Sorry about that, fixed.Terre wrote:Re: Oversize banner.
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Yes, the way factories tend to "slide" even at the lightest of key presses was something I was going to mention in the guide, but decided against because I figured that's something players just have to figure out.mjl1966 wrote:Great guide.
However, the way the keys work when moving the new station around totally negates the benefit of any precision. If I just *tap* one of the keys, the station moves at least 100 meters, maybe more. How the heck do you move the station around to line everything up? I can't find anything besides FCC that changes the increment by which a station moves.
For now, I just watch it zoom by in a flash any time I move it.
What's the secret to precise station movement? (In vanilla, not FCC)
There is a way to make the factory move/rotate only 1 meter/degree at a time, but it takes the LIGHTEST tap on the key board possible. The taps in fact need to be so light, that they barely register.
The way I started out doing it was very lightly & quickly tap my fingers against the keyboard (lightly enough that most of the taps don't register) - occasionally, one of the taps will be strong enough that the key press was registered, and you will see the factory barely move before you.
After a while I got good at it, and can now tap more firmly and have the factories move/rotate very slightly most of the time.
That's not to say the game still doesn't decide to "slide" the movement/rotation every once in a while even if I am very careful with my key presses. So in addition to practice tapping lightly, it's actually more helpful to use the on-screen sector map grids as guides when you align factories precisely.
Example: You want to move a factory slightly to the left. You locate a small dot of light on the factory as a "Reference Point", and this dot is currently sitting to the right of a sector map grid near the center of the screen, and figure the factory would be in a good position if the dot were to the left of the grid.
You try to lightly tap the keyboard but the factory just keeps sliding around too far - no worries. Slide it back and forth a few times - eventually you'll get lucky and the dot will land just to the left of the grid.
I actually did it this way a few times, and it works fine.To be very precise, though, I typically rely on the Save & Reload method outlined in the guide. So tap tap tap --> Movements were minor and good --> Save --> Tap tap tap, oops overshot! --> Reload. xD
I won't lie, it can be a very tedious process.
So whether or not it's worth the time to have absolutely perfect geometry is entirely up to the player. The guide only shows how to do it.
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