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[Manchild]

you spelled device wrong....



i never liked trading with the Melnorme.... the Druuge were much more fun.


the melnorme background changes color according to its mood i think....but i never figured out if their mood affected prices....





Go to Delta Crateris V. it will take a bit of fuel if you wish to survive, but its so worth it.

oh and the game ends just after Feb 24 2159 or 2160 if you postpone it for a year.....

[LordBucket]

I highly recommend you read this particular spoiler:

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Eventually you will meet a race called the Pkunk. At some point they will give you some ships. Feel free to use them, or not...but no matter what else you do, make sure that you always have at least one of these ships. If you lose your last one in combat, restore from a save. They are mostly irreplacable, and there will eventually come a certain point of the game that will be nearly-unbeatable if you do not have a Pkunk ship.

[beorn080]

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I hated the Pkunk ships, and beat it without using them. If you start a certain chain of events, that is extremely useful in the longrun for reducing costs, they should show up right when you need them, if you need more ships at that time.  Also, there is a race close to your start that is instantly friendly and sports EXCELLENT ships, that will join you quickly. They are very odd however.

Spoiler on ship preference below, no plot points.

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My ship of choice is the Utwig ship. Six guns, and an UNBREAKABLE shield that absorbs damage as shield energy. Did I mention that the gun doesn't use up battery power and is fairly rapid fire. Against a good cyborg, I'm up to about 8 Ur-Quan dreadnaughts with 1 Utwig ship.

[kcwong]

I think I'll avoid this thread for now... too many spoilers, and everyone's view on what is a spoiler is different.

UQM is too good a game, I can't risk spoiling it on my first play through...

[Sergius]

The second time was after this thread... the first battle in the game, precursor ship vs a battered cloaking spider ship. It spawned pretty close, and with us pointing at each other.

Just FYI, that is one of the "special abilities" of the Ilwrath cloaking ship, that it spawns really close... the idea is that you get one try at some really good damage with the pitiful range of its flamethrower.

[kcwong]

Hmm... I'm not supposed to open this thread when I'm still on my first play through... but I want to keep people updated on my progress (that maybe some of you are interested).

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I tried to go to find the Zot Fot Pik, but the opposition there's way too tough for me. And they told me to hurry... I hope I won't fail this one because of a timed quest. I think it would be fun to chat with those little guys with Captain Fwiffo at my side... and I have yet to ask them if Fot is capable of speech at all...

Unable to enter enemy space and come back alive, I reloaded and decided to continue gathering resources. I explored the Lyrae and Canopus systems, and found my first bio data. I then headed "south" beyond Alpha Centauri and explored Saurus and Giclas systems.

Giclas is VERY rich in radioactive minerals as well as bio data, and the environments are not very hostile too. I had a big bunch of enemies approaching in hyperspace, but since I absoultely cannot fight anyone right now, I used my maxed thrusters and turn thrusters to run away, exploring most of Giclas before heading back to Sol.

Now with much bio data stored, I just need to find the traders again... so that I can have some real weapon to install on my rear slot. I dropped by Alpha Centauri on the way back, but I can't seem to find them. Darn.

Now my ship has 2 storage bays, 2 crew quarters, 3 fuel tanks, max thrusters, max turn thrusters, 2 drop ships, and the default ion gun.

[IndonesiaWarMinister]

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Have you found the Fingers? I am searching for them now

[Mephisto]

How do you manage to not get mobbed in hyperspace when leaving systems with large groups of baddies around? One sucks me in. I explode them or run away. While I'm swirling back into hyperspace, another one hovers under me and grabs me before I have a chance to do anything. Repeat.

[beorn080]

Slaughter them. Your cruiser is relatively worthless in battle, but you will receive information about a better ship from the guy on the station. It is very powerful, and can kill almost anything if skillfully piloted, but is irreplaceable until you do a certain task.

[kcwong]

@ Mephisto: I took down a Probe once with a new ship of mine.

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Pluto

Otherwise I visit only the safe place (i.e. outside enemy faction's sphere of influence), and quickly upgrade my flagship thruster to the max.

After that I align myself properly before entering hyperspace, so I don't waste time turning and can use my superior speed to outrun them. You have to be careful when using auto-pilot to travel long distances - you might get surrounded.

And I just hit the mother lode!

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I found two planets with lots of gold in Alpha Ptolemae. No lightning, no life form, just mild tremors. I now have 5000 RU to spend on a Fusion blaster... I wonder if it's worth it though. Maybe I'll get it and mount it at the rear, and use it to do some quests... I've heard about the surviving Shofixti, and I want to help ZFP too.

[beorn080]

My ONLY complaint with this game is the lack of randomization. Yeah, I understand that randomizing race spheres and such could be complicated, but resources could be slightly randomized. The fact that you will always find the same number of resource nodes on pluto is a bit annoying for future playthroughs.

[Mephisto]

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I already knew about Pluto. That's the only one of their ships I'll ever have as they all ran back home and erected a planet shield.

[beorn080]

I just remembered my other complaint. No matter how many ships you destroy, there is no effect on the game. Never.

[AlStar]

I just remembered my other complaint. No matter how many ships you destroy, there is no effect on the game. Never.

That's not entirely true. If you destroy 25 Thraddash ships, you can

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get them as allies.

But yes, other than that, you're right.

I figure that it's just assumed that the total amount of damage that any one person can do (even if you destroy dozens of ships) to an entire stellar civilization is negligable.... even if this is somewhat twisted by the fact that a single Khor-ah or Ur-Quan ship can apparently take out the entire Zot-Fot-Pik race.

[beorn080]

Other then that, dealing massive damage does nothing cept get you resources. Admittedly, once you can destroy ships, they are great sources of resources, but thats it. Only one way to actually win.