Event Report This window lists all of the events that occured last turn. Double-click on an event to replay it, or single click to select the affected object. Use cmd-E to show and hide this list. Display Ownership Only When selected, all objects in the starmap will be drawn with the same brightness. Ownership of the objects will be shown by their color. Hunt Mode Starships on Hunt mode will automatically attack any enemy ships that come within range of them. Patrol Mode Patroling starships are better able to defend star systems than ships that are simply docked in the system. New Starships' Destination To have all new starships built at this star automatically head to a particular destination of your choosing, click this button. To zoom the starmap to fit into the available space, click this button. Display Production Levels When selected, the brightness of the objects in the starmap represents their production capacity. Objects with a greater production capacity will be brighter. Display Tech Research Effort When selected, the brightness of the objects in the starmap will vary with the effort they are putting into research of new technologies. Objects putting more effort into research will be brighter. Display Shipbuilding Effort When selected, the brightness of the objects in the starmap will vary with the effort they are putting into building new starships. Objects putting more effort into shipbuilding will be brighter. Display Growth Effort When selected, the brightness of the objects in the starmap will vary with the effort they are putting into growth of infrastucture. Objects putting more effort into growth will be brighter. Display Eminent Danger When selected, the brightness of the objects in the starmap will vary with the threat of attack they face. Objects in greater danger will be brighter. Display Defensive Strength When selected, the brightness of the objects in the starmap will vary with their defensive strength. Objects with higher defensive strength will be brighter. Display Tech Levels When selected, the brightness of the objects in the starmap will vary with their tech level. Objects with higher tech levels will be brighter. End Turn Posts your changes for this turn to the host, and waits for the host to process the moves for this turn. Same as selecting End Turn from the Game menu. To show and hide help balloons, click here. Even To set all unlocked sliders equal, click this button. Manual Control Mode Selected because you must make changes to your star system manually by moving the sliders above. Technological Research Use this slider to set the amount of effort you want to put into researching new technologies. The dark blue bar shows the research capacity of the system. Ship-building Sets the amount of effort you will put into building new starships. The dark blue bar shows the system's ship-building capacity. It may take several turns for the star system to adjust to your changes. Infrastructure Growth Sets the amount of effort you will put into developing your production capacity and supporting your population. The light blue bar is the system's population. Use this lock to prevent the slider to the left from changing while you are moving others. Shows the ships that are currently at this star system. Ships with a course plotted are shown in bold, those that will call in are in yellow. Double-click on a ship in the list to look at it. To look at the starship selected in the list above, click this button. You can also double-click on a ship in the list to look at it. Shows the waypoints along this starship's course. The ship's current destination waypoint is shown in bold. To select a waypoint, click on it. Memory To store the current course in ship memory and retrieve the stored course if there is one, click this button. Delete All To delete all the waypoints in the starship's course, click this button. Delete To remove the selected waypoint from the ship's course list above, click this button. Loop When selected, this ship will repeat the course above indefinately, instead of calling in upon arrival at the last waypoint. Call In When selected, this ship will bring itself to your attention at the start of the next turn. Set Destination To alter the selected waypoint in the starship's course list above, click this button. Add Destination To add a waypoint to the course for this starship, click this button. Ship Navigation When selected, you will see the current course for the choosen starship. Used to change a ship's course. Ships in Star System When selected, shows a list of the starships at the current system. Double-clicking on a star will select this button. Star System Information When selected, shows information on the current star system in the panel below. Used to change the effort put into growth of infrastructure, building starships, and research of new technologies. Selected Item Name To rename the selected item, click this text. To zoom out from the starmap, click this button. To zoom in on the starmap, click this button. To turn on and off the starmap's grid, click this button. To show or hide the names of items in the starmap, click this button. To show or hide starships, click this button. To turn display of starlanes on and off, click this button. Click to activate.