Elite / Frontier Re-Inspiring My Interest In FFE

[Geraldine]

Typical woman, nothing's ever big enough

Gives cassius5000 the LOOK

 

[Sir.Tj]

Gives cassius5000 the LOOK

How very very true

 

[Aewarin Jameson]

Gives cassius5000 the LOOK

Thanks Geraldine .. I haven't really seen much Home Imrprovement and that clip made me belly laugh .. yes, seen that look a couple of times in my life with some of them aimed at me!

 

[Styggron]

Say did you all like the newspapers FFE gave us ? I hope ED has it. Apparently you can even appear in the newspapers in FFE has this ever happened to any of you seasoned players ?

 

[cassius]

Gives cassius5000 the LOOK

 

[Sir.Tj]

Say did you all like the newspapers FFE gave us ? I hope ED has it. Apparently you can even appear in the newspapers in FFE has this ever happened to any of you seasoned players ?

If I remember correctly you had to accept the Assassination of Dentara Rast
Taken from Jades FFE site.

Assassination of Dentara Rast

In the system of Tiliala [-4, -1] there's going to be a civil war. You can decide to assassinate a key figure in this war, Dentara Rast, by taking on this mission from a bulletin board. Expect a price on your own head when you do this. This is a typical assassination mission, with the exception that you must assassinate her BEFORE she hyper-jumps. You'll get a criminal record this way, and you'll be fined 10000 credits in the Federation, Alliance, and Empire. So there's going to be not much left from that 50000C hit.

A word of warning - if you wait for the target ship to hyperspace and kill it at its destination, you won't get credit for the kill. Blow it away before it jumps, and get out fast!
Kill the assassin of Dentara Rast

When you don't kill Rast herself, just wait a few weeks, and you'll find a mission in which you must kill Rast's assassin. A more 'noble' mission, this is. The Federation and the Empire won't blame you for this, although you'll still get the illegal firing fine.
As with the Rast hit, you may have to take out the target before it jumps to get credit.

You will then appear in the papers a little while later.

 

[Bromley86]

Also for winning the Wiccan Ware race.

 

[Steve]

There are a number of missions/incidents which will get you in the papers. Sometimes you're mentioned by name, other times your ship's ID or description is published.
To find out when and where, you'll just have to play the game

 

[Corbeau]

How to re-inspire your interest Alien... it looks like you need to make the game harder & play without exploits. FE2/FFE can be as challenging as you like. Have you tried these ideas?

1. Try getting to Elite without ever dying. If you die, start again.

2. Always carry enough fuel to recover from mis-jumps (where possible).

3. Always carry an escape capsule. If you end up loosing your ship & cargo, so be it.

The furthest I made was to Competent. Started at Lave, needed to pay fines to Empire and Federation to be able to land there and started some trading in a Cobra, but then experienced a e-pod malfunction and, wham, back to square one...

 

[gunbladelad]

Why not take some time out during the early gameplay to land on Phobos...?