@dukekarl1: Just hit the [N] key when you have reached the glowing red light, the dock procedure is then fully operated without you having to maneuver at all. You just have to be close enough to the SSI.

iN THE TUTORIAL HAVING TROUBLE DOCKING WITH THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION>

Darn I didn't want to upgrade dundee because it looks so bad, thought there would be something better soon to stick with.

Also, look in the keyboard settings menu to check what key toggles linked fire -- I think it's X by default. This will fire all your guns at once for a bigger punch, but with a longer recharge. Also make sure you know the key for "transfer energy to shields", it will save your ass!

"Transfer to shields" operates on your current weapon only. If you're in the Dundee and using the gatling and taking damage, and start running out of weapon energy to send to the shields, you can switch to the plasma cannon and start transfering energy from it too -- it has a separate reserve to the gatling. (Similarly, if you have rockets selected you will only transfer from engines to shields because rockets have ammo not energy -- remember to switch back to an energy weapon to boost your shields up more!)

The salvage price drops as you sell salvage at a single station, but if you sell all your salvage at once ('sell all' button) you get the same (higher) price for all of it. Also, the price will go back up again after a while -- I only came back once in a while to sell and the price was always 10,000 each time.

The Dundee and Xerg are the only ships you get to keep throughout the entire campaign; the rest you only have for a few missions then have to give back. The Xerg is not bad fully upgraded (cluster missiles take out a lot of smaller enemies at once, and homing missiles have no lock-on delay), but Dundee is the best.

ah @right mouse

Valid points here. Actually, there is a hint in the message area (bottom left) during one of the first missions about the weak spot of the large saucers (specifically Hanebu class I think), but with everything going on on the screen in the heat of battle, it is easily overlooked. I only noticed it during my 2nd playthrough.