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When fully zoomed in, the viewpoint switches to this block. It helps to position your ship to not be in the way, as a 1st person viewpoint.

I've just commented this on youtube, maybe it can find a niche in your guide? ;) In a nutshell: The mechanics will repair, altough slowly your unbroken parts - patience or money. :D Mine 5000 iron and 1000 titanium or try, before building the first ship. Make battery, generator and integrity field from titanium. Mine more iron and you can sell that for credits. Get a lot of crew, some functions can be overpopulated for bonuses. You can set them to autopay salaries, and autoassign. Do not fear! On death, your turrets, upgrades, money, and building materials are kept, and you get a new mining drone at a friendly place nearby. Your ship will be lost, it's cost will be refunded, if you've got insurance. Turrets and upgrades in the destroyed ship also will. be lost. Your wreckage may remain there. Join in combat on your preferred side, after winning, clean up the rare parts of the wreckage with salvage cannons. Yes, the little mouse icon above some weapon groups can be right clicked. Bigger blocks have more HP, and other bonuses may apply. Intergrity field causes blocks in range seemingly have ten times their HP considering is it breaking off. The leftover damage applies to all blocks, and to your overall HP. The bigger is your ship, the more turret(civilian/military) and upgrade slots it will have. Examine the builder interface with scrunity - there is 3 axis mirror mode, it's just in a dropdown list. ;) You can exit and enter your ship by pressing T, if nothing/ship is selected. This way you can build more ships, stations and mines on claimed big asteroids (with crew, and captain), telling them what to do. If you are experiencing freezes, consider starting a dedicated server (just for singleplay, too). The info is here: http://wiki.avorion.net/index.php?title=Setting_up_a_server I've also reduced sector activity without player 300 --> 30 put up 4 threads instead one, and raised ten times the autosave: 600 --> 6000 and periodically typing into the chat /save These are seconds. It was a bit of problem setting me up for admin - it worked by adding my 17 digit steam id number into --admin in server.bat Do not forget to /save your server, and /stop it, before quitting! :)

Please good Sir, include a solution-report, or the vulcan inquisition will get you. :)