Screen layout guide - Navigation

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Screen layout guide - Navigation

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The navigation screen.

Along with the promenade screen, this is the one you will be seeing most often as it is the screen you will use in traveling from place to place, as well as initiating activities like mining, combat, salvage etc and learning about the system you are in.

The first thing on the screen under your stats is "navigation
S." and a number. This tells you how many ships are in the current star system. Of course, in Ce your not going to get attack by other captains or similar, (ce is much too friendly for that), but it's still ood to know other folks are around. Under this are several graphics for certain very important actions. N.E.I, activates a NE.I. long distance travel system if you have one, (buy these in the Ce store). "derelict scan" used for scanning for derelict ships to explore. "combat scan" used for scanning for ships to fight, "repare options" takes you to a screen where you can use your ebk armor, shield and hull repare kits for fixing damage. "homing beacon" takes you to a screen which asks you to set the current system as your home system, (meaning you can instantly get back there at a fuel cost). And lastly "wreck salvage" used for scanning for wrecks to chop up for resources.

In addition, occasionally other graphical icons will appear hear depending upon what your currently in orbit around. So if your at an asteroid fields, options to "mine" or "deploy drones" will appear hear, while if your at a jump gate nexus the option for "jdn" (jump drive navigator), will be the only icon.

Beneith this, in the main part of the screen you will find a collection of buttons. Some of these that are labeled with names such as "eden" or "starbase 51" are the various objects in the system such as planets, jump gate nexus points and asteroid fields that you can travel to. The unlabeled ones are simply graphics of stars, and though you can click them this does serves no purpose. Since each system is different in layout the order these objects come up in is slightly different, but just remember to look for the labels. To travel to any object in the system, just click it.

To one side of these (though depending upon your screen readers columnization they may appear benieth), are a set of numbers of the names of the system objects with their law and tech levels. At the bottom of this, (just above the "mail box), a link will appear to dock with whatever object your currently in orbit around assuming it is something that can be docked with. Alternatively, you can just click it a second time, so if you've traveled to Eden, just click the Eden button again to dock.

On the subject of docking, you will always be asked if you want! to dock with a given thing by a text box in the middle of the screen that will replace the normal navigation view,, which will also come up with other alerts from the game, (for example when a special event happens while travelling). This always has a button to confirm and sometimes a cancel, it's often quick to find, (I usually just hit B in supernova to get to the next button).

dark empathy, Nov 8, 2013
Dana Dawson
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