Starbase/EGOTech/clunker/USAGE.md
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Usage

To enter the ship, there is a button on top the ship that will open Hatch.

Flying the Ship

Pilot Top Console Pilot Left Console

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
Plasma & Plasma Charge Level Activates the plasma thrusters and intitiate charging. Plasma thrusters has to be activated and charge level at 1.0 for it to fire.
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.
Range & Distance Activates forward rangefinders, with Distance showing distance to object detected by center rangefinder.
Guide, FrontRight, FrontLeft, BackRight & BackLeft Guide activates rangefinders at each corner of the base of the ship. Each repsective 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.
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

Pilot Right Console

Interface Function
Propellant Total propellant remaining in propellant tanks, maximum of 72,000,000 units.
Fuel Fuel remaining on fuel tank, maximum of 10,000,000 units.
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.

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.