User Guide

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Left-click on an analysis terminal inside a space station. The Analysis
interface opens, with your cargo hold contents displayed to the left.
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Drag the item you wish to analyze to the box labeled PLACE ITEM HERE and
press the Analyze button. If the analysis is successful, the items recipe is
now available to you.
 You can only analyze items for which you have the sufficient
manufacturing skill.
NOTE: Analyzing an item will destroy it, so choose wisely. Not every
analysis attempt is successful. It is possible to lose the item and
fail to get the recipe.
MANUFACTURING
Once you’ve acquired an item’s recipe, you are able to manufacture it,
provided you have the necessary component parts to do so.
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Click a manufacturing terminal. The manufacturing interface opens.
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Click one of the tabs at the top of the interface to access a list of recipes
available to you.
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Left-click on a recipe. Icons representing the components you need to
manufacture the item appear. Any components you are missing are
dimmed.
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If you have the components on hand, and enough credits to pay the
manufacturing fee listed on the interface, press the Manufacture button.
The item is created and placed inside your hold.
DISMANTLING ITEMS TO OBTAIN COMPONENTS
Can’t beg, buy, or steal the component parts to make an item you want?
Sometimes the answer is to dismantle an object you no longer need and
utilize its pieces to create a new one.
Note: In order to dismantle an object, you must already know its recipe.
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Left-click on an analysis terminal inside a space station. The Analysis
interface opens, with your cargo hold contents displayed to the left.
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Place an item whose recipe you know in the indicated slot and press the
Dismantle button. The original item is now destroyed and you now
possess some of its component parts.
PROSPECTING TO OBTAIN RAW ORES
Dismantling items or buying components aren’t the only ways to obtain
the parts you need. If you’re a Sentinel or Explorer, you can also use your
Prospecting skill to mine raw resources.
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Click on a nearby asteroid to target it and press the Prospect button. An
interface opens that displays all available ore inside the asteroid.
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Click on the ore you wish to obtain. The ore is mined.
NOTE: Your character must have the Prospecting skill in order to
prospect for raw ores.
REFINING RAW ORES INTO RESOURCES
Once you’ve obtained raw ore, whether through prospecting or trade, you
must refine it before it may be used to create component parts.
To refine, locate a refining terminal inside a space station, and click on it.
The refining interface will open, displaying a list of any refineable
resources in your hold. Select the resource you wish to refine by clicking
on it, and then press the ‘Refine’ button. Provided you have enough credits
to pay the refining fee, the ores will be removed from your hold, and
replaced with the appropriate refined resource.
CRAFTING COMPONENTS
A final note about building items: Only the Tradesmen profession can build
components out of refined ores. Every profession can craft items, but
unless you’re a Tradesman, you’ll have to obtain your components by
dismantling other objects, purchasing them from merchants, or finding
them as treasure on defeated enemies.
HULL UPGRADES
As you gain levels and complete missions in Earth & Beyond, you are
offered opportunities to rise in rank and upgrade your starship for a
better model. Your first chance to upgrade comes early in your career,
after you’ve completed your first set of missions for your character’s
employer. Be sure to take advantage of it! Better ships mean stronger
hulls, larger cargo holds and more slots for mounting weapons and special
devices.
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