WTF is a space truck?

I think it relates to the new asteroid belt feature.

It is a new class of ship for building/improving asteroid bases in DA, AFAIK.

I saw that, too, and was hoping that the 'space truck' would be like a freighter that would shuttle resources from the asteroids to your planets; and that asteroid bases themselves would still be built by constructors.

If they're really another type of constructor, needing that level of micromanagement... sigh. I barely have the patience to make good use of constructors as it is.

don't know what the game is calling it but i posted a spacetruck on show off your ships and it was a frieghter and i got the idea off of a movie called space trucker

Well, unlike constructors it appears that space trucks will not be expended when you use them. One screenshot shows a truck 'beaming' at an asteroid, with a completion time noted underneath.

they will probably be renamed, but space truck sounds like something rugged

This post was meant to beina different thread but posted here for some reason

Maybe these chaps know, they seem to use them quite often (well every time I've seen them live in the past 30 years at least):


Space truckin'

Words & music by Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice

Well we had a lot of luck on Venus
We always had a ball on Mars
Meeting all the groovey people
We've rocked the Milky Way so far
We danced around with Borealice
We're space truckin' 'round the stars

Come on, come on, come on
Let's go space truckin'
Come on, come on, come on
Space truckin'

Remember when we did the moonshot
And Pony Trekker led the way
We'd move to the Canaveral moonstop
And every 'naut would dance and sway
We got music in our solar system
We're space truckin' 'round the stars

Come on, come on, come on
Let's go space truckin'
Come on, come on, come on
Space truckin'

The fireball that we rode was moving
But now we've got a new machine
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, the freak said
Man those cats can really swing
They got music in their solar system
They've rocked around the Milky Way
They danced around the Borealice
They're space truckin' everyday

Come on, come on, come on
Let's go space truckin'
Come on, come on, come on
Space truckin'

Come on, come on, come on
Let's go space truckin'
Come on, come on, come on
Space truckin'

Yeah yeah yeah space truckin'
Yeah yeah yeah space truckin'...

...Yaknow, I bet it's like in Star Trek: Armada. In it, you have freighters mine dilithium moons using tractor beams; when the freighter's cargo holds are full, they then proceed to the nearest mining facility, unload, and then repeat the process. Another example would be harvesting Tiberium in Command and Conquer... The only real difference is that, instead of using the gathered materials as the game's "currency", you've got the mining center acting as a starbase that gives special bonuses to any planets inside its area of influence.

Great now I'm going to think of Deep Purple everytime I build a space truck.

Everyone pray they're not just another flavor of constructor. Maybe they can deliver constructor modules but not get used up ? That would be nice. (just about obsolete constructors though...)

Hehe i'm gonna suck at Dark Avatar if space trucks are another constructor type or somthing that involves "NOT" killing something, how about a command for them to crash into the nearest solid object? That will sate my bloodlust, hehe.  

Nostromo (from the movie, not the book, people with English-Major educations please dumb down) = Space Truck.

The book "Nostromo" is certainly worth the read. If you like the Aliens movies, it's a cheap way to get your Sulaco fix.

whoa had to edit out -- ended up on wrong post