I finally made it on my first jaunt out to colonia.
The trip was fairly ok, used a few bases on the way and the neutron highway for the first time.
Got fried on one neutron tsar out of polo harbour, the exclusion zone dropped me in the cone and despite wresting for 20 mins I coudn#t get out, I think it got worse as the time went on.
I didn't really stop much for detailed scanning. My trip through the FR to Explorer#s end was more exciting in terms of being a long way from help and finding first discoveries, but I have tagged my first neutron star and super-giant B star or was it an A.
Colonia itself is a bit disappointing, bit like a small bubble and nothing much different. Jacques station looks like the Zuara engines stuck to an orbis, which is what it is supposed to be I guess. But the engines like the Zuara look switched on, I thought it had broken down on the way to Beagle point.
As for the cyborg himself, some other dude called the Founder is in station, so I cant even sit down for a rare beer with Jacques himself.
well I was in time for the CG so found a decent shipyard on colonia hub and parked the weaponless asp, getting a neat viper III, I tried a hauler from Jacques shipyard but it didn't last long. So after some successful fighting for the colonia dudes and doubling up with massacre missions from colonia hub, I switched to the opposition, I shot one ship on behalf of the nameless and went to cash in my mission and bounties.
wow i have playing this game a long time and know most of the nuances, but the combat bounties defeated me. The missions messages asking to switch sides are not clear on which faction they represent and when completed, not so clear where to hand in the mission. I returned to colonia hub to complete my missions and then had to hand in the bounty voucher, so I dropped in at the nearby outpost and found I could hand in the voucher, but ouch it didn't count towards the cg as it wasn't at Jacques, so on the way back to Jacques station, some 1800 Ls, as I had an interdictor I tried to catch a ship to get the voucher back, after unsuccessfully fighting a few wanted ships from the right faction, they tended to wake out during the fight, I finally bagged a cobra with a long lasting duel. so with my bounty I popped into Jacques. darn only vouchers from combat war zones count, so cashing in the bounty didn't help.
Yes I know all this, but why is it so complicated.... Faction wants other faction dead, but only from particular battles and you can only claim victory in certain station, even if the same faction is controlling an alternative station.
This seems way to complicated, but I guess it helped my combat ranking and credits a bit.
will probably play around in CG till it ends, then look around the area at other occupied systems, maybe track down the listening post crashed ship.
Then off to Sag A star and return.
The trip was fairly ok, used a few bases on the way and the neutron highway for the first time.
Got fried on one neutron tsar out of polo harbour, the exclusion zone dropped me in the cone and despite wresting for 20 mins I coudn#t get out, I think it got worse as the time went on.
I didn't really stop much for detailed scanning. My trip through the FR to Explorer#s end was more exciting in terms of being a long way from help and finding first discoveries, but I have tagged my first neutron star and super-giant B star or was it an A.
Colonia itself is a bit disappointing, bit like a small bubble and nothing much different. Jacques station looks like the Zuara engines stuck to an orbis, which is what it is supposed to be I guess. But the engines like the Zuara look switched on, I thought it had broken down on the way to Beagle point.
As for the cyborg himself, some other dude called the Founder is in station, so I cant even sit down for a rare beer with Jacques himself.
well I was in time for the CG so found a decent shipyard on colonia hub and parked the weaponless asp, getting a neat viper III, I tried a hauler from Jacques shipyard but it didn't last long. So after some successful fighting for the colonia dudes and doubling up with massacre missions from colonia hub, I switched to the opposition, I shot one ship on behalf of the nameless and went to cash in my mission and bounties.
wow i have playing this game a long time and know most of the nuances, but the combat bounties defeated me. The missions messages asking to switch sides are not clear on which faction they represent and when completed, not so clear where to hand in the mission. I returned to colonia hub to complete my missions and then had to hand in the bounty voucher, so I dropped in at the nearby outpost and found I could hand in the voucher, but ouch it didn't count towards the cg as it wasn't at Jacques, so on the way back to Jacques station, some 1800 Ls, as I had an interdictor I tried to catch a ship to get the voucher back, after unsuccessfully fighting a few wanted ships from the right faction, they tended to wake out during the fight, I finally bagged a cobra with a long lasting duel. so with my bounty I popped into Jacques. darn only vouchers from combat war zones count, so cashing in the bounty didn't help.
Yes I know all this, but why is it so complicated.... Faction wants other faction dead, but only from particular battles and you can only claim victory in certain station, even if the same faction is controlling an alternative station.
This seems way to complicated, but I guess it helped my combat ranking and credits a bit.
will probably play around in CG till it ends, then look around the area at other occupied systems, maybe track down the listening post crashed ship.
Then off to Sag A star and return.