TTS configuration and you

In-game settings can affect your game comfort real hard. This is what I reccomend (over 1300 hours in TTS at the moment), you should test it out.

Directions on how to open settings windows described here are when you are in-game. Not in main menu. Just click Singleplayer for example.

Menu (top bar) -> Configuration

1. Game tab:

• Mod caching: ticked, essential. This downloads assets when seen first time, then uses local versions to speed up loading, lighten the load on hosting servers and make you more connection-independent.
• Threading: ticked, important if you have multi-core CPU. Tooltip explains it.
• Rest is personal preference.

2. Graphics tab:

• Full Size Textures: ticked if you want to be able to easily read all text. Saves a lot of RAM unticked if you know X-Wing well enough though.
• Anisotropic Filtering: ticked if you don't want cards to be unreadable at ~30deg angle and lower. You can easily live with it off if you use ALT to view them though (see Useful Tips & Tricks).
• Rest is personal preference. Keep in mind that TTS is much bigger of a resource hog than it may look like (hi Unity).

3. Controls tab:

• Grab: bind to something like tilde (my keyboard layout has it in the left-upper corner) if you're using touchpad to play. That may be a bit of personal preference but it allows you to keep one hand at WASD region and another on touchpad all the time which is nice.
• Blindfold: Useless for TTS, easy to click accidentally when trying to write in chat and get frustrated, good idea to rebind away.
• Zoom in/out: Essential for play, you want this bound to something if you're playing on touchpad (defaults to only mouse scroll).
• Rest is preference.

Options (top bar)

1. Options entry (from a dropdown list), General tab:

• Physics: Semi-lock, ALWAYS. Makes your rolled dice not nudge ships/cards, you can push a template to a ship safely etc. Really essential.
• Scripting: If this is unchecked, you're in for a bad time.
• Rest isn't so important.

2. Options entry (from a dropdown list), Permissions tab:

• Uncheck everything if your server is public. People will be able to play if you click their name -> Promote, but until you do that they don't have an option to take a color and interact (grief, maybe accidentally). Most trolls are instantly repelled, pretty much everyone who cares to say "Hey, can I have a promo to set up / browse things?" is not a griefer and safe to promote.

3. Hands entry:

• Enable: NOT ticked or your cards will swoop into hand zones that are not to be used (and make you angry).