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Panning the 3D World: Right-click anywhere in the radar mini map to move the 3D view to that location.

Giving Move Orders with the Radar: With units already selected, left-click a destination in the radar mini map, to move the selected units to the desired location.

Zooming the Radar: - / + on the keyboard zooms the radar in and out.

Radar Display: The radar mini-map can be toggled on/off with the F7 key.

POWER BAR
The Yellow Power Bar shows how much power you currently have available. The longer the bar, the more power you have at your disposal. Power is used to produce new units, build structures, and conduct research.

Action Cost Bar
This bar appears over the yellow bar to indicate how much an action will cost. This bar appears as you place the mouse over structures to be built, Artifacts to research and units to manufacture.

Green Bar: If the action cost is less than your total power, it's shown as a green bar.

Red Bar: If the cost is greater than your total power, it appears as a red bar.

Power Generation
Oil is extracted from oil pools by derricks, then converted into power by a power generator. The more oil pools attached to a generator, the faster it converts the oil into power. Each power generator may have four oil derricks connected to it. If an oil derrick doesn't move up and down, you will need to build a new power generator to extract its resources. If you highlight a power generator by left-clicking, it will show the number of oil derricks it is currently providing energy to.

Managing Power & Resources
Power is used to build structures, manufacture units and conduct research. Power is drawn as soon as a unit is assigned to be manufactured by a factory, or a research topic is assigned to a research facility. Providing you have sufficient power for the activity, the initial progress bar fills quickly with green and the manufacture or research begins. A yellow progress bar then charts the progress achieved by the current activity.