Starbase/Reference/EGOTech/hoarder/USAGE.md

Usage

To enter the ship, there is a button on right side of the front of the ship that will open the Door.

Flying the Ship

The left lever on the center console controls backwards thrust (braking) and the right lever controls forward thrust.

Interface	Function
Speed	Current speed in metres per second.
ForwardThrust	Current forward thrust, maximum of 10,000 units
Cruise	Activates cruise control, forward thrust will not reset to zero unless turned down.
Turtle	Activates turtle mode which sets forward thrust to a maximum limit of TurtleRate of full thrust.
Sloth	Activates the low sensitvity mode of pitch and yaw by limiting thrust. Use the Sensitivity switch to set the maximum thrust rate of sloth mode.
Aim	Reduces the response time of key presses for pitch and yaw.
Guides & Distance	Activates forward rangefinders, with Distance showing distance to object detected by center rangefinder. Each respsective corner shows distance to the ground.
SafeZone	Whether current location is in the safe zone.
StrengthFactor	Current strength of ship. May fluctuate as ore crates are filled. Anything below 1.0 means ship is damaged.
Timer	See Timer.
Odometer	See Odometer.
Transponder Toggle & Ping	Transponder controls, Toggle turns on and off ship transponder while Ping will activate transponder for three seconds

NOTE: For safety, firing full braking thrust will deactivate Cruise.

Managing Power and Fuel

Interface	Function
Propellant	Total propellant remaining in propellant tanks, maximum of 72,000,000 units.
PropTime	Time and distance remaining of propellant based on current usage.
FuelTime	Time and distance remaining of fuel based on current usage.
Fuel Rod 1 to Fuel Rod 12	Fuel remaining on fuel rods in individual fuel chambers, maximum of 300,000 units for each.
Generator	Current generator rate, maximum of Generator Limit.
Min Gen & Min Generator Limit	Toggle and sets minimum generator rate. See Managing Power.
Shutdown	Will turn off all fuel chambers thus shutting down generators.
Battery	Shows current battery charge of the batteries, maximum of 10,000 units.
HeatTransferRate	Current heat transfer rate of the heat sinks, maximum of 100%.
Flow In & Flow Out	Toggle flow modes of resource bridges. See Refueling Propellant.
Lights	Turns on and off internal lights.
Door	Opens or closes ship entry door.
Canopy	Opens or closes ship entry door.

Managing Power

By default the generator will only run and ramp up when the batteries need charging so there is minimum management needed. But you can set a minimum generate rate by setting the Min Generator Limit value using the switch for the minimum rate and turning on Min Gen.

Refueling Propellant

All five resource bridges can be used for refuelling propellant. To refuel from another ship, turn off Flow Out on the pilot right side console and leave Flow In turned on. Then connect a resource bridge to the other ship. To refuel another ship, do the opposite, Flow Out turned on and Flow In turned off.

Remember to turn Flow In and Flow Out back on if you are using the Endo to collect ore via any of the ship's resource bridges.

The propellant tanks are also easily accessible for swapping or crafting refills.

Other Stuff

Timer

On the pilot center console there is a Timer panel which acts as a timer. It will run when the ship is active and show total time in years, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds. To reset the timer, hold down the Timer of `Hold to reset`` button on the pilot left console.

Odometer

On the pilot center console there is a Odometer panel which will keep track of the ship's estimated flight distance based on speed. To reset the trip odometer, hold down the Trip of Hold to reset button on the pilot left console.