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I just pulled the FE2 box down from the shelf and it contains both the story book, with the illustration of Jaques, and the gazetteer...

I do miss the days when games came bundled with some printed media to make them feel more immersive. There were a few in the 90s did it really well; FE2 came with all the short stories, Syndicate and I think UFO Enemy Unknown both did their gameplay manuals in-character.

Not that I mind having in-game tutorials, I used the ED ones yesterday to remind myself of the controls before I took my actual ship out of the station, but paper feels nice.
 
I do miss the days when games came bundled with some printed media to make them feel more immersive. There were a few in the 90s did it really well; FE2 came with all the short stories, Syndicate and I think UFO Enemy Unknown both did their gameplay manuals in-character.

Not that I mind having in-game tutorials, I used the ED ones yesterday to remind myself of the controls before I took my actual ship out of the station, but paper feels nice.
Some of them came in huge boxes with all sorts of stuff in them...

Ahhh, the halcyon days of media...
 
Yeah but... I haven't bought EDO yet. I haven't seen any bars, I just want to know if they exist :D
They do exist, and they are pretty nice too. They lack social activities, though, at least so far. Can't sit. Can't buy a drink. The girls have nothing to say to you, nor the guys, except for a few shady characters trying to lure you into the criminal lifestyle (I have listened to their offers, and succumbed to a couple of them :) ).

But you can make some good deals with the bartender for hard-to-find items, or even illegal goods in some places.

As a solo player the social aspects don't bother me much. I just like the ambience and watching ships come and go through the big windows. And being able to get out of my damn ship for a while!

It would have been extra neat if they did an animated Jaques at his bar, though. Maybe someday. :D
 
Or the floppy disks!
What do you mean Monkey Island 2 is on 12 disks...? That's a lot of swapping even with a secondary drive 😨

It would have been extra neat if they did an animated Jaques at his bar, though. Maybe someday. :D

Really hope this is on the todo list somewhere. There's not a lot of Elite lore characters really, it would be lovely to make use of the ones they have :D

Some of them came in huge boxes with all sorts of stuff in them...

I did enjoy getting posters like the FE2 galaxy map. Well, local galaxy map anyway. I feel like I remember a very cool manual with K240 as well (which I just found out may one day have a spiritual successor called Sector 53... although the dev seems very slow, so I suspect it's a guy doing it in his free time :) )
 
What do you mean Monkey Island 2 is on 12 disks...? That's a lot of swapping even with a secondary drive 😨



Really hope this is on the todo list somewhere. There's not a lot of Elite lore characters really, it would be lovely to make use of the ones they have :D



I did enjoy getting posters like the FE2 galaxy map. Well, local galaxy map anyway. I feel like I remember a very cool manual with K240 as well (which I just found out may one day have a spiritual successor called Sector 53... although the dev seems very slow, so I suspect it's a guy doing it in his free time :) )
Starflight had an awesome set of accouterments as well including a large star map...and a CODE WHEEL...and an in game Police Force that would let you get away with getting the code wrong a time or two...maybe..."save" is your friend...
 
Can't tell - it was a personal computer and I have quite a few. Doesn't have a mission marker besides one. I'n guessing it's gone bye bye and I'll have to chalk it up to a... glitch, I suppose.

I just took on a second mission - simple salvage and that worked fine. The previous mission was not "offereble" as it were so I think that one can just get iself auto-abandoned and I can move on :D
 
Oh and...

I've never troed this before. I have two ships in the shipyard at a station. How do I selected one or the other from the councourse? It says use up/down to selectt hangar but those keys do nothing. DO you just have to use the old shipyard method of switching between ships?
 
Oh and...

I've never troed this before. I have two ships in the shipyard at a station. How do I selected one or the other from the councourse? It says use up/down to selectt hangar but those keys do nothing. DO you just have to use the old shipyard method of switching between ships?
You can change ships at the ship dealer in the concourse. If you missed my earlier edit, are you really sure you didn't accidentaly accepted the Emergency Boarding?
 
Oh and...

I've never troed this before. I have two ships in the shipyard at a station. How do I selected one or the other from the councourse? It says use up/down to selectt hangar but those keys do nothing. DO you just have to use the old shipyard method of switching between ships?
You can change ships at the ship dealer in the concourse. If you missed my earlier edit, are you really sure you didn't accidentaly accepted the Emergency Boarding?
"Inter Astra" in the concourse is the same as "Shipyard" in the station/port/carrier menu. Some stations have no shipyard, in which case Inter Astra in the concourse is unmanned.

At the turbo-lift (elevator), one can use the up/down arrows to choose to go to the hanger of a teammate's ("teams" used to be called "wings") ship if it is docked and it has more than one seat.
 
"Inter Astra" in the concourse is the same as "Shipyard" in the station/port/carrier menu. Some stations have no shipyard, in which case Inter Astra in the concourse is unmanned.

At the turbo-lift (elevator), one can use the up/down arrows to choose to go to the hanger of a teammate's ("teams" used to be called "wings") ship if it is docked and it has more than one seat.
Ah! Thanks!
 
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