Lander Training: Standard Planets

Lander Training: Standard Planets, Lander Training: Challenging Planets, Asteroids and Mining, Lander Training: Hell Planets, Orbital Training, Lander Training: Gas Planets, Training: Scooping Exotic Matter, Training Completed, or Training: Aborted is the holographic training quest of The Long Journey Home.

Description
The IASA holographic training is intended to help the player to learn the basics of system flight and lander piloting. The level contains fixed planets with different conditions, where the player can test his skills on friendly, challenging, and hell-class worlds. The quest is started directly from the main menu and is not part of the journey.

First the player has to fly to and land on a liquid planet (Edna) with average gravity. It is possible to land the lander without touching the controls, since it is falling directly into the ocean. Here the player can try to drill for carbonates under water and for gold on an island.

Second the player has to fly to a high gravity ice planet (Garstang). To land without hitting the planets surface, the lander has to thrust straight downwards. On the surface the player can explore a shipwreck and drill for carbonates. Reverse thrusting can help to stop the lander on slippery ice surfaces.

Now the player gets the choice to either try flying through an asteroid field or to land on a molten planet.

In the asteroid belt the asteroids containing resources are marked with a white arrows. When shot with active weapon systems, they break and drop up to four resources. To navigate through the asteroid belt avoid boosting in general and thrusting continuously. Don't thrust during turns! Turn first, thrust second. To leave the asteroid field make sure that the space ship points into a direction that is free of obstacles.

The player has to land on a very high gravity molten planet with strong wind and earthquakes (Shirasaki). The heat damages the lander continuously. As a reward the planet offers rare resources.

To improve the orbiting skills the player has to orbit around a low gravity planet (Mariagodinez) close to a sun.

The player has to land on a very high gravity gas planet with moderate wind and a thick atmosphere (Cardoen). The best strategy to scoop gas is to stay in between the gas layers and to just thrust into them when a resource passes by. With a bit of exercise "fishing" resources out of a gas layer doesn't damage the lander more than drilling for minerals and metals.

Exotic Matter can be obtained by flying through the red ring around a star. The radiation damage depends on the distance to the star, but the exotic matter is collected with same speed no matter how close the ship flies to the star. It is therefore optimal to adjust the ship speed such that it is as far away from the sun as possible while still being inside the red circle. The player has to fill the EM tank completely and to leave the red ring to complete this task.

After fulfilling all tasks the player can continue training or quit the game. There is no reward.