A lot of it is getting used to the interface. By default, a right-click will toggle you between first-person control and dialog controls; are you in the Ubuntu client, or the Windows client?

Regarding the character jumping too high/fast, yeah... that happens, especially if the character you designed is a 'jumper'. I've found it's much better to go with a winged creature, and check the "can fly/glide" box. Makes it SO much better.

To remove stuff from inventory, just go to the F4 Inventory dialog, and drag the items to the circle-arrow button.

About building: If you want to get started on it, go to the "Game Manual". There are a couple of walkthroughs to get you going; for the rest, it really just takes a lot of questions.

I'll mention the sound issue to Dave H. (Hazeron creator).

Tips: Go through the "Hand-making a flag" walkthrough, that's your first step. Use it to establish a town square, and then place a stone quarry/mine. Once you've gotten a bunch of stone, create a few homes and farms. Once those are in place, your town will start acquiring citizens, and they do all the building work; you just place the spots for each type of development.

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Your other option is to wait a couple more days. The "Post Terran Mining Corporation" empire has a couple of cities already in progress, and may have rockets/cars/motorcycles/etc. ready for new players.

'K, I'll report that to the creator.

I'm starting to wonder if there are some issues with ATI video hardware or the Creative X-Fi, because I've been getting crashes as well on my rig(Radeon 4870x2, X-Fi XtremeGamer).

Hmm well I don't think this is for me. I keep getting one hit killed by creatures that I can't inflict damage on. At one point I got caught in an endless loop of dying and respawning. Couldn't even run away. Can't really build like that. I saw one of my citizens that moved in but then it died... I think the animals were slaughtering them i don't know. Their meat was all over the ground tho.... or maybe it was mine? whatever the case i really couldn't defend myself after dying the first time and my weapon disappeared.

Me thinks the creatures need to be weaker at the start or at least not enter the borders of the completed portions of town.

Good to know.

BTW, Matt finished building his city into a Capital tonight.

So if the building process is too much of a pain (and I certainly agree that it can be), you can start a new character by joining the PTMC empire, which will start you in a somewhat developed city, with vehicles/weapons/rockets/fighters/etc. :)

It's on the menu, Fus. Ctrl-F12 or right-click and pick the 'Settings' button.



I assume you mean the icons that show up on the screen? They have meanings; you can look them up in the game manual.



Check again, Fus. It's right there, including a full list of "Keyboard and Mouse Controls".



Like I said, Martin, this game has a steep learning curve. Be patient with it, ask questions when you need to, and be SURE to go through the "How to Start" guides in the manual.

Good pic, Fus! Thank you!

For anyone interested, we all jumped on FD13's starship, and travelled from his ringworld to one of his planets before Lobster had to leave.

P.S. That planet back there isn't just background. You can go and land on it and do some exploration, city building, creature hunting...

Yeah, I forwarded your feedback to Dave (yep, another Dave, the game creator). A couple of the people here in the office are having issues with ATI cards as well, so it's a known thing.