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Jechtz: redirect

2020-12-15T05:30:47Z

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Jechtz at 05:29, 15 December 2020

2020-12-15T05:29:33Z

Davik: slave to bot.

2020-06-10T17:32:55Z

slave to bot.

volatar: more outdated info

2013-09-08T03:54:21Z

more outdated info

volatar: More outdated info

2013-09-08T01:17:46Z

More outdated info

volatar: It is best to refrain from using acronyms in a new player guide, fixing.

2013-09-08T01:11:58Z

It is best to refrain from using acronyms in a new player guide, fixing.

volatar: Outdated information

2013-09-08T01:09:55Z

Outdated information

volatar: Death debt -> credit loss

2013-09-08T01:08:13Z

Death debt -> credit loss

Max235: /* Easy Ways To Make Money: By TG */

2010-07-24T22:54:53Z

‎Easy Ways To Make Money: By TG

Simon: 1 revision

2009-01-20T02:42:16Z

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 === More details about the Trade screen ===
-* '''[[Commodities]]''' shows goods that can be bought and sold. In Commerce Preload, (the second galaxy you'll encounter) you can trade micro-chips and silicon to earn credits so you can buy upgraded equipment and items. The prices reflect the rarity of the commodity, and most likely how hard it will be for you to get. Don't expect to be trading in promethium anytime soon!
+* '''[[Commodities]]''' shows goods that can be bought and sold. In Commerce Preload, (the second galaxy you'll encounter) you can trade micro-chips and silicon to earn credits so you can buy upgraded equipment and items. The prices reflect the quality of the commodity, and most likely how hard it will be for you to get. Don't expect to be trading in promethium anytime soon!
 * '''[[Weapons]]''' have different ranges, damages and electrical costs. Its all very well having a super-amazing-death beam, but if you can't power it, you won't get far. Different weapons deal out different damage types - AI (and player ships) have different resistances to different types. For now, you'll not need to upgrade your weapon. Hint: [[Surgical]] damage increases the chances that AI will drop the items they've got equipped. Use a surgical laser to finish off AI, you'll get more loot!

