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Um, I've made killer Miranu Freighters, Freight-Couriers and Voinian Transports before. As long as you have cash that challenge is easy.
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Yeah, especially with the emalghian freighter upgrade, and Bronev+Dospect...
Im in and damn it im all for strict play.
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I consider the Azdara to be the best ship all in all.
Many of my pilots end in a heavily upgraded Azdara, using the regular and advanced shield regenerators and 3 shield capicitators.
So, not much of a challange to me... but the Emalagh Fighter... that's a different story...
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What I think would be neat is a remake of the Exotic Escorts challenge (I forget who made it, I think it was VoinianAmbassador).
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That is interesting to see. Exotic Escort Challenge.
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Originally posted by Soviet mikee: **I consider the Azdara to be the best ship all in all.
So, not much of a challange to me... but the Emalagh Fighter... that's a different story... **
That's why:
No piloting an Azdara (optional)
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I don't see why everybody rags off the Elmaghia Fighter, it has the most weapons space of any fighter. It can even accomodate a Crecent Fighter bay.
On a side note, fighter bays aren't allowed are they? since it requires somebody to fly the fighters.
Originally posted by kauthor: **That is interesting to see **
Yeah. I was looking back at some old topics and found it. Apperently it was made as a replacement for the origanal Crew of One challenge.
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Originally posted by Zax: ** On a side note, fighter bays aren't allowed are they? since it requires somebody to fly the fighters. **
Hrm, that's an interesting point...I think it falls into the 'no escorts' category, which doesn't really matter since you wouldn't have the space for anything else.
It'd be interesting to see what happened if there was a fractal ship that carried a duplicate (or more than one duplicate) of itself internally. If the EV:O engine allows such nonsense, I suspect that the sysytem would tend to fill with thirty-six identical little ships.
I have happy memories of piloting a Voinian Heavy Fighter equipped with a Crescent Fighter bay... if only EV:O were a multiplayer game; can you imagine the suprise my 'Q ship' might have caused?
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Originally posted by VoinianAmbassador: (B)You know, there are some people who really like the Crescent Fighter. People who consider it to be the ideal ship in which to take on some of the scary things the game has to offer. The COO challenge isn't much of a challenge to somebody like SilverDragon, I suspect.
Anybody who already likes to fly a fighter should try the Freighter Challenge instead. And no... Aradas are not freighters...
Shuttle
UE Transporter
Cargo Transporter
Freight-Courier
Miranu Freighter
Miranu heavy freighter
Emalgha freighter
Voinian supply ship
Heh...
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Quote:- "The UE Freighter is so bad that I believe that it should be in a class of its own - the Ultra (Crazy) Freighter Challenge. I'm playing Strict, with No Escorts and No 'Azzy' upgrades. I found that I needed the 2 Mass Expansions just to survive before I could get the Emalgha Upgrade. I've ejected so many times I'm going crazy."
I managed to gain the Mass Upgrade ( extra 20 tonnes ) with sheer luck and determination.
I haven't been able to finish the major strings / achieve the Central Objectives yet.
Try the "Ultra Freighter Challenge" on Strict and you'll appreciate how difficult this challenge really is.
I'll have to get back to it soon. I've been too involved in playing NOVA.
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Zidagar objective has been done, moving on to the dreadnaught
Hmm, I'm going to Cornwall for three weeks on Saturday (no mac :frown: ), and won't be able to finish the 'Crew of One' challenge until I'm back, so I'll give my current progress report now.
Ship: Crecent Fighter Ship name: Clear Air Turbulence Rating: Deadly Money: 2M Credits. Upgrades: 4 Swivel Phase Cannons, 2 Cargo Expansions, 1 sheild capacitor, 1 fuel expansion, Miranu & Zigadar ECM systems, Needle Jammer, Cloaking Device, Sensor Upgrade thingy, Density Scanner, Iff Decoder. Completed Strings: Dreadnought, Huron, UE vs Pirate String (the one where you get the needle jammer), UE Cargo Missions, Sterral Corp missions, Paaren Station, Kirrim Prime, Miranu Trade Relations, Miranu Cargo Missions, Part of the Zigadar missions (I have gained their military tech, but not the 20 free tons of space, so I guess I haven't finished the string).
Killed the Dreadnaught, took quite a few tries, but eventually the destroyers tore it down, and I could finish up the rest
Along the lines of what Vonian Ambassador was saying, fractal ships and all, I made a plug where fighters had fighters bays that launched duplicates of themselves (it was for EV). My processor had a hard time of that one, although I did manage to destroy them all once, with cheat weapons. It's best when your escort fighters have it, and then they launch fghters which do not like your pirate attacks, so they attack you, prompting your ships to launch even more fighters. Fun!
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I think there should be a plug where some fighters have maybe offensive drones. An unmanned, fast drone with weak sheilding and 3 phase cannons. That would be decent. It wouldn't make the fighter to powerful, because they would die quickly, but in groups would be devestating (just like Kraits, one is so weak, its laughable, but twenty of the damn things running at you when you can't outrun them kills you in about ten seconds).
On a side note, I got the 20 tons of free space.
On another side note, why do AI afterburners never run out?
Why do AI escorts never run out of fuel? A 3 jump freighter will do as many as you want if it's your escort.
And why when you hire an escort and you're in a ship with a 3-day jump time, do you only pay for one day per hyperjump? And why do pursuit missiles and SAD's just do little circles and not attack your target? And why does a turret take up a gun slot as well? WHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHY?????????
Originally posted by Zax: I think there should be a plug where some fighters have maybe offensive drones...
Check out the Dark Station plug, specifically the 'Gunpod' outfits. Gunpods actually mount blaze cannon, not Phase, but otherwise they're pretty much what you're asking for.