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Post by jarus on May 5, 2011 5:10:32 GMT -5
First off... hello! I've been enjoying this game for many a month now and am very happy to see the continued enhancements/development of it. Brilliant!
So then, I've run several captains now on the lower difficulty levels, and on the death of my latest one I decided "hey, let's try impossible!".
So there I go, just-created Cadar Military Officer captain headed to the capital to turn in the starting mission. I click on Urban and get an encounter...
with a Krangg Alien!
Thankfully, executing a boarding manouevre actually disabled it, resulting in a quick cash injection for my fledging captain's enterprise.
Cool.
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Tenebrous Pirate
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Post by Tenebrous Pirate on May 5, 2011 8:28:46 GMT -5
Well done, and welcome!
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Post by oldalchemist on May 5, 2011 11:33:01 GMT -5
A Cadar Military Officer boarding a ship? Your career will be short if the brass hears that you boarded anything while you still had full tubes!
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Post by Cory Trese on May 5, 2011 12:21:05 GMT -5
Fight on, Captain. You might the be the chosen one, lost to Cadar military thinking for centuries, now returned to reclaim your rightful place at the right hand of the prince.
Killing an alien in the 50's is a sure sign.
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Post by absimiliard on May 5, 2011 13:17:56 GMT -5
Mmmmm. Krangg aliens . . . . an easy 25kilocreds!
(of course Vloam Cadar died soon after as a bounty hunter twice his level cut him down on his bridge in hand to hand combat after solidly proving there was no escape from the fight, so maybe a "bit" more emphasis on Warrior might behoove my Cadarian captains survival skills)
-abs
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Post by Cory Trese on May 5, 2011 16:39:13 GMT -5
Abs -- use Ram. If you're a skilled pilot ...
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Post by absimiliard on May 6, 2011 3:30:03 GMT -5
I think my actual problem was that I'd turned toasts off, since patrolling dead planets would result in a toast-queue that took minutes to resolve. This, initially, seemed like a sane solution to me.
Of course the result was that when the bounty hunter caught Vloam (a spy strongly despised by the Javat who hired the hunter) I didn't get the combat toasts. Net result was that I wasn't really aware of my health as much as I should have been.
If I'd been watching my health more closely, like I normally do, I would have kept out of boarding range and kept shooting. Despite comparing my pitiful level twenty-something to the bounty-hunter's level 45 or so I think my piloting might have been better. But lacking that info I let myself board and counterboard too much, and paid the price.
(that said, "ram", hmmm. I'll have to give it a shot next time)
-abs
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Post by oldalchemist on May 6, 2011 8:17:38 GMT -5
I'll start ramming when we get the barbed magnetic battle prow mod.
If I ram, I want to stay rammed. When you ram and ram and ram, it feels like you don't mean it.
Nobody tells a Thulun Captain he's afraid of commitment, not with epaulets like these!
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Post by boeu on May 10, 2011 0:33:52 GMT -5
I just started a new insane smugla and was minding my own business at move 170 when i come across a pirate for javat (im thuulun atm) when it attacked. Here i am trying to retreat seeing as theres an aliance between the two, and getting smashed in my effort, when lo and behold, victory. What tha? I didnt fire a shot. But i made use of his cargo for repairs  |
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Post by slayernz on May 10, 2011 1:23:16 GMT -5
That's gotta be one of the more impressive "victories" on record. perhaps, they did the accidental "Ramming Speed" maneuver and wrote off their hull It's definitely what you'd expect of Thulun but Javat? Of the inbred so-called-noble houses, Javat seem to be the smartest. |
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Post by boeu on May 10, 2011 7:34:30 GMT -5
He was at long range when he imploded. Maybe my debris float itninto his intakes.
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Post by Cory Trese on May 12, 2011 11:18:08 GMT -5
yah totally i have won vs. pirates when they ram and you have full armor.
it is rare, but possible
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