Thursday 11 January 2007

Navigating

In the game, there're 2 types of navigating, one is battle navigation, and the other is the duty station navigation. I'll start with the duty station type, cause it's my 2nd best puzzle.

Objective: Read the stars to travel faster(So Simple!!) normally, help to increase the vessel speed, but since you cannot play this in sea battle, it won't give extra moves when you enter sea battles.

In the puzzle, you basically just have to move the correct coloured-stars to the positions marked on the puzzle board. At low levels, it's so easy as you usually just need to move only 1 or 2 stars to the correct position. Unless you're new to the puzzle, you can easily place them in the correct position.

Problem come when there are more positions you need to get. At the highest level, you will start off with 4 positions to fill. Usually spread across the 3 rows on the puzzle, therefore you have to be extremely careful where you put the other pieces that you do not need at the moment. The best way to put them is to prevent putting same colours in the same column on row 1 and row 2, so when you are waiting for the piece you need in the 3rd row, you won't encounter the problem of clearing the bottom 2 rows and messed up the puzzle.

Tip: if there is no necessity to keep 2 same coloured-stars in the same column, it's still better to clear the 2 as at higher level, you may need to wait till the very end before you can get the colour you need.

I'll try to find some screenshots so that things are better explained. Lol. Until next time!!

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