🚀 go-pugleaf

Stuffed Crust wrote:
> magnate <chrisc@dbass.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > The problem with that was the resource drain on re-fitting, and the
> > fact that you had nowhere to store your de-equipped weapons and had to
> > buy them again, which was a pain with high end stuff, and once you
> > equipped any of the unique weapons, that was it.
>
> Umm... no.
>
> You apparentely missed the bit about being able to equip/unequip things
> without selling them.  If not equipped, it doesn't affect your cargo
> capacity.  Apparently it's all kept on an invisible u-haul trailer that
> follows your ship everywhere..

Really??? Mind boggles. That is so weird. Admittedly I only played it
for a few intense months before I'd sucked all the replayability out of
it, but I did indeed never discover that. Wow.

> My current FL saves have something like a dozen unequipped level 10
> weapons, plus several more mounted.

So where do they go? I don't mean in suspension-of-disbelief, I mean,
how do you list them? Where do they appear in the game, if not in your
cargo inventory? (Game is not installed at the mo so I can't check
this)

> > FL was a tragedy - it could so easily have been THE elite/FFE remake of
> > the 90s, but they got a few simple things wrong. The factions and stuff
> > were fun, but the tiny universe and the lack of any sort of stash were
> > painful.
>
> I found the universe to be a nice manageable size, given that none of it
> was auto-generated "filler".  What ruined FL for me was the single type
> of generated missions [1] once you finish the plot, and lack of anything
> approaching a dynamic economy to keep you on your toes and to allow for
> things like taking out a docking ring for an agricultural world to drive
> up prices for food in the vicinity...

Yes, it really did lack the immersiveness of the Elite/FFE universe.

Oh well - I reckon there is another great Elite-type space exploration
rpg out there. Maybe Elite 4, maybe something else. Give it a decade or
two. 

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