nothing very funny has ever happened to me in EV (except having a virtually new pilot stumble upon a derelict Kestrel :D). I also Monty Pythoned a Kestrel in a shuttlecraft though, which was pretty cool :). And I did the string in GS where you basically cart your arse around the galaxy to collect some cool upgrades in a shuttlecraft (I sold my Argosy), and so ended up with a rather powerful shuttlecraft (extra armour, loads of speed if you include the normal speed upgrades, extra weapons space and with a mass expander thingy I had 3 laser cannons, 2 javelin rockets and an armaplast. I took down three pirate argosies one-on-one by just firing my weapons and flying directly into them with that ship :))
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Orwell says freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2=4. I say freedom is the freedom to drop greek
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**nothing very funny has ever happened to me in EV (except having a virtually new pilot stumble upon a derelict Kestrel:D ).
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I did that once, I took the Lightning Fighter-Bombers and sold them. Got a good 2 million!
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Destroyer E is the name of my ship and the name has a good meaning.
when I was younger, and I played the game a lot, I boarded a Confed gunboat after a large battle...I accidentally chose to trade ships with the captain, and as soon as I saw what was going on, I realised my big mistake. A Pirate jumped in-system (this is Sol...so it's kinda interesting)and my argosy took off without me at the controls, and started happily blasting away at the pirates with my super duper kick-arse modified Argosy...I then noticed that I was now an insignificant blue speck...damn I was dumb...I was about 9, I think...
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"you're turning into a penguin. Stop it!"
"Better dead, than Confed!"
One by one, the Penguins are stealing my sanity...help?
I'm like a superhero, but with no powers or motivation.
another weird experience:
I was playing EV, and watching Species at the same time...I landed on blackthorne for a bit, and stopped everything to watch the movie. I had six kick-arse escorts, and when the movie was over, I went back to playing, scared off my arse already, but to find that all eight (two were Hawks I launched, then sold the bay...think Argosy, here, guys...) of my escorts had disappeared...that pissed me off sooo much...
AND...to top all of that off...I had a dream that night of being chased down the metal-clad hallways of my Argosy,. screaming for help, as the alien from Species chased me down, ready to eat me alive...I awoke to find a normal morning, etc...but my stepmom told me that I had run down the hall, and was huddled, screaming for my life, in the corner of the master bath...damn, that still amuses me, to this day.
Sweet Dreams, all!
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"you're turning into a penguin. Stop it!"
"Better dead, than Confed!"
One by one, the Penguins are stealing my sanity...help?
I'm like a superhero, but with no powers or motivation.
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**another weird experience:
I was playing EV, and watching Species at the same time...I landed on blackthorne for a bit, and stopped everything to watch the movie. I had six kick-arse escorts, and when the movie was over, I went back to playing, scared off my arse already, but to find that all eight (two were Hawks I launched, then sold the bay...think Argosy, here, guys...) of my escorts had disappeared...that pissed me off sooo much...
AND...to top all of that off...I had a dream that night of being chased down the metal-clad hallways of my Argosy,. screaming for help, as the alien from Species chased me down, ready to eat me alive...I awoke to find a normal morning, etc...but my stepmom told me that I had run down the hall, and was huddled, screaming for my life, in the corner of the master bath...damn, that still amuses me, to this day.
Sweet Dreams, all!
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Okay...
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Destroyer E is the name of my ship and the name has a good meaning.
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**another weird experience:
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Sweet Dreams, all!
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<Points and laughs. 
Heh that's pretty funny.
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"Freedom is freedom to say that 2 + 2 = 4." 1984 by George Orwell
-Ultimate Rebel
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**another weird experience:
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Sweet Dreams, all!
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That was extremely weird. EV and a movie mixed together. A alien chases you inside a fictional spaceship?
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yep, for real. I will never forget that dream. It was pretty cool, though...by far, the most vivid dream I've ever had.
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"you're turning into a penguin. Stop it!"
"Better dead, than Confed!"
One by one, the -phantompenguins- are stealing my sanity...help?
I'm like a superhero, but with no powers or motivation.
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**yep, for real. I will never forget that dream. It was pretty cool, though...by far, the most vivid dream I've ever had.
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I never remember my dreams. I hate dreams too, I always wake up tired after having a dream. Maybe cos all my dreams are boring.
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"Freedom is freedom to say that 2 + 2 = 4." 1984 by George Orwell
-Ultimate Rebel
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**yep, for real. I will never forget that dream. It was pretty cool, though...by far, the most vivid dream I've ever had.
