forkbucket posted:

Ok, slightly edited mine and I'm officially very happy with how it came out. Thanks for the help Libluini, and sorry for the HUD derail.



Here's the color scheme for anyone interested:

code:

<MatrixRed> 1.25, 1.25, 2 </MatrixRed>
<MatrixGreen> 1, 0.15, -2 </MatrixGreen>
<MatrixBlue> 1.25, 0.7, -2 </MatrixBlue>

LCL-Dead posted:

My reaction lately hasn't been to juggle the throttle. I'll drop it just a pinch when I hear the engine pitch change as the engine pitch always signals the eventual overshoot but instead of zeroing out I just bee-line for the planet and pass over it, using the gravity well to drop my speed faster as I angle back towards the station.

honda whisperer posted:

I think it would be cool if you could plan a route in system like manuver nodes in kerbal. Throttle up and head for the target, flip halfway if you stayed in the gas the whole time, and brake to rendezvous.

DatonKallandor posted:

That is basically what the original (much better than what the design council, aka grogs who plopped down absurd money for the kickstarter, forced into it's place) method of jumps was. You'd use the galaxy map to plot a multi-system jump, adjusting your course to swing around suns like gravity assists to make you more fuel efficient. The more accurate your jump plot the closer you come out near your target (and if it's way off you might end up who the gently caress knows where). They even had the Wing integration worked out - you'd be able to use jump data from your wingmen so you could let whoever your best navigator was plot the jumps for the whole group (and I think there was also a plan to make squadron jumps more fuel efficient too).

Dessert Rose posted:

Why the gently caress would anyone not think that was cool as hell?

So this is what we get instead? Getting launched into the sun every single jump unless I remember to hold throttle down after the countdown starts, and pointing myself at a circle and pressing a button to do the whole thing over again?

YellerBill posted:

Lately I've gone back to just sitting at 75% until ready to disengage and it's been working out fine, are you flying near planets/anything else that might be slowing down the ship? Sometimes if the ship gets slowed down by gravity (or tries to brake to drop at a signal source nearby for no apparent reason) it'll accelerate to try to catch back up to what it "should" be at but overshoots because when it's accelerating it's not, well, decelerating.

KakerMix posted:

So hey guys.

You know Horizons, right? It's cool and you get an SRV to drive around on planet surfaces! Neat! Ready to go jump out in the black with your Asp and your SRV and get ready to explore away? You should know something first.

Your SRV does not run on hydrogen like every ship in the game, it runs on phosphorous and sulfur.
"But KakerMix" you ask, "so what? I'll just load up a few tons of the fuel and be on my way, refueling from the ship is ez"

You can't.
You can not refuel your SRV from your ship, you can only refuel it one of two ways. One, you drive around on a planet surface and look for rock pinatas that explode in the exact same way that fukkin' asteroids do without a prospector drone (you see 'a rock' and you shoot it to see what pops out ). Two, you dock at a space station and refuel there. That's it. You can not buy extra SRV fuel even though the station has it sitting there because and goddamn is this not the most infuriating thing. Originally the SRV wasn't meant to use fuel at all. Now it does but not on hydrogen and you can't refuel from your ship. You either make it aboard your SRV or you fly back to a space station.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=205846

Please help Frontier see that this is dumb as heck if you agree thanks~

tooterfish posted:

During one of the livestreams they said "driving is fun and cool and worrying about fuel is for squares".

I was puzzled by the reversal frankly, because it was an extremely popular design choice pretty much everywhere. Hopefully they can be persuaded to see sense.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Man, it's been forever since we've heard about the secret design forum cabal that ruined the game

DatonKallandor posted:

The Kickstarter tier was a secret?

Frontier Forums posted:

gently caress you mu himursion.

KakerMix posted:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=205480

Sultan Tarquin posted:

Well that killed any enthusiasm I had about exploring in the SRV outside of the bubble. Hopefully they see how dumb it is by the time it's out of beta

Astroniomix posted:

Actually exploring outside of the bubble is pretty much the only time you will ever reliably come up with surplus SRV fuel. The problem comes in when you try to do "fun" stuff inside the bubble.

I tried to do a race across a crater yesterday and ended up giving up because the guys I was playing with spent 2 hours just trying to get enough fuel to even attempt to go that far.

Sultan Tarquin posted:

Well that killed any enthusiasm I had about exploring in the SRV outside of the bubble. Hopefully they see how dumb it is by the time it's out of beta

KakerMix posted:

So hey guys.

