A guide to the game controls of StarDrive.
Controls[]
- +/- to Increase or Decrease game speed
- Space Bar to pause the game.
With a Ship Selected:[]
- Right Click something for context sensitive orders.
- Hold Shift to queue moves or attacks
- Hold ALT for ship/ships to move in a straight line (Rather then Plotting Course)
With Fleet Selected:[]
- Right Click for formation move (Fleet Moves at Speed of Slowest Ship)
- Hold ALT to order fastest move
- Hold RMB to set fleet facing
Mouse and keyboard:[]
- Left click to:
- Select Things
- Right click to:
- Issue Commands
- While manually piloting a ship, to fire weapons
- Middle click to center player view on cursor.
- Move cursor to edge of screen on galaxy screen to pan the camera.
List of hotkeys[]
Hotkeys as of .67b. Italics indicates dev command. This section is in need of an update as of March 2013.
- (in the fleet screen)CTRL F1 - unlock all technologies in this tree.
- space - pause/unpause
- arrow keys - move main view
- ESC - exit menu/window; rapidly zoom out
- TAB - turns on tactical overlay; see weapon arcs
- w,a,s,d - movement keys for your flagship
- CTRL+[0-9] - Create a fleet
- [0-9] - Select assigned fleet
- CTRL+p - change the light source from single light source to light emitted by stars (meaning planets in a solar system will have a shadow on whatever side faces away from the nearest star).
- b - build menu for deep space structures/stations
- c - Spawn alien fleet
- f - toggles warp on and off for your currently controlled ship
- i - Fleet Screen
- o - Switch to ship direct control mode?
- q - With ship selected brings up ship orders menu
- v - Spawn pirate corsair
- x - Spawn friendly fleet
- z - Spawn friendly assault ship
- ~ - toggle debug mode (gives you vision of the entire map and all planets)