Frequently Asked Questions
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== Q. How do I save the game? == | == Q. How do I save the game? == | ||
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== Q. Whats the best way to make money at first? == | == Q. Whats the best way to make money at first? == | ||
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== Q. How do I control the ship? == | == Q. How do I control the ship? == | ||
| − | + | W = steer down | |
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| − | + | A = steer left | |
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| − | + | D = steer right | |
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| − | + | Q = roll left | |
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| − | + | E = roll right | |
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| − | + | Space bar = fire thrusters | |
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| + | Hold Right Mouse Button down and move mouse in direction to turn to use mouse to steer | ||
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| + | B / Left mouse button = fire lasers | ||
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| + | Left Alt = Turn gravity anchor on/off | ||
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| + | 1 = First person view | ||
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| + | 2 = Third person view | ||
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| + | mouse wheel = zoom in/out | ||
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| + | H = help menu = above instructions | ||
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== Q. How do I mine asteroids? == | == Q. How do I mine asteroids? == | ||
| − | + | First you will need to get close enough, within 1000m, to the asteroid and match its speed, gravity anchor on and thrusters on. Then click and hold left mouse button on the asteroid to fire your laser. The asteroid will heat up and change color. practice will get the best color of a deep blue. Not enough beaming will not heat it enough and the message will tell you so. Too much and it explodes without getting any minerals. A reported heat of 2200 k is the aim for good results. Maximum temperature is 2250k before rock explodes. | |
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== Q. How do I mine gas giants for gas? == | == Q. How do I mine gas giants for gas? == | ||
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| + | You must first find a suitable gas giant for harvesting, Vestra has a nice one for Hydrogen, Ubertus for Oxygen. You basically fly into the gas giant at speed and your gas mining scoop does all the work. If you don't hit the right part of the giants, impure gas mixture message come up and you get nothing. If you don't have enough speed a similar message comes up telling you so, Gravity anchor off (left alt) and start at a distance. | ||
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| − | + | Start at the Apollo Gate, press 1 for first person view, turn around to line up your cross hairs with the white band in the middle of the giant. Press left alt to turn off gravity anchor, press and hold space bar to constantly increase your speed. Careful adjustment of direction to ensure you hit the whitest part of the giant at maximum speed. | |
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| − | + | In Ubertus: | |
| + | Start at SS Orion Gate and go for the light green band right below the top pole. The standard gas scoop on any ship is class 1 and will get you 3 tons of gas. To get a bigger ram scoop, either buy one from a friendly player in the galactic market or build your own after much expense building a space station, research lab, and shipyard. | ||
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== Q. How do I use the Mail? I see a button for it. == | == Q. How do I use the Mail? I see a button for it. == | ||
| − | + | The Mail currently only delivers messages from stock market transactions. Players can not send mail to each other at this point. | |
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== Q. How do I repair? == | == Q. How do I repair? == | ||
| − | + | Dock at a Space Station(SS) or the Cabal Trading Station. Once docked you should see a repair button to the left of the screen. | |
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== Q. I bought a ship/item from the Galactic market, but I can’t find it, where is it? == | == Q. I bought a ship/item from the Galactic market, but I can’t find it, where is it? == | ||
| − | + | When you purchase a ship/item from the Galactic market (GM), the ship/item remains at the space station where the seller posted it. When you click on a ship for example on the galactic market a list of information comes up. Line 3 says “Location: SS Example”. After buying the ship/item you will have to go to that location to pick it up. If you did not read where your new ship/item is click on your character button > Assets > Select location, and then go through the list until you find it. | |
