Pirate docking stations

Anton_

Anton_
ISTR there were "pirate" docking stations in Elite'84 (in hollowed asteroids?), where you could pop in for a refuel and repair and nobody wanted to know or cared who you was or what you'd done, &c &c, just all mates going about their business and no questions asked, see. You could also buy some interesting items there, quite valuable some of them, and maybe flog some bits (fell off the back of a hauler guv, no word of a lie) and that might have attracted the attention of Plod if 'e'd bin 'avin' a nowsey, but he wasn't, hehe.

Do the outposts in ED fulfill the same purpose, more or less? I haven't tried docking there when I've had a price on my head, not for any particular reason only that it just never happened. The most effective trading does seem to involve a lot of outpost visits.
 

Sentdex

S
Some outposts have security. What you're probably looking for to be safe is an "unsanctioned outpost." An example of one of these is I think Buckey's Terminal in LHS 3080. I forget the name for sure, but it's in LHS 3080.

It's also a good way to pay any bounties or fines off to that area, say if you got one in G 180-18 and you want to pay it off without getting harassed at a large port like Hale Port... etc.

You'll know an unsanctioned outpost by the circling red skulls around the outpost, but also when you go to contacts, it will be called as such.
 

Tar Stone

Banned
Tar Stone
I think so - I've come across an outpost that is very far out in the system, some dodgy looking missions there from a dodgy sounding cartel, no security ships, a black market, and there is definitely some kind of narcotics operation going on.

It's so far out from the sun that by the time you get there and dock, you almost expect it to be dodgy.
 

xxThe_Dice_manxx

xxThe_Dice_manxx
There were no such stations in Elite 84, maybe in lore but not in the actual game, As said above there are pirate outposts in ED and I'm sure at some point they will make the hidden outposts in an asteroids.
 

Anton_

Anton_
I never read the lore in '84, so I wouldn't have got it from there. I can't remember what they were called, but I do recall they were dodgy, dangerous, and far from everything else, and had thriving black markets. I remember docking there a few times.
 

barcode

B
I don't think any of the original 8-bit Elites had pirate stations you could dock at, but the modern remake Oolite has them. They don't always have thriving black markets, but they'll buy certain goods at well above the price you'd get at a legit station.
 

Anton_

Anton_
Nope, it wasn't Oolite either. I have played that, but only very briefly. It was definitely stock Elite'84. They probably weren't called pirate stations, but they were very different in appearance from "establishment" spaceports.
 

satrycus

satrycus
I'm sorry OP, but I think you're mistaken. The original BBC Micro version of Elite only had Coriolis space stations with Dodec stations making an appearance in the fancier disc version. I'm also not aware of anything like what you describe in either Frontier or First Encounters.
 

easthamd

E
There are posts like this, one is what i'd call my home. No security, nothing else in the system and it's tucked away near a frozen ball of a planet. Perfect place for shady ventures without the Fed's breathing down your neck.
 

Anton_

Anton_
satrycus said:
I'm sorry OP, but I think you're mistaken. The original BBC Micro version of Elite only had Coriolis space stations with Dodec stations making an appearance in the fancier disc version. I'm also not aware of anything like what you describe in either Frontier or First Encounters.
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I know what I saw.

I didn't actually see Dodo stations in a game (but I heard about them) as I never played any version of Elite between the original '84 version and ED.

"Rock Hermits" sounds familiar, but my (fallible) memory-impression of them is not that of fearsomeness.

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ArnieDadrink said:
They were not in the original, I have only seen hollowed out asteroids in the Oolite version and they are called Rock Hermits.
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Rock_Hermit_(Oolite)
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