How do I ...

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Help & Advice Pages on this wiki and elsewhere

How do I ... dock / succeed in trading / win a fight / configure my controller/joystick etc

General





  • Elite/FE2/FFE: For advice on trading & combat see AFE FAQ4.

  • See also the OoliteRS (Reference Sheets) and AdviceforNewCommanders which came as .pdfs in your original game download. Probably worth printing out!


  • Career Options: Trader, Smuggler, Courier, Chauffeur, Miner, Bounty Hunter, Pirate, Rescuer
also includes OXP Careers: Rescue Stations, Galactic Navy Reservist, Salvage Operator, Ship Escort Services, Jouster.

Keyboard

You might find it helpful to reconfigure your keyboard: Some people find it helpful to either move the position of the fire laser key, or to transpose the yaw & roll keys. Other people find that their standard Gaelic-language keyboard fails to allow them to use their Torus drives, for example.

See Keyboard Issues for links to solutions, discussions, OXPs and more!

Monitors/Mice

Joysticks/Controllers


The Dark Side

ie: programming. For those untutored in these mysteries, one often starts with tweaking and then progresses further.