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Grab 2 handheld GPS tools. Put one on your belt and one on the telepad. Now, choose a console you want to use (most likely this will be the one outside the teleportation room) and click "Recalibrate". Now, you want to set the X and Y co-ordinates to 100 and 100 each. Now send that sucker! Every time the teleporter is recalibrated, the ''difference'' changes. This is the variable that determines how badly your teleporter is calibrated and how you can fuck about with maths to make it pin-point accurate! Open up your own personal GPS and take a look at where your test GPS landed. | Grab 2 handheld GPS tools. Put one on your belt and one on the telepad. Now, choose a console you want to use (most likely this will be the one outside the teleportation room) and click "Recalibrate". Now, you want to set the X and Y co-ordinates to 100 and 100 each. Now send that sucker! Every time the teleporter is recalibrated, the ''difference'' changes. This is the variable that determines how badly your teleporter is calibrated and how you can fuck about with maths to make it pin-point accurate! Open up your own personal GPS and take a look at where your test GPS landed. | ||
You'll notice it didn't quite land at 100 100, did it? This is because of the slight inaccuracies of the teleporter. However! Using the test GPS you just sent, you can calculate the difference, like so! All you have to do is '''subtract the console co-ordinates (100 100) from the test number.''' Whatever comes out is your difference. Here's an example: | You'll notice it didn't ''quite'' land at 100 100, did it? This is because of the slight inaccuracies of the teleporter. However! Using the test GPS you just sent, you can calculate the difference, like so! All you have to do is '''subtract the console co-ordinates (100 100) from the test number.''' Whatever comes out is your difference. Here's an example: | ||
1. Test GPS Location: 93, 102 | 1. Test GPS Location: 93, 102 | ||
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Now, to overcome the inaccuracy of the teleporter, all you have to do is apply this difference to your desired co-ordinates. For example, if I wanted to get to 95 150, and I had a difference of +7 -2, I would set the console to send me to 102 148! This will in fact send me directly to my desired location, 95 150, as we have now accommodated for the inaccuracies! | Now, to overcome the inaccuracy of the teleporter, all you have to do is apply this difference to your desired co-ordinates. For example, if I wanted to get to 95 150, and I had a difference of +7 -2, I would set the console to send me to 102 148! This will in fact send me directly to my desired location, 95 150, as we have now accommodated for the inaccuracies! | ||
Seems simple, right? Well, sadly, every 30 or 40 teleportations (roughly) the telepad will fizzle. This means you need to start again from step one. Click recalibrate and find the difference, because that sucker just did the old switcharoo on you. Now it's miscalibrated and attempting to send anything through it would be an error of judgement at best! Usually this doesn't affect you, but it can happen at the worst of times, like when you need to recover the bomb, or bring back a teleported space explorer! Learn to recalibrate quickly, or you may end up in a heap of trouble. | Seems simple, right? Well, sadly, every ''30'' or ''40'' teleportations (roughly) the telepad will '''fizzle'''. This means you need to start again from step one. Click recalibrate and find the difference, because that sucker just did the old switcharoo on you. Now it's '''miscalibrated''' and attempting to send anything through it would be an error of judgement at best! Usually this doesn't affect you, but it can happen at the worst of times, like when you need to recover the bomb, or bring back a teleported space explorer! Learn to recalibrate quickly, or you may end up in a heap of trouble. | ||
Leave handy beacons around the ship, and GPS units at interesting locations in space, and you can easily find them again. It's worth putting something down in the medbay so you can quickly send the wounded and the dead there. | Leave handy beacons around the ship, and GPS units at interesting locations in space, and you can easily find them again. It's worth putting something down in the medbay so you can quickly send the wounded and the dead there. | ||