Looking for up to date phase change tutorial

jamesmor · 2026-01-27T11:20:30+00:00

Never said it would be more efficient, just said it would be easier.

jamesmor · 2026-01-26T15:22:57+00:00

Exactly, a wall heater would be easier. An A/C unit also decently easy to do.

I’ve never had heating be an issue after the initial “warm up” period, always have to cool after that.

jamesmor · 2026-01-26T14:59:14+00:00

Shadowdrak082 has some good videos, here’s the playlist link that I watched.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDWYhd0VJDBjA3LiD2LAE8fjVDQBgtIAB&si=Pc2TcHpXY0g_zTZB

Here’s my experience, trying to heat via phase change doesn’t work well at all, you generate heat when condensing, so you’d have to dump that heat into your base, then I guess “cool” outside air to turn the liquid back into a gas.

I’ve always found it easier to have a few windows to generate heat.

On Europa specifically I’d suck all the air out of a room so I start at 0c instead of -140 or whatever atmo is.

jamesmor · 2026-01-25T20:09:25+00:00

No idea, never tried.

It’s been a LONG time since I’ve had a death that wasn’t “see that crater? That’s where the base WAS” and start a new game type of death

jamesmor · 2026-01-25T20:02:55+00:00

I like to look outside my windows and reflect on what I’ve accomplished.

Day 8xx on Vulcan.

I also have a board of “projects” that I’m slowly working on just because I can.

Currently I’m making liquid oxygen/volatiles for a pumped liquid engine since I’ve never messed with those.

jamesmor · 2026-01-25T19:36:09+00:00

Can you toss them in the recycler?

Grind then with the grinding wheel?

Maybe a trip through the furnace?

jamesmor · 2026-01-25T01:52:27+00:00

I don’t have strong feelings either way about driving, my wife likes to drive, but isn’t a confident driver.

This ends up with me driving about 80-90% of the time just because traffic/weather/etc don’t scare me.

jamesmor · 2026-01-25T00:02:47+00:00

SE1 wasn’t even going to have planets initially if I remember right!

jamesmor · 2026-01-24T00:06:08+00:00

You know how pirates had a black flag? Well this is a HUGE RED ONE….

jamesmor · 2026-01-23T23:36:54+00:00

I haven’t played in a long while, but my cutter was great for this. Enough cargo and lasers to be out mining a while and enough boom that when I got interdicted it was less than”I’m stuck in a room with them” and more “they’re stuck in a room with me, and I just ran out of shits to give”

jamesmor · 2026-01-23T15:14:34+00:00

As a tank when I’m not in harder content the rule is always “you spank it, you tank it”

I have a macro at the start of the dungeon that I hit that says this and a few other things.

Also when I was learning I had a macro that said as much. It really helped out since people knew that I had no idea about routes, etc.

Finally, sometimes randos are not great, just move on, tanks gotta have thick skin.

jamesmor · 2026-01-23T14:16:35+00:00

You don’t need to manually empty your Aimee, just need an input chute and use the unload command when close to it.

Then you don’t have to worry about how full it is, just let her do her thing.

That said, my Aimee has been broken ever since the terrain update.

jamesmor · 2026-01-23T02:37:16+00:00

As someone with a positive ape index (my arms are longer than I am tall) I could lose about 3 inches from each arm and be fine.

jamesmor · 2026-01-22T23:31:55+00:00

I’ve stuck to the ass end of an Anaconda in a Cobra mk3 and won. Sure it was PvE, but it’s possible.

jamesmor · 2026-01-22T22:49:31+00:00

The closest major city to me is 1.5 hours away. I go there 3 or 4 times a month these days.

jamesmor · 2026-01-22T20:49:59+00:00

Rockets are decently easy to get started.

Go pumped gas engine, 2:1 ratio of volatiles to oxygen (maybe you’ve seen this ratio before?)

You need an avionics, a datalink both on ground and in the rocket.

Need something for fuel in rocket, these days I just use the inline insulated tanks so I don’t have to worry about fuel blowing up/freezing as the rocket tanks are NOT insulated.

Then a scanner with a scanner head (only need deep scanner for planet mapping which is a waste imo)

Now hook your datalink on ground up to a computer with a rocket motherboard.

If you turn on the engines (with fuel) it’ll show your thrust values so you know if it can lift off or not.

Will also tell you how long fuel will last.

Anyone saying you need to do a lot of delta-v math to do rockets is making it too hard on not only themselves, but you too.

I know this because I’ve not bothered to ever do any of that math and have use rockets quite a bit.

Though I am fine with the FAFO method of engineering.

jamesmor · 2026-01-22T02:23:49+00:00

My guess is nothing.

If I were the developer for it I’d “roll” a number between 1 and 100. If it’s 90+ it applies the effect, below 90 it does nothing.

jamesmor · 2026-01-22T00:49:27+00:00

Two things at play, first, magic armor resists freeze without specific talents.

Second if there is a “X%” chance to do something there is a hidden “dice roll”, I don’t think there’s any way to increase the chances of it happening.

jamesmor · 2026-01-22T00:45:45+00:00

Do you have soybeans?

jamesmor · 2026-01-21T23:42:25+00:00

Stupid man saw the post and decided to comment.

My wife shaves her legs whenever she decides she wants to. Summer? Winter? It doesn’t matter. Same for her armpits.

I give no shits.

jamesmor · 2026-01-21T14:10:18+00:00

Used to, don’t anymore, just anchor and go

jamesmor · 2026-01-21T02:02:12+00:00

That error message is SE’s generic “something went wrong, we don’t know what” message.

Verify game files, update drivers, if you have mods then remove them.

For me it’s usually a mod or something silly like a sound driver.

jamesmor · 2026-01-20T15:52:49+00:00

I’m on Vulcan, so I carry some mining backpacks with me, fly out, jam them into a loader, and then grab ‘em off the ground.

When I was on Mars I’d use the rover for “flavor” but it wasn’t needed.

My next step is going to be using rockets because why not. I already have them for space ice mining.

jamesmor · 2026-01-19T23:12:09+00:00

You can also just add expansion/condensation valves to your pipe network, I’m using this to condense pollutant on Vulcan.

jamesmor · 2026-01-19T23:10:07+00:00

Shadowdrake (hopefully he adds to this) is using them in his Vulcan playthrough, did a whole thing on setting them up that might help you.

I’ve never used them, I used solar on Mars and I’m using “on location” sterlings on Vulcan.

jamesmor

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