I was wondering something. How many people here often use strict play? Also do you have any humourous stories of when you were using it?

I only really made one serious strict play pilot. Dwayne Dibbley was his name. I built him up from his little shuttlecraft to a rebel Cruiser. Took me a long time, I wanted to truley play strict, so I didn't do the classic thing of quiting and restarting when things went bad, the alien mission was fun!

After completing the string, I fancied more of a challenge, took over some planets etc, then went into the minor strings. I did the mission where you travel to the system (can't remember name) in the top right hand corner, and fight that huge fleet of Kestrels. I was destroyed by the last one, one of those classic examples of the last missile being the straw that broke the camel, and ejected in my escape pod.

I resurected in Levo in a lovely new shuttlecraft, yay! thought I :). All of a sudden the red alert klaxon sounds, and a Kestrel bouty hunter appears, with its usual cheerful message!

As good a pilot as I am, a shuttle verses 2 lightnings and a Kestrel isnt much of a fight, not even my bank account of 20mil could save my pilot, who was promptly blown to hell! Talk about gutted!

Anyway, anyone else have such stories?

L

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Originally posted by Lektor:
**I was wondering something. How many people here often use strict play? Also do you have any humourous stories of when you were using it?

I only really made one serious strict play pilot. Dwayne Dibbley was his name. I built him up from his little shuttlecraft to a rebel Cruiser. Took me a long time, I wanted to truley play strict, so I didn't do the classic thing of quiting and restarting when things went bad, the alien mission was fun!

After completing the string, I fancied more of a challenge, took over some planets etc, then went into the minor strings. I did the mission where you travel to the system (can't remember name) in the top right hand corner, and fight that huge fleet of Kestrels. I was destroyed by the last one, one of those classic examples of the last missile being the straw that broke the camel, and ejected in my escape pod.

I resurected in Levo in a lovely new shuttlecraft, yay! thought I :). All of a sudden the red alert klaxon sounds, and a Kestrel bouty hunter appears, with its usual cheerful message!

As good a pilot as I am, a shuttle verses 2 lightnings and a Kestrel isnt much of a fight, not even my bank account of 20mil could save my pilot, who was promptly blown to hell! Talk about gutted!

Anyway, anyone else have such stories?

L

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I loved that episode of Red Dwarf

The first time I ever tried to play strict I got killed on takoff by a pair of pirates. It was a looooong time before I tried again. By that time I was a whole lot better. I took off feeling confident and found myself sitting before a screen reading "<PN> has been killed" in only a few seconds.

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When I first started playing, I always played strict play, and so when I got my first Clipper, I got 2 scout escorts ( big mistake ) I was attacked by 3 defenders and they blew me to bits.

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Originally posted by Captain Phillips:
**I loved that episode of Red Dwarf;)

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sooooooooo good

As for me, I've never comleted any major mission strings in strict play. I'm much too impatient (ever get that feeling to take on a kestrel in a scoutship? )

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Originally posted by Zax:
**sooooooooo good:)

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Indeed.

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Originally posted by Zax:
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As for me, I've never comleted any major mission strings in strict play. I'm much too impatient:) (ever get that feeling to take on a kestrel in a scoutship? )

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Yes, but the feeling is quickly replaced with a strange burning sensation as I'm greeted by the buisness end of a Lightning...

L

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I wouldn't last long enough in strict play. I be too busy getting blown up by a pirate kestrel. Then my nice little shuttle craft will be dust.

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I always use strict play. Well.. I do.

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Originally posted by Celestial Storm:
**I always use strict play. Well.. I do.

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I'm not the only one! It didn't work so well when I transferred my pilot to a new computer without transferring the registration and 8 months later when I opened up the game for the first time Hector destroyed all my hard work, but that wasn't EVC.

I think my strangest EVC strict play story was when I decided I'd take down a Corvette with a Defender. I lost more Defenders then I could count before I got lucky and had help from another ship in the system. I think I might have successfully captured the Corvette, but I don't remember.

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Originally posted by Captain Phillips:
**I loved that episode of Red Dwarf;)

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Which one? Duane Dibbley was in more than one episode.

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Originally posted by austin smith:
**Which one? Duane Dibbley was in more than one episode.

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The particular episode I'm thinking of is the one where the despair squid makes them think that they have been playing a virtual reality game. The cat turns into duane dibbly and has some really funny lines about that.

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My favorite Duane Dibbley quote was from "Emohawks, Polymophs II":

"Just let me check: thermos, sandwiches, corn plasters, telephone money, dandruff brush, animal footprint chart, and one triple thick condom... you never know! "
- Duane Dibbley, Emohawk

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(This message has been edited by austin smith (edited 06-05-2004).)

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Originally posted by Zax:
**(ever get that feeling to take on a kestrel in a scoutship?;) )

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Actually, I do this quite often.

Upgrade the engines, buy 4 laser cannons and 2 javelin pods, monty the lightnings, and it's not really that hard. I usually pick off pirate kestrels by landing on the uninhabited planet in the pirate system NE of Spica, making quite a good profit and then moving onto a corvette

(edit) A plague on both your grammar!

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(This message has been edited by BariSaxGuy5 (edited 06-17-2004).)