Wed Mar 12, 2003 6:48 pm
Seeing everything in Single Player.
A few complaints have been raised that the game is too short, or pointless after the SP story is done. Sure, there are things to do afterwards, but some find it less challenging.
First off, with just a little exploring, this game takes almost 30 hours to complete so $50 for 30 hours is just not that bad and that does not include multiplayer.
But if you want a bit of a challenge, and a good reason to explore:
FREELANCING:
1. Restart the game. In Liberty space, explore every nook and crannie. Only do the campaign missions until you have access to all the jumpgates in Liberty. Do missions, run cargo, fight pirates. Find every jumphole. Ignore Juni, she'll wait. Don't continue the campaign until you have 100 - 200 k
PIRATING:
2. After you are on the run from Liberty, go back into Liberty space and hook up with the Rogues (or your bad-guys of choice) and now your a pirate. This is not easy, but you wanted a challenge right? You can buy a Dagger at Buffallo Base. You might be able to buy the HF pirate ship as well, but right now you are only level 9 so maybe not, I'll check this tonight. Juni will start contacting you again (thats a neat trick she has...) but ignore her. Find some good trade routes and plunder away. Stick around here until you have another couple 100k or you get sick of being a pirate.
FREELANCING AGAIN:
3. Continue to ignore Juni. Jump out of Liberty space to Kusari. You are not a pirate anywhere but Liberty, so your clean with the police, but these areas are made for someone higher than level nine, so the non-story missions are harder (again, you wanted a challenge, right?). Do missions, explore, find stuff, trade. Money is tighter here and harder to make. Stick around until you have 500,000 credits and you have seen every system in Kusari, every jumphole, every base.
CARGO MASTER:
4. Go and do JUST one mission for Juni so you can get to level 10. Go back to Bactan base (again, not easy, again, you want a challenge?) and make nice with them so they will sell you a Dromedary. You now have the biggest cargo ship in the game. Explore the entire Bretonia system in your Dromedary and do cargo runs. Do this until you have 3,000,000 credits (or more).
At this point, you have lived every life there is in the game: Explorer, privateer, Cargo master, pirate, bounty hunter, sherriff. Now you could complete missions in the storyline just to get your levels up if you want to get rid of the dromedary and get something slicker. You also would have played around 100+ hours and not spent one minute online.....
Me no gun
Edited by - Iron Giant on 13-03-2003 22:10:36
First off, with just a little exploring, this game takes almost 30 hours to complete so $50 for 30 hours is just not that bad and that does not include multiplayer.
But if you want a bit of a challenge, and a good reason to explore:
FREELANCING:
1. Restart the game. In Liberty space, explore every nook and crannie. Only do the campaign missions until you have access to all the jumpgates in Liberty. Do missions, run cargo, fight pirates. Find every jumphole. Ignore Juni, she'll wait. Don't continue the campaign until you have 100 - 200 k
PIRATING:
2. After you are on the run from Liberty, go back into Liberty space and hook up with the Rogues (or your bad-guys of choice) and now your a pirate. This is not easy, but you wanted a challenge right? You can buy a Dagger at Buffallo Base. You might be able to buy the HF pirate ship as well, but right now you are only level 9 so maybe not, I'll check this tonight. Juni will start contacting you again (thats a neat trick she has...) but ignore her. Find some good trade routes and plunder away. Stick around here until you have another couple 100k or you get sick of being a pirate.
FREELANCING AGAIN:
3. Continue to ignore Juni. Jump out of Liberty space to Kusari. You are not a pirate anywhere but Liberty, so your clean with the police, but these areas are made for someone higher than level nine, so the non-story missions are harder (again, you wanted a challenge, right?). Do missions, explore, find stuff, trade. Money is tighter here and harder to make. Stick around until you have 500,000 credits and you have seen every system in Kusari, every jumphole, every base.
CARGO MASTER:
4. Go and do JUST one mission for Juni so you can get to level 10. Go back to Bactan base (again, not easy, again, you want a challenge?) and make nice with them so they will sell you a Dromedary. You now have the biggest cargo ship in the game. Explore the entire Bretonia system in your Dromedary and do cargo runs. Do this until you have 3,000,000 credits (or more).
At this point, you have lived every life there is in the game: Explorer, privateer, Cargo master, pirate, bounty hunter, sherriff. Now you could complete missions in the storyline just to get your levels up if you want to get rid of the dromedary and get something slicker. You also would have played around 100+ hours and not spent one minute online.....
Me no gun
Edited by - Iron Giant on 13-03-2003 22:10:36
