How to fly around Venus?

[a three-colored carp]

The gravity is so high that even with 13 thrusters I can't overcome it. I turned on my torch drive when I thought I was clear, but even then I was dragged into the planet where I crashed.

How do I get away from this place?

[YZed]

Are you landed at one of the Aerostats, or VORB? Torch should be enough to leave the gravity of Venus. It's just under 1g, so from not moving relative to Venus, anything more than that should accelerate you away. If you are travelling towards Venus, it's obviously going to take more. If you're in a "no wake" zone, you're going to have trouble. Rotors are a thing(look at the ships available at the ship traders on Venus), but you can't seem to buy them anywhere, and you probably need a few of them.

There is a debug "cheat" on the nav console, click the "rescue" screw, and select your destination

[a three-colored carp]

Landed on VORB. I seem to have figured out how to thrust my way at least far enough to get out of the wake zone but now I'm having a problem with my torch drive:

It's running too cold. When I chart a reasonable course, ~1.75gs with the drift phase 4 ticks below the shortest. it follows course for a little while before the temeperature drops to 0 and it shuts off. You said elsewhere that this has to do with the Cycle / Flow inputs being some way but the engine seems to set these automatically and I can't adjust them without interrupting the whole course

[YZed]

I haven't had the issue before, but I'd try different max g settings. Possibly lower, since I would assume it's trying to set the cycle too high to achieve the thrust.

What reactor set up do you have? In case you're unaware, you can have multiple pellet feeders(small yellow unit) and laser arrays(small red). Up to 2 of each per fuel distributor (large yellow) and capacitor (large red).

From discussions, it seems that different set ups have different thresholds. I've only ever had 2/2 and never had an issue.

If you follow the discord link and go to the "cannonball run" thread in the "ships" channel, you'll find a lot of discussion about it there.

[YZed]

Check you don't have your core pump on if you have one. (They're useless anyway. If you have one, I'd turf it)

[a three-colored carp]

Thanks I'll definitely configure my reactor differently when I find the loot for it. I have what i thought was the 'standard' set up: 1 of everything except Helium tanks which I have 3 of.

I seem to have found a solution. I just had to burn through ~16 cannisters of N2 to completely escape the gravitational pull of Venus. Then I plotted a course of 1.3g maximum thrust which will take me about 70 hours.

The core temperature is still lower than optimal -- about at 4, but so far it's running

[YZed]

VORB has an elliptical orbit around Venus. It's much closer one side than the other. It sounds like you might have been trying to leave from the low side?

Sounds like you'd benefit from a 2nd pellet feeder and laser array. I burn at 3g's, but that's limited by my weak spacer blood, rather than the reactor.

[gbjbaanb]

Originally posted by a three-colored carp:

it follows course for a little while before the temeperature drops to 0 and it shuts off.

You have it set to fire too much. Its cooling because too much of the fuel is being chucked out the back rather than staying in the reactor. So change the max G setting to be less. You will be able to manage it, it'll just take longer to get where you're going. The alternative is to get less mass - trying to take tonnes of cargo is changing the way your ship handles.

[Shenji]

I wonder if there's a way to land my CR-43 onto Cloudbreak... Can you do that?

[a three-colored carp]

Originally posted by gbjbaanb:

Originally posted by a three-colored carp:

it follows course for a little while before the temeperature drops to 0 and it shuts off.

You have it set to fire too much. Its cooling because too much of the fuel is being chucked out the back rather than staying in the reactor. So change the max G setting to be less. You will be able to manage it, it'll just take longer to get where you're going. The alternative is to get less mass - trying to take tonnes of cargo is changing the way your ship handles.

I just can't with this game.

If I change the G setting to be less, maybe 1.2 or less (1.9 seems to be the max with my configuration), the trip takes like 220+ hours to complete. Whether I add components or remove them from the torch drive doesn't make a difference -- it either charts wrong, takes too long, or consumes an absurd amount of fuel.

I don't understand how it could be a mass thing because I've done this same path with this same ship before successfully but now there's infinite problems.

[Shenji]

The long range travel and autopilot system is still under developing, so sometimes it just broken down. I always set the acceler-rate to 1.9G (max in my one reactor powered CR-43), and most time it works fine. Multiple fuel cans (He3) looks like always mess the calculation of autopiloting, so I just fill them all before leave (costs about 90k-100k but it's a nothing burger after first cargo run to VORB).
I encountered once when the reactor burned out the fuel(actually just one of many canisters was out), though the autopiloting system recognized another canister storage but the system went full amok. Everything stopped working, then I used insta-dock to saved my trip then fulfill the cans every time I departure, everything works fine till now.

I bought an aero commuter trying to fly through the atmosphere of Venus but that doesn't work, yet.

Also I remembered about some murder case in VENC and once received a 'mystery call from Venus', I found the contact on VENC but there's no related conversation yet.

I hacked a security drone but it just stopped then rebooted, I didn't have my dreaming robot dog. Hope one day we can do this..

The grand mall is a rip.

The air race sounds good but since the atom-flying is still not working (for me at least) so don't bother yet.

Remembered some one once travelled to Moon base, maybe it's my next stop.