Greetings and questions from a new user

aRottenKomquat · Post by **aRottenKomquat** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:10 am

Hello everybody. I just saw Evochron Mercenary on Steam yesterday, bought it, and have been playing it almost non-stop since. It's an awesome game and I can't wait to find a multiplayer server to join once I'm more comfortable with the gameplay.

Anyway, I started the game as a miner. After some frustration I finally got the navigation stuff figured out (I died a lot by jumping to hyperspace--or whatever it's called in this universe--with planets, asteroids, and ships directly in front of me

and got a good mining route figured out. Well, mining is only one thing and I'd like to learn more about the military side of things. I have several million credits and I figured out how to store my ship in a trade station and get another ship with a different configuration. But how do I acquire a military frame? I've tried a number of stations and planets and I only see civilian frames.

My other question is about my ship's roll rate. Yesterday my ship could roll pretty quickly. But today (whether I use my keyboard or joystick) it rolls so lazily that it takes forever to align myself. What changed? Is there a setting for this that I inadvertently modified?

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 6:55 am

Military ships you can only get from Carriers. You can get a starter Ferret from the Carrier in Erato near Saphire. To get access to the higher class military ships you have to earn your military rank by completing missions in the Warzones!....The more military rank you gain the more access you get to the higher military class frames...

About the joystick roll acting slow I have no Idea!....

Flying Brick · Post by **Flying Brick** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:41 am

Hi aRottenKomquat! Welcome!

Just to add one more thing: are you using the same ship that used to roll really quickly? Because if you're not, that might be an explanation; all ships have vastly differing agility ratings, and some are really sluggish - usually, the "bigger" and better the ship is, the more armor and the less agile it is. So, as you get better frames, they'll get slower and slower...you can mitigate that to some extent by using better wing system upgrades.

Military frames will be more agile, in general, but you need to increase your military rank to get them... and like Maarschalk said, you can only get them in carriers - most (or all, I can't recall) of which are in warzones...

Have fun!

SeeJay · Post by **SeeJay** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:49 am

Hi and welcome.

There are several free servers available to log on to. Just click on MP button and search.

You will get a lot of help in MP and it's great fun. Very friendly community!

mikeuk · Post by **mikeuk** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:56 am

Welcome aRottenKomquat love the name;)

aRottenKomquat · Post by **aRottenKomquat** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:55 pm

Thanks guys. I did figure out how to get a military frame, I'd never seen carriers before until late last night. Just need to save up a little more cash to buy one.

As for the roll thing, it was the same ship. I posted in another thread but it's something to do with my joystick, if I switch controls to keyboard mode my roll rate is around ten or twenty times faster than if I have it set to joystick mode. Either way (keyboard or joystick) I use the Q + E keys for rolling since my joystick is set to turn the ship rather than roll.

MiaZ · Post by **MiaZ** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 2:58 pm

From post: 125603, Topic: tid=8493, author=aRottenKomquat wrote: As for the roll thing, it was the same ship. I posted in another thread but it's something to do with my joystick, if I switch controls to keyboard mode my roll rate is around ten or twenty times faster than if I have it set to joystick mode. Either way (keyboard or joystick) I use the Q + E keys for rolling since my joystick is set to turn the ship rather than roll.

Does your stick have a roll axis or do you have any other controller plugged in?

I don't like the twist rudder on my stick so I prefer to map a button on my stick for roll, which gave me that very slow roll problem too.
I am only just guessing here based on my own previous experience but this might be worth a try even if your stick doesn't have a roll axis.

Maybe if you go through the axis config setup all the way to the end hitting the < no axis assigned > button for roll and any other axis that you don't use or have on your stick.

Oh, and I nearly forgot!
Welcome to the game

[Edited on 1-23-2012 by MiaZ]

aRottenKomquat · Post by **aRottenKomquat** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:40 pm

I don't have a roll axis assigned. Turn is assigned to Axis 1, Pitch is Axis 2, Throttle is Axis 3, and no other axises are assigned. I also don't have any other controllers connected (if I did it would be an Xbox 360 controller).