In-game help?

[charlieg]

Well I loved Privateer when I originally played it. However, that was a decade ago and I've subsequently forgotten almost everything about it.

At the moment I have to resort to educated guesses and trial-and-error key pressing. Some form of help screen giving key details would greatly enhance the game.

I really feel for somebody who's never played Privateer before, they'd be utterly lost.

There's also no feedback. I got a mission to escort a ship to another system. I flew him up to the jump point and sat there frantically pressing 'J' and nothing was happening. It turns out pirates were about but a little message would really have helped. Also these pirates just didn't show up on my radar [presumably because they were too far away?] so there was no way of me knowing until after 30s or so 'boom' up goes the ship I'm escorting. A lesson learnt the hard way, perhaps.

Anyway, I'll play it some more in the next several days. It definitely felt like the old Privateer that my memories hold so dear. Really great work!

[JKeefe]

The last few pages of the manual (Manual.pdf in the Privateer root directory) list key commands.