Thought some of you might enjoy my story, so here goes...
I was visiting the very last planet in my "solar system of hatred", and this particular planet was the one trying to make up for the sins of the rest of the system. Habitable atmosphere, lush vegitation, friendly creatures (had a chance to practice feeding a few, didn't get any rare poops though
), the sentinel things weren't bastards, and decent mineral hauls to be found.
Was traipsing about, solved one of the simple shifting-number puzzles and found the coordinates for a crashed ship. So far, all the other crashed ships I've found have been mostly lame, but it's always worth going to visit. This time was different; a ship with several more slots, with both hyperdrive and warp reactor tau, a bunch of good weaponry upgrades, and a shield upgrade. Of course, it's all broken but I start looking and see I have the inventory necessary to repair the launch engines, some of the weapons and the basic shield.
I decided this was a good idea, so I juggled inventory and then scrapped every subsystem I could in the old ship to recover materials. I then set about repairing the new ship, and only needed a few more elements (aluminum, heradite or whatever the blue spire material is, zinc, and a few other esorteric crafted things) to get ALL the systems online. I had the basics though, so I hopped in, refilled the launch engines, and pressed W... Shit. I never realized the stupid pulse engines are what propels you inside the atmosphere -- I thought that was only for interplanetary travel.
The good news: I'm only short 7 zinc to make the repair. I have $3.8 million in my galactic wallet, I can just show up to an outpost and should be able to solve this quickly.
The bad news: the nearest outpost in my visor, at walking speed, is
seven hours away.
I started walking, and eventually found another relay station where I discovered a much closer outpost -- only 11 minutes away. Yeah! So I walk in that direction, I'm three minutes out, and I spot a ruin and figure I should jaunt over and pick up the language skills plus whatever reward the ruin has.
I hit up the little language stone things, learn there new words, then click on the ruin and I need an empty inventory slot (I'd been grabbing stuff along the way.) I dump some iron, click the ruin again, ... And the game crashes to desktop.
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
I did eventually make it to the outpost, got my language skills, bought my zinc, remotely repaired my pulse jet, summoned the ship to me via one of those bypass chip interface things, and now have a badass ship. Pirates showed up upon my exit (of course) and I was able to demonstrate the efficacy of my new firepower and shielding. All is well that started poorly
I'm through with this solar system, time to go elsewhere. I'll do the warp jump tonight and test out the reactor distance!