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Hello, everyone

Firstly I need to express my thankful to the developer of this game, as the game is so good.

Just start this game today and got a lot of questions here:

Item 1: Normally I use autotrip to reach other planets such as Mars/Jupiter, etc, however, I cannot find the planets such as Mercury/Venus/Saturn/Uranus/Neptune ... So how can I reach these planets ?

Item 2: If I want to go to Pluto, which is about 39.4U distance from the Earth, it looks like we do not have the enough fuel to do so ... even when I choose Titan as the transfer station, so how can I reach to Pluto using the oringial ship ?

Item 3: I saw there are a lot of delivery tasks (to other system such as Gliese XXX), is it realistic to achieve the goals ? If so, how can I reach to these systems ?

Item 4: When I tried to reach Jupiter, I always got crashed by unknown objects ... Do you know why ?

Much appreciated for the help and advice.

Have a good night guys,

1: You can find all planets in star map F2 key and after switch tab with F5-F8 keys

2: Fuel is need for acelerating decelerating, you can achivie better velocity but fuel compsumation is not relative to space distance

3: You need hyperdrive mounted in your ship and hydrogen on cargo, with star map F2 key you can select your route or destination and computer calculate hydrogen need for the travel, take that in mind 2 short hyperjump need less time than 1 long one

4: If you start from earth jupiter is in the other side of the system probably you get captured from sun gravity

1. If you can see their names on the screen when flying around then you can just click on them, then press F4 to bring up the communications menu, and then choose to go to them.
Or you can do as NyankoSensei suggests and use the F2 then F5 to F7 keys to look at the system and just click on the planets to select one.

2. It can take a LONG time to get to some places within star systems, recently people have been balancing the accelerations for the ships but it's all still being worked on.

4. When you say it's "crashed by unknown objects" what do you mean? Do you mean that the game crashed and stopped working or that the ship crashed into something and you died?

Nyankosensei wrote:1: You can find all planets in star map F2 key and after switch tab with F5-F8 keys

2: Fuel is need for acelerating decelerating, you can achivie better velocity but fuel compsumation is not relative to space distance

3: You need hyperdrive mounted in your ship and hydrogen on cargo, with star map F2 key you can select your route or destination and computer calculate hydrogen need for the travel, take that in mind 2 short hyperjump need less time than 1 long one

4: If you start from earth jupiter is in the other side of the system probably you get captured from sun gravity

Many thanks for your kind help and now I understand how to make a trip to another system, it is amazing ! And I also understand the reason why I cannot directly find some planets via F4 key is they do not have valid station so that I cannot land on them.

There is a small question is:
When I use hyperdrive to reach another system and then Try to reach a specific planet in the same system: for most cases, I can use "time speed up" button (I mean the "U" level time) , but for some cases, I cannot speed up the time ... It means it will take a very very long time to reach my target ... Any idea about this ?

Much appreciated for the help.

Have a good day,

FluffyFreak wrote:1. If you can see their names on the screen when flying around then you can just click on them, then press F4 to bring up the communications menu, and then choose to go to them.
Or you can do as NyankoSensei suggests and use the F2 then F5 to F7 keys to look at the system and just click on the planets to select one.

2. It can take a LONG time to get to some places within star systems, recently people have been balancing the accelerations for the ships but it's all still being worked on.

4. When you say it's "crashed by unknown objects" what do you mean? Do you mean that the game crashed and stopped working or that the ship crashed into something and you died?

Many thanks for the help mate,

I mean my ship crashed and I died for unknown reason when I "almost" reach J planet, just like my ship bumped something and all over ...

No idea about this, could be the ring of J ?

Many thanks

Did you buy a hyper drive by doing in system deliveries? if so, how many did you do, and what's the in game date?

As Fluffyfreak said, we are in the middle of rebalancing the ships, so it would be very appreciated if you would leave your thoughts in this survey. (original from spacesimcentral)

And welcome to pioneer.

No idea about this, could be the ring of J ?

No, as far as I know you can not crash into the rings, you were probably going to fast into the planet, and your ship lacked the thrust to slowdown in time.

impaktor wrote:Did you buy a hyper drive by doing in system deliveries? if so, how many did you do, and what's the in game date?

As Fluffyfreak said, we are in the middle of rebalancing the ships, so it would be very appreciated if you would leave your thoughts in this survey. (original from spacesimcentral)

And welcome to pioneer.

No idea about this, could be the ring of J ?

No, as far as I know you can not crash into the rings, you were probably going to fast into the planet, and your ship lacked the thrust to slowdown in time.

Thanks for the information,

And I have already completed the survey.

Just 2 further questions:
I saw there are about 9-10 "countries" in the space, but is their any function to communicate with them (or any activity related to them other than human ?

Another one is, it looks like we can know everything when we just click any system ... Do we have the function to explore some unknown system ?

Many thanks,

I saw there are about 9-10 "countries" in the space, but is their any function to communicate with them (or any activity related to them other than human ?

Factions only affect probability of which commodity will be illegal or not at the moment (as far as I know). Factions will be remade, and have specific faction missions, and be much more noticeable.

Another one is, it looks like we can know everything when we just click any system ... Do we have the function to explore some unknown system ?

This is in the works, there are posts here on the forum about it.