Newcomer / Intro Question

Krommicus · Mar 31, 2015

I've only been playing for a week. And I have a few questions.
First is I have seen screen shots from outside the ship. How do you get in that view?
Also I've seen the reference "Res", what does it stand for?
Lastly I have been looking for a High Tech system to purchase upgrades. I've tried filtering the star map, but I must be doing something wrong. Or I just don't understand how to read it yet.:S

azdour · Mar 31, 2015

There is a debug camera that you need to map to a key in the options. Then it will launch the camera outside of your ship - remember your ship is vulnerable while in camera mode. Then use the ship movement keys/mouse/joystick to move it around with F10 to make a screenshot, or use some video capture software to create mini-movies

Press the debug camera to get back into your ship.

RES - resource extraction site and is one of the places where you can go to mine or bounty hunt.

As for your map problem - when you choose to only show hi-tech system on the galaxy map do you not see any systems? Maybe you need to move around the map if you are in an area with no hi-tech systems

purf · Mar 31, 2015

Hi.

- I don't remember the default button for that camera but can you bind something in the options.
- RessourceExtractionSite. Spots in the belts of ring planets where npc miners mine and pirates roam.
- You can filter for population size. With the remaining systems, look in the left info panel.

fly safe!

azdour · Mar 31, 2015

purf said:
Hi.

- I don't remember the default button for that camera but can you bind something in the options.

There is no default key when the feature was released, you had to go in and map it yourself.

Krommicus · Mar 31, 2015

Thanks for the reply.
It's not that my map doesn't show any sytems. In fact they all are still there.

azdour · Mar 31, 2015

Krommicus said:
Thanks for the reply.
It's not that my map doesn't show any sytems. In fact they all are still there.

So in the left hand panel of the galaxy map do you click on show by economy type, then select the hi-tech option? Make sure that the hi-tech option is the only thing selected - e.g. the other economy types do not have a filled square.

Going by memory at the moment as I am not near my computer.

Krommicus · Mar 31, 2015

I'm not at my computer either. I'm on my tablet. Later today if I get a Chance I'll log in and give it another try.
Thanks for the fast replies

azdour · Apr 1, 2015

Did you any any luck in resolving you map issue?

Krommicus · Apr 1, 2015

Yes got it, but I need to play around with it some more. I had to switch to map mode then all the options lit up.
But now I have another small problem. I have just added some multicannons on my Cobra. I have them assigned to group 2, and in the power allocate panel there set on 1 (and are supplied with power). I went out to a RES sight to get in some action, and the cannons did not deploy. I went back to the station to double check everything to try and figure it out. I don't know why the did not deploy.