System Map

Icon Menu Bar

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These menu icons are located along the upper left of the System Map screen, and are used to open various screens. The following information shows:

• Icon picture and tooltip

Screen name opened (tab on screen if applicable)

Main Menu selection (and Shortcut Key if applicable)

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  Colony Summary

Population and Production (Summary)

Empires -> Economics (F2)

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  Industrial Production

Population and Production (Industry)

N/A

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  Research

Population and Production (Research)

N/A

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  Wealth

Population and Production (Wealth / Trade)

N/A

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  Ground Forces

Population and Production (Ground Units)

N/A

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  Officer Corps

Leaders

Empires -> Commanders (F4)

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  Class Design

Class Design (Full Summary View)

Empires -> Class Design (F5)

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  Ships

Individual Unit Details (Ship Design Display)

Empires -> Ships (F6)

Automated Turns

• Toggles whether or not only a player event will interrupt the time increment. Setting this option on means that Non-Player Race (NPR) events that do not affect the player will not cause the time increment to be interrupted.
• Recommended Setting: Checked

Scroll Map

• The arrows are used to move the System Map in the direction of the arrow. The numpad arrow keys can also be used to do this.

Zoom Map

• Click the Magnifying Glass icon to zoom in, or the Magnifying Glass with "-" icon to zoom out.
• Min Zoom will zoom out so that the entire system can be seen.

Increment Time

• Click one of the time increment icons to advance time by the specified amount, and then pause the game.
• It is possible for an event to interrupt the specified time increment. If Automated Turns are on, then only player events can cause interrupts.

Sub-pulse Length

• The length of each movement sub-pulse within each time increment. Automatic allows the game to select a suitable sub-pulse length. Events detected during a sub-pulse can terminate the time increment early. Warning: Setting this to anything other than automatic can be performance intensive (IOW, setting a 5 second sub-pulse and using a 30 day time increment will take a LONG time for the time increment to run).

Current scale

• The current scale of the map, and the amount of time it takes to traverse that distance (at 5000 km/s) is displayed in the upper left corner below the Sub-pulse Length bar.

Display Tab

This tab is used to control various aspects of the System Map.

System Bodies

• Toggles whether or not the associated type of system body is displayed.
• Options
  • Planets
  • Moons
  • Asteroids
  • Jump Pts

Orbital Paths

• Toggles whether or not the associated system body orbits are displayed.
• Options
  • Stars (only applicable for non-primary stars in multi-star systems)
  • Planets
  • Moons
  • Asteroids

Names

• Toggles whether or not the associated system body's name is displayed.
• Options
  • Stars (the primary star name is always shown)
  • Planets
  • Moons
  • Asteroids

Objects

• Toggles whether or not the associated objects are displayed.
• Options
  • Fleets
  • Move Tail (show a line from each fleet icon to its last known position. Allows you to see the direction the fleet is moving)
  • Colonies (does nothing)
  • Comet Path (lines will be drawn from the Sun through each comet and out to the maximum distance to which the comet will travel)

Orbit Comparison

• This will draw (in light blue) the orbit of the chosen planet around the currently selected object. Useful in non-Sol system to provide an idea of scale.

Options

• Centre on Selected objects: Toggles whether or not the System Map will centre on an object when it's clicked.
• Show JP Survey Locations: Toggles whether or not the 30 jump point survey locations (white dots) are shown.
• Show Waypoint Locations: Toggles whether or not the Waypoints created in the Waypoints tab are shown.
• Show Next Order: Toggles whether or not a Task Groups's next orders are shown next to it's name.
• Show Order Time and Distance: Toggles whether or not a Task Group's distance to target and estimated time to arrival is shown next to it's name
  • This information is only shown if "Show Next Order" is toggled on.
• Show Fleet/Contact Headings: Toggle whether or not a Task Group's or Contact's travel heading are shown next to it's name.
• Show Events: Toggles whether or not an empire's events are displayed at the bottom of the System Map screen.
• Show Mineral Packets: Toggles whether or not the mineral packets thrown by mass drivers are shown.
• Show Lifepods: Toggle whether or not Lifepods from destroyed ships are shown.
• Show Wrecks: Toggle whether or not destroyed ships are shown.
• Highlight Own Colonies: Toggles whether or not a light blue circle is drawn around any of your colonies containing population.
• Hyper Limit: Toggles whether or not the area in which hyperdrive will not work is shown. This is a light blue shaded area.