Earth Faerie Aces is one of the really cool games on Neopets. It is sort of a combination of the classic Asteroids and Lunar Lander arcade games. You get to pilot your little ship around various masonry, pick up food pellets with your tractor beam, feed them to flowers, and redock to score points. The higher the level the more they place the masonry in difficult places.
The first step is learning to move your ship around. Gravity always drags you down, so most of the time you are going to be mostly thrusting up, just to keep in place. The best thing I’ve found is to concentrate mainly on either moving vertically or moving horizontally. Vertical is easy; you have to be pointing up anyway. So you just either thrust a bit more or a bit less. For horizontal it is best to cock the ship one or two notches to the side and let it gently slide you to one side as you maintain your vertical position.
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