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I'd just like to take a moment to relate to the first time I played EV. (Face of remembering something that happened a long time ago) I remember it well... (/Face of remembering something that happened a long time ago)

Anyway, at first I didn't know how to do anything but gamble. I would start pilot file, gamble my money away, rinse and repeat. I looked at the mission computer, but, heh, I didn't know what in the heck it was. I finally learned how to jump from system to system, before that I kept trying to get to the other systems by going to the edge of Levo. When I got to Capella, I landed and bought a Defender. I thought that was the coolest little ship... Then it got blowed up by a pirate. At that time it didn't know about Open Pilot File, so I started over. Then I figured out the mission computer and got "rich." I thought that cannons could not be shot without a turret, and I got both, but it didn't show up in the secondary weapons thingy. I was stumped. Finally, I learned what a primary and secondary weapon was. From there, I learned how to play. I was just too cool to read the read me file.

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I was not to cool to read the documentation, I read the whole thing. After that I eagerly began my new life as a space pilot. I soon found a few trade routes, and began to make some money. Before long I got bored of being a trader, and decided to buy a mighty defender and go out and kill a bunch of pirates. It wasn't long before I found something to kill, I don't remeber quite what it was, but I do remeber it killed me VERY fast. I gave up on defenders after that. I next tried fighting in a courier, which did NOT work. Then I tried a Clipper, but kept on getting killed. It took me quite a while to figure out that merchant ships and weak fighters are just about usless when it comes to fighting.

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I remember when I first started too. I also Gambled my money away, and didn't know how to use the open pilot. And I bought every ship I came to up to the Argosy. And when I got the Clipper I got two scout escorts and got shot down by pirates. Then I slowly got better until I got the Kestrel and started to dominate planets. Then I learned that its more fun to try to kill Confed Cruisers in a Defender. I got up to killing a Kestrel in a Defender, but that's as high as I got.

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?Heh?

I remember starting the game and having no trouble at all. I was an Asteroids, Asterax, and Maelstrom player, so i had no trouble getting the hang of the game. I knew gambling would be a rip-off so i didnt bother with that.
I just flew around, running missions, pirating Argosies in my new Clipper...
sigh I want those days back. When i thought the Corvette was a great ship with an incredible ammount of shields...
"Kestrel Shields: 130 :eek:"

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Your are right, getting the handel on this game from the beginning is difficult. Try the "Uplink" test run, without the help of the "helpfile" . Most of my help came fom the readme files, then asking questions o this web-board. Always, like life, there is somebody out there that knows more than oneself. However, gambling as in real life is a fools game. Trading isn't. Trade is what makes our world go round. Movement of money. This I understand well. Making deals, running around like a chicken without a head trying to pull ones money in, this I understand too. The game makes like it is real life to me. I would love to have a Rebel Cruiser with me when asking for payment for my services, it would be a lot easier to deal with real life. Make it pay, otherwise what's the point. Great game.

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I couldn't figure out how to get my ship to move. I thought it was all done with my mouse, and figured the GAME had problems.

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I remember I thought it was a lame ass game at first. I hated it; I tried it almost right after it came out. I never understood it, but gimme a break, I was 8 or something. When i was 11, I picked it back up. And this is well after EVO. I fell in love with it, because this time I figured out how to land. And then jump. And then buy lasers and shoot them. And then start a new game and repeat the process until I got the hang of it. Now, at the age of 14, I am a grizzled veteran of the game. To be honest, I haven't picked it up in ages but this little nostalgia topic is starting to get to me... sniff

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I have a little habit of opening a game first and reading the readme later. When I first played EV I tried that, I spent quite alot of time flying around the system figuring out everything exept how to do anything. So I quit and read the read me. From there on out it was no problem. I never gambled, I never touched anything but rush delivery missions, I worked up to a nice argosy and never tried the defender (the percentage of shields was painfully obvios.) Pretty boring huh?

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**I have a little habit of opening a game first and reading the readme later. When I first played EV I tried that, I spent quite alot of time flying around the system figuring out everything exept how to do anything. So I quit and read the read me. From there on out it was no problem. I never gambled, I never touched anything but rush delivery missions, I worked up to a nice argosy and never tried the defender (the percentage of shields was painfully obvios.) Pretty boring huh?

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Yeah. This is most people:

"Oh dude, kick ass, it says it's a fighter! Im gonna go take over a planet or some gnarly **** like that man!"

Explode

"...WTF Mate? I'm getting a better fighter this time, man, A real killer. Yeah man, a clipper! This is the **** right here!"

Explode

"Come one, duuuude! That Corvette shoulda had no chance! I had a totally killer ship that time. Total bummer."

About then is when most people try the Argosy.

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I still remember the first time i Played. It was fun got the hang of it the first time. never bothered with a defender or clipper. loved the agrosy and krestle. Was so addicted to the game my parents had close the computer themselves to get me to stop.

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I had almost no trouble getting the hang of the game- at least, not the concept. But it took me a while to get used to landing, and then when I ran out of fuel, I'd try to get to the edge of a system to get to the next one. I obviously couldn't distinguish well between a good ship and a bad one, and so like most of the people here, I thought Clippers were the bomb. Heh... I got a pretty big surprise when I realized that the javelins weren't the supercool weapons I thought they were.

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I think it was the racing stripes on the Clipper. That was the snag. Why couldn't the Argosy have had racing stripes, eh?

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I remember i was totally stoaked when i discovered that you could 'buy' the ships in the shipyard,

of course this was back in 96 when i was 10, so gimmie a break :laugh:

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I still remember the first time I played. My dad had brought a mac laptop home from work. It had EV on it. I fell in love instantly. Being the videogame wiz kid I am, I had no trouble at all, in fact within two days my battle skills rivaled that of a 1 year player. I always did think that Clippers were the bomb, come to think of it, I still do. Clippers rock if you know how to fix them up. You have to make them the so-souped-up-that-they-can-no-longer-be-called-a-clipper type of clipper. Normally I sold almost everything that came with the clipper and poured about 1mil credits into rebuilding my custom ship. I love Clippers, don't make fun of them. Then I got hooked on Nova, skipped right over Overide, and last time I played EV I looked around in my Kestrel, at all the planets I had dominated, I decided that the game was beat, I knew how to do it. Of course in Nova I have an awesomely fixed up Fed Cruiser, with 2 leviathon escorts. I go around Sol system disabling leviathons, taking their cargoes, capturing the ship, and selling everything. I currently have about 56 mill credits. I still love EV though, and play it every now and then...

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The first time I ever played Escape Velocity was at a computer summer camp. I got the hang of it quickly and to this day, it is still my all-time favorite game. Which is a shame, because I do not own a Macintosh, nor have I ever, nor will I for the foreseeable future. I have not been able to play EV for several years. :frown:

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Just two tips for you. Firstly color changes aren't supported by this version of UBB, I belive it was an Ambrosia modification, and secondly, img tags aren't allowed in sigs either, again, due to an Ambrosia mod, and a brief fad of people trying to out do each other with random sigs...

As for the first time I played EV, to be honest it was that long ago, I've forgotten exactly what I did. I do remember I was hooked from the first second of play, in fact the game was the reason i bought my first mac

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when i first played ev, i became a priate, then kept dieing cause of the confeds or miltia or the rebels, after all a scoutship isnt invincible.

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I remember when I first started playing, I hired about 5 shuttles and thought I was such a badass. Until the pirate defenders showed up and turned me into space jerky...

Once I got a hang of the game, I had one of the finest ships i've flown in all three games: a courier named "Minotaur". I'd go to the capella system and board lux. liners and made some good scratch.

Ah, memories...

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My first EV experiences? Ok then...

When I first started I couldn't figure out how to FLY, a month later I figured out how to fly I tried to figure out what I was supposed to do (and was perplexed as to why my shuttle wouldn't fire and why I couldn't cloak when I pressed 'U'). Eventually I figured out how to use the map and jump (although for the logest time I thought I had to press 'H-J' not just 'J') and when I ran out of fuel I couldn't figure out how to land so in all my stupidity I demanded tribute on the nearest planet hoping to get fuel...After about a year I figured out how to play properly, got a scoutship, then a courier, then an argosy and suddenly found I was capable of PIRATING PIRATES (at the time I thought it was funny as hell). Places like Sirgil, Darven, and Tiber seemed a galaxy apart...I didn't actually get enough money for a Corvette until I plundered a derilict kesterel and got its lightings. I didn't get into the storylines untill MUCH, MUCH later...and I couldn't beat the aliens till even later.

...Then again i was 8 when I started playing...

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I got it off of a MacAddict disk.

Anyway, I figured out about the mission computer right off the bat, but then I lost track of where the missions were supposed to go. Eventually, I took to writing them down. Then I noticed that one unexplored system had a big red arrow pointing at it. It was a very threatening looking arrow, so I imagined it represented an iminent nuclear strike or something. I desperately rushed for that system, but quickly got lost on the myriad hyperspace routes.

Then I got blown up by a pirate in a clipper.

EDIT: This was much, much, later but the time I bought my first Argosy remains the most satisfying thing I've ever done in a computer game.

Man, I burned through a lot of ships back then. My typical pilot went like this:
Shuttle --> Scoutship --> Clipper --> Argosy --> Rapier --> Corvette --> Kestrel --> Confed Frigate (because it looked cool)

Now, it's more like:
Shuttle --> Valk --> Starbridge. The End.

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(This message has been edited by Constantine MoG (edited 08-20-2004).)