Wed Mar 12, 2003 1:19 am
The mighty gods of Irony
It's true! They find out what you hate the most, then do it to you when you least expect it!
------>I was flying a gunless starflier trying to raise cash for upgrades. I got swarmed by 10 outcasts with cruise disrupters near the NY-Texas jumpgate. I evaded and made it to Texas, where I was again swarmed by outcasts. With a little thruster use, I managed to not get killed, reached the trade lane, and...you guessed it, got lane-hacked by yet ANOTHER swarm of outcasts.
After getting cruise disrupted, stomped, squished, and mutilated, I made it to LPI Sugarland and dropped my cargo, where I made a grand total of 0 credits after repairs. I picked up something or other to trade in NY, and ran back to the jumpgate at full speed. WHAT?! OUTCASTS AGAIN?! I use up every last one of my nanobots and shield batts while buzzing around waiting for some transports to go through, then jump. I'll give you 1 guess as to what was on the other end of the gate.
In the end, I made it back to manhattan with next to no health, and just barely enough cash to trade in the starflier for a rhino.
------>On a different server, I was running back and forth between detroit munitions and sappuro(sp?) station with loads of H-fuel and light arms, trying to get enough cash to replace my pirahna with a barracuda. Running into the high-level lane hackers, outcasts, and other baddies that lurk in Galileo. That part I managed somehow to live through, and breathed a sigh of releif after reaching Kusari turf, which is 100% neutral to me. Then I started getting lane hacked by kusari pirates. Hey, hot tip guys, but you're neutral...of course, they don't fire a shot. They fly right past. WtehF? Why lane-hack someone who you don't want to attack? All in all, what should have been a 40-60 minute round trip became a 2-and-a-half hour drag, thanks to those moronic kusari pirates.
------> While running over to rochester base, I get jumped by a batch of rogues. They die, I reel in the salvage: 2 Drails, a javelin launcher, and a single unit of food rations. I feel happy that I got something off the little goons, and continue on my way. About 3k from the junkers hide-out, I get a "drop the cargo!" message from some random junker in a CSV. Up comes the little screen, and I see what the would-be pirate is demanding. It isn't the 20 or so scrap metals I had mined out of the debris, it was...the lone food ration. Erm, okayeee...I'm right near your base, probably going to sell it there anyway, and I have other cargo that is potentially a hundred times more valuble. But no, he wants the food ration.
So, who has some stories of insanely stupid or over-eager AI players doing what they do best?
Reaper: $200,000,000.
Rockets: $100,000
The look on that pilot's face when you launch a full pod of screamers up his tailpipe: priceless
------>I was flying a gunless starflier trying to raise cash for upgrades. I got swarmed by 10 outcasts with cruise disrupters near the NY-Texas jumpgate. I evaded and made it to Texas, where I was again swarmed by outcasts. With a little thruster use, I managed to not get killed, reached the trade lane, and...you guessed it, got lane-hacked by yet ANOTHER swarm of outcasts.
After getting cruise disrupted, stomped, squished, and mutilated, I made it to LPI Sugarland and dropped my cargo, where I made a grand total of 0 credits after repairs. I picked up something or other to trade in NY, and ran back to the jumpgate at full speed. WHAT?! OUTCASTS AGAIN?! I use up every last one of my nanobots and shield batts while buzzing around waiting for some transports to go through, then jump. I'll give you 1 guess as to what was on the other end of the gate.
In the end, I made it back to manhattan with next to no health, and just barely enough cash to trade in the starflier for a rhino.
------>On a different server, I was running back and forth between detroit munitions and sappuro(sp?) station with loads of H-fuel and light arms, trying to get enough cash to replace my pirahna with a barracuda. Running into the high-level lane hackers, outcasts, and other baddies that lurk in Galileo. That part I managed somehow to live through, and breathed a sigh of releif after reaching Kusari turf, which is 100% neutral to me. Then I started getting lane hacked by kusari pirates. Hey, hot tip guys, but you're neutral...of course, they don't fire a shot. They fly right past. WtehF? Why lane-hack someone who you don't want to attack? All in all, what should have been a 40-60 minute round trip became a 2-and-a-half hour drag, thanks to those moronic kusari pirates.
------> While running over to rochester base, I get jumped by a batch of rogues. They die, I reel in the salvage: 2 Drails, a javelin launcher, and a single unit of food rations. I feel happy that I got something off the little goons, and continue on my way. About 3k from the junkers hide-out, I get a "drop the cargo!" message from some random junker in a CSV. Up comes the little screen, and I see what the would-be pirate is demanding. It isn't the 20 or so scrap metals I had mined out of the debris, it was...the lone food ration. Erm, okayeee...I'm right near your base, probably going to sell it there anyway, and I have other cargo that is potentially a hundred times more valuble. But no, he wants the food ration.
So, who has some stories of insanely stupid or over-eager AI players doing what they do best?
Reaper: $200,000,000.
Rockets: $100,000
The look on that pilot's face when you launch a full pod of screamers up his tailpipe: priceless
hope this wasnt a spoiler 
I wouldn't doubt someone at EA would have a problem with an Annapolis base, a planet Oxford, and while we're at it, instead of Manhattan call it New Detroit. DA could also call the outworlds things like Beta, Gamma, Delta and Delta Prime instead of Omicron Theta etc.
