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From: jdi@sparky.UUCP (John Irwin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xtrek problem
Message-ID: <8811080801.AA06095@sparky>
Date: 8 Nov 88 08:01:19 GMT
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Your message:

    In the referenced message, scotts@scam.UUCP (Scott Silvey) wrote:
    >                 XtrekII also has a super-user ship in the form
    >  of the AT&T 'Death Star' logo.

    I see, this must be to make it even easier for Scott Silvey to arbitrarily
    throw people out of "his" game.

    My opinion is that the POSITIVELY ANCIENT version of xtrek included in R3
    is far more playable than either of the untuned hacks in use at UCB.
    ---
    Jef
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Well, except that the R3 xtrek has "ship types", which gives an enormous
advantage over someone who is using the default ship.

Something like:

xtrek*ship:	aaiiMDFE

is good, but for real fun try:

xtrek*killer:	aaiiMDFEppppTVVG

It isn't much problem to rack up 20 or more kills with one of these special
ships, so unless the other players have a clue it's not much of a challenge.

	-- John