#41

Or Dysons one ‘If in doubt, show it some gout’.

#42

The legend continues in style - now he has a catch-phrase. We must do an origin story for him next.

#43

Originally posted by Gregory:
Or Dysons one ‘If in doubt, show it some gout’.

Love it brilliant

#44

The combat is quite difficult. I burnt out most of my fuel just taking out one enemy fighter.

You had some luck with it didn’t you Greg? What was your approach?

#45

Yeah I managed to do a few of the lower paid missions. Anything more than about 90k seemed too difficult. I wasted all my missiles on the first mission I did. They took out ships quite fast, but I never got round to re-filling my supply, so subsequent mission I just used lasers.

My approach was thus: shoot them until they die.

#46

Smart arse.

I was finding that the guns ran out of energy after a single pass taking the shield down a bit, they then fly off and their shields are recharged. This seemed to go on and on until eventually enough stray shots got through the shield to blow them up.

#47

I found that transferring power to the weapons, and re-directing remaining shield power to whatever shield is getting hit the most helped no end.

You do still run low on energy, but it's a start. I suppose ship upgrades for power and weapons would be the essential first-buys for a combat pilot.

#48

Good shout, I will have a go at that tonight and report back.

#49

Had a crack at flying around a planet yesterday, it is quite cool. As you enter the atmosphere you travel through some virtual guidance rings like the bit on Ailen when the Nostromo is landing.

#50

Cool, I have yet to try that outside of the tutorial.

#51

You can have a bit of a walk round on the planet surface apparently. Not sure what the purpose of that feature is mind.

#52

What, so you can get out of your ship too?

#53

Yea you get into walker things and you can piss about on the surface, I think it is for picking up crashed cargo and stuff.

Also you can have more than one person to a ship i.e. if you have a couple of turrets you can have a human gunner. That might be a laugh.

#54

That does sound cool! They dont make these things too obvious..  how did you find that out?

#55

The walking around bit I have seen in a bit of a video and the gunner bit was mentioned in a starter guide. Apparently to more seasoned players take new played out as gunners to teach h them the ropes.

#56

I managed to decipher that post after a few reads

That does sound really cool. When we start upgrading our ships and stuff it is definitely one to try!

#57

Just thought I would let you know that I am working on getting a player count for the EM server up on the front page, just like the old Freelancer one. I am unsure yet whether I want names of players listed too - as it could be a) unnecessary, b) space-consuming (if we get a decent server population).

Thoughts?

#58

I would think names are not needed as anyone you want to play with will show up on steam or the web site. Is my opinion.

#59

My thoughts exactly.

Will be testing this tonight when we are all on. If all goes well it should be up and running by Monday.

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