Path: utzoo!censor!geac!maccs!johns
From: johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Elite!
Message-ID: <25AE1823.8928@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 12 Jan 90 17:47:15 GMT
References: <18389@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <844@orange9.qtp.ufl.edu> <7328@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Reply-To: johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian)
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Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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>> 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?

	I avoid this by getting a docking computer.  It docks so fast that
	the cops don't get a chance at me.  And this is the part I like best:
	(Taken straight out of the manual) "It comes with MemnSomn pilot
	interaction to induce hi-cram sleep during the manoevre."

>If somehow you lose your clean status, you can escape from your ship if
>you have purchased a life pod.  The status stays with your ship, and you
>end up docked with a ship furnished exactly the same as the one you
>ditched (thanks to the "insurance policy" provided by the life pod
>purchase), minus the life pod.

	This hasn't worked for me.  Am I doing something wrong?  I make sure
	I don't carry any cargo, get into a fight, and then eject.  
	I get my ship back just as before, but my status is still bad.
	What's going on?

>At various points in the game, after several hours of play, you'll be
>offered the opportunity to go on missions.  The extra passenger room
>comes into play on one of these.

	I thought I'd played a while, but I haven't seen this yet.  Better
	get cracking.


>				*** Daryl ***


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"After all is said and done,                       John Schmitt
 a lot more is said than done."                    johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
Don't blame anybody for what I say.                SCHMITTJ@SCIvax.mcmaster.ca