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How To Use

Placing stations

  1. Select a station.
  2. Move the station to its desired location on the map and click to place it there.

Stations can be deleted by clicking anywhere on them on the map.

Keyboard Shortcuts

  • Keyboard shortcuts can be used when hovering over the map.
  • C: Construct/places the selected station.
  • F: Fetch - when hovering over a station already on the map, "fetches/grabs" the station type off the map.
  • D: Deletes the station that the cursor is currently hovering over.

Functionality

Various enhancements to previous City Designer concepts were envisioned when this Station Designer was developed, below is a concise summary of the newly implemented features.

  • Checks for restrictions on stations based upon asteroids and suns.
  • Enforces no overlapping of stations.
  • Implicit Validation on-design-load for all of the above, as well as explicitly via the validate link.
  • Shows the number of freighter hauls required to build the system (based on the Mass/Volume of the required raw materials and Mass/Volume capacity of the ship type).
  • Comprehensive error detection in system design input codes.
  • Has a confirmation box for clearing the map, instead of a double-click.
  • Preloads the system's current map, excluding black holes

Future Improvements

  • Preload stations in named systems
  • Asteroid fields need to allow asteroid hideouts
  • Allows marking entities as pre-existing and thus not counting towards the Mass/Volume/Quantity of required raw materials.