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I never remember my dreams. I hate dreams too, I always wake up tired after having a dream. Maybe cos all my dreams are boring.
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I'll remember a dream about once a year. I never sleep-walk.
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Destroyer E is the name of my ship and the name has a good meaning.
well, renaming my ship "Innocent Bystander" has always been humourous...
"...the Innocent Bystander limps into the starport showing significant battle damage..." etc^^
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Kinescope: heh heh... that just inpired me to a potential new quit message
Kinescope: Read error: Connection reset by illiteracy
Kinescope: no offense to those who cannot read, of course....
True, true. But still, of all the ways to end the world, cosmic flatulence has got to be the least dignified. - Servack
I was playing EVGE and captured an Alien C&C; ship with 1% odds. Talk about having no fear of anything in the game(except an Alien Maruader). Launching 4 Alien Cruisers as fighters makes short work of your enemies!
Mike
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**Then two dreadnoughts and four heavy cruisers
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Uhm... that's a game called Homeworld, Not Escape Velocity.
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Anyway... I was doing what i do best, watching a battle in confederate space. Don't remember esactly how many ships but it ended in a stalemate and the only ship left over was a rebel destroyer. So i hop over, yes i hopped up and down, over to it and boarded it. To my surprise i captured the ship . It's amazing what a few upgrades can do to that ship. Not only could it outrun all missles it was an extrememly agile ship. I felt like i was flying around in a Super-Super versoin of a defender. :). The best part was that since it was in confed space and i captured a rebel ship my status remainded the same throughout the universe. (Later i remember forklifting every ship that came near me, oh well shruggs ;))
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. - Einstein
darn, I desperatly want a rebel destroyer. I have wanted one ever since I got the game. but I cant kill the ****** alien cruiser and since I've gotten that far in the string I don't want to ruin my "upstanding citizen" legel status. Is there any other way to get a destroyer without capturing it or compleating the rebel string?
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Is there any other way to get a destroyer without capturing it or compleating the rebel string?
Yes, you can complete the Confed string, since you can purchase ships from either group after that side. The way I look at it, the rebels are happy you destroyed the aliens, but the confeds hold a grudge if you follow the rebel string.
You could also watch a fight between a destroyer and a frigate. Just as the destroyer gets disabled, kill the frigate.
As for destroying the alien cruiser (which you have to do for both strings), I'm sure you can find many examples of strategies for doing this here on the board. The main thing: don't let it use its beam on you. If you have the tractor beam (which is only available on the rebel side), use it from behind the cruiser and keep pummeling it with your primary weapons. This way it won't be able to turn to aim at you. And don't worry about the fighters. You don't have to kill them, just the cruiser.
(edit): Oh yeah, the weirdest thing I've seen is when one of your escort's fighters picks up one a ship you disabled as if it was a fighter. I'm not sure if I'm remembering the situation right or not, but the idea is still there.
Another funny thing to do is to make the forklift fire at a ridiculously high rate and fire it at one of your own escorts. It's kindof cool to see all those forklifts dancing around the ship.
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(This message has been edited by Knucklehead (edited 10-17-2003).)
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darn, I desperatly want a rebel destroyer. I have wanted one ever since I got the game. but I cant kill the ****** alien cruiser and since I've gotten that far in the string I don't want to ruin my "upstanding citizen" legel status. Is there any other way to get a destroyer without capturing it or compleating the rebel string?
what ship are you in? And the easiest way to do it is to hire six light freighters, spend three hours trading, and then hire six kestrels to destroy the alien cruiser in about 10 seconds.
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**what ship are you in? And the easiest way to do it is to hire six light freighters, spend three hours trading, and then hire six kestrels to destroy the alien cruiser in about 10 seconds.
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I have a rapier, a super duper rapier. its packed with everything it can hold.
I just had an interesting experience. I was playing EV Classic for Nova and had gotten up to a clipper; 4 proton cannons, a javelin pod, and 100 javelin rockets, plus a few miscellaneous outfits like the density scanner. I decided to try out EV Override for Nova, so I switched the data files. Just for fun, I decided to use the same pilot. Suddenly, I'm in a crescent warship with 4 rocket launchers, a Krait Bay, and 100 Kraits!
This leads to an interesting possibility: Someone could buy an el-cheapo ship in one and wind up with something super powerful in the other.
I wonder which ship corresponds to the Alien Cruiser...
For that matter, I wonder what I end up with in Nova...
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