Newcomer / Intro What are you up to?

New ways to try and break the game...

Have the radar join you in the cab...

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Try to enter the landing pad hangar entrance as ships take off and land...

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Send SRV tyres flying at a scavenger wreck site... and try to jump into them as they spin...

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Play "hoop and stick" (you can propel them faster and faster with repeated melee blows, until the tyres squash into a body)...

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I hadn't noticed beforehand that they were quite scarce up here...
This is "up here" on the map:
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Penny stayed in Colonia a while. Sooo that was quite a trip.

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Anyway now she lit out west, and figures to mosey on home along a couple of those galactic arms.

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whoah!
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But it's a pretty far way to go, so don't ever count out her untimely demise! WHOAH! Why does this anemone float! doom DOOM
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New ways to try and break the game...

Have the radar join you in the cab...

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Try to enter the landing pad hangar entrance as ships take off and land...

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Send SRV tyres flying at a scavenger wreck site... and try to jump into them as they spin...

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Play "hoop and stick" (you can propel them faster and faster with repeated melee blows, until the tyres squash into a body)...

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Excellent work!
 
It was my own decision to do the update. Windows doesn't have any say about these drivers. The issues I sometimes encounter are also due to the limitations of this computer.

And the stars seem to be back. I hadn't noticed beforehand that they were quite scarce up here...

In a new star system, found a body with 5 biosigns.
The first thing I run into after landing:
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I scanned it, but after some driving about, I decided to dump the sample and scan some Stratum first, even though it was less valuable. But it was readily available in sufficient quantity to get a sample completed. While I was about scanning the Stratum, I ran into some Tubus, which I scanned after completing the other sample:
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(It was of higher value than Osseus.)

Now I'm back in my ship which is still parked near the Osseus and once again I wish the Genetic Sampler would be able to scan more than one species at a time.
The good thing about Tubus if your graphics are up to it is that they can often be seen from the ship from a greater distance than their minimum sample separation which can make things even easier if they are close by a less visible bio type.

Being tall they can be relatively easy to spot if you fly low even with reduced graphics.
 
The good thing about Tubus if your graphics are up to it is that they can often be seen from the ship from a greater distance than their minimum sample separation which can make things even easier if they are close by a less visible bio type.

Being tall they can be relatively easy to spot if you fly low even with reduced graphics.
They are indeed visible from quite far away - I couldn't even make out the terrain between my position (close to the Osseus) and this slender line far away...

Which is strange as they are the ship least likely, before the new drive, to carry heatsinks.
They don't need extra heatsinks because they have the biggest heatsink- to shipsize ratio of all ships available right now.
Those glowing hockeysticks on the sides are all radiator surface.
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They are indeed visible from quite far away - I couldn't even make out the terrain between my position (close to the Osseus) and this slender line far away...


They don't need extra heatsinks because they have the biggest heatsink- to shipsize ratio of all ships available right now.
Those glowing hockeysticks on the sides are all radiator surface.
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Yes but back before they were fixed Dolphins could overheat to damaging levels if you manoeuvred too hard when flying over a planets surface, now you can start a jump while fuel scooping in one and not come to any harm.
 
... now you can start a jump while fuel scooping in one and not come to any harm.
This is one reason why I love using the Dolphin for exploration/exobiology *. That and the fact that it can land in some tight spots, ideal for those hard-to-get-to samples.

* And now, with the carrier, I find I don't need long-range exploration ships so much - even though my Phantom has a most excellent jump range.
 
I spy with MY little Dolphin, Colonia from 3kLY! Fading like a dream. Time to look forward. And I hope to make to the Zejoos this weekend.
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"Ahhh, my Zejoos!"
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Trip's gonna take a durn lotta fuel though. I forgot my fuel points credit card, though. But so long as stellar bodies provide, I've got my 4A magic wand
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“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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