Ship modes

There are 4 ship modes that the player can activate or deactivate using SHIFT+NUMBER. Ship modes are mutually exclusive, meaning that the player cannot use two of them at the same time.

Travel mode
Default: SHIFT+1 Travel mode switches the ship's engines to travel mode, meaning that the ship will start accelerating fast toward its maximum travel speed. The speed and acceleration depends on the ship design and its modules.

During travel mode, steering the ship is harder while flight assist is engaged.

Disengaging travel mode using SHIFT+1 will make the ship decelerate slowly, but recover full steering capabilities. Disengaging flight assist will stop the acceleration and give back full steering capabilities. It is possible to make fast course corrections by disengaging-steering-re-engaging flight assist. This is dangerous as the pilot have to take the drifting into account.

Using the full stop command (default is BACKSPACE), will make the ship quickly decelerate to full stop.

Scan mode
Default: SHIFT+2 Scan mode will colour elements around the ship to give information on them. Asteroids will be coloured depending on the resource they contain, station modules depending on their type...

In scan mode, the player may scan the contents of another ship. To do that, both ships need to be close and scan mode engaged. The player then need to either RIGHT-CLICK the target and choose the scan option, or press SHIFT+F with the target selected. The target ship then needs to stay inside the HUD circle that will appear, and be green (close enough). Scan will happen, and more information will become available on the target.

Long range scan mode
Default: SHIFT+3 While in long range scan mode, the player may press and hold the R key for some time and then release it, to start a long range scan. Pressing the R key too long will make the scan fail.

Detected structures will appear on the map marked with a '?'.

Other elements may appear during the scan burst through visual clues and sounds, indicating their position.

SETA mode
Default: SHIFT+4

SETA mode makes time pass faster.