Manual:New users

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This page is intended to provide new users/players with the informations to quickly play the game and having as

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Please see the FAQs for questions about Installation/Playing/Bugs/etc... that are asked again and again.

Of course reading the various section of the Manual itself should help new users a gret deal as well... we hope ;)

Forum / IRC

If you do not get answers from the FAQ you can search for ansers ask in Vegastrike forum.

ALOT of questions have been already answered there, so searching may help you much faster than asking straight away ;)

This of course doesn't mean you can't ask in the forums :D, but please help the community (and yourself) saving time and effort. :D

Another possibility is to use the IRC-channels listed in the Links

What files do I need to download?

See Installation for a detailed Install instructions for various Platforms and Distributions.

Is Vegastrike free to download?

Yes, Vegastrike is not only free as in beer, but more important free as in speech.
VS is distributed under the GNU/GPL License.
You can read the detailed license here.

(The free as in beer isn't defined in the License, so you may see Vegastrike being sold elsewhere:)

How do I play ...

... single player on my computer?

FIXME WRITEME

... via splitscreen against/with a friend?

FIXME WRITEME

I want to know more about the Vegastrike Universe

You can visit the Vegastrike Database to get Informations about Technologies, Species, etc... you'll see in the Vegastrike Universe.

Multiplayer (not yet implemented/playable)

How do I connect to a universe server?

How much fun is Vega Strike?

You can see a rather detailed list of Vegastrikes features here.

Most notable...WRITEME


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