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You can scoop Hydrogen from the atmosphere of a gas giant, if you have Fuel Scoop installed on your ship. | You can scoop Hydrogen from the atmosphere of a gas giant, if you have Fuel Scoop installed on your ship. | ||
| − | Fuel Scoop | + | Fuel Scoop activates automatically at the following conditions: |
| − | * | + | * There's free space in you cargo hold (collected Hydrogen is stored there). |
| − | * Atmosphere pressure over 4 atm. | + | * Atmosphere pressure is over 4 atm. |
| − | * Ship speed over 2 km/s. | + | * Ship speed is over 2 km/s. |
| − | * Ship | + | * Ship should face in the direction you are flying. A bit of deviation to direction is allowed, but when the angle is too high, the Fuel Scoop can't collect Hydrogen. |
Every time you collect some Hydrogen you can see a message about this at the scanner screen. | Every time you collect some Hydrogen you can see a message about this at the scanner screen. | ||
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'''Some useful hints:''' | '''Some useful hints:''' | ||
| − | * Make sure that you ship's thrust is enough to fly away from this planet. Check the planet gravity before fly to it. If gravity is too high compare to ship's thrust, it makes impossible to fly away from this planet. Choose gas giants with lower gravity. | + | * Make sure that you ship's thrust is enough to fly away from this planet. Check the planet gravity before fly to it. If gravity is too high compare to ship's thrust, it makes hard or even impossible to fly away from this planet. Choose gas giants with lower gravity. |
| + | * Always be aware of your horizontal and vertical speed. Try to keep your descent rate (next to the altitude display) under control. Don't let yourself fall too fast, or you might get into a situation where you can't recover from. | ||
| + | ** Don't just drop into the atmoshpere, but try just to skim it's upper layers. | ||
| + | ** Be aware that your acceleration decreases as you fill up your cargo hold (mass increases). Some of the ships with large cargo holds can experience quite dramatic loss of acceleration because of this. | ||
* Be careful when flying too low from the planet surface: | * Be careful when flying too low from the planet surface: | ||
| − | ** When speed and pressure are too high, you can overheat your hull. | + | ** When speed and pressure are too high, you can overheat your hull. An Atmospheric Shield can somewhat alleviate this problem. |
** You can crash to the planet when you fly near surface. (And avoid too high game speed.) | ** You can crash to the planet when you fly near surface. (And avoid too high game speed.) | ||
* It is easy to fly to the planet if you give an order to autopilot: "Enter low orbit around planet". With this order autopilot fly to the planet as near as possible. When your ship orbited at the planet, switch off autopilot and fly lower to atmosphere. | * It is easy to fly to the planet if you give an order to autopilot: "Enter low orbit around planet". With this order autopilot fly to the planet as near as possible. When your ship orbited at the planet, switch off autopilot and fly lower to atmosphere. | ||
** To choose a planet you can open a map ('F2' key), next press 'F7' key, next click the planet you need to select it with rectangle. Next return to main screen and press 'F4' key and select "Autopilot: Enter low orbit around <planet_name>" order. | ** To choose a planet you can open a map ('F2' key), next press 'F7' key, next click the planet you need to select it with rectangle. Next return to main screen and press 'F4' key and select "Autopilot: Enter low orbit around <planet_name>" order. | ||
Revision as of 06:34, 4 April 2014
You can scoop Hydrogen from the atmosphere of a gas giant, if you have Fuel Scoop installed on your ship.
Fuel Scoop activates automatically at the following conditions:
- There's free space in you cargo hold (collected Hydrogen is stored there).
- Atmosphere pressure is over 4 atm.
- Ship speed is over 2 km/s.
- Ship should face in the direction you are flying. A bit of deviation to direction is allowed, but when the angle is too high, the Fuel Scoop can't collect Hydrogen.
Every time you collect some Hydrogen you can see a message about this at the scanner screen.
Some useful hints:
- Make sure that you ship's thrust is enough to fly away from this planet. Check the planet gravity before fly to it. If gravity is too high compare to ship's thrust, it makes hard or even impossible to fly away from this planet. Choose gas giants with lower gravity.
- Always be aware of your horizontal and vertical speed. Try to keep your descent rate (next to the altitude display) under control. Don't let yourself fall too fast, or you might get into a situation where you can't recover from.
- Don't just drop into the atmoshpere, but try just to skim it's upper layers.
- Be aware that your acceleration decreases as you fill up your cargo hold (mass increases). Some of the ships with large cargo holds can experience quite dramatic loss of acceleration because of this.
- Be careful when flying too low from the planet surface:
- When speed and pressure are too high, you can overheat your hull. An Atmospheric Shield can somewhat alleviate this problem.
- You can crash to the planet when you fly near surface. (And avoid too high game speed.)
- It is easy to fly to the planet if you give an order to autopilot: "Enter low orbit around planet". With this order autopilot fly to the planet as near as possible. When your ship orbited at the planet, switch off autopilot and fly lower to atmosphere.
- To choose a planet you can open a map ('F2' key), next press 'F7' key, next click the planet you need to select it with rectangle. Next return to main screen and press 'F4' key and select "Autopilot: Enter low orbit around <planet_name>" order.
