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Article #105409Re: Microsoft Freelancer?
From: Martin Feller
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 21:09
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 21:09
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"Arminius" <arminius@hotmale.com> wrote in message news:e7o7is$229$02$1@news.t-online.com... > Hi guys, > > I'm wondering if anyone knows how many levels there are in the game? At > the moment, I've finished the plot and am now at level 33. All I seem to > do is fly around and earning money from the repetitive missions. I've got > the best ship in the game - the Titan - and have nearly the best weapons. > > Is the game worth playing once you've done the plot? Trading is not > realistic or worthwhile and you can't really act as a pirate or a rogue as > the good guys seem to forget about your rogue status as soon as you take a > trade line or jump hole. > > Also, I noticed the weapons upgrades don't seem to do much. It takes me as > long to bust ships using level 9 or 10 lasers as it did with levels 1 or > 2. I just bought a new missle that's supposed to do twice the hull and > shield damage per shot, but it seems to make no difference... > > Any comments? > > Thanks and cheers, Arminius It's been a while, but wasn't there a rock-scissors-paper relationship between the guns and the shields? If you have the "wrong" type of guns against the enemies you face, you won't do much damage IIRC, and once you have the "right" gun it was almost too easy. Or maybe I'm thinking of another game.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsdst02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr14.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!47b691c1!not-for-mail From: "Martin Feller" <martinfeller@sxfxcxgxlxoxbxaxlx.nxext> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space-sim References: <e7o7is$229$02$1@news.t-online.com> Subject: Re: Microsoft Freelancer? Lines: 31 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 Message-ID: <3wBpg.33050$VE1.6994@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.126.207.251 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr14.news.prodigy.com 1151788159 ST000 67.126.207.251 (Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:09:19 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:09:19 EDT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: FKPO@MONXJVWC\LX@RJNOPDAPZXFBL@MAHU^_BAMEH]TCDYG^WH[AKK[J\]^HVKHG^EWZHBLO^[\NH_AZFWGN^\DHNVMX_DHHX[FSQKBOTS@@BP^]C@RHS_AGDDC[AJM_T[GZNRNZAY]GNCPBDYKOLK^_CZFWPGHZIXW@C[AFKBBQS@E@DAZ]VDFUNTQQ]FN Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 21:09:19 GMT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit