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Got it. Thanks, Edymnion!

I just built my first military ship and killed my first pirate, and - surprise, surprise - I've got a few more questions. :) 1. How do I tell if my ship is injured? (Not from the pirate, if that matters. I flew too close to the sun. I don't think it got past my shields, but how do I tell if any...

Is this true? I'm just a newbie, but the wiki agrees with vuvko, that shield blocks can be placed in any arrangement: "Unlike most other ship systems, Shield systems require no controller, nor do they have any placement rules which affect efficiency. Thus Shield Capacitators and...

OK, this is funny - kind of. At least it shows you how little I know. I went 'round and 'round trying to figure out what version of Java I had on my computer, 32-bit or 64-bit, until I finally thought to look where the program was installed. Sure enough, Java was installed under C:\Program...

OK, I guess there weren't four planets in either of those screenshots, huh? :p I was confused by the 8 8 5 planet on a yellow ring, I guess. Thanks again, SmilingDemon!

OK, I went to the Java website. It was less than helpful. It verified that I'm running the latest version of Java, but said nothing about whether it was 32 bit or 64 bit. I looked further, and the website told me how to find out if my Firefox browser is the 32-bit or 64-bit version. I tried...

Heh, heh. OK, well, that's interesting. Say, what's the significance of the different colors of the orbital rings (yellow and purple, in those screenshots, but not for the same orbits)? Those two solar systems seem similar in other ways, too: four planets, with a wider gap between the two...

I've been running StarMade fine for nearly a week. Now, after heading off to explore a new planet, I'm getting this message: Warning! You are running low on memory! Please increase the max AND in the StarMade Launcher. I don't even know what that means (what's the "AND," and what should it be...

Two replies, two different answers? :) Since I do have a planet at 8,8,5, I assume that it's not entirely random and not really like Minecraft in that respect. But much of it probably varies from game to game. How much? Well, I guess I don't care right now, because it's all new to me. Thanks...

Thanks, guys. That helps a lot. I have a few more questions, of course. :p That makes sense. In fact, I would have assumed that, but the ship is at rest, docked at my base. So why would the current energy be different from the max energy capacity? Power capacitors? So I need more than just...

Oh, OK. Wow, I've sure got a lot to learn, don't I? Thanks for the info! And on to more questions. :) I'm on my fourth mining ship, and I just built a missile turret. But I have no idea if it's going to work, how much damage it will do, or anything else. I got in it, as I would a ship, and...

Really? Man, I spent two days hollowing out that mountain, trying to make a base underground,... and now it's all oriented the wrong way? It wouldn't be such a big deal if I could remove more than one block at a time. Yes, I know there's a procedure for that, but I can never tell which blocks...

Thanks for the suggestion. I think I'd prefer to park my ships, but we'll see. For one thing, I'm having a horrible time getting a docking module to work at all. I've been spending forever enlarging the cavern I've made under that mountain - and continually enlarging the docking box, which...

OK, I see now. Thanks for the info!

Wow, that's great. I'm struggling to get my first ship docked, since I apparently need to be completely underground in order to avoid instant death by pirates. And that's just my mining ship. I figured I'd have to park any other ships on the surface, which would probably mean I wouldn't survive...

A complete newbie question: What does this mean, exactly? Spontaneous Target Hit (insta-hit) weapon, otherwise known as a Hitscan weapon Does that mean you don't have to aim at the enemy? I suspect not, since you might have multiple enemies. But I really don't know what that means. As I say...

Thanks. I tried at my first home base, but could never get it to work right. I'll try again at the new planet, when I have time. Thanks! I'm covered, anyway. I wrote it down on a piece of scrap paper. :p

Yes, I'm sure. I've seen lava on other planets, but not anywhere on this one. If I dig down a block or two, I see a swirling mass of... something. The molten center of the planet, maybe? But I wasn't doing anything like that when I died. I'll check out F1 when I get back into the game. Thanks...

Thanks, but I'm already playing on Easy, since that's how the game started (and I'm more of a casual player, anyway). Heck, if there were a 'Super-Easy,' I'd switch to that. This is easy? :p OK. I wonder why it didn't shoot me earlier, then? I spent a lot of time mining, while traveling to...

Where do you get this information? I'm a new player, too, and I've died four times in rapid succession - at my 'invulnerable' home base - without ever even seeing a pirate. I assume that pirates are killing me, since the first time I respawned, I checked the navigation screen and it showed...