Some good advice you would be wise to follow.

DON'T DEMAND TRIBUTE FROM COUNCIL STATION IN GADZAIR
I believe i read somewhere they have over 9000 Crescent Warships and almost 10000 Crescent Fighters.
Even if you could get enough escorts to defeat that many, it would only let them kick out about 1 warship and 2 fighters at a time, meaning you would be playing for days at best.
Even then, if by some absurd twist of fate you managed to do it, it only pays 1000 credits a day. you would be better served attacking a pirate place, less bounty hunters than normal and improved legal status in nearby places (in new alcatraz, for instance, you would probably move up from good egg to role model) and generally more money (i believe it's 4000 for Gorky/Freeport)

Good Luck in your conquerings.

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Wrong. 6 Azzy Warship Escorts with fighters launched would be 43 ships, so the Council could only launch 1, but, instead of launching all the ships 1 at a time, it would launch 1 ship, you kill it, demand tribute, and own Council Station.

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Why Not? If you have a lot of time to wast you just blow up one ship at a time, lead um' on a LONG chase around the system, and attack some more. Takes a while but if ya got time to burn...

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(This message has been edited by MTM84 (edited 01-21-2001).)

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Originally posted by TheDarkDragon:
**DON'T DEMAND TRIBUTE FROM COUNCIL STATION IN GADZAIR
I believe i read somewhere they have over 9000 Crescent Warships and almost 10000 Crescent Fighters.
Even if you could get enough escorts to defeat that many, it would only let them kick out about 1 warship and 2 fighters at a time, meaning you would be playing for days at best...
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Where the hell did you get such distorted information!? There are only about 1,600 CWs with (Duh!) 3 times as many CFs. Yes, that is a lot of ships, but I speak from experience when I say that Council Station is not invincible.

The attack fleet:
1 Azdara (My ship)

The goods on it:
Dospect
5 Swivel Phase Cannons
Exp. Generator
ECM System
Azdgari Upgrade
NP Device
Cloaking Device
Marine Gear

Approximate combat time: ~24 Hours

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(This message has been edited by goomeister (edited 01-21-2001).)

You know whats really cool? Taking over every system You know what makes it funner? Cheating! (After you've played the game alot, of course). I did that in EV before, but not EVO. Yet. It's really cool, but hard without cheating no matter how skilled you are. (Blind chance sucks)

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try downloading council station with Missile Frigate (which is NOT a cheat plug, despite what the add-ons page says.

and never forget the power of krait escorts and fighters when dominating crescent systems.

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Dominating Council Station is pretty much for people who have already done everything, are really good, and have a lot of time to see if they can do it.(not me, on 2 out of 3 accounts)

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Did Council in 8 hours+ with NO cheaters. Have Dreadnaught & six bountyhunters. Earned Dreadnaught the hard way!

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Did Council in 8 hours+ with NO cheaters. Have Dreadnaught & six bountyhunters. Earned Dreadnaught the hard way!

I've heard people say before they've captured the dreanaught, but I don't see how it's possible. If you try to capture it during the mission, the only time it appears, you'll get a 'you can't board this ship' message.

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Apparently if you abort the mission to destroy the dreadnought just after you enter the Vorik system, so it is already there, you can board it. But it would never be more than 1% capture chance, and only that because it doesn't say 0.0000001% so you'd have to be one of the luckiest alive to get it - well done!

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**...and never forget the power of krait escorts and fighters when dominating crescent systems.
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Uh, Kraits? Are we talking about the same things? Farty little blue deathtraps with no armour? How could they help in the Crescent? Voinian Frigates, maybe... but not Kraits.

PS: Goomeister, how do you get five swivel phase cannon on an Azdara (with Dospect)? They won't fit, by my reckoning.

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i am the defender of the krait! i alone know its true value!

seriously, kraits are hugely useful in dominating systems in the crescent. the thing to remember is that defense fleets never attack your escorts. when fighting c. fighters, you need fast escorts. so why not get 6 azdgari warships as escorts? because, at least in my experience, escorts seem loathe to launch their fighters when fighting defense fleets. and you can't capture azdaras, so what do you do?

the answer is to hire 6 kraits as escorts. get a crescent warship and outfit it with a krait bay and a c. fighter bay (it may be possible to do this in a u.e. cruiser or carrrier, to get the extra 5 fighters, but i've never tried it). the hard part is making sure your kraits survive the trip to gadzair.

next step: tell your escorts to hold position. attack and disable the traders in gadzair, until no more jump in (prob'ly 2-3). hit caps lock. go to the system boundary, launch all your fighters, tell your escorts to return to formation, count to 3, and demand tribute. hit 'r' then 'f.' the only danger to your kraits is being caught in the explosion of a c. warship. otherwise, they kill everything, and use your fighters to wipe out anything that slips through.

this method is 100% guaranteed against any alien renegade planet. it is harder against human and voinian planets; the ships explode. i have not tested it against gadzair. i am almost certain it will not work with missile frigate (hint: defense fleet launches azdaras).

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Get an Igazara dump the phase stuff/secondaries and get nuetron turrets. (however you spell it) Then get all the armor/shield stuff you can and get mauver. enhacements and you got your self a a killing machine. Note: if you run out of space get mass expasions.