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87 lines
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Getting started with Pioneer
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The principles of the game are largely the same as those of Frontier: Elite 2.
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You can buy and sell on the commodities market, take missions on the bulletin
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board, buy and upgrade ships in the shipyard, when docked. Do all of this with
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the mouse.
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The eight main console buttons are activated by the F1-F8 keys or the mouse.
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F1: Change view mode (cockpit/external/sidereal)
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F2: Use the map system.
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F3: Look at your own information.
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F4: Select targets, operate autopilot and communicate.
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The view direction can be controlled, with keys:
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KP 8: Front Camera / Rotate External/Sidereal Up
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KP 2: Rear Camera / Rotate External/Sidereal Down
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KP 4: Left Camera / Rotate External/Sidereal Left
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KP 6: Right Camera / Rotate External/Sidereal Right
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KP 9: Top Camera
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KP 3: Bottom Camera / Roll External/Sidereal Right
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KP 7: Cockpit view forward
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KP 1: Cockpit view rearward / Roll External/Sidereal Left
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+: Zoom in (external/sidereal view only)
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-: Zoom out (external/sidereal view only)
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Home: Reset zoom (sidereal view only)
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(NOTE: If you do not have a numeric keypad, please rebind the view direction
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controls from the View tab in the Settings screen)
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The next four buttons change function depending on the first four. Hover the
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mouse over them to see what they do.
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F5 turns off the autopilot, and changes between manual flight and set speed
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flight.
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Flight controls are:
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Q: Roll left
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W: Pitch forward
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E: Roll right
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A: Yaw left
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S: Pitch up
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D: Yaw right
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U: Ventral thruster (slide up)
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I: Aft thruster (go forwards)
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O: Dorsal thruster (slide down)
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J: Starboard thruster (slide left)
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K: Forward thruster (go backwards)
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L: Port thruster (slide right)
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In manual flight mode, the thrusters only fire when you tell them to.
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In "set speed" mode, the autopilot tries to keep your velocity vector
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in the direction that your vehicle is facing, with a constant speed.
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Thruster controls still work in "set speed" mode, and override the
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autopilot while you hold the thrust key down.
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"Set speed" controls:
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Enter: Set speed faster
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RightShift: Set speed slower
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You can also steer the ship with your mouse while holding the right mouse
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button.
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Use the cursor keys to move the camera in external and sidereal view. In
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sidereal view, use ',' (comma) and '.' (period) to roll the camera in place.
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To jump to another system, use the map (F2) and click on another system. Systems
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with ports are labelled in blue. You need enough Hydrogen to get there, and it
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must be close enough for your ship. F7 will start the hyperdrive.
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To fly to a station, press F4, and select one from the right. You can turn on
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the autopilot with the buttons on the left.
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Trade is hard. Deliveries are fun, but can be hard.
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Press Escape while in-game (not the main menu) to open the settings screen.
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Here you can change screen res/fullscreen mode, language, controls and other
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things. Many options require you to restart Pioneer before they will take
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effect.
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Pioneer is alpha-quality software. Saved games are not guaranteed to load in
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different versions of Pioneer. The universe might not be the same in the next
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version of Pioneer. Anything can change. The game is not finished, and we would
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like feedback. See README.txt to find out how to do that.
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