Lack of in system missions; can't jump

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77Punker
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Lack of in system missions; can't jump

Post by 77Punker »

Okay...on my first run, the ship had a top speed of 14000 and was way too fast to do anything. I quit and started again, it worked fine, no trouble with that since. Now here's a recurring problem: I'm in Heaven's Gate, and there aren't enough local missions to get money for a jump drive. Secondly, once I was able to get the money for a jump drive, I took a mission that required jumping and I got to the gate and hit j. The little voice came on, but nothing happened. This happened in WinXP with .3.9.1
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Post by hellcatv »

you need to wait until your jump bar is totally charged :-) (the blue line, not the red one)

we need to make a few more insys missions probably

did you talk to any fixers in the bar
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Re: Lack of in system missions; can't jump

Post by enlightenment »

77Punker wrote:I'm in Heaven's Gate, and there aren't enough local missions to get money for a jump drive.
Is this a bug? There are more than enough ways to earn huge quantities of credits (millions) by doing trade runs between the mining bases, Nief, and Bernoose. The missions aren't that much of a cash generator given that it's possible to make on the order of 10,000 credits per trip between Bernoose and the inner rings mining base.
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Post by 77Punker »

OK OK OK....I got enough money for a jump drive after about an hour of doing what amounted to about 3 in system cargo missions. The problem was, the mission BBS and the bar never did many in system missions.
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Post by TomCerul »

As a new user, I'd really love it if the bartender (for example) told you about planet to planet trading as a way to make some cash. It's kinda frustrating to start docked to a station that has Nothing useful to new people. (Lot's over jump missions that you Can accept even though you can't afford a jump drive yet.)
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Post by peteyg »

I am working on that for the next version. I hope to have the agricultural base bartender be an ex merchant, and give a fair bit of basic trading tips. Also, I plan on having a number of trading tips specific for each base type. Refinery tips at a refinery, industrial tips at an industrial planet, etc.

Here's a tip, though: Food to mining base, raw metals and radioactives to agricultural.
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