Playtest manual...

TheFraix

TheFraix

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I was just wondering...

Does anyone have the Privateer playtester's manual which dates back to 1994?

I'm really curious with its contents?

-Arvin
 
Wouldnt the Origin hint manual do the job, has alot of info in it! I still see that book at bookstores!

RFBurns
 
Ja, I've got a copy... it's an interesting book -- *not* written in-universe. It gives you the percentage chance of running into different enemy ships at each nav point in Privateer, some basic hints on playing the game, and a walkthrough of the plot missions (doesn't include RF).
 
Uhm... I remember dissecting the PRIV.TRE file, and I found some interesting dialogues, like one conversation with a fixer about attacking Militia or some other ships.

Anybody care to explain this?
 
Judging from that tre file, it would appear that several types of missions - assassinations, spy jobs, smuggling - didn't get into the game. Maybe they run out of time, or simply decided that there was too many options. At any rate, I imagine that there was to be a sort of semi-guild of pirates which you could find in your local bar. But that, of course, is just a guess. Can never tell with these things...
 
I remember finding this, which is really new (or am I just late?)

Press the Tab key to jump into hot spots when inside bases.
 
This dialogue was for 'random' fixer missions -- there would be a set of people who appears randomly in the bars who you could get missions from (not plot-related).

I seem to recall that enabling this would have been one of the features of the second Privateer addon, which was cancelled.
 
Actually, I seem to recall that someone *did* that some years back... but only for the disk version of Privateer.
 
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