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Well ... a couple of things

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Post Thu May 22, 2003 3:20 am

Well ... a couple of things

I don't wanna sounds Newbish but I cant figure out Mines. When someone is behind me, I'll drop a Mine and turn around but the mine will still be following the guy and never hitting him. Thats my question. Now for a couple tips.

The first one: Not sure how helpful this is but ... When you're running from a guy and wanna dock at a planet but know the guy can shoot you while docking, hit your cruise engines real fast. When you have your Cruise Engines activated, fly towards the docking ring and hit dock. This will skip over the part where your ship has to get into perfect docking position so you dock much much faster.

The second one: Some of you probably know this already but ... Planet Crete is the best place to do missions. You can always get a $100,000+ mission there and every once in a while a $200,000+ mission. Add this to the fact that you always fight Bounty Hunters which always carry Pharmecuticals and H-Fuel, both of which fetch a fair price at Planet Crete, and you can salvage Class 9 guns from their ships which sell for $36,000+ , you can make a ton of money. On the best mission I had ($250,000 for the mission) I tihnk I ended up making a total of like almost $600,000!!

Now this is where everyone calls me a Newb and tells me they already knew this stuff LOL

Post Thu May 22, 2003 4:07 am

mines, how to use them effective ly..

turbo to your intended target head on (be it a figther or battleship)
release a mine about 0.5 seconds before it passes you, get out of there. 9 out of 10 will hit.

it is rather useless as you can just shoot him and give the same amount of damage in that 0.5 second

Post Thu May 22, 2003 4:44 am

a good tatic for mines when your fighting Battleships is to fly FAST along side the battleship and drop a row of mines
(think of it as a space bombing run)

Post Thu May 22, 2003 5:31 am

do be careful when you bomb battleship. certain npc character has the tendency to follow you, so the mine might just target them instead..

Post Fri May 23, 2003 1:16 am

ya but then u damaged the npc


and another thing: there is a spot on the rhineland battleship that u can go into and no1 can get u and u can shoot the battleship from there and u will kill it no matter what u have but mines hurt u in that spot because of how small it is

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