When your stamina reaches zero, your health begins to deplete, and when you run out of health points you'll collapse, which means a game over if you're in a dungeon. Working, be it planting strawberries or watering flowers, drains your rune points, which serve as your stamina gauge. Comfortable stylus controls and a convenient quick-select feature allow easier tool juggling and faster item access than in the original, though you can still rely on a simple button scheme if you prefer. You'll pull multicolored weeds, till the land, plant a variety of seeds depending on the season, water plants daily, and eventually harvest produce to sell at the local general store. The bulk of your time is spent managing the farm, which is surprisingly addictive and satisfying. Master nature to put cash in your pocket and food on the table. Though the storyline is quite basic, it's more than sufficient to carry the sedate gameplay that follows. Your control will eventually shift to Kyle's only child, at which point you'll progress the real story as additional gameplay features become available. The game's most interesting aspect is that its plot spans two generations. A young girl named Mana loans you a farm to keep you busy until you recover your memories.

You're initially cast as Kyle, a traveler with amnesia who stumbles upon the small town of Alvarna several years after the events in the original. But those who don't mind waiting should find Rune Factory 2 a calming and pleasant adventure.

The game tests your patience, given that you're forced to work boring fetch quests around the in-game clock, not to mention the fact that the crafting system has to be unlocked. Micromanagement is still the primary focus, with farming tasks and monster organization at the forefront, though exploration and a robust crafting system are also prominent. Asking for advice politely is rarely out of place, anywhere.Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon is a role-playing game much like its predecessor, sharing a simplistic combat system that is traditionally lacking in Harvest Moon games as well as a unique social emphasis that operates as a dating simulator. the first is to minimize drag (no open nodes anywhere!). That last number is probably the second most important thing in designing a SSTO. Also, this profile is very dependant on TWR, I get my best payload fractions (up to 50%) at around 0.4 TWR, with an all-RAPIER powerplant. You could milk a bit more by pitching down, but I usually just don't bother. As you build speed and go supersonic, waking up the RAPIERs, you build TWR and lift, and you start ascending, quicker and quicker, until you get to ~1300m/s with a more than respectable vertical component (Kerbin has curved under you as you kept the initial heading). Basically, put yourself on the shallowest attack angle that doesn't make you go down right from takeoff. The one I use, which is a good compromise between efficiency and expediency, is quite simple indeed: draw a straight line to orbit. The bow shock thing shadow depending on part geometry? You can be forgiven for not knowing about that, I do because I remember the devnote about how that worked.Įver since the souposphere went away, SSTOs have much simpler 'flight profiles'. Tough I do like how the shielded docking port creates a blunter, cooler, draggier, bow shock that hides the part behind it better. Then, heat-wise, the foremost part is the nosecone, with high temp-rating and creating a pointy thermal shock cone.

You can build a second nose with a couple of 0.625m nosecones to make it pointier (darg-wise, an independent thing), and surface place it on the 0.625m circle so it looks cool. Drag-wise, that is the foremost part, bad but 0.625m bad so not that bad. It would go something like this: build a standard nose ending in a 0.625m node, and put the airlock on it.Then sink the airlock where it can't be seen, unextended. You could use the new inflatable airlock, and keep it tucked away inside the craft until needed so it isn't the first part in the airstream.

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