User Interface2

Revision as of 13:48, 6 April 2015

Most items are information only and self explanatory while some are clickable for more info or actions

-Autopilot- Will bring up more clickable button that make you ship move to selected locations. Clicking on a destination name will move you to the Space Station or gate location. Clicking the link below the name will auto dock or auto jump through selected gate.

-Settlements- Button available in outer systems. Each item listed is a player colony. CLicking colony name will take player to a warp point 100km above the surface. Powered descent is required to access Colony Stock Market. Each colony can have a Starbase linked and will have an accessible warp point.

-Open Stock Market- A green Skybeam(R) emanates from the colony Stock Market. The Player can follow beam to surface. New link will appear below Autopilot link as player approaches within 10km of colony Stock Market. Stock Market will list the items for sale and for purchase that the colony owner is interested in buying or selling.

-Comms- Clicking will hide/unhide chat panel. /ignore playername will remove the name of the player after the ignore command until next login.

Player Info: clicking your the character button will bring up another menu with 4 options

Skills: Clicking Skills will show your skill levels of Trading, Asteroid Mining, and Gas Giant Skimming.

Appearance: Inactive at this time.

Assets: Clicking assets will bring up another menu initially showing you credits and Stellar Credits. Clicking 'select locations' will bring up a list of all current storage locations. Clicking a location will show items at that locations which is scrollable.

Contracts: The scrollable contracts menu will give a much more detailed information on the contracts in the top right corner.

[Cancel a Contract] gives the player the option to cancel a contract and shows the cost to cancel each contract.

Map:

Clicking the Map button will bring up the galactic map. The Galactic map Shows the main 9 planet systems linked with green to show jump gate routes. Player built gates will be purple and goes to player colonies in outer systems. It also shows outer systems and names that can be jumped to with a ship that has a hyperdrive installed.

The galactic map menu has 6 buttons:

"Emergency Jump" button will return you to Ceres space

"Close map" will do just that... close the map.

"Home" will center the map on the system that you are currently located.

"Stock Market Search" will allow you to search player operated markets

"Search for system" will allow you to search for a player discovered system by name

"Bookmarks" will open a drop-down list of bookmarked planets

The map can be moved around rotating about your current system by click and hold left mouse button and dragging the display around. The scroll wheel or +/- will zoom in and out. Right clicking on a system will center in that system and give another button to "Jump" to that system and information about that system including distance to jump in light years.

Options: Clicking Options button will bring up the Options menu

Buy Premium Access: This button will take you to the a selections menu that will then take you a Paypal page for purchasing premium access.

Quality Level: clicking quality level will drop down a menu to select video quality

Music Off/On: Clicking here will toggle the music off or on.

Combat Spam On/Off: Toggles combat damage information when weapons strike a target.

Flight Tutorial: Takes player to beginning game flight tutorial.

Tooltips: Allows selection of tooltip delay.

Warp Visual Effect On/Off: Toggles Warp Effect in game. Game starts with effect in on position.

Chat Filter On/Off: Toggles in game chat filter. Game starts with filter in off position.

Activate Other Tutorials: Reactivates Industrialist and Combat Tutorials.

Main Menu: Leaves current game, which saves automatically, and returns player to Main Login Screen.

Unstable Stuff On/Off: Allows player to turn on unstable experimental functions when available. Starts in off position.

Clouds On/Off: Toggles clouds in outer systems on and off for better performance of certain systems.

Volume: Slide bar to increase or deduce game sounds.

Exit: Exits game and closes client. Game saves continually so no game play is lost.