The Comprehensive Star Sonata Guide

Welcome to Star Sonata! You're one of the thousand people who have began this game and begun to enjoy it. However, like all of us from the new player in their Zebucart or the endgame Lion Berserker cruising around perilous space, you probably need help. I'm undertaking the task of writing the complete guide to Star Sonata, and hope you'll find what you need in here. Of course, since new content is added every day, this will most likely be out of date soon, so if you see and blatant errors please feel free to fix them.

Since this guide is so large, I suggest either utilizing the links below or the Control+F function that will allow you to search for specific keywords in this page. I hope you find what you're looking for, or if you don't, please feel free to throw a PM my way if I'm on.

Sincerely, User:Lolwut? Wikilol 20:35, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

The Beginning

The Tutorials

So you're a new player. You just spawned in The Nexus and you find yourself confused with all the Ships flying around. Are you in danger? No, you're perfectly safe unless you attack them, which you will in a few moments. To move your ship around, use the A key to turn left, W key to accelerate, D key to turn right, and S key to slow down. If The Nexus hasn't been seriously modified since this guide was written, there should be a base to the upper right of where you started. I suggest docking and beginning the Mission there. Read the mission dialogue and then begin the mission. To undock you can click the "Undock" button in the upper right corner of the window that appeared when you docked. First, I suggest looking around the tabs in the top of the docking window and seeing what they do. The General tab includes Missions, a base introduction/ description, and the current status of the Emperor position. The Trading tab will show a subwindow beneath it with many different types of things for sale, but the station where you are only sells a few things. To understand what these things do, please keep reading or skip to the Ships and Fits section. The bulletin board contains player messages and top teams+ players, but this will most likely confuse you as for now, it will be out of context. The ships tab includes your docked ships and their names. Finally, the Neuro Training window will contain different skills you can train, but for now you won't have any skill points as you have not gained any Experience Points and therefore a level.

Alright, listen to the missions and the small paperclip- like popup in the upper left corner and you should have a good basic understanding of the game. I highly suggest paying attention to this for the first 50 Levels or so. WASD- ship movement controls R- Docks X- Enages selected item popup menu Tab- Cycles through everything your radar can see in the system Z- Cycles through player ships your radar can see in the system Q- Cycles through objects of the same type as the original target your radar can see in the system T- Opens chat bar G- Engages tractor Spacebar- Fires selected weapon Numberkeys 1 through 5- Engages hotkeys U- Suicides (there's a conformation popup window requiring text entering so you're safe and cannot try to scam in a Support Ticket that you accidentally suicided and lost gear/ credits. F- Warps through a wormhole Enter/ Return- Enters text C- Scoops the selected target/ nearest target if nothing's selected

For now, you don't need to chat. However, if you're REALLY curious, you can go into Event chat by clicking on it and enter /help to see the commands. Anything with a slash in front of it will be interpreted as a command and therefore not entered in the chat when completed. To talk either click the chat or press "t" and enter text, then press "enter/return" to enter chat into the menu.

The missions at the AI base should have enough information to complete if you read them, however, to equip or unequip items you must double click on them. To unequip Weapons, Shields, Energy, and Engines you must be docked at a base. After completing these missions, you're off through the wormhole to the next galaxy. Things get a bit tougher here as you are exposed to Mini Volcoms that do more damage. For now, dock at the AI bases and see the missions. You should earn enough money to get a new Ship soon, such as a Phunka.dll or Roswell. Complete the missions here and become at least level 3 and you can leave these two tutorial galaxies and enter a slightly more dangerous one... The Nexus.

The Nexus

Welcome to The Nexus! It's here that you'll train until you're ready to enter the real universe.