Aurora 4x
New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: Rogue Yun on November 30, 2017, 06:52:20 AM
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New to the game, bear with me.
Just made my first survey ship. I made it the weakest slowest thing out there just for the sake of it, gave it orders to survey the nearest bodies, started focusing on other things, and now I have a survey ship just chasing Mercury endlessly. Is there a way to tell my ship to stop "chasing" targets but to instead fly against the flow?
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you can use the Add WP button to create arbitrary waypoints that you can navigate to.
A ship that's slower than orbital velocity is essentially useless though, since aurora uses an absolute reference frame for speed and not relative.
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The first engine tech, chemical engines, are only barely good to go to the Moon and return I would say...
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Don't use it for Mercury, Venus or comets.
And I always make my geosurvey ships commercial, with size 50 engines (partly because I intend to retool and refit to better engines), because that gives them about 65-70 km/s, which is plenty to catch any body.
Fortunately, if you DO catch a body, you will be able to keep up with it and orbit with it as you survey. Waiting ahead of it until the 5 day movement processes, and then dashing up to it works too.