thanks much, everyone. i suppose i missed the hotkeys when i was leafing through the manual. the 'v' and 'b' keys work perfectly, and my 5 starsystem game is suddenly much more manageable.
I purchased SoaSE pretty much when it first came out, and installed it on my desktop PC I had at the time, everything worked fine, then I installed the game on a recently purchased laptop. I have the most current version, and for some reason, the zoom function will not work on my laptop (i.e. zooming with the fingerpad scroll). Do I simply have to buy a USB mouse to get the zoom to work, or am I forever doomed to the zoomed-in view of planets and structures?
