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Revision as of 04:23, 7 April 2015

Tutorial / Mission Details

The tutorial should appear as soon as you start playing the game.

1.1. The First time you dock at SS Archimedes in Vulcan space, Susan Stelle requests you take her and her son to SS Andromeda in the Ceres System.

1.2. When you drop off Susan and her son, she gives you 1000 credits and 10 tons of grain with a request that you go sell it at SS Archimedes in Vulcan space to feed the starving people.

1.3. When you sell the first 10 tons of grain, you get a bonus 5000 credits and Susan asks you to get more grain to help the starving people on Vulcan, the amount required scales upwards with the size of your ship.

  • Hint:- The food delivered does not have to be grain, any food will fulfill the mission - meat from Apollo should fetch the best profit.
  • Hint:- You should also be buying iron at SS Archimedes and selling it on the return trip, also checking contract board for package deliveries and passengers going your way, never warp empty.

1.4. When the Food mission is complete, you get a bonus 5000 credits and Susan asks you to take her to SS Plato in Apollo space.

1.5. When you take Susan to SS Plato in Apollo space, you get a bonus 5000 credits, she thanks you and gives you a package of 300 seeds to take to SS Orion in Ubertas space.

When you deliver the seeds to SS Orion in Ubertas space, you get 5000 credits, and the next mission which is to buy mining robots from SS Archimedes in Vulcan space (so Susan says), SS Elysium in Veritus space, SS Mica in Vestra space and deliver 10 each to SS Plato in Apollo, SS Orion in Ubertas and SS Andromeda in Ceres (why the farming planets need mining robots only Susan knows).

  • Note:- To get the mining robots you may need to travel to many space stations. You will find them for sale on the 'Contracts' board, but bare in mind contracts come and go: you may need to wait some time before mining robots are for sale on any of the space stations.

This type of contract will be once only at the 3 Space Stations listed:

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This type of contract will be random at any of the 8 Space Stations:

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1.6. The 10 Mining robots dropped off at SS Andromeda will get you 5000 credits and blueprints for the grain farm (this is the only way to get this blueprint).

1.7. The 10 Mining robots dropped off at SS Plato will get you 5000 credits and Deeds to Ceres (this is the only way to get Ceres deeds).

1.8. The 10 Mining robots dropped off at SS Orion will get you 5000 credits and 3 farming robots (needed when building a farm) best to do last as it takes up 3 tons of your cargo space.

  • Note:- the 30 mining robots will cost more to buy than 15000 credits you receive, but the drop in credits is well worth it for the deeds, blueprint and robots.

Generally speaking, there is at least one space station selling some mining robots at any one time, plus the contracts refresh every 15 minutes or so if you're still having trouble. In the future, robots are often re-purposed for Honda propaganda. More and more mining robots are lost this way. Hang in there and you'll find one eventually. (Disclaimer: The Space Game is in no way affiliated with Honda or their freaky robots).

At this point in the game you should have more than 30,000 credits and may wish to browse the Shipyards and General Market in search of an upgrade! The Sparrow should be within your price range.

2.1. Any time after doing contract 3 and you go to Ceres, Susan Steele requests you track down her daughter, last heard of working in a space station near Ubertus.

2.2. In Ubertus space is SS Orion, where you find Susan's daughter, Jessica Steele. Jessica refuses to go home to Ceres to be on a farm and says she is going to Deep Six.

2.3. On return to Ceres to give Susan the bad news, she is devastated and asks you to go to Deep Six and convince her to return. Not knowing where Deep Six is, Susan says you will have to ask around.

When you next go to SS Orion in Ubertus space and check the contracts board, you will find someone selling co-ordinated for a wreck at Jam-1. It will cost you 750.000 credits and scanning the wreckage gets you co-ordinates to Deep 6.

You will need the Hyperdrive purchased from SS Plato at Apollo space or from the Galactic Market to be able to jump to Jam-1. A class 1 Hyperdrive and can only drive a class 1 ship, either a Hornet or a Ladybird. When the Hyperdrive is fitted there is only 8 tons of space left for Hydrogen that the Hyperdrive uses for fuel.

Hyperdrive jump to Jam-1 from either Ceres or Vulcan and check your Autopilot for 'Wreckage Location'.

After you scan and destroy the first wreckage piece, you will need to look at your mini-radar map in the top left corner to find the next piece in the distance.

You will need to search for pieces in 4 diff locations and scan/destroy them all for blueprint fragments, then the autopilot will show the next location... 'SS Deep Six'.

When you get to SS Deep Six, there will be a 'Contracts Board' to open as per other space stations, first thing you will notice is a contract from Jessica Steele.

Jessica Steele asks you to deliver a note to her mother in Ceres and mentions she has some blueprints that you might be interested in.

The second thing you may notice on the Jam-1 contracts board is the high prices offered for goods, food and materials. Good profit for someone with a bigger Hyperdrive capable ship.

On delivering the note back to Susan Steele at Ceres, you get a message from Jessica thanking you and giving you the blueprints to the Hyperdrive.

A Newbie's Experience

Werit, a new player to Ascent in May 2014, blogged his experiences playing Ascent. He gives invaluable information from a newbie's point-of-view which could be helpful to your gaming experience.

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