Hi Soul Keeper,

Yes, the minefields are annoying, we have a moderator heading there now to see if he can dismantle them.

You should be able to both scan and attack NPC ships, it may be that the ship left, but if you feel its a bug certainly create a ticket.

Precious resources on the most part represent gems and exotic metals but can be found in nearly all sectors (with the exclusions being really poor resource sectors such as barren planets or brown dwarf stars) as a random drop when mining. All of the sectors you have described would have a chance of precious resources being mined. They are described in game in the following ways

"Everywhere you look precious materials shine back at you; rare metals, exotic gems, diamonds - this should net you a tidy sum."
"As the dim lights illuminate your cargo bay reflections of gold and silver bounce of the bulkheads. Everywhere you look you have stacks of precious resources."

Also, it's worth noting that all resources have a chance of being more valuable such as containing lifeforms, veins of valuable metal or strange chemicals - but only the merchant you sell it to can determine this and will notify you and reward you upon discovery.

In terms of skills, much like the rest of the game we want to players to try and figure out the best tactics and approaches but generally speaking performing the tasks related to the skill will increase it, so continue mining to improve you mining skill, discover new sectors to improve your explorer skill for example. You can also purchase books in the areas you are interested in too and hope your character shares the same mindset.

I hope this helps.

Hi Darren,

Skills are grouped into roles, the broad roles are:

Trader
Miner
Freelancer
Vigilante
Craftsman
Explorer
Conqueror
Colonist
Entrepreneur
Engineer
Fighter
Demolitions
Commander
Anarchist
Marksman
Strategist

It must be noted we track lots of individuals skills and statistics so this list is likely to grow over time, you'll also notice that some of these roles may not be applicable just yet while we are in the Alpha.

Hi Soul Keeper, sounds like you are making good progress.

You can find factions by searching by name or distance, we also plan to have the facility to be able to may some credits to have your faction as a 'promoted' faction, which will also allow you to define a message about what you are looking for from people.

The wonders are a mix of both, some are fixed, some are randomly discovered while exploring, and being only 7 is just a coincidence as that's just how many have been drawn. We plan to add more as we go along.

Been kind of sitting here for about a day, waiting for an engineer ship to load...this sucks. Also, ,why aren't structures navigation menus shown in the same behind you -> location -> right of you format as other things are? I was trying to get to a shipwright which seemed to be 4 lys away from another, only to find out that I'd actually been sitting in a sector 89 sectors away from one and 93 from the other (in the opposite direction). Kind of annoying, especially since this thing is literally in the middle of nowhere, so I hope I can get an engineer before I need to find resources, but whatever. Any way this could get added/fixed easily?

Why have menus show from best to worst in terms of flat distance, Though? As it is currently, only by using the nearby navigation method do I even know what direction I'm traveling in. I think by having all menus have the behind you, ahead of you thing it'd be easier to compare distances and plan stuff out. Unless there's another way of checking what direction you're traveling in I'm not aware of?

Hi Soul Keeper,

I guess if you are interested in the direction you are heading than this is only represented in either the frontier or near by menus. If we changed it so that the LYs had a prefix of plus or minus depending if you were heading away from the centre or closer would this solve the issue?

Hi Soul Keeper,

A patch should now be live that does what was discussed within the FTL menu. We will roll it out to other menus in the normal release cycle.

I hope that helps.

hi. I have discovered a nasty bug that might end up killing me right now rofl. I was attacked by some transgov ships while I was travelling and though i am in battle the battle menu doesn't appear, only the menu that appears when you travel. This prevents me from using my speciality and setting the required action. I hope this can be fixed as soon as possible. preferably before I die

hi textspaced,

what about doing the same thing with the lists etc as you've done with the menu's so to make it work?

also can we have some proper trading please? as in being able to trade in comodities?

Hi Darren,

The lists hold more information than the menus so unfortunately this wouldn’t work, in terms of commodities what are you thinking you’d like to trade?

In terms of weapon crafting this is something that is getting slowly phased in and you will begin to discover parts and be able to buy parts over this coming week and next.

Hi Darren,

Player to player trading of resources is possible by using the 'Create Trade' option under the 'Cargo' menu, you can trade resources with other players in the same sector. Are you saying as well as being able to sell resources at a merchant station for credits you would like to be able to sell resources to other players for credits (instead of an exchange)?