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[Shadowcat]

Skirmisher said:
Also when in combat with other ships,does it all happen automatically or can you directly effect the combat somehow?

Oh my... did you not even try clicking the mouse somewhere??! (or read the readme file??)

This surely must be in the demo's readme file, but in short...

Click the top-left ship icons or use the keyboard numbers 1-5 to select which of your ships you wish to control.

Click the background to set a move-to destination.

Click an enemy to set a target to move to and attack.

Click and hold (or click and drag) to bring up a contextual menu allowing you to do things like turn and face in the direction of the mouse pointer, but not actually move in that direction. Useful for attacking without closing the distance.

If you bring up this menu on another one of your own ships, you can set the 'escort' command which makes the ship follow the target ship at the specified position.

You can also pre-set your formation outside of combat from the star-map, via the icon in your ship display window.

And finally, you can pause the combat at any time to issue orders by pressing the space bar (or use the icons at the top left).

So you see, you have a great deal of control over combat!