Starbase : Abandoning my 38,000km 72 hour non stop mission to a far moon

The Solar explorers shake down cruise comes to an end. A little propellant is left - but it has become clear I will not make it to one of the furthur moons so I will go start mining to pay for the next one :)

[Dave_Webb]

That's just sad. Excellent attempt though. Safe travels!

[LarrySmith]

That's super sad. It'll be like voyager, drifting among the vast cold of space.

[ellerimkirli]

Farewell bud, it was nice to get updates regularly on reddit. Incase I found your ship on my way to Karen 1B, I ll mark my name on it :P

[mutantpotato]

any chance youll build a refueling ship to take out to it perchance? maybe build a station core somewhere out there?

[dunkan]

Nice run, as you talked about before I think, being able to go 150ms would help a ton. Also not sure if it's cheaper weight wise to store ice for making fuel vs propellant, but probably is.

[matrand]

Impressive! waiting for the next try. :) greetz from ger

[cookiebandit]

I'm currently making a long range transport ship with on-board fuel storage and crafting benches including a warp core. Its capable of flying for a long time as is and I have plans to add more thrusters to make it reach top speed.

[blinded]

Tip: Your maximum range is *only* determined by propellant-to-mass relationship.

[psychkick]

is there usually a lot of sun? because there are no planets blocking sun's rays?

[ShinobeSan]

Yeah, you need more range, my moon trip was 17 days (of course not a nonstop flight)
But some moons are quite far, maybe check the map made by Rabir for distance

[evenofine]

What origin are you from? We are currently developing a very large borg cube ship in ship design with fuel capacity in mind to reach a moon.
We are not exactly sure when it will be completed it may be a few more weeks.
But it might be possible for you to itch a ride.

[echoe]

I was in the alpha, waiting for the game to get more flushed out (like when they get gas refining online). Then ill jump back in. Following their moon mining video i have been planning to make a large craft with a full interior. (i want it to look similar to the Python from Elite Dangerous) It will have enough cargo space to bring enough terrestrial resources to establish a base with a spawnpoint. And from there the moonbase will be my base of operations. Im hoping to establish a powerful mining colony on one of the moons and get all the good stuffin. Gettin the resources nobody else has the balls or patience to...

Now one question, will the ship travel if im offline?

[TheDJLionman]

Desperately need pvp mechanics game dying lost half my ships to bugs without ever finding pvp
waiting for ship deed-transfer update to make pvp worth it and some way to find people because optional pvp is retarded.

[aleniadeanedottri]

Got question about solar panels. Is there coded to get them to recharge batteries instead fuel rods or to have them run devices till they can't and then have batteries take over. New to solar panels and just added them to my goliath ship