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Re: Games for May - No, June! - Elite Plus. (hi Syd)

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On Aug 29, 5:49 am, Angus <angus@_ANTISPEM_angusm.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <122921076437328.NC-AmigaOS4.grou...@News.Individual.NET>,
> grou...@spamp.inet.fi says...
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> > On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:49:33 +0100, Angus wrote:
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> > > In article <1227532223306.NC-AmigaOS4.grou...@News.Individual.NET>,
> > > grou...@spamp.inet.fi says...
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> > > > > > > Y'see I spent a long time playing Elite where (during the lunch
> > > hour) we
> > > > > > > would try and make a successful run or two in a basic, non-upgraded
> > > > > > > ship. We loved the challenge of trying to fight your way through against
> > > > > > > the odds, although we generally avoided the most lawless systems.
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> > > > > > I suppose you can get some short term fun that
> > > > > > way - wait a minute, are you proposing some sort
> > > > > > of competition here?  :)
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> > > > > Any time, any system!  :)
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> > > > Any proposals about the rules?   :)
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> > > How about this:
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> > > Buy 2 tons of narcotics at Lave, jump to Orerve and dock. Highest amount
> > > of credits from bounties wins. This is before selling the narcotics.
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> > Ok, I'm game  :)
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> Let the games commence!    :)
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> Results posted here.
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> Nate, Hidehiko! To your ships, now!!   :)
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> (Chance would be a fine thing!)
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> > > Its a shame because the novella that came with the game referred to a
> > > legendary system called Raxxla that was defended (supposedly) by Elite
> > > pilots. It would have been a real nice touch and motivator for continued
> > > playing of the game.
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> > Indeed. It is fine and dandy to have a "sandbox game" where
> > you can freely roam and do whatever you please but this kind
> > of "ultimate reward" would not have hurt anything.
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> I think they would say, there comes a point where either though memory
> constraints or time, you have to say that's enough.
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> But yeah, it would have been cool.  :)- Hide quoted text -
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Away from home until next week, but I'll definitely give this a go!

I have a laptop with me that I think can run WinUAE so I'll

see if I can get this going even though I'm away...

Nate

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