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== Q. How do I get to a sellers Starbase? == | == Q. How do I get to a sellers Starbase? == | ||
| − | + | Go to Apollo and you will have a Autopilot way point to their Starbase after you buy something from them. | |
== Q. Can you please tell us exactly how mining yields change with mining beam class? And if possible how mining skill interacts with mining beam levels? == | == Q. Can you please tell us exactly how mining yields change with mining beam class? And if possible how mining skill interacts with mining beam levels? == | ||
| + | Skill modifies yields in a complex fashion. A skill of 5 gives just under a 5% boost, but a skill of 50 gives about 33%. A skill of 100 would give a 50% boost, and a skill of 1000 about a 91% boost. Ergo, diminishing but still significant returns. That same skillmod formula is applied to other things such as gas giant harvesting, trading profits etc. | ||
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== Q. How do I land on a Planet? == | == Q. How do I land on a Planet? == | ||
| − | + | Presently, only Ceres and Janus A can be landed on of the Inner9 systems. All outer system planets and moons can be landed on. Any planet with a colony can be landed on. | |
| − | + | Warp to the planet in the system, and fly down to land. | |
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== Q. How do I get all of my ships in the same location? == | == Q. How do I get all of my ships in the same location? == | ||
| − | + | You will have to dock at the location you want to have all of your ships located. Then buy a low cost ship from the local ship yard. Get in the new ship and fly to the space station where the ship you want to pick up is located. Get in the ship you want to move, and either leave the ship you just arrived in, or sell it on the Galactic Market. Then fly back to where you want your ships biased at and repeat this process, until you have collected all of your ships to one place. | |
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== Q. How do I tell what blueprints I have? == | == Q. How do I tell what blueprints I have? == | ||
| − | + | If you have a space station and a Research Lab built, you can click on your Lab and hit the "select research target" button. This will Give you a list of all of your Blueprints. When viewing the contract board, Blueprints that you already own will be denoted by a red Astrix * | |
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== Q. How do I cancel a Contract? == | == Q. How do I cancel a Contract? == | ||
| − | + | First dock at a NPC space station. | |
| − | + | Next click on the character button (bottom left) | |
| − | + | Then click on the contracts button. | |
| − | + | After that click on cancel a contract. | |
| − | + | Select the contract you want to cancel and a confirmation box will pop up. | |
| − | + | Hit Yes to pay the penalty fee and the contract will be canceled. | |
Revision as of 14:07, 22 March 2015
Hopefully you can find answers to your queries in here..
Q. How do I save the game?
The game is auto saved every time you jump or dock/undock
Q. Where can I find mining robots?
Mining robots are randomly listed in the Contract boards of each Space Station (SS). Contracts change at 0, 15, and 45 minutes of every hour. If you do not find any at first, check back at contract change time. You will often find them. They are also listed on the Galactic Market(GM) by players often. Checking the GM may prove fruitful too.
Q. Whats the best way to make money at first?
Trading. Buying goods at space stations and selling at other space stations for profit, A good 2 to 3 hours of this will get enough credits to get the next class ship for double the capacity. Passengers. Picking up passengers and taking them to another system will get a few coin on the side. check your map and take the short runs for best pay. Delivering Packages. Always grab any package that needs delivering. They take up zero cargo space so there's no rush to get to the destinations. Planetary Production. The Ceres deed obtained from Susan Steele will allow you to build a grain farm on Ceres. 8000 grain a day is not an unreasonable expectation. Asteroid mining. Mining asteroids is a nice way to get rare minerals that sell for high prices, the problem can be getting sales for said rare minerals, you have to run around a bit looking. Gas Mining. Mining the gas giants for rare gases to sell on the galactic market. Collection quantities may not be high unless you get a bigger ram scoop. Again, getting the sales may take a bit of running around. Pirate hunting. Janus A has a guardian you click on to get contracts to hunt the pirate baddies for rewards. Upgraded Rank will get harder contracts with greater rewards. Space Station production. Costly to set up, enables manufacturing of robots, Space ship modules and whole space ships.
