I've never played Master of Orion but that screencap brings back some memories.
I do still have pseudo-Civ games like Outpost though.
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I do still have pseudo-Civ games like Outpost though.
Hello Commanders,
Made it back to the bubble after a two week long voyage to unlock Palin. I started on a south-easterly direction heading below the galactic plane until I hit the permit wall around Bernards loop and followed that wall heading east for about 1-1,400 light years until the permit wall started to turn south. I stopped there and took a direct north-easterly course to The Statue of Liberty nebula, at this point I was about 700 LY below the plane and came across a huge swath of un-discovered systems, probably hit about 25 of them in a row. I imagine there is a bunch more there if I spent some more time doing the small jumps.
For the return leg starting from The Statue of Liberty nebula, I went on a westerly direction parallel to the bubble and the core for about a 1,000 LY within the galactic plane and then took a direct course back to the bubble, a lot of good exobiology (did not find any brain trees) on that course, but not a lot of undiscovered systems.
It was about a 500 Mill CR payout. I would map out a picture, I don't really feel like making an account for an image hoster though. .
Next up is getting some ships geared up for Goids.
Made it back to the bubble after a two week long voyage to unlock Palin. I started on a south-easterly direction heading below the galactic plane until I hit the permit wall around Bernards loop and followed that wall heading east for about 1-1,400 light years until the permit wall started to turn south. I stopped there and took a direct north-easterly course to The Statue of Liberty nebula, at this point I was about 700 LY below the plane and came across a huge swath of un-discovered systems, probably hit about 25 of them in a row. I imagine there is a bunch more there if I spent some more time doing the small jumps.
For the return leg starting from The Statue of Liberty nebula, I went on a westerly direction parallel to the bubble and the core for about a 1,000 LY within the galactic plane and then took a direct course back to the bubble, a lot of good exobiology (did not find any brain trees) on that course, but not a lot of undiscovered systems.
It was about a 500 Mill CR payout. I would map out a picture, I don't really feel like making an account for an image hoster though. .
Next up is getting some ships geared up for Goids.
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I found some different Stratum, can't remember if I've seen it before, 16.2 million credits.
Although TOS spawned my interest in Star Trek before TNG existed, I still think that TNG has quite a few interesting episodes amongst.
You always get some episodes that you feel are a bit meh, while others really take you along. That''s normal.
You guys goiing to have some sort of a shindig for the 2000th page?
It's time to party like it's (page) 1999
Ground CZs or starship CZs?
I recently did the training modules for space combat and realised I've forgotten how to fight in space. It took forever to wear the blighters' shields down.
Did you include the Animated series of TOS in the marathon?
It was done a little after the last season.
Ground is Tyres thing.
Some of the training modules were always seriously hard following the old adage of train hard and fight easy.
Yes - it doesn't help that the weapons are absolutely rubbish. Or maybe, following that logic, it does.
I guess it is like the advice on learning to play an electric guitar - learn on acoustic first (back in the last century we had the same advice for learning professional-standard ten-finger typing, re: imperial typewriters versus computer keyboards).
I think I enjoyed TAS even more than TOS, but I was quite young at the time! IIRC they had a "proper" alien on the crew, not just a half-human like Spock.
Oh yeah, the Elite 2 image is what made me nostalgic. Though I only played the original Elite for about two seconds.
I might try and find Master of Orion somehow. Maybe someone has it on eBay. Though I suppose a hard copy would be on floopy disk.
Nice. I'm about 40 jumps behind you with that unlock. I did actually bookmark a system in Barnard's Loop but it seemed like the Cobra would have a lot of trouble getting through. It is a journey I made with my original account though.Hello Commanders,
Made it back to the bubble after a two week long voyage to unlock Palin. I started on a south-easterly direction heading below the galactic plane until I hit the permit wall around Bernards loop and followed that wall heading east for about 1-1,400 light years until the permit wall started to turn south. I stopped there and took a direct north-easterly course to The Statue of Liberty nebula, at this point I was about 700 LY below the plane and came across a huge swath of un-discovered systems, probably hit about 25 of them in a row. I imagine there is a bunch more there if I spent some more time doing the small jumps.
For the return leg starting from The Statue of Liberty nebula, I went on a westerly direction parallel to the bubble and the core for about a 1,000 LY within the galactic plane and then took a direct course back to the bubble, a lot of good exobiology (did not find any brain trees) on that course, but not a lot of undiscovered systems.
It was about a 500 Mill CR payout. I would map out a picture, I don't really feel like making an account for an image hoster though. .
Next up is getting some ships geared up for Goids.
I've definitely found at least one undiscovered system. I just have to cash in my data so I can have my name plastered all over it.
And I'd be very happy if I got anywhere near 500 million CR.
They had several Aliens on board, amongst them M'Ress, a Caitian - a bipedal, talking cat.
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I do actually have TAS ready to go. I just haven't got around to it yet. The episodes are only short though and I caught a couple when I used to stay at my dad's at the weekend. That's probably when I first saw the original series.
Maybe take a look at gog.com. They might have what you are looking for, playable on PC...
That was where I was intending to go but switched to the statue of liberty nebula on a whim.
Most of the credits came from exobiology, probably about two thirds? I ignored bacteria as its too difficult to find. The biology is bit boring for my taste unless it's on a cool to look at planet surface.
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Thanks. I found the game. I've briefly checked that site before but I'm a Steam guy so I kind've ignored it.
In fact I just noticed Master of Orion is on Steam, soooo...
I've still yet to try exobiology and have only just been dragged kicking and screaming into trying ground CZ's. Hopefully one day I'll be as proficient and enthusiastic as Tyres.That was where I was intending to go but switched to the statue of liberty nebula on a whim.
Most of the credits came from exobiology, probably about two thirds? I ignored bacteria as its too difficult to find. The biology is bit boring for my taste unless it's on a cool to look at planet surface.
It is worth exploring on these long missions. In the olden days I probably would've been impatient and blasted through to save time, but I'll at least mark an undiscovered system in case I want to check them out on the way back.
And I hadn't even heard of the Statue of Liberty nebula until you mentioned it. I'll have to look it up.