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[dr_st]

Originally posted by OsoSober@Apr 8 2006, 05:45 PM
and yes, i have been in the 9th galaxy, once years ago on the original game.

How do you get there?

[Luchsen]

Fixed.

[Luchsen]

Did you read the manual? I guess you didn't.

[The Bloodhawk]

This is one smooth game for it's time. Blew my mind.

Hi,

I was an avid Elite layer back in the day and very excited to get this version and run on DOS BOX.
All works fine except, after hyperspacing out of Lave to another planet , there is no spacestation. I have circled/orbited at close distance the planets in Leesti, Diso and few others, and there just is no spacestation. Unfortunately without trading the game isn't playable. Please help - I love this game so much!

Kind regards,

Tim

[jamotide]

Hehe, you have to fly to the planet first, put it in view and press J for time acceleration, it only works when no ship is near you.

Also 2 days ago David Braben started a kickstarter for Elite 4, it may finally be happening!

Originally Posted by jamotide

Hehe, you have to fly to the planet first, put it in view and press J for time acceleration, it only works when no ship is near you.

Also 2 days ago David Braben started a kickstarter for Elite 4, it may finally be happening!

Sorry, but I do fly to the planets, (using jump where possible) and then around the planet at close altitude but no spacestation ever come into view or on the console (S) scanner.

Originally Posted by jamotide

Hehe, you have to fly to the planet first, put it in view and press J for time acceleration, it only works when no ship is near you.

Also 2 days ago David Braben started a kