The race can be a pain in the posterior -- until you know how to beat it. There are other threads on it here, but in short:

1. Kick in cruise drive IMMEDIATELY. Get the jump on Hovis.
2. Don't try to beat him in a freighter! Use a fighter.
3. Aim for the corners of the gates of the course.
4. Make sure you know the course enough not to get lost.

Oddly enough, I could not beat Hovis no matter how hard I tried, until I finally figured out what to do. Now I can beat him any time in any kind of ship.




Jose Chavez: "Trent! It's good to see my kind of scum."

And it's not your age. I'm 46 and won this race first time, every time.

Here's another trick: change your view. Go to 1st person perspective and unselect cockpit view in the Options screen (F1). Then it's like you're on the ship nose.

If you want to see HARD ring courses DL the Tachyon:the Fringe demo!

I'm old too.

"Got anything for me?" - Trent, A.K.A. 'Mr. Eloquent'

Turn down your graphics. All the way. It reduces visual slowdown, speeding up your response time. You're too busy in that part of the mission to look at the pretty backgrounds, anyway.

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Anub- damn, what IS the plural for that? Anubii? Anubises? Anubice?

The hood sells a Cavilier, a nice racing ship. I love to replay this mission over and over again. Makes a refreshing change from kill everything that moves missions. Just out of curriousity, are there any mods that allow you to race for money against better PC pilots? Cause that would be schweet. --- RR16

Whoever came up with "Mission Commision" should be lined up and shot

175th posting, yay!

I was sort of disappointed that Hovis says, "Come back and race any time, Bretonian". But then he buggers off somewhere and is never at the Hood when you go back to race him.



Jose Chavez: "Trent! It's good to see my kind of scum."

Yeah, DA probably wanted it in the game but Microching wanted Freelancer published earlier so they had to leave it out. I really wanted to beat him again, get some more money, embarrass him etc.

On a personal note, how cool would have it been if racing was allowed in Multiplayer, everyone passing bets. We REALLY need to get the source code off DA. It'll never happen though .......

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