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Quote from: Rilder on March 29, 2011, 01:31:05 am

A Cimarron Tanker goes up in flames after a bit of shelling by the deck gun. Also the first time I noticed that smoke billows out the portholes which is down right cool.

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After floating for awhile she finally starts to go under.

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Your not supposed to be under the surface your a merchant!

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Of course shortly after that the RAF showed up and started bombing me to kingdom come. >.>

Is that Silent Hunter? If so, what number in the series?

I don't want to be mean, but, man... did you read the post before yours? 

Ukrainians are not good at sports!  They are artists!

(I have no evidence for these claims)

No, No, No.  The character must pursue sports, so he can become a famous athlete that moves to the US and plays for the NHL.

That damn Prince Ribbit!

Personally, I played through the game in vanilla, then installed the Complete mod.  I don't know about LURK, but Complete crippled my PC in any large map, so if you're only able to run vanilla at lowest settings, you may be in the same boat.  That said, the first few areas, using Complete, are beautiful. 

Yeah, like bluephoenix said, at the apoapsis (the highest point in your orbit) do a prograde (use the autopilot, it will basically face you the way that your velocity vector is taking you--this is marked by the circle with a cross through it) burn and watch your Orbit MFD.  I find it helpful to change your projection mode to 'ship' in the Orbit MFD.  You can do this by pressing the PRJ button in the top right.  This will show the shape of your orbit.  To get a stable orbit, do the prograde burn until the eccentricity (labled Ecc in the MFD list) is 0.00 or less. 

I can't offer any help on docking with the ISS.

Robsoie: Thank you again for your wealth of knowledge.  I have been taking a break from Orbiter but will be sure to use your tutorial when I try to make it to the Mars and/or the moon.

If you haven't, you should try Caves of Qud.  I am not sure but I think at least some of the maps are procedurally generated.  I could be completely wrong.  Either way, it's a very imaginative and engrossing post-apocalyptic / sci-fi rouguelike.

Here is the link to the forum thread: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=73201.0

I'm looking forward to trying the new build.  Thanks for the update.

I went through your tutorial, Robsoie.  It worked really well and I was able to get to the target within several kilometers, however, I wasn't spot on and since it was night I was kinda lost as to how to leave the descent and navigate to Ascension Island.  Before I could get my bearings and hit the engines, I was too low and falling too quickly.  Crashed into the ocean.

One question.  Do you recommend doing the retro burn on the final, and closest, orbit?  When exactly to do the burn wasn't clear to me, though it only really makes sense to do it on the closest orbit.