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CRS Bumblebee v1.2

The Bumblebee is designed to be the first vehicle a player purchases. It's especially designed for play-throughs with Mass & Volume enabled. It has a massive 9000SU cargo hold and can move at a reasonable speed with more than 50 tons of cargo. This makes it ideal for low level players to go harvest deposits even some distance from their base. Bumblebee required a mere 481 newbie materials and is CPU compliant. In addition to the huge cargo hold, it has a single refrigerator, a small cargo hold for spare parts or equipment and a single mobile constructor. The purpose of the constructor is to create or process food on the go and to convert ore to ingots as ingots take up a lot less weight and space.

Note v1.2: When heavily laden, I found the previous version of Bumblebee to be VERY unstable to the point where it would roll over like a turtle. This version moves the hover engines more outboard to improve stability when heavily loaded. As a result of this change, Bumblebee is less likely to turtle, but when heavily loaded but it still handles poorly. Note that weight and volume are two separate things with M/V enabled. With heavier cargos, like cobalt, volume-wise, you can carry a lot of ore but the weight makes Bumblebee handle poorly. That having been said, I was able to get a very heavy load of ore back to base from 5km away without undo issues. But it was an interesting challenge!!