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[lgonggr]

I remember a vicous dogfight and I realized I was not going to survive. But then I realised I was close to a gass giant and on manual control made a slingshot increasing my velocity with a factor of ten and leaving my antagonists eating my ion trail. Thsi game is absolutely brilliant.
And of course there are the 'bugged' planets where the autopilot doesn't work and you have to fly on manual. this usually results in your ship drifting off into interstellar space :tai: or splattering your ship all over the surface (the planet keeps getting bigger and my engine is braking on full power, but I'm not going to brake in time :tai: ). When you finally make a manual flight and perfect approach in a record time you feel brilliant. Interplanetary navigation is not easy !

A hint for the beginners who want to win the race :
Fly on manual and thrust for the center system on max power. Keep accelerating. The timing is crucial. When you brake on autopilot you only use the forward thrusters which are low power. Instead fly half the distance to your destination accelerating all the way. Then turn the ship 180* so that your main exhaust is pointing at your target and go to full pwoer again. When you are within 1 AU of the destination use the auopilot again. You will have arrived in ca. 2/3 of the time of an autopilot approach. Waiting an hour or a day before hyperspacing can make you appear radically closer or farther of your destination. So save and experiment.
And there are a billion other trics and tips I won't get into here :bleh: