Elite / Frontier hi eveyone i have a few questions

[fierfly]

hi guys
Q1 how to be a pirate?
i've always prefired to steal some poor trader's hard earned cash then making my own. but i think im doing it the hard way (waiting above space stations just above 10k so the police leave me alone for a traders ship) but all over the net are guides talking about being able to target incomeing hyperspace windows from the system map they say that their "blue dot's" but i've tryed and tryed and never seen one let alone targeted one. what am i doing wrong? do i have an option turned of or some thing???? the is a quote from "Life on the Frontier" (www.lotf.co.uk) the best ffe site in my opinion.

The main requiremnt to becoming a succesful pirate is to have a Hyperspace Cloud Analyser fitted to your craft. If you target a hyperspace re-entry cloud with it (i.e. target it in combat mode and click it on the panel) it will give you details of what it is and when it is comming through the wormhole. You can 'chase' a ship through hyperspace if you target an orange cloud, your analyser will tell you where and when the ship is due. You can also find wormhole openings on the sytem maps of the system you are currently in as little blue dots with no label.
Whichever way you find your re-entry cloud, you will need to target it and wait for the prey to drop back into normal space. So, target it for navigation and set the auto-pilot to work for you. You may reach the cloud before your prey re-enters, or you may not - it depends how far away you are from it. You can tell if the prey has re-entered if you have a analyserbecause the cloud details will disappear. If you haven't got an analyser then the target for the autopilot will swing round, and align with a planet in the distance - i.e. where the prey is going.

if anyone has been able to do this i would at least like to se a screen shot. please.

Q2 what version of elite 2 should i start playing?
i first was introduced into the elite universe with FFE as a result i downloaded the orignal elite to see where it all started which i enjoyed for a while but i've never played elite 2 and was wondering if i should play the pc or the amiga version ( by the way im quite a lot younger than the elite series is was just 2 when elite 2 came out so what is an "amiga" anyway i've found a emulator for it but i have no idea what it is).

edit: or even the atria version ( i have no idea what a atair is either)

 

[NextGame]

1) No idea, I always found trying that style of gameplay to be not very profitable. Even in terms of getting combat rating up, it was easier to go to some of the more dodgy systems and just fly between space stations and deal with any attacks.

I have managed to do the target hyperspace thing, but it was years ago and I cannot remember the specifics. It mainly relied on having a smaller ship that could jump to the destination before the ship that you are chasing would arrive there.

2) FFE has more depth (in my opinion), but also has more bugs (again, in my opinion). My own preference is FFE.

3) Amiga and Atari were computer systems that pretty much used floppy disks to load the games from. Think of them as very early PC's with no hard drive and very basic capabilities that were limited to software that was created for that system in the same way that you cant play PS3 games on an xbox360.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_1200
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST

 

[Klarg]

I would say you are best off sticking to the PC versions. Get a copy of glffe, jjffe, or glfrontier (the gl ones don't work for me, so I use jjffe).

I pirate people by flying to a planet with an atmosphere and landed ships, earth is a good target, fly around all the ship yards and look for a likely looking target and wait for it to take off. When it jumps target it's hyperspace cloud, use the analyser and find out where it's going. If you are in a smaller, faster ship, you should beable to follow it through hyperspace and emerge before it does. It's hyperspace cloud should be behind your exit cloud and you can wait for it to emerge then blow it to pieces.

Or you can look on the system map for big coloured dots and target those then scan them to find out if they are ships jumping in.

Or I think you can turn stars and dust off in the options and then the only "stars" you will see will be other planets and hyperspace clouds.

Piracy isn't really a very well paying job, but sometimes you can get lucky and end up with a hold full of expensive goods.

While you are waiting for your target to emerge from hyperspace, other pirates will attack you.

 

[fierfly]

thanks i just played the gl version it's pretty good it is like FFE but with a simplness to it which makes it quite fun to play