Q. How do I control the ship?
W = steer down
S = steer up
A = steer left
D = steer right
Q = roll left
E = roll right
Space bar = fire thrusters
Hold Right Mouse Button down and move mouse in direction to turn to use mouse to steer
B / Left mouse button = fire lasers
Left Alt = Turn gravity anchor on/off
1 = First person view
2 = Third person view
mouse wheel = zoom in/out
H = help menu = above instructions
Q. How do I mine asteroids?
First you will need to get close enough, within 1000m, to the asteroid and match its speed, gravity anchor on and thrusters on. Then click and hold left mouse button on the asteroid to fire your laser. The asteroid will heat up and change color. practice will get the best color of a deep blue. Not enough beaming will not heat it enough and the message will tell you so. Too much and it explodes without getting any minerals. A reported heat of 2200 k is the aim for good results. Maximum temperature is 2250k before rock explodes.
Q. How do I mine gas giants for gas?
Gas Giant Skimming You must first find a suitable gas giant for harvesting, Vestra has a nice one for Hydrogen, Ubertus for Oxygen. You basically fly into the gas giant at speed and your gas mining scoop does all the work. If you don't hit the right part of the giants, impure gas mixture message come up and you get nothing. If you don't have enough speed a similar message comes up telling you so, Gravity anchor off (left alt) and start at a distance.
In Vestra: Start at the Apollo Gate, press 1 for first person view, turn around to line up your cross hairs with the white band in the middle of the giant. Press left alt to turn off gravity anchor, press and hold space bar to constantly increase your speed. Careful adjustment of direction to ensure you hit the whitest part of the giant at maximum speed.
In Ubertus: Start at SS Orion Gate and go for the light green band right below the top pole. The standard gas scoop on any ship is class 1 and will get you 3 tons of gas. To get a bigger ram scoop, either buy one from a friendly player in the galactic market or build your own after much expense building a space station, research lab, and shipyard.
Q. How do I use the Mail? I see a button for it.
The Mail currently only delivers messages from stock market transactions. Players can not send mail to each other at this point.
Q. How do I repair?
Dock at a Space Station(SS) or the Cabal Trading Station. Once docked you should see a repair button to the left of the screen.
Q. I bought a ship/item from the Galactic market, but I can’t find it, where is it?
When you purchase a ship/item from the Galactic market (GM), the ship/item remains at the space station where the seller posted it. When you click on a ship for example on the galactic market a list of information comes up. Line 3 says “Location: SS Example”. After buying the ship/item you will have to go to that location to pick it up. If you did not read where your new ship/item is click on your character button > Assets > Select location, and then go through the list until you find it.
Q. How do I get to a sellers Starbase?
Go to Apollo and you will have a Autopilot way point to their Starbase after you buy something from them.
Q. Can you please tell us exactly how mining yields change with mining beam class? And if possible how mining skill interacts with mining beam levels?
Skill modifies yields in a complex fashion. A skill of 5 gives just under a 5% boost, but a skill of 50 gives about 33%. A skill of 100 would give a 50% boost, and a skill of 1000 about a 91% boost. Ergo, diminishing but still significant returns. That same skillmod formula is applied to other things such as gas giant harvesting, trading profits etc.
Q. How do I land on a Planet?
Presently, only Ceres and Janus A can be landed on of the Inner9 systems. All outer system planets and moons can be landed on. Any planet with a colony can be landed on. Warp to the planet in the system, and fly down to land.
Q. How do I get all of my ships in the same location?
You will have to dock at the location you want to have all of your ships located. Then buy a low cost ship from the local ship yard. Get in the new ship and fly to the space station where the ship you want to pick up is located. Get in the ship you want to move, and either leave the ship you just arrived in, or sell it on the Galactic Market. Then fly back to where you want your ships biased at and repeat this process, until you have collected all of your ships to one place.
Q. How do I tell what blueprints I have?
If you have a space station and a Research Lab built, you can click on your Lab and hit the "select research target" button. This will Give you a list of all of your Blueprints. When viewing the contract board, Blueprints that you already own will be denoted by a red Astrix *
Q. How do I cancel a Contract?
First dock at a NPC space station. Next click on the character button (bottom left) Then click on the contracts button. After that click on cancel a contract. Select the contract you want to cancel and a confirmation box will pop up. Hit Yes to pay the penalty fee and the contract will be canceled.
