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From: CAH0@bunny.gte.com (Chuck Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Solarian II
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Date: 29 Apr 91 11:48:03 GMT
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In article <1991Apr26.175655.11136@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> 
ali@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Ali Lemer) writes:
>    Any Solarian II fans out there? 
> [...]
> I was just curious if anyone out there wanted to trade tips, etc.

Yes, I would like to trade tips, etc., and I did send Ben Haller
the shareware fee.

I found that I had finally become bored with the game, consistently 
scoring in the 200,000's, but with no apparent way to go beyond that 
because the gifts no longer come to the bottom of the screen after level 7 
or so.  Ben says the gifts can be "captured" anyway, but no one I know has 
ever done it.  They often just burp and go off the top of the screen in 
1-2 seconds, or follow what Ben calls "crazy" paths around the screen.  
Also, I normally get 40-42 on the second type of challenge round (the one 
that begins with a stream of Eyedroids coming in from the right) but don't 
seem to have to key to getting all 44.  The result?  Boredom because of no 
way to continue to improve.  You have to continue to get the gifts, and 
you have to ace the challenge rounds, but there doesn't seem to be a way 
to do either.  Although I lost interest in the game (in favor of the Chuck 
Yeager Advanced Flight Trainer, the commercial Tetris, and others) I would
be interested in tips in these two areas.  Maybe the game would
become interesting again.


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