Date   : Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:06:29 -0700 (PDT)
From   : Angus Duggan <angus@...>
Subject: playing ELITE

Endie writes:
>Or even "give the lass an iron ass" as I seem to remember the novella
>saying, fifteen-odd years on, then line up perfectly with the entrance to
>the space station and shoot a quick burst (save the energy) of those those
>quick-recharging lasers at the station, and blow up the wings of four vipers
>that come out.  Make sure you have the ability to get away, though: after a
>few dozen police even the best of us need rear-firing military lasers and an
>energy bomb...  Oh, and you might as well have a cargo of firearms and an

Energy bomb? Nah, too much of a cop-out. I removed them from Elite-A.

>anarchy planet nearby to go to because you're going to be public enemy
>number one for quite a while....

In Elite-A being public enemy number 1 means rather more than in the normal
versions; if you genuinely are that bad, the cops will sally out from the
space station the moment you come in range, regardless of whether the crime
was in their solar system. You'd better have fuel scoops to get away from the
scene of the crime, or an escape pod. Or you'd better be more than merely
Elite...

The real challenge is getting a commander to Elite without ever reverting
from a saved game because you got blown up. If you can do this in the
original Elite, try a harder version!

a.