famer GrimGriz’s ship of choice!

Miners’ Days 123 Pure Mining Contest

This year’s Miners’ Days holiday will be from 123.9.1 to 123.9.3. To support all pilots who can’t be home on Quantar soil I will be sponsoring this year’s Pure Mining contest on Sunday 123.9.3 from 0:00 to 24:00 UTC.

Pilots, Quantar or gefir, who mine-out the most pure asteroids during this 24-hour period will win the following:
– 1st place: the Spade of Karadron award and a 1st prize-choice
– 2nd place: Keval’s Thanks award and a 2nd prize-choice
– 3nd place: Keval’s Thanks award and a 3rd prize-choice

Anyone mining 5 or more pure asteroids during the day will receive a Captain’s Commendation badge.

All pilots’ stats will be obtained automatically – no one has to send in screenshots.

Prizes:
There will be the following prize-pool:
PCM-CM4
PCM-CM3
PCM-CM2
Antiflux-ECM
10 million credits