Trumble Trouble

Cmdr. Maegil · Post by **Cmdr. Maegil** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:55 am

Did you fail to see my previous post's second link? Or was it this new generation's rampant fecklessness in action that restrained your reading abilities?

So then, child, pay attention when addressed by your elders , and maybe - maybe what you learn may help you survive the great blackness yonder.

There!

RustiSwordz · Post by **RustiSwordz** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:23 am

Cmdr. Maegil wrote:
Did you fail to see my previous post's second link? Or was it this new generation's rampant fecklessness in action that restrained your reading abilities?

So then, child, pay attention when addressed by your elders , and maybe - maybe what you learn may help you survive the great blackness yonder.

There!

I did good sir, and amid all the rantings i saw totally nothing to help me with my mission, so i shall say it very clearly and to the point and hopefully i shall get a straight no frills answer.

Is there a mission where you can sell the trumbles or get them removed other than flying screaming into a sun...

Cmdr. Maegil · Post by **Cmdr. Maegil** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:52 am

Cmdr. Maegil wrote:
Did you fail to see my previous post's second link? Or was it this new generation's rampant fecklessness in action that restrained your reading abilities?

RustiSwordz wrote:
I did good sir, and amid all the rantings i saw totally nothing to help me with my mission, so i shall say it very clearly and to the point and hopefully i shall get a straight no frills answer.

You saw totally nothing to help?!? Hadn't you replied in writing, I'd think you as being analphabet, since...

...in the thread linked above, Cmdr. Maegil clearly wrote:
Very well, young fool, I'll give you a pearl of my wisdom. Don't get so close to the star. What you need is to deep roast them by remaining a long time on flashing red. A looong time...

If this isn't straightforward enough, that teevee thingy must be to blame; it's a insidious counterculture-spawned impairment inducer that's probably already burnt your eyes and shrivelled the brain, that's what it does!

RustiSwordz wrote:
Is there a mission where you can sell the trumbles or get them removed other than flying screaming into a sun...

Nope!

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:26 am

@ RustiSwordz: Of course you could try to escape from your trumble-infested ship via your escape capsule.

On the other hand, there is no guarantee the the escape capsule isn't infested, too.

*****

And as for the method Cmdr Maegil has now in his overwhelming patience towards legasthenics pointed out to you painfully obvious: Have you ever considered outfitting your ship with a heat shield?

Cmdr. Maegil · Post by **Cmdr. Maegil** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:09 am

Commander McLane wrote:
legasthenics

Uh, what's that, weak legs? Calisthenics for the lower limbs?

Did you meant 'logasthenia' (logos+asthenia), are starting to show signs of it youself, or both?...

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:33 am

Cmdr. Maegil wrote:
Commander McLane wrote:
legasthenics
Uh, what's that, weak legs? Calisthenics for the lower limbs?

Did you meant 'logasthenia' (logos+asthenia), are starting to show signs of it youself, or both?...

Probably the latter?!?

Actually I was aiming for legein+asthenia, but apparently in English you would call that dyslexia. "Legasthenie" is the German technical term for it, and obviously, as far as English is concerned, a false friend of mine.

On the other hand, I might as well be showing signs of whatever-you-want. Who was that guy in the mirror, anyway?

Cmdr. Maegil · Post by **Cmdr. Maegil** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:02 pm

A false friend, yes... They are similar, but not quite the same thing: while on logasthenia there is an ability loss, in dyslexia you are born with it - which means I can't accuse modern society of creating dyslexics, only logasthenics and aphasics!

RustiSwordz · Post by **RustiSwordz** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:51 pm

Commander McLane wrote:
@ RustiSwordz: Of course you could try to escape from your trumble-infested ship via your escape capsule.

On the other hand, there is no guarantee the the escape capsule isn't infested, too.

*****

And as for the method Cmdr Maegil has now in his overwhelming patience towards legasthenics pointed out to you painfully obvious: Have you ever considered outfitting your ship with a heat shield?

I did have a heat shield but it didnt work much, i fuelled my ship, the trumbles went shrivelled i went boom about 2 seconds after...

I'm looking to buy a new ship anyway...

Cmdr. Maegil · Post by **Cmdr. Maegil** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:52 pm

I said, DO NOT GO TOO NEAR THE SUN!!!

Approach only enough to slowly raise the temperature, wait for it to start flashing, then climb a bit to a point where the temp stops increasing and stay there for as long as you have to, as if in a dry sauna.

And if you still can't get it right, just PM me the bleedin' save game and I'll do it for you already , for gilssakes!

LittleBear · Post by **LittleBear** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:11 pm

The trick is to find the sweet spot where temperature is rising SLOWLY. You need to cook the little beasts for a certain length of time to kill them. Set your course for the sun and stop every so often. Check you temp guage. Is it slowing going up? If so stop and wait. It will gradually edge up until it reaches the right temp. At this point your trumbles will start to feel uncomfortable (listen out for the little critters making distressed sounds!). Give it 30 seconds or so and they'll start keeling over. The trick is being far enough away so that you can keep them at the cooking temperature for long enough to kill them without the temp going so high it blows you up. Right on top of the star the temp will reach killing temperature, but it will be going up so fast that you'll only get a few seconds before it gets so high it melts your ship. Slow cooking is whats required.

You need a slow RATE of increase otherwise you kill yourself. A good distance from the star is therefore best.

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:12 pm

Cmdr. Maegil wrote:
And if you still can't get it right, just PM me the bleedin' save game and I'll do it for you already , for gilssakes!

A word of warning however.
If you do this option you will find your save-game will come back to you as a rusty adder equipped with a pulse laser, no credits, docked at one of the worst Anarchies in the Galaxy with a Fugitive rating....

Captain Hesperus

Cmdr. Maegil · Post by **Cmdr. Maegil** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:37 pm

...but it'll be trumble-free - which was what he wanted!

RustiSwordz · Post by **RustiSwordz** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:51 pm

Hooraah done it, i'm trumble free

Tx for the advice.

The idea of a trumble mission sounds like fun though for a future oxp or something.

Post by **Disembodied** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:58 pm

Well, there's this that's been lying around for a while now, neglected, like a hairball coughed up behind a sofa...

Cmdr. Maegil · Post by **Cmdr. Maegil** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:20 pm

RustiSwordz wrote:
Hooraah done it, i'm trumble free Tx for the advice.

Finally! It wasn't that hard, was it?

As for trumble OXPs, there was some talk of giving each cargo container a small chance of being infected...