You know Horizons, right? It's cool and you get an SRV to drive around on planet surfaces! Neat! Ready to go jump out in the black with your Asp and your SRV and get ready to explore away? You should know something first.

Your SRV does not run on hydrogen like every ship in the game, it runs on phosphorous and sulfur.
"But KakerMix" you ask, "so what? I'll just load up a few tons of the fuel and be on my way, refueling from the ship is ez"

You can't.
You can not refuel your SRV from your ship, you can only refuel it one of two ways. One, you drive around on a planet surface and look for rock pinatas that explode in the exact same way that fukkin' asteroids do without a prospector drone (you see 'a rock' and you shoot it to see what pops out ). Two, you dock at a space station and refuel there. That's it. You can not buy extra SRV fuel even though the station has it sitting there because and goddamn is this not the most infuriating thing. Originally the SRV wasn't meant to use fuel at all. Now it does but not on hydrogen and you can't refuel from your ship. You either make it aboard your SRV or you fly back to a space station.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=205480

Please help Frontier see that this is dumb as heck if you agree thanks~

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Well for what it's worth, I've been idly shooting space rocks as I come across them and have enough materials to refuel 10 times so it isn't like the reagents are super rare.

That said, fuel for the SRV is a silly constraint.

Astroniomix posted:

Yea it's not super rare once you know to look for it, but it's an annoying grind that serves no purpose.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Not disagreeing.

Then what's the different between the two classes of vehicle hangers you can buy? One weighs twice as much as the other one. I assumed that the heavier one would refuel/repair your SRV's but

Shine posted:

I didn't notice the thing needed fuel, period, so I was out driving and having a grand old time and then suddenly I was suffocating.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Then what's the different between the two classes of vehicle hangers you can buy? One weighs twice as much as the other one. I assumed that the heavier one would refuel/repair your SRV's but

tooterfish posted:

Just roll the window down you fool!
You can carry more than one SRV.

Sp you can either bring a spare, or bring friends.

Sard posted:

I saw that the second to last post has an anime signature and starts out with "Speaking as someone who played survival Minecraft for years," and immediately closed the tab. If this is who you're disagreeing with, godspeed and I hope you win for all our sakes.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

From what I can see, class impacts the number of SRV's you can carry -- class 4 can carry two, but there's also a G ahd H rating and the only difference between them is that the H rating weighs twice as much.

Adult Sword Owner posted:

All I want to do is fly a ship and shoot guys and help DF but I've spent the last 10 minutes refreshing and logging if it gets stuck and I haven't even gotten one god drat DF mission, but I see a ton of anti pirate that require allied just waiting for me ugggh

KakerMix posted:

Pretty sure that's the only difference, weight.

Zizi posted:

Weight, power consumption(lol), and cost. That's it. You don't even get the benefit of a gold-plated autism chariot docking bay.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

These large settlements are one of my favorite things in game. I enjoy the fantasy they create -- slipping in and out of the notches in the outer wall.1

Alehkhs posted:

Duo posted:

So I picked this game up during the sale and have been having some fun with it. I have a question though, why are they releasing a full priced expansion for an unfinished game?

Libluini posted:

Don't worry, this just means lots of new color schemes for people to add to their collection.

DatonKallandor posted:

That is basically what the original (much better than what the design council, aka grogs who plopped down absurd money for the kickstarter, forced into it's place) method of jumps was. You'd use the galaxy map to plot a multi-system jump, adjusting your course to swing around suns like gravity assists to make you more fuel efficient. The more accurate your jump plot the closer you come out near your target (and if it's way off you might end up who the gently caress knows where). They even had the Wing integration worked out - you'd be able to use jump data from your wingmen so you could let whoever your best navigator was plot the jumps for the whole group (and I think there was also a plan to make squadron jumps more fuel efficient too).

Libluini posted:

To be fair, this idea sounds good, but it would probably make people go mad if they want to go some place far away. I sure as hell would rather stop playing then trying to efficiently adjust thousands of suns for my multi-jump. The best I could hope for under this insane system is just lazily plotting a course to the edge of the galaxy or whatever and then letting my multisystem-jump fling me into Andromeda instead, which would rule. But also make me lost in space forever.

Cathair posted:

Holy poo poo, this would've ruled. I love the galaxy map and I would've gone all over the place with this. Also, basically a 'formate' option, that would've been really nice.


Just make several shorter, more manageable multijumps? I assume you'd have to drop out to refuel at some point anyway. Still way faster than doing every one by hand, too.