Kilrathi Asteroid in Privateer
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Yuh; like the Canucks didn't have their airwaves plastered with Slick Willy's latest doings too... (esp. in '98 when the "Zippergate" scandal broke - ughh!...)Originally posted by Stryker
Or just jump the border to Canada
-Izouya
Oh, and TC?... Don't worry; things are quite cold & snowy enough for me here in Upstate NY. I don't need any more of that.
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Afterburning in rock fields
The trick to running on afterburners [edit]in an asteroid field[/edit] is to yaw or pitch violently back and forth, in a kind of "sawtooth" flight path. The engine can't draw the rocks fast enough to put them in your way, so you can zip by them as long as you keep weaving a lot. (In the patrol mission at the end it was rare I managed to avoid all the rocks, and often wound up with half my guns out of the picture from a rock I didn't dodge before it nailed my side.)
The bad guys don't understand this (or even know about it... game characters don't know of out of game limitations), and will afterburn straight in after you, and kiss a rock in the process.
[stupid sense-breaking omission fixed]
The trick to running on afterburners [edit]in an asteroid field[/edit] is to yaw or pitch violently back and forth, in a kind of "sawtooth" flight path. The engine can't draw the rocks fast enough to put them in your way, so you can zip by them as long as you keep weaving a lot. (In the patrol mission at the end it was rare I managed to avoid all the rocks, and often wound up with half my guns out of the picture from a rock I didn't dodge before it nailed my side.)
The bad guys don't understand this (or even know about it... game characters don't know of out of game limitations), and will afterburn straight in after you, and kiss a rock in the process.
[stupid sense-breaking omission fixed]
Re: Afterburning in rock fields
My trick is that when they say there gonna search your cargo hold you eject your cargo out into space and go to a dead stop. They'll scan your empty cargo hold and find nothing. After they tell you to get on your way you tractor beam it back in.
I guess oragin didnt think about scanning for cargo floating around the ship.
-Izouya
My trick is that when they say there gonna search your cargo hold you eject your cargo out into space and go to a dead stop. They'll scan your empty cargo hold and find nothing. After they tell you to get on your way you tractor beam it back in.
I guess oragin didnt think about scanning for cargo floating around the ship.
-Izouya
A neat trick to avoiding the asteroid fields not surrounding a planet or base, or in a nav point assigned to a patrol mission, is to simply fly around them. I do that in the Pendar's Star system (nav2) and simply go around it, on full afterburn.
Or shoot the asteroids out of your way cruising at about 300 or 400 kps. The "jerk the joystick back and forth" routine does work well, but reaks havoc with the joystick!
Now, out to go search for that weapon asteroid again.
Or shoot the asteroids out of your way cruising at about 300 or 400 kps. The "jerk the joystick back and forth" routine does work well, but reaks havoc with the joystick!
Now, out to go search for that weapon asteroid again.
Wedge009
Rogue Leader
Sorry for being late, haven't been online for a few weeks...
Some, but not anywhere close to an hour, I think.
Well, that's the thing, there's always the odd asteroid smashing into me and tearing my ship apart. In any case, I'm much better at Privateer than when I first tried the asteroid AB trick, so I just fight my way through.
There's nothing on those systems, only lot's of Kilrathi fighters and Kamekhs, and some asteroids. I had problems with my fuel returning, it was a long trip 
To be friendly with the Kilrathi don't kill them, don't get any mission in which you must kill them or an unknow threat (usually kilrathi). If you kill some confeds it also helps.
Zhak.
To be friendly with the Kilrathi don't kill them, don't get any mission in which you must kill them or an unknow threat (usually kilrathi). If you kill some confeds it also helps.Zhak.
TCSTigersClaw
Greek Special Forces B' Company "Naoussa" 2007-200
Originally posted by Zhakrin
There's nothing on those systems, only lot's of Kilrathi fighters and Kamekhs, and some asteroids. I had problems with my fuel returning, it was a long trip
Zhak.
Another Traitor to the Confed !
