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DSP tip for interplanetary travel, don’t use up all your fuel on acceleration so that you end up doing a flyby of your target planet at 800 m/s and can’t slow down or steer -- (edited)

Posted by znufrii, Very Good to Excellent (aka znufrii) Mar 28 '23, 07:53

It’s gonna take you a long time to get home.

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Accelerate toward the destination, perhaps a coast phase, flip ship around and now spend fuel slowing down -- nm - JD Mar 28, 08:04 1
- Yeah, I only really did the first bit. -- (edited) - znufrii, Very Good to Excellent Mar 28, 08:23
lol. I'm supremely worried about this. Luckily I haven't missed yet. Only played a little last night. Researched some tech but also found you only - oblique Mar 28, 08:02 3
- Right now I’m on thermal generation, using mostly spillover from my oil processing. I’ve got a dedicated coal field churning out graphite for backup. -- (edited) - znufrii, Very Good to Excellent Mar 28, 08:08 2
  - Yeah, that's what I'm doing mostly also supplemented with coal. I haven't yet shifted to doing graphite for powering the plant. I just feed it coal - oblique Mar 28, 08:26 1
    - Yeah, I’ve got a pretty nice cracking setup going. -- (edited) - znufrii, Very Good to Excellent Mar 28, 08:36

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