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Star Sonata

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  • Welcome to Star Sonata, a Massively Multiplayer Online Game, where you captain a spaceship in a vast, hostile, and fascinating universe.
  • Space Trading Game. Discover profitable trade routes
  • Create “slave” ships to fight at your side or to run trade routes.
  • Build bases to mine moons or planets, build items from blueprints, create and control colonies on suitable planets.
  • Create a team and vie with other teams for universal dominance.
  • Deploy drones either in the heat of combat or to protect your galaxies or trade routes.
  • The ultimate prize: be crowned emperor and rule the universe!


Piloting
You start out in a spaceship. The simplest way to move is using the mouse. Right-click where you want to go, and the autopilot will take you there. This is easy, but not well-suited for combat. To really fly your ship, you must use the keyboard. The keys are configurable from the Key button at the top, though the defaults are W to accelerate, A to turn left, and D to turn right. Where’s the brakes, you ask? There are none. This is space. (And of course, the game is sooo realistic.) To stop your ship, you must turn around and accelerate in the opposite direction. Note: you don’t run into things with your ship.
Combat
Your pathetic starter ship comes with an elementary energy weapon, the Ion Peashooter. To attack someone, just hit the space bar. The only tricky part about combat is that you must select your target to attack them. To select a target, click on it. (Or hit the ‘Z’ key to cycle through ships.) Your current target has a white border around it which turns red when the target is hostile to you, and appears on the left side of the screen with a name underneath. When you get hit, your shields decrease, and when they’re gone, you die. Shields regenerate at a speed related to the kind of shield, and in doing so deplete your energy reserves.

Trading
A common way to achieve wealth: buy goods cheaply in one location, sell them for more somewhere else. The Star Sonata universe is dynamic: prices reflect supply, demand, production, and trade. A profitable run will become useless if over-exploited. To enter a spacestations, fly near it and hit the dock key (default ‘R’). You can’t be moving too quickly relative to the station to dock. Once inside, click over to ‘Trade.’ Narrow the options down to Commodities for the most easily tradeable goods. Buy low and sell high. It may take a short while to determine what’s a good price for things.

Upgrading
As soon as you have some extra cash, upgrade your ship. Every item has a ‘tech level.’ You have to be at least as high a level in that skill yourself to use an item or a ship. You can gain additional levels in each skill via Nuero-training, which can be done at different space stations. To buy new items for your ship, dock at a spacestation and purchase what you desire. Usually you’ll have to equip it before you can use it. Do this by double-clicking in the Ship window. When buying a new ship, click on the Ship tab in the spacestation window and select your new ship. If you want to transfer over items from your old ship, click on the old ship, go to the Ship window, right-click on an item and select Transfer.

Star Sonata

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