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Death 999
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Distinguish giant from supergiant... I looked around every planet in... umm... the big red star in ilwrath/pkunk space. I didn't spend long in any of the planet screens (so he couldn't slip from one planet to another while I was local) and no Melnorme. All the planet rings were orange.
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Shiver
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The Ur-Quan probably just blew them out of the sky. Okay, not sky, but you know what I mean. Even if the probes were never stopped by you and allowed to reproduce into overwhelming numbers, the Kohr-Ah would go around and wipe them out with the Sa-Matra.
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Distinguish giant from supergiant...
OK, I'll distinguish by giving you the list:
Alpha Centauri Alpha Illuminati Alpha Octantis Alpha Apodis Zeeman Alpha Vulpeculae Beta Arae Alpha Eridani Alpha Aquilae
You should be able to see a common thread on those stars when you look at them in the star map.
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As it turns out, it's not terribly difficult to make it through the whole game (sans Sa-Matra) using just the flagship. You're a bit restricted at the beginning, but spit-fire ion cannons + two dynamos can turn any probes or ilwrath that bother you into dust. By the time you face anything else, you should have spit-fire fusion blasters. A big downside to this is that bulldozing everything with a set of hellbore cannons (once you get them) isn't fun at all.
Playing without the flagship for battle isn't much of a problem, either. You just need to rush over to Orz space because every other nearby potential ally ship is crap against probes.
But I noticed that following one of these two routes can prove to be an advantage. The weaponry on the flagship costs a fortune, and so do ally ships. You can save yourself a lot of cash if you play like I did.
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« Last Edit: February 09, 2003, 06:50:16 am by Shiver »
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Death 999
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I agree with the Fury == easy statement.
I realized after beating up the mixed fleet that I hadn't left any room for furies or terminators. So that left me with 4 each of Chmmr and Spathi, a Thraddash, an Utwig, a Zoq-Fot-Pik, and a Druuge.
The thraddash were capable of surviving a long time, but not good at doing damage.
the chmmr are surprisingly bad at doing the job, but it can be done if you come in and laser down the green repulsion grenades before they bounce you. Then you can get close enough to do the real damage. Also, if you're about to be bounced away from a shield generator and you're about to die, begin the escape sequence while right next to the generators- your zapsats will still damage the generators after the ship is destroyed -- but not if you have been bounced away first (the escape sequence makes the ship immobile).
I am curious as to how good the supox is at sidestepping the defenses.
The spathi aren't fast enough and get mown down immediately by fireballs.
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A challenge for you guys - what's the hardest ship to win the Sa-Matra with? That's exactly why the Pkunk/Yehat/Shofixti/VUX quest is so valuable. Every ship you'd consider taking into a massive battle against the Ur-Quan is simply terrible against the Sa-Matra, with the exception of the Utwig Jugger.
Before I add this to the first post, I would like it if all the ships would be tested against the Sa-Matra so I can say which ones are actually possible.
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I have just confirmed that playing without suping up the main ship is EASIER than with suping it up, because you barely need to mine, and a relatively cheap fleet can serve you just as well, and much more efficiently. I never filled up the main ship's modules.
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I would think the ship would go really really slow if you didn't soup it up with those red pulse drives. Is that not a problem?
By "souped up", he means buying weapons for the flagship. Fusion blasters are 4000 RUs a piece, for instance. It would be foolish not to max out your turning and thrust modules.
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« Last Edit: February 18, 2003, 05:36:00 am by Shiver »
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