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A few things you should be aware of:
1) Many of the features don't work yet. You can't, for instance purchase a ship.
2) There is no real play balancing in yet. So the pacing of things is way off. For instance, it takes far too many turns for ships to be built and that sort of thing.
3) There are some serious mouse focus bugs that we're working on and should have addressed in a day or so. DO NOT try to instantly purchase a ship as this seems to aggravate that. We're working on it as I type this.
4) Do not feel like you need to report obvious glitches yet. Right now, we're just looking for basic information (does it even work? Does it crash? etc.). So please don't submit long reports yet because right now there are so many things not functioning that we already know about.
--- Basic controls ---
RIGHT clicking on an item selects something. This is important because left clicking on things will set the destination and that can be problematic if you left click on enemy ships without meaning to.
The keyboard arrows can control what direction a selected ship goes (like on the OS/2 version). The TAB key is the FIND button, the ENTER key is the end turn button, and the space bar will make the currently selected ship "pass" on that particular turn. Eventually there will be keys for guard and sentry but they're not implemented in yet.
Hit the Esc key to bring up the options dialog (again there are some mouse focus issues with this build that we'r eworking on so it may not work).
Good luck!
1) Many of the features don't work yet. You can't, for instance purchase a ship.
2) There is no real play balancing in yet. So the pacing of things is way off. For instance, it takes far too many turns for ships to be built and that sort of thing.
3) There are some serious mouse focus bugs that we're working on and should have addressed in a day or so. DO NOT try to instantly purchase a ship as this seems to aggravate that. We're working on it as I type this.
4) Do not feel like you need to report obvious glitches yet. Right now, we're just looking for basic information (does it even work? Does it crash? etc.). So please don't submit long reports yet because right now there are so many things not functioning that we already know about.
--- Basic controls ---
RIGHT clicking on an item selects something. This is important because left clicking on things will set the destination and that can be problematic if you left click on enemy ships without meaning to.
The keyboard arrows can control what direction a selected ship goes (like on the OS/2 version). The TAB key is the FIND button, the ENTER key is the end turn button, and the space bar will make the currently selected ship "pass" on that particular turn. Eventually there will be keys for guard and sentry but they're not implemented in yet.
Hit the Esc key to bring up the options dialog (again there are some mouse focus issues with this build that we'r eworking on so it may not work).
Good luck!