schur@isi.edu (Sean Schur) (12/09/90)
I am getting kind of frustrated with Star Trek III. I wonder if someone could give me some pointers. First of all, I have a really hard time getting any missions completed. Whenever I go into warp I seem to be stopped within seconds by either another Federation ship, enemy ships or an Asteroid belt. Once I get past the obstacle there is another one right away. This is really frustrating becauase I keep getting stopped, then I get the messages to complete my mission or else, then I'm relieved of command. Any suggestions? The enemy ships I can pretty much handle. Put up your shields, set your target, and keep firing and reseting the target. The target setting is, in my opinion, the biggest problem with the game. Click on set, go up to the window on click on the place to put it, then go back down and start to fire. The enemy ships can fire on you 4 or 5 times in the time it takes to reset the target. This gets very tedious. It's also difficult becuase if the cursor goes anywhere near the edge of the screen you lose your target and you have to go down and click set again. It might be nice to be able to move the target around with direction arrows like the ones already there for manuevering the ship. Also, don't you think a ship as advanced as the Enterprise would have some kind of automatic target allocation? This leads me to my second problem. The asteroid belts are a pain in the butt. It is REALLY difficult to allocate the asteroids as targets fast enough to fire on them with the current system (see above). There are usually two or more on the screen at once and it's really fast. Also, they seem to go on and on, sometimes I'm stuck in an asteroid belt for 5 to 10 minutes. This gets VERY tedious. Is there another way to avoid them or get away from them then to just keep setting your target and firing? On a fairly regular basis it seems I get caught in a magnetic storm while I'm at a planet, that I need something from. I can fly away and come back but it usually is still there. Is there another way to get rid of or away from magnetic storms then to wait them out? How does the coordinates system work? Sometimes I get missions to go help a ship at such and such coordinates. However the star map with the navigator has a different coordinate system that doesn't include the numbers that Star Fleet has given me. What is the translation of the coordinates that I given to the ones on my own map? Is there anything wrong with beaming up things from a planet other then the ones you need? For instance, if I'm told to go to a planet to pick up tools and they have Dilithium Crystals also, can I just beam them up too? Will I get in trouble later? Along the same lines, if I have Dilithium Crystals in my hold is there a way to use them when I'm low on energy? And when another Federation ship asks for energy do I have to actually beam something like Dilithium Crystals over to them, or if I just send them a message saying that they can have it is it done automatically for me? Thanks for any and all help. I like the game. I'm just a little frustrated right now. ============================================================================== \ / \ \ / / Sean Schur \ \ / / \ \/ / USENET: schur@isi.edu \ /a\mpyr/ Compuserve: 70731,1102 \/ \ / ideo Plink: OSS259 \/ ==============================================================================