Players install nothing. Everything a console needs is served by the host
machine and drawn in the browser.
Connect
Open a browser and go to the address the host gives you:
http://192.168.1.20:1864/
On the host's own machine that is http://localhost:1864/. If the host
is somewhere else on the internet, the address is their public one — the port on
the end is still what matters, and it is still 1864 unless you were told
otherwise.
Pick a station
You land on STATION SELECTION: every station this server can
serve, grouped by purpose. The six ordinary bridge stations are at the top:
Flight, Tactical, Operations, Sciences, Engineer and
Captain. Choose one and you are in that seat.
You do not need to be assigned a seat in advance and you do not need to log in.
Taking a station binds you to a vessel automatically — the ship you were seated on
before launch, or the first player ship if you arrive after it. Your Game Master can see
where you landed and move you.
Two people can open the same station. Nothing stops it, and it is genuinely
useful — a trainee beside an experienced officer, or a second Tactical display on
a bigger screen. Both are live, so agree who is driving.
One browser, one console
Each console wants its own window. If you are running more than one, use separate
windows rather than tabs: a background tab is throttled by the browser, and a
throttled console falls behind the simulation. Full screen (F11) gets rid of the
browser furniture and is how the consoles are meant to be seen.
Your console's settings
Press F1 on any console to open its settings, and again to close
them. They cover your call sign and language, controllers and keyboard bindings, video
quality and audio, plus a page of the station's own options when it has any. They are
kept in that browser, so a console you come back to remembers them.
If the Video page shows a Software rendering warning, the browser is
drawing every frame without the graphics card. Fix what the warning names — usually a
missing graphics driver, or graphics acceleration turned off in the browser. Until then,
lower Scale and turn Upscale, Shadows and Post Proc off.
Other stations worth knowing
- Main Viewer — the view out of the front of the ship, with no
controls. This is the one to put on the big screen or the projector.
- Spectator — watch without occupying a seat.
- Secondary stations like Radar, Shield Status or Cargo Hold are
single‑purpose displays. They are for extra monitors, not for playing from.
Consoles And Screens lists all of them.
Reconnecting
A console reconnects by itself when the connection drops. If it does not come back,
reload the page: its address is the station's own, so you return to the same seat. The
simulation kept running without you; your vessel and its state are on the server, not
in your browser, and the server remembers which ship you were on, so nothing is lost by
reloading. Reloading a console is also the first thing to try when one starts behaving
oddly.