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 * '''Bulletin Board''' - this is where the player base insults each other. The cost of posting a message is anything higher than the last one. These costs decrease over time, meaning messages will disappear eventually.
-* '''Commodities record''' - lists all the prices you've seen this play session. Trade is dynamic in Star Sonata, meaning prices will have changed when you log in next. Be careful of this when trading / setting up slaves!
+* '''Commodities record''' - lists all the prices you've seen this play session. Trade is dynamic in Star Sonata, meaning prices will have changed when you log in next. Be careful of this when trading / setting up bots!
 * '''Neuro-Training''' - Vital! Here you train your skills. Different AI stations offer different skills, to different levels. Higher levels / rare skills often require commodities to train. Core skills progress in a (x+1) fashion (e.g. level 10 will cost 11 skill points), whilst other skills have fixed costs (e.g. X skill point / level).
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 In Star Sonata, every level takes 1,000 XP. The system is graduated, meaning that instead of having to gain more XP, you need to kill harder AI to get that XP. Missions also give you XP, and are coded to levels - to get the most out of them, do them as soon as you find them!
-Warning: Its perfectly possible to not gain XP from killing AI. Check the events tab to see how much you're getting. Bases, slaves and [[drones]] that kill AI give you a percentage of XP as well. IMPORTANT: You don't get XP from these if you're not logged in, so avoid leaving unparked killer slaves around and so on. People tend to get irked, and you end up with fewer slaves. Also, be careful of setting any drone, slave or base to "hostile" as you'll end up shooting someone else as well.
+Warning: Its perfectly possible to not gain XP from killing AI. Check the events tab to see how much you're getting. Bases, bots and [[drones]] that kill AI give you a percentage of XP as well. IMPORTANT: You don't get XP from these if you're not logged in, so avoid leaving unparked killer bots around and so on. People tend to get irked, and you end up with fewer bots. Also, be careful of setting any drone, bot or base to "hostile" as you'll end up shooting someone else as well.
 == I found some Rations- does that mean my character has to eat to keep from dying? ==
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 It's best that no "buying" prices are set up for normal commodities, because those can drain money fast out of your base. Also, certain commodities will actually sell than others. But if you set everything up correctly, you can gain a real profit!
-) '''Slaves.''' Bored of flying that bulk? Get an AI to do it for you! This is done by obtaining the skill [[Remote Control]]. Then you can enslave ships equal in tech to your level of the skill. Ships with large hulls are the most efficient slaves.
+) '''Bots.''' Bored of flying that bulk? Get an AI to do it for you! This is done by obtaining the skill [[Remote Control]]. Then you can use control bots to control additional ships equal in tech to your level of the skill. Ships with large hulls are the most efficient bots.
-To build a slave, gear a normal ship with all the goods; radar, shields, energy, engine, and the like. Omit escape pods as you won't be needing those. Instead, buy a ''controlbot'' for your ship. Make sure it isn't a type of ''combat'' controlbot, or else your slave can only fight, not trade. You may also want to equip a slave stasis generator from to prevent your slave from dying permanently, and a black box to let you know who killed your slave if a pirate attacks it. Once all gear has been equipped, activate the controlbot to release your slave. When you undock, so will the slave. Select it, press 'X' (or any key that shows options for a target), and give it money. Then set the trade route and tell it to follow orders, ''but be careful''! You must set the route to end at the same place it started. For example...
+To build a bot, gear a normal ship with all the goods; radar, shields, energy, engine, and the like. Omit escape pods as you won't be needing those. Instead, buy a ''controlbot'' for your ship. Make sure it isn't a type of ''combat'' controlbot, or else your bot can only fight, not trade. Once all gear has been equipped, activate the controlbot to release your bot. When you undock, so will the bot. Select it, press 'X' (or any key that shows options for a target), and give it money. Then set the trade route and tell it to follow orders, ''but be careful''! You must set the route to end at the same place it started. For example...
 ) Dock Earth Central.
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 ) Jump to Sol.
-When your slave gets to the end of the list, it will automatically begin its route all over again. There is a simple formula for calculating the number of orders you can assign...
+When your bot gets to the end of the list, it will automatically begin its route all over again. There is a simple formula for calculating the number of orders you can assign...
 + (x2 Level In [[Programming]]) = Number Of Orders
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 As an example, with ''Programming'' skill 5, you can assign 14 orders.
-In case you need a status report, locate your slave, select options, and click on 'Status Report'. It will tell you (nearly) everything about the slave; its shields, energy, current order it's following, and also credits.
+In case you need a status report, locate your bot, select options, and click on 'Status Report'. It will tell you (nearly) everything about the bot; its shields, energy, current order it's following, and also credits.
-In addition, if your slave somehow "disappears", go to 'Chararacter' and click on 'Possessions'. It ''should'' tell you where your slave is at the moment, so you can find it. If you're in the right galaxy and your slave is doing weird things, type "/ResetSlave" in the message bar and they'll come back to you freshly reseted.
+In addition, if your bot somehow "disappears", go to 'Chararacter' and click on 'Possessions'. It ''should'' tell you where your bot is at the moment, so you can find it. If you're in the right galaxy and your bot is doing weird things, type "/Resetbot" in the message bar and they'll come back to you freshly reseted.
 == Credit ==

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 In Star Sonata, every level takes 1,000 XP. The system is graduated, meaning that instead of having to gain more XP, you need to kill harder AI to get that XP. Missions also give you XP, and are coded to levels - to get the most out of them, do them as soon as you find them!
 Warning: Its perfectly possible to not gain XP from killing AI. Check the events tab to see how much you're getting. Bases, slaves and [[drones]] that kill AI give you a percentage of XP as well. IMPORTANT: You don't get XP from these if you're not logged in, so avoid leaving unparked killer slaves around and so on. People tend to get irked, and you end up with fewer slaves. Also, be careful of setting any drone, slave or base to "hostile" as you'll end up shooting someone else as well.
 == I found some Rations- does that mean my character has to eat to keep from dying? ==

