Ok. Hmmm. Where to begin.
The control stick for navigating your ship is located along the bottom left corner of your screen, which is put into landscape mode by default. Let's assume your Home button is to the right, your control stick is about one inch square, maybe an inch and a half, but I don't think so. It's just at the bottom left corner, and the thing you need to remember is that there is inertia and acceleration. What I mean is this. If you push the control stick on the left side or move it left, you won't just slide left. You will build up speed in that direction. If you are touching the control stick icon, your engines are firing, and you are moving in the direction you've touched. If you go outside the control stick's borders, you are no longer firing your engines, and you come to a stop over time. As for your weapons buttons, your bottom right corner, and a two inch by one inch rectangle proceeding left and up from that point is your primary firing button. Weapons fired with this button have unlimited ammunition. Above this, along the right side of the device's screen are two more panels, about an inch square, with secondary weapons firing functions. These panels fire ammunition based weapons: rockets, missiles, mines, and the like. The primary weapon for your first ship is a straight-firing energy cannon, with a firing rate of about 3 shots a second. It's pretty distinctive. As for switching ships, you start out with one ship, the Light Fighter. It's fast, maneuverable, but relatively weak in both arms and armor. You also start with a full complement of missiles and missile plumes. These two weapons, unfortunately, sound identical, and you really don't want to keep both equipped anyway, as they perform, basically, the same function, firing a projectile, or a series of five projectiles, which track to close-range targets. In the store, there are three tabs, accessed with buttons across the top. The first is the Items tab, and it contains all the ammunition based weapons that you can buy. Technically, you already own whatever weapons, you're just buying ammo for them. If you follow the left side of the device's screen, you'll see the list of weapons, starting with Homing Missile. On the right side and in the middle are various data about the selected weapon. Swiping left and right moves between these fields, and you'll see a button labeled Equipped. If you select a different weapon, rockets, for example, you will notice that the Equipped button changes to the Equip button, and it's no longer dimmed out. press this to equip the selected weapon, and you'll be prompted to choose one of your two currently equipped systems to unequip to effect the transfer. Changing ships works similarly. You select the Ships tab in the row across the top and locate a different ship in the list down the left side. Please remember that you start with only the Light Fighter. Other ships cost money. Sometimes that money is in-game, sometimes' it's real money. Explore your options and read about all the ships and their prices and characteristics in the fields in the middle and on the right. Whether you're selecting weapons or ships, there's a buy button on the bottom right, just below the Equip button. If this button is dimmed out, you can't buy it, because you don't have the funds. If you have the funds, select the buy button. As for the tutorial mission, I sort of skipped it by mistake. Any mission you choose, except I think the Tutorial, is multiplayer. Deep Space mining is the first, under the missions selection screen. There are others along the left side. You'll want to press the start button in the bottom right part of the screen to begin and the OK button in the bottom left, about an inch over, if you have any boosts. Keep in mind that there are no unlabeled buttons in ErnCon that are app-related. The only unlabeled buttons are advertisements, and these should be treated with care. If you have further questions, please ask. Signed: Dakotah Rickard On 12/19/12, Clement Chou <[email protected]> wrote: > So... I'm confused as to how to actually fly my ship. I've found out how to > > shoot... but I can't seem to work out how to actually navigate. any help > there is appreciated... and I'll try getting in some multiplayer time to see > > how it works. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. 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