FarSite - Let´s Take a Trip!
In this article I´d like to show you how to undock your ship and travel to a planet.
Let´s ignore the menus on the right side and at the top for now! We will only need the menu on the left side, with its three icons, and the undock button for our little journey.
The first picture shows the ship inside Homestead Station where it is docked by default when you start the game for the first time:
Behold, the menu at the top left corner will change once you are in free space! I will soon explain all the other menus in different articles. The green undock button is easy to spot underneath the ship. Let´s push it!
Enjoy the nice animation as the ship leaves the dock! The station is huge and the ship becomes almost invisible.
Did you make it outside as a whole? This is the exterior of Homestead Station:
Here you can see the ship better, and a small part of the station:
And the station is even bigger:
I took the left screenshot while warping home from a planet where I had previously warped to. Let´s visit this planet now!
But first, let´s take a look at the system of Hom which consists of a star and seven planets.
See, the menu at the top left corner has changed! It consists now of the three submenus: Planets, Homestead Station, and Gates.
You can warp to planets but you will need a gate to travel to another system. Let´s stay at our home-system Hom for now!
Now take a look at the menu on the left. Click the upper icon to open it:
You will see a list of planets only of the system in which you are. The list also shows some planet stats: geological type, numbers of sectors, and resources. Some planets are "closed" and you can´t take a look at their sectors. They have probably not been sold yet and are kept for later purposes by the maker/s. "Open" planets have sectors at which you can look at, as I will show to you.
You can now choose a travel destination. Just scroll through the planet list, make your choice and push the warp to button. The ship will fly to the target: