Then you land and take off until a bounty hunter shows up....
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"Dodge this"
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No bounty hunters.
No ships. Period.
I don't even think ships CAN appear in the system that I was in.
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To Escape Velocity: Nova and Beyond!
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Millennium. Its coming, prepare for it.
Coming to the (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiaSW.com/games/ev/chronicles.html")EV Chronicles(/url). -
I narrowly missed a couple of fates people have described here - when I tried to attack Council Station, my combat rating was so low that they just laughed at me; when I went into the nebulae, I had a fuel scoop. (Wonderful things, fuel scoops.)
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Yeah, I had (for some dumb reason) not bought a fuel scoop when I went into the Proxima Nebula.
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To Escape Velocity: Nova and Beyond!
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Millennium. Its coming, prepare for it.
Coming to the (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiaSW.com/games/ev/chronicles.html")EV Chronicles(/url). -
Yes, fuel scoops are a necessary outfit on every ship i buy. Off the subject (but not worthy of a new topic) has anyone else ever noticed there are two Kelmaon systems, one right about Emalgha and one west, by Azdgari space?
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Keep watch only for the
giants, and you'll be
eaten by the ants(This message has been edited by Cazic Thule (edited 12-30-2000).)
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Various stupid things I've done in many EV/EVO plugs.
EV
1. Got really cool cool mission to escort a prisoner somewhere. Also had a cargo run active. "Uh oh," I thinks. "I shan't have time to complete both these quests! I know, I'll abort the cargo mission! Hey! 'Eject Cargo'! That'd do the trick!"
presses command-k
"Thought: isn't the prisoner-type person in the bay too?"
Screen: "Prisoner now frozen in space. Mission failed. Dumb@$$."
Later...
"Oh bollocks! I've mussed up this mission! Self-destruct and reload time!"
presses command-k instead of command-d
"@#$$!!"
'Eject cargo' is now bound to the convenient keystroke of command-option-F15...
2. "Wow! A forklift! I 0wnz0r you now, Mr. Kestrel! Ha ha ha!"
executes dive-bombing run on ship, whereby ordinance released at point-blank range
"Ooops. Splash damage. Lots of splash damage. Time to reload..."
3. Attempted to complete the last mission of can't remember the name Station (the one with the Neutronic Kestrel* without buying super-ultra-munchkin ranged turrets. Battle took over an hour despite near constant Forklift useage.
4. Attempted to soldier on through the Eye of Orion, Final Battle, and James Fond plugs. No offense to the authors of these add-ons; the stories were all excellent. Except every time I played them the mission strings would end abruptly, or Mission #27 would pop up before #3 and would seize up due to lack of mission bits #4-26, or the game would implode.
5. Destroyed the Alien Cruiser using Javelins. This was before I knew one could multiply the number of items one purchases by five, ten, and fifty via the command and option keys. The purchase of 999 Javelins (THREE TIMES) had a distressing effect on the mouse.
EVO:
1. Delirious with the thrill of exploration, pushed the fuel limits of mine tiny shuttle to the utter limits and gasp DISCOVERED AN ALIEN PLANET! WOW! "What's your name? The Emalgha! Cool! Why, certainly I'll help you fend of these attackers. What'd ya call 'em? Voinians?"
Ow.
2. Took on Crescent Station in Beyond the Crescent without a fully-tricked out UE Cruiser and six Iggy Doomsday Bananna escorts. Ow ow ow.
3. First, in Beyond the Crescent, and then again in Frozen Heart, and again in Femme Fatale, and AGAIN in F-25 (MULTIPLE TIMES), solved brain-teasing puzzles via highly efficient analytical technique of landing on every single freaking planet and station in the blinking galaxy. Aiiiieeeee!!!!
4. In Frozen Heart, mapped out galaxy. Smart move. Followed 13+ jump paths which end not in some hidden paradise but a dead end. Not smart.
5. In Femme Fatale, launched IMP-missile-bearing escorts and had them attack something. Escorts unload their entire payloads on one ship simultaneously. Blast destroys everything in system, including escorts. Reload time...
6. In Femme Fatale, was Pirate/Renegade hunting when the Lar Sorenson pers jumped in. Accidentally winged him with a stray shot. Ate blazing Tachyonic death.
7. In F-25, failed to realize the obscene accuracy of the "horribly out of date star-map" pict supplied in the read-me until a month was spent mapping the galaxy.
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I did the same thing, in respect to buying 999 rockets, UGH!
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I too did that missile thing. I was playing at school, before I got my mac. I was clicking and clicking and clicking. Teacher asked if that was necessary. I said it was, but then someone more familiar with EV/O told me about the keys to multiply. They're a very useful feature
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"Now you've gotten my forklift angry...."
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The stupidest thing/s I did was attack almost all capital ship I could find and the Matt Burch and Disco Bison.
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If you know what Harvest moon is go to
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I'd have to say the stupidest thing I ever did in EVO was to take on the voinian dreadnought in a scoutship.
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Diddly,
"Well, we could grind
our enemies into powder, but gosh, we did that yesterday."
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Hehe, and when you land on the one to the right it says 'the curiously named Kelmaon' :).. also, both can end up uninhabited if you side with the Voinians, which makes it an even more interesting connection - what did they run out of names or something? The one in the crescent isn't even necessary except for in one Igadzra mission.
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Originally posted by SteveVo8a:
I was playing at school, before I got my macThey let you play computer games at school!? Wow, I can't imagine that. Nor having Macs at school, either. At university I used to have to lug in a Mac Classic II to do my project work, because I didn't want to have to use some virus-ridden 386 PC clone.
Uhm... stupidest ever EV:O move would have to be choosing to take a shipload of weapons to Emalgha. I hired a fleet of freighters, flew off to that place in the east that sells weapons, loaded up, got my fleet chewed to pieces all the way across known space, and finally made it. Calculated that I would have made more money, faster and with less risk if I'd settled for flying Earth-Centauri-Earth-Centauri... and not a word of thanks from the Emalgha. Round about then, I realised why folks call the seventh commodities 'junk'.
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You reminded me of another one VA. I bought a fleet of Miranu Freighters, loaded them up with some junk, reducing my cash supply to like 34 credits, took off, couldn't pay my escorts, and lost them and all the stuff i'd bought. :mad:
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FLOBBLEDEEFEE, that's what we said when we were mad or frustrated, we said it because we were idiots. A bunch of inbred, illiterate, cro-magnons, blowin' our noses on crusty handkerchiefs, waiting in line for our heads to burst into flames. That's the way it was, and we liked it!
-Signed, A Grumpy Old Man