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Hello world iam still kinda stuck on sins tutoral first off is the metal astroid a space station from what i understand you can build refineries on it.?ummm also within the tutrial theres a task of selecting multiple ships by dragging the mouse and left clicking i managed to circle 4 ships but it still wont give the ok i cant seem to get all ships toher any hi8nts on that well i look forward to getting into sins.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Metal asteroids are just that, asteroids that contain metal resources that can be mined. Just click on your planet and hit the build logistic structures button. Then click the build metal extractor button and your constructor ships should start building it.

 

I don't know why you'd have problems selecting multiple ships. I guess I'd try zooming out so that you can see the entire planet's gravity well and then create a box around the entire gravity well. Other than that, one of the tutorials at one time would get stuck, but I thought that was fixed in the most recent patch. Otherwise, I guess you could just go on to the next tutorial, hopefully whatever you missed will just come to you from playing the game.

 

Also if you feel you need more practice after the tutorials, you can play a game without any AI players so that you get a kind of a sandbox mode. Their will still be pirate raids (though you can turn these off as well) and local militia, but the former shouldn't be to big a challange if your defending with a capital ship, and the latter never attack you.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

there is an option that sets the extractors to be built automatically on asteroids, its a good idea to have it ticked to make life faster

if you want to select ships, make sure you are selecting them only. for instance if you have 5 combat ships and one colony frigate, and you clik and drag over all of them, only the combat ships will be selected. there are a few situations like this with different priorities, but generally its combat ships first, then non-combat ships, then structures, then civilian ships last. other than that there is no reason why you cant select ships.... try holding the mouse button down harder?

i second GoaFan77's recommendation to play without an enemy. it will help you heaps. also if you feel competent, you can go into a map file and change the starting resource values for a particular map and start off with heaps of resources so you can learn a bit quicker.

Lastly, its a pet hate, but i cant stand terrible english and grammar. Taking a few more minutes to write your post properly will not only make reading your posts easier but will make certain other players take you more seriously, as you dont sound like some 13yr old kid with a short attention span.

otherwise, welcome and good luck!

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