User Interface2

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-Autopilot-
This link will bring up more clickable buttons to warp able locations. Clicking on a destination name will move you to the Space Station or gate location.
Clicking the Action will auto dock or auto jump through selected gate. The Green dot on the Vestra Surface means you own a Settlement/Colony at that location.


Clicking Destination Column heading will sort the list alphabetically. Clicking the Distance Heading will sort if by distance. Clicking Action will sort by action.
Clicking Action will list the usable Gates in that system at the top of the list. Clicking the far left blank column header will sort with colonies at the top. If you own a colony, it will be listed first.

Tiny empty upper left square under the Autopilot wide bar:

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.


-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.


-Character-
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.


-Manage Ship-
Brings up Ship Management interface where you can power ship on/off, open Ship Computer (also ctrl-c), and rename ship.


-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.

Personal tools
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Variants
Actions
Navigation
To Begin
Travelling
Trading
Character Skills
Player Built Star Bases
Exploration
Settlements and Colonies
Politics
PVE Combat
Tools