![]() Elliptical orbits have about the same energy as an averaged circular orbit. ![]() Smaller circular orbits have less energy (since you're closer to the planet), larger circular orbits have more. You're pretty much a prisoner to these two values you can't cheat without wasting a LOT of energy. Every orbit is an ellipse with only two important parameters: "energy" and "eccentricity" (how elongated the ellipse is). And, of course, practice helps a lot, since most of us don't pilot spaceships in everyday life. You don't need a physics degree, but you might want to, say, read the Wikipedia article on "orbital mechanics". So you're mostly on your own, and you'll need to understand a little about how orbits work to navigate. (What would be a lot more helpful is a point of view that assumes the "planet" stays still and projects your orbital path around it. Also, it doesn't help that the line which projects your path ahead of you is in relation to the "sun", when for most of the time you are actually in orbit around the "planets", making it somewhat useless. Objects near you behave strangely, and (from your point of view) they do not satisfy Newton's first law (moving in a straight line with constant speed). ![]() To use a physics term, when you are in orbit you are not in an "inertial frame of reference". Doing well in this mode actually requires a basic understanding of orbital mechanics, which are extremely unintuitive to humans. The other modes aren't too bad, but Epicycles is extremely tricky.
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