The EV Challange

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Originally posted by cable_guy:
**You want to know my secret? Really? Well, alright. Come on, come closer. No, closer, that's it. Right, the secret is... don't take risks.
I started in my shuttlecraft, and just did rush missions within confed space. When was the last time you saw a pirate in a confed system? Exactly. 2 hours and 1.2mill credits I purchase a rapier. Load it with a load of torpedoes and start bounty hunting in Darven.

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I admire your patience. I lost mine long ago. I upgrade to a scout and try to do multiple rush missions at the same time, saving for a corvette. After ~1 hour I break down and buy a clipper. Its good enough to kill anything short of a kestrel (a kestrel can be killed by those more patient), and heavy rocket evasions are always entertaining.

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ElG7: Still a loyal fan.

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PlanetPhil
not drowning, waving

Yeah, I cut and ran like the chicken**** I am.

Basically, somewhere around a week into it, I realized "uhh..I'm too lazy to do this."

So, in the face of apathy, this is how the rankings will be done --

Everybody (with a pilot) posts here saying their credits, government, ship, ship value, escorts, and if they can buy Reb/Fed cruisers or not.

I'll rank them at some point (Probably this Sunday), and the winner gets lots of fame and shtuff.

--Sk

Since I doubt I'll play EV again soon (schoolworks a bitch, ain't it?), I might as well post my current standings now, but this could be updated before Sunday...

Ship: Rebel Cruiser - RCS/Accel/Thrust upgrades, 69 torpedoes with 2 launchers, Manta bay + 4 mantas, 4 proton turrets, 2 mass expansions, missile jammer.
Government: Rebel, mission strings completed - Gun Running, Astrodyne Outpost, Rebel team insertion to Luna, Alien string. This includes capturing the particle beam later on, and rescuing the special ops team from the planet south of Sirgil.
I can buy rebel ships/outfits
Cash/Money: 53million credits
Combat Rating: Ultimate
Escorts: 2 Confed Cruisers (it took a lot of playing on Sunday to get them...), 4 Kestrels.
Other mission strings completed: Artemis Missions, Diphidia II ecological disaster, UGE missions (also UGE smuggling, which I was repremanded for), and many of those confed Assasination, destroy fed fleet or convoy, protect system from pirates and seek out pirates in local systems. Plus all the starboard express missions.
planets dominated: Matar (Hodgsons world), Rigel (New Britain), Capella (Capella), Regulus (New France), Antares (New Providence, Antares station) and Sirius (Sirius Station). That's all I think I did. I know I said I wouldn't dominate planets, but I had a long Sunday afternoon to fill up.

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The status of Dr. M:
Game date: 1/24/2258, Real date: 4/2/2001
Combat Rating: Ultimate
Credits: 13.19M
Ship:
Name: StarSlayer
Class: Rebel Destroyer
With: 4 proton turrets, 4 proton cannons, 2 torpedo launchers+10 torpedos
2 missle racks+24 missles, shield booster, armorplast <all engine upgrades>
misslejammer, escape pod, auto eject, <all radar embellishments>,
afterburner, ramscoop, particle beam
Trade in value: 1.65M

Escorts:
5 Rebel Cruisers, 1 Rebel Destroyer

Govt Status:
Confed: Upstanding Citizen most places, Good Egg in the rest.
Rebel: Varies from Decent Individual to Criminal
Independents: Offender on Lethe, Criminal on Hikeeba (botched conquest)
<bad> on Privateer's Haven

Missions:
Confed Alien String
Rebel Pursuit string (recover the stolen particle beam)
Destroy Escort carrier
UGE Missions (was never thrown out, never smuggled)
Help Starbound Shipping string
Artemis Mission string
Diphidia mission string
Turin V mission string

Missions not done that were available:
Confed Covert Ops (failed a deadline)
Rebel Gun running, (didn't have enough cargo space when it was offered)
MST industries missions (refine toxins into bioweapons)
Smuggle wood
Locate Rebel Fleet (ship destroyed before completion)

26 planets dominated, paying 61,000 per day in tribute

Eastern Empire
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Murphy's World (Agena)
Ursa Beta minor (Ursa)
Syntex Refinery (Thanos)
Sampsons Planet (El Santo)
Port oread (Tiber)
Endor (Osiris)
Zeus (Olympus)
Hera
Sauron (Sauron)
Lauralee (Zigra)
Akio (Guiron)
diphidia 2 (Diphidia)
zaxted starport (Zaxted)

Northern Dominium
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Pegasus (Perseus)
Blackthorne (Darven)
New Ireland (Propus)
New Scotland
Clotho 2 (Clotho)
Clotho Prime
Atropos (Atropos)
Hunter (Orion)
Pirates Cove (NGC-4812)

Western Conquests
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New Antigua (NGC-1027)
Armstrong (Apollo)
Dune (Arrakis)
Darkstar (Nemesis)
Masters Planet (Manos)
Torgo Prime (Torgo)
Evildrome (NGC-0595)

Coveted, but not conquered
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Adhara
Privateers Haven (I owe these bastards)
Lethe
Cydonia

Errata
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Aside from the Rebel destroyer, the Fleet of DOOM was purchased, not captured.
I can buy both Confed and Rebel ships due to a "feature" in the Confed alien mission granting access to rebel ships.

No confed planets were dominated. This omission was not deliberate, rather, I had to wait a LONG time before the confeds gave me the alien mission. Apparently, it requires an upstanding citizen rating to get it. Dominating confed planets would not have reduced the wait. I finally killed the alien around 5/28/2001 and was finally free to dominate confed planets, but never got around to it.

I chose to side with the confeds because I originally wanted to fly the confed cruiser and dominate the entire galaxy. However, the long delay in getting the alien mission, combined with the lucky capture of a rebel destroyer changed things. The destroyer proved to be ideal for dominating planets, better than either cruiser and the corvette that I previously used.

For the cost of 3 confed cruisers ($60M), you can buy 4 rebel cruisers, with enough left over for a destroyer+outfits. Hence the composition of my fleet.

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ElGuapo7

Ship: Rebel Destroyer (but only because I wanted to spend some of my money...all my fighting was done in a Corvette...)
Money: 22M credits
Escorts: 5 clippers (They're better escorts than freighters - they never get attacked)
Planets dominated: Privateer's Haven, Pirate's Cove, New Antigua, and Evildrome.

The Rebels like me. I did all their missions. I even blew away an alien fighter. (as well as the cruiser.)

Anyway, I'm not the top-ranked guy here. If I were cheap, I'd say "sorry, I only played about an hour or two per day!" because I had to go to work and sleep and eat (not necessarily in that order.) But some of those numbers out there are quite admirable. Congrats to Magicaneer and cableguy both.

So congrats to the winner. If nobody else posts, it looks like a very close heat... perhaps a vote is in order.

ElG7

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KIRK: Very funny, Scotty - now beam down my clothes!
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