dav@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (William David Haas) (01/10/90)
I finally got around to playing Elite! Great game. I have been playing for a week and I have finally gotten all the fun toys for my ship. I have a few question Elite status pilots might be able to answer. Can you play the game without becoming an 'Offender'. I blew up a pirate and picked up his cargo and it was guns. I couldn't get rid of the stuff so I had to sell it. I don't see how you would get anywhere if you didnt hunt pirates on the side so are you reqired to be semi-illegal? If your status is not clean you occasionally get cops chasing you. You can't outrun them (unless you hyperspace out) but if you kill one you become a fugitive and then they chase you around forever. Wouldn't be so bad if they didn't try to kill you; you are forced to kill them. Am I missing something? The docs say there is room for two people in the ship. Does this come to play in the game? What do the colors in the 3d section mean? Are they explained anywhere? I have figured them out (for the most part) but I can't find them explained in the docs.