That is one of the great features about priv...it made you earn your ride. It feels good to know you earned your credits honestly (well ok somewhat honestly)...
Great feature if you just wanted to fly somewhere, though. It's been a while since I played Privateer - can you buy and sell your cargo (so you fly for yourself) with invulnerability on? Or does it delete all the cargo you have in the hold upon landing?
Its been a while I believe you can sell your cargo but you only get what you paid for it... also, if you blow up cargo carriers with invul on they don't spew out cargo.
That's correct, you can't make money from cargo if invulnerability has been on.
The only point in the game where you can take advantage of the invulnerability option is when the Steltek Drone starts chasing you between when you find the gun and the mission where you're sent to destroy it... as long as you're not flying an assigned mission, you can turn on invulnerable so the drone can't kill you in random encounters.
Hmm, that's strange. When I first played Privateer, I got to the mission where I find the Steltek gun...however my Centurion was in poor order when I landed on the derelict (Radar almost gone, shields battered etc). So on the return trip I turned on invul...and then the Drone showed up. Well, I made it back to the asteroid base and the confed girl (Cross?) said I screwed it up? I could never make it back without the invul on and I didn't have another savegame to start over with. I eventually quit playing...(this was, of course, after spending several several months playing the game anyways. ).
haha, believe me, I learned my lesson! Now I have problems sometimes because I save like non stop which can kinda ruin the game experience. Like go one minute, save, go another minute, save, go another 30 secs beat a toughie, save and so on...