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The original Elite PC game (1984) Free at Elite Dangerous website
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22-09-2014 11:17am#1
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yeah, been thinking of buying in to get the new one, but i don't have nearly as much free time (i.e. none) since getting married and having kids.
i think i'll have to just hang up my space pirate boots and leather chaps for good.
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I loved it as a kid, it was a massive galaxy you could travel and do what you want, it still impresses me that they fit it onto a few megs. Admittedly my young mind filled the large blanks it had, but man was it fun.
So I'm the only one who only ever used to horse it back and forth repeatedly from bernard's star trading goods (luxuries and livestock I think?) for days until I had enough for a decent sized ship and heavy duty guns?
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So I'm the only one who only ever used to horse it back and forth repeatedly from bernard's star trading goods (luxuries and livestock I think?) for days until I had enough for a decent sized ship and heavy duty guns?
I did the same thing, I got a good few upgrades but I got fed up well before I got to the top of the range stuff. Then I hit paydirt, there was a trick on the amiga to increase the cargo space infinitely on a ship. At first I used it to haul insane amounts of toxic waste out to the middle of nowhere and dump it at great profit and quickly upgraded to a kick ass super ship. Then I realised that if you got something really small and stuck a freighter sized hyperdrive into it you could jump a quarter of the way across the galaxy. It was also fun being able to fire a particle accelerator that produced a beam 3-4 times the size of your ship. Good times (for a nerdy kid !)0 -
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I did the same thing, I got a good few upgrades but I got fed up well before I got to the top of the range stuff. Then I hit paydirt, there was a trick on the amiga to increase the cargo space infinitely on a ship. At first I used it to haul insane amounts of toxic waste out to the middle of nowhere and dump it at great profit and quickly upgraded to a kick ass super ship. Then I realised that if you got something really small and stuck a freighter sized hyperdrive into it you could jump a quarter of the way across the galaxy. It was also fun being able to fire a particle accelerator that produced a beam 3-4 times the size of your ship. Good times (for a nerdy kid !)
I remember discovering a Cloaking Device on the Amstrad version (dont know if other versions had that?). It was epic... unlike the Star Trek version you could fire while cloaked although it did kill your energy reserves when you used it.
The activation key was undocumented though and you only got it by picking up a cargo canister in the middle of a battle. Cue frantic pressing of every damn button on the keyboard!
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I did the same thing, I got a good few upgrades but I got fed up well before I got to the top of the range stuff. Then I hit paydirt, there was a trick on the amiga to increase the cargo space infinitely on a ship. At first I used it to haul insane amounts of toxic waste out to the middle of nowhere and dump it at great profit and quickly upgraded to a kick ass super ship. Then I realised that if you got something really small and stuck a freighter sized hyperdrive into it you could jump a quarter of the way across the galaxy. It was also fun being able to fire a particle accelerator that produced a beam 3-4 times the size of your ship. Good times (for a nerdy kid !)
Wasnt that in frontier elite II?
I did the same thing, clicking underneath the radioactive waste and jettisoning
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So I'm the only one who only ever used to horse it back and forth repeatedly from bernard's star trading goods (luxuries and livestock I think?) for days until I had enough for a decent sized ship and heavy duty guns?
Hehe, that was my route aswell.
Except I never managed to shoot down a single ship.
When I took on assisination missions, I used to drive my "panther" ship (I think it was), which had massive shields, and run them over pretty much.0 -
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