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Yep, still in open play. Might try solo later.

In the meantime I've just run into a rather nasty repeatable lock-up whilst trying to dock in just one station. Was getting concerned that something was fundamentally wrong, but decided to jump to the next system and all became well.

But, for about four or five attempts, entering a station...I think near to Yakabugai, called "Sergerov" or something similar, just completely froze the game on me when I got through the letterbox.

Hopefully it will go away...
 
For those having difficulty supercruising and then slowing down at the station. I have found the following helped.

  • SC at full speed to the destination.
  • When you get close, watch the timer.
  • When it gets to around 12 -15 seconds start slowing down and keep the timer on around the 10 - 8 second mark.
  • If it goes lower don't worry too much. When you are used to it, you can get down to 6 secs, Anly lower will send you whizzing by.
  • Keep at this speed until you get the blue "Safe Disengage Ready" pop up. Hit the SC key and you should drop into the station about 10km away.
Whilst this is happening you will notice the two bars in the panel. The top one will have a marker appear at around 100LS and the blue section is the destination. The lower is the relative speed. The blue section, is sub 1000Km/s and safe to disengage speed.

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Just got an error about transaction server and now I cannot login. This was my fear when they announced no offline mode.
 
I enter using the spiral loop, cutting the throttle fully and letting the speed bleed away rather than the incremental slow down of a direct approach. Seems faster, either because it is or because it keeps me busy.
 
Ninja Supercruise... full speed untill it reads 7 seconds from target then throttle back to the top of the blue bar throttle indicator then when it drops to about 800m per sec full throttle and drop out at 1000 km.
 
OK, i'm sure its been explained already, but how do I download the game? i bought the pre-order merc edition, it shows in my account page but the download button isnt clickable?

Edit: ok, found it
 
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As much as I like the 360 pad, finally caved and bought the X52, looking forward to not bothering with the keyboard anymore.

Hope it turns up sometime this year.
 
Sometimes I get a new message about new orbital body data found or something like that and something on my radar turns blue. Is this what you can sell or is that planet scanning etc different? That is what I wanted to get in to but no idea where to start. Edit: Forgot about the guide .pdf
 
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**** this game, **** it

so ****ing annoyed

****in ship handles like a shopping trolley, target shields offline, target shieds online target ****ing shields offline
 
Sounds pretty much in the spirit of the original, which could verge on frustrating at times.

Docking at space stations took a fair while to get right.
 
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