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A question on pirating, and a (little) story

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Post Wed Feb 26, 2003 11:59 am

A question on pirating, and a (little) story

Hello there ! Im playing the demo, and im wondering how you can intercept ships going throgh the trade lanes... Rogues do it to me all the time, but i cant manage to do the same... I mean, i even stop engines in the middle of the trade lane way, but other ships just go vrooom past me . Someone know how to interrupt the trade lane cruising please?

I saw something very spectacular in terms of gameplay potential : the texas gate was under attack by outcasts, who were numerous (15 20 of em), and there were just me and a navy ship... The navy ship fled very fast through the gate, and i thought uh oh ... I was alone against 20 of those bastards rogues. I managed to survive 1 minute, and there i see, coming through the trade lane, 15 navy ships led by the one who left the minute before! He just went away to grab reinforcements ! Easy to guess, i was very happy to see those guys, since i almost was dead. It just impressed me a lot to see the navy ship behave like this... Sorry if this sounded boring . Dont forget to answer 1st question plz

Post Wed Feb 26, 2003 12:04 pm

Heh he, welcome to TLR Barbazoul

You can temporarily disable the Trade Lane rings and therefore stage a massive attack However, the rings will eventually come back online. There's actually a group/faction in FL who do this all the time, called the Lane Hackers

Post Wed Feb 26, 2003 12:05 pm

I believe you have to shoot at the trade ring to temporarily disable them?You can't destroy them but you do render them out of action for a while.
Plz some one correct me if i am wrong ...

Post Wed Feb 26, 2003 2:22 pm

yeah i tryed it yesterday, works quite well as long as its a nice vunerable transport that showed up, unfortunatly the first thing to show up where some rogues who seemed to want to do the same thing as me :s, fortunatly the police that dropped out of the lance seemed to dislike the rogues more than me and assisted in killing them

Post Wed Feb 26, 2003 2:47 pm

Hehe that's a cool feature. I had a different cool one. Read whole post to see how I solved it.

http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/forum/t ... er&M=False

Post Wed Feb 26, 2003 4:04 pm

Yep, you can shoot the trade lanes to disable them. You have to shoot them at a certain spot though. It took me a few minutes to find the sweet spot but then it works like a charm.

Post Wed Feb 26, 2003 4:24 pm

And the sweet spot is where exactly please ?

Post Wed Feb 26, 2003 4:33 pm

*cough*spoiler*cough*

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