User Interface2

Revision as of 02:36, 19 April 2016

Upper Left Row of Buttons:

-Galactic Map-
Opens Map page to navigate to other star systems. A hyperdrive is required to 'Jump To" systems without gates connecting them.
The galactic map menu has 6 buttons:

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

"Starsystem Search" will allow you to search for a player discovered system by name. Inner9 planets are not searchable.

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

"Place Bounty" will allow a player to place a bounty on desired soil samples from other players exploration.

"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.

-Toggle Night Vision-
Improves vision of asteroids, buildings, and wrecks in low light situations.

-Manage Ship-
Allows for viewing ship outfit, renaming of ship, managing NPC pilots, and accessing command line Ship Computer.

-In Game Help-
You know what this is because you are looking at it. :)

-Options-
Allows for setting of multiple game interface options along with Premium Access.
-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.

• 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.

-Toggle Full Screen-
Toggles full or windowed view.

-Character-
Location to check in game skills(Asteroid Mining, Deep Core Mining, Gas Giant Skimming, and Trading), Assets, and any open votes.

-Address Book-
Direct communication to any NPC you have added to the address book for smuggling.

-Mail-
Access mail notices from all your owned Stock Market transactions with other players. NPC trades are not reported.

-Autopilot-
This link will bring up more clickable buttons to warp able locations.

Tiny empty upper leftmost square under the Autopilot wide bar:

If you own any First click puts your colony and OSB's first, then all other colony's Second, Pirate Encounters Third, Gas Giants Fourth, Gates Fifth, Rocky Planets Sixth, all other OSB's Seventh, Moons Eighth and Stars Nineth and last is Wreck Location.
Second click puts all the first in reverse.

Destination Square:

First click destination puts everything from the 0 – 9 then A – Z numerical Alphabetical order ( Wreck Locations are indeed between V and X)
Second click reverses that order : Z- A then 9 – 0 reverse Alphabetical Numerical order

Distance:

1st click orders everything from Closest to furthest no matter what type of object it is 2nd Click order everything from the Furthest distance to the closest distance. Action: For the Inner 9 the SS is First the Wreck location is Second and then the Gates are Third and so on. First Click puts Gates first, Encounters second, (Rocky Planets, Stars, Moons and Gas Giants) third, Finally Colonys and OSB's last.
2nd Click puts Colonys and OSB's First, (Rocky planets, Moons, Stars and Gas Giants Second, Pirate Encounters Thirds and Finally Gates Last.

-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. You must be docked at any SS to cancel contracts.

-Chat-
Clicking will hide/unhide chat panel.
/ignore playername will remove the name of the player after the ignore command until next login.
/join channelname - create or join a uniquely named channel.
/part channelname - Will leave that channel and remove it from dropdown channel list. (Do not type /part without channel name).

-Cargo-
Click header to toggle open and closed view. Shows a detailed list of any cargo in ship. Any time you change ships, your cargo transfers with you.
Click and hold X to the right of item list to eject cargo. Once ejected, cargo is not recoverable. Use carefully. Dirty laundry can be ejected.

Bottom right row if icons:

-Open Stock Market-
A gold Skybeam(R) emanates from the colony Stock Market. To access a colony Stock Market, the Player can follow beam to surface. New link will appear in lower right as player approaches within 10km of colony Stock Market. To open a player Outer Starbase (OSB) Stock Market, warp to OSB, and Open Stock Market Button in the lower right will become active. Stock Market will list the items for sale and for purchase that the colony owner is interested in buying or selling.

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.