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 Wait until your ship turns from glowing blue to glowing yellow. Then jump back in!
-Be aware that the starter equipment you have can never fall off your ship, but higher level weapons, radars and items (but never engines or shields) can drop off your ship when you die and float away in space or be picked up by other players or AI. There is an item called "[[Gear Glue]]" that can prevent this, although it requires your equipment skill to be a high enough level, and is relatively expensive because the Gear Glue is used up when you die. Note that you can equip several Gear Glues in case you find yourself in a situation where you may be killed more than once before you can get away. There is also a skill much later that can prevent it being used up...
+Be aware that your ship's equipment is damaged every time you die, reducing it's effectiveness, and must be repaired before being sold. You can repair items by right clicking them in your inventory or by pressing "Repair All" in the lower left hand corner of the "General" tab in any station.
 === Help! I died and I'm a spirit! What happened? ===
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 You died without having an [[escape pod]] equipped. (or were killed by an AI or player using radiation weapons - only one or two AI use them, and you won't meet them for a long time. As for players... tough luck).
-This leads to [[Death Debt]] which is an amount of XP that needs to be worked off before you can level again.
+When you die without an escape pod you lose far more cash than you would otherwise, so avoid dying! You might find items such as shield salves and afterburners are useful here. Running away is merely a strategic withdrawal!
 == How do I travel across the universe? Do I have to do it all by hand? ==

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 A very good tip is to keep all the augmenters you find. There are missions later in the game which will use them, and they can be combined to make more powerful augmenters with the proper equipment. You can buy an extra ship hull at a space station and use it as a [[storage ship]] to store spare augmenters and items.
-A very important skill is "Augmenter Tweaking".  AT will increase the effect of any augmenter you have equipped on your ship by a certain percentage per AT level.  The missions to get AT are well worth doing.
+A very important skill is "Augmenter Tweaking" ("AT").  Augmenter Tweaking will increase the effect of any augmenter you have equipped on your ship by a certain percentage per skill level.  The missions to get Augmenter Tweaking are well worth doing.
 == I died! What do I do? ==

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 The rarer augmenters are named after Greek Gods & Goddesses, and usually offer a larger array of effects than just the normal ones.
-A very good tip is to keep all the augmenters you find. There are missions later in the game which will use them, and they can be combined to make more powerful augmenters with the proper equipment. You can buy an extra ship hull at a space station and use it as a [[storage ship]] to store spare augmenters and items. Don't do this in the training galaxies at the beginning of the game since you won't be able to get back there to reclaim your items.  Wait until you enter the main universe if you want to store anything this way!
+A very good tip is to keep all the augmenters you find. There are missions later in the game which will use them, and they can be combined to make more powerful augmenters with the proper equipment. You can buy an extra ship hull at a space station and use it as a [[storage ship]] to store spare augmenters and items.
 A very important skill is "Augmenter Tweaking".  AT will increase the effect of any augmenter you have equipped on your ship by a certain percentage per AT level.  The missions to get AT are well worth doing.

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 * '''Items''': Useful stuff for your ship! At the start, most of this won't affect you, but a hull expander is always useful to squeeze in more items! Solar panels are useful to regain extra energy as long as you're next to a nice energy filling sun (yellow or giant reds - dark suns may actually take away energy if you use normal solar panels near them!).
-IMPORTANT!. Here is where you buy escape pods. Always have an escape pod equipped, otherwise if you die you'll incur Death Debt which is a slice of XP that has to be cancelled out before you can level again!
+IMPORTANT!. Here is where you buy escape pods. Always have an escape pod equipped, otherwise if you die you'll lose quite a bit of credits. ''Far'' more than you would lose with an escape pod.
 * '''Scoop''': here's your most useful friend. But don't buy one at the moment, you can get one through the missions!