@63 thanks dark for all the informations. This hels me a lot and now I have to practice my skills

to explain jumping for those getting confused, there are two ways of moving across space fast, hyperspace jumps and overdrive.

Hyperspace is activated with the p key and jumps you to the next system,  when the auto pilot tells you to jump this is what it means.
The only thing to bare in mind is that hyperspace takes fuel, which you need  to either buy at primary planets and freeports  or pickup  inside a star as mentioned in post 61.

There is then overdrive, which is a way of moving quickly through the same system, so if your facing say an asteroid field or a nebula and the distance is in the thousands, just hold the o key down for a while to get their quickly. This is unlimited, but won't help you get to other star systems, overdrive is also useful if you don't want to leave the system but need to get out of a bad combat area in a hurry,  which happens a great deal.

hth.

Okay I  saved my game then bought a side  and pulse laser just to try out combat with the best gear.
Again, taking out one ship, no problem, but as soon as I hit one, first another, then another then another turn up to have a go, even though as I said my status is absolutely clean and I end up just as dead.

I am wondering now if there is a bug with how aggression of enemies status works, since it seems as soon as you fire your laser your fair game for everybody, indeed so much so that piracy is a pretty pointless occupation since even if you  do get a ship to drop some cargo,you can't ever pick it up without getting killed, ditto with bounty hunting.

I am also not exactly sure on all the combat sounds, in particular lasers and damage, since  while I get how targeting works (I've been  doing lots of asteroid mining), it I'm not hearing much by way of lasers effects. I get the high pitched sound when you have a foe ship targeted, and I assume the lower pitched blert blert blert means that your in someone else's sights, though  how to get out of them I'm not sure, since usually anywhere but in the middle of an asteroid, as soon as one person starts shooting everybody does.

Either I am missing a trick to how combat works, or there is a major bug with enemy aggression, or possibly both.

Okay, I'll stop winjing about this and just go back to the save file with my cobra and try and earn enough to give robot mining a go.

Any idea how robot mining works?
I bought a miner, bought a license and installed the miner  on a planetuid. Made some bigger jumps and returned later but there was nothing for me to harvest.

Hi firefly
The rate at which an automated mine produces minerals varies randomly, determined when its deployed.
But after 3 or 4 jumps you should see at least one unit available for collection, via the autopilot menu.
The location information in the status page provides info on minerals present in the system, to help choose a location.
I've tested a few mines, and you should get something out.

I am starting at akkadia faction

@mojsior as to where to sell stuff, minerals and gasses like the ones you  get from asteroids or nebulae can be sold at freeports, common goods like coffee toys etc can be sold at primary planets, and illegal goods can be sold at zokolo stations, get the directions for these from the "ask advice menu"

No need to buy fuel, just head into a star and refuel from there.

@Freeman69, as far as expantions go, I love the idea of courier missions going from place to place, indeed this is the type of game that can always be expanded. I do think though that perhaps a different scan sound for collectables might be helpful, especially when mining or shooting up other ships .
Thanks again for the awesome game.Ah, I believe i have solved the problem with combat and why everyone hated me .

It was Aaron77's comment about standing still. The problem I was having is I was always trying combat at a fast speed since I tended to assume that you'd be better moving quickly and trying to avoid, also I've generally found that for asteroid mining a speed of 7 works.

What was happening is I'd inevitably move to one place while under attack, which would then spawn other attackers and so on.

As soon as I basically stopped moving and concentrated on blasting I suddenly became a one cobra fleet of destruction, I've not even had to buy too much extra armour since usually I can knock off other shipsn fairly short order

Apologies for my earlier frustrations, i did actually suspect something might be wrong somewhere.

As far as automated mines go, I've got a couple going at the moment, once you buy or loot a robot miner, just look for an uninhabited planetoid and drop it off. You'll need to pay 1000 credits for the license when you start, but after this you can head back and load up once your robot is going, you can always see how your mines are doing and also set them as nav points  the auto pilot menu.

Hey guys, please help me to find a word that describes how this game sounds properly, then I'll post it here!

Hi.
Darn, this game is adicting I have to say, even though i didn't come to do anything till now because I was playing around with the navigation system.

I due have some questions though.

Yes, I am not really familiar with stars and their layout, so what is the corona of a star, how do I get into it and not in the danger zone?
Also, when I receive an autopilot destination and launch, when the autopilot turns me into the direction where I need to go and hit r, I often don't hear anything, no target distance or what ever.

Does, when the ask for advice tells me a location is 2 way,  mean that it is 2 sectors away, so I would need to do 2 vortecs jumps?

Greetings Moritz.

@simba, the corona of a star is a layer of defuse gas  around the outside of the star.
In terms of this game, when your in the corona it means your near the star, too close to jump or use overdrive, but not inside where you can refuel.

You'll know your inside the star when you hear "entering danger zone"

Myself, what I do is centre the ponk ponk sound and drive into the danger zone. Inside the danger zone are things called cmb's (I'm not sure what that means), which will damage your ship if you hit them, but just like asteroids or cargo canisters you will pick tthese up in your forward scanner so can avoid them.
When I hear "max fuel" I then slow the engines down to zero, and turn around until I get the chime which says I'm on the closest route to the edge of the object, I then open up the throttle and head directly out.

With the auto pilot, yes, when it says "asteroid field 2" that means going through two systems, i.e two hyperspace jumps .
Remember, that as Ironcross said earlier, hyperspace jumps are directional, so the auto pilot will need to face you in the right direction to jump before you press the p key, you can hear the sound for when it is turning your ship in the learn game sounds menu, of course the field won't show up until your in the right system, which is likely why sometimes when you jump there is nothing in front of you, but you know when your there since the auto pilot will say "fly to destination" and you'll find the object in front of you with the r key.

Hth.

@Ironcross since I realized that staying still is the key to winning combat I'm getting on waaaay better.
First, you don't actually need to be a fugitive at all, just don't fire on either vipers or worms and you'll be fine, and really there is no need to since firing at pretty much anything else is okay and you get plenty of loot from other ships.

Basically, the more you move, the more ships you see, with less in some sectors than others. In higher danger sectors you see more fugitives and pirates who'll fire on you straight off, so unless you've only got a couple of ships on your tale and can take them out better to run than fight, pus hitting things for bounties is a nice way to make cash even if you don't have time to pick up the loot (I once got over 1000 credits off one bounty).

I've also noticed that certain places have more ships, Terran type planets tend to get more, whilst asteroid fields  stars have less  average, but since I've never been a fugetive it likely doesn't matter.

As regards ship strengths, with the military laser you can take on most things, though beware of thargoids, if you  to a ship show room on a primary planet you can get a good idea of relative ship strengths, especially if you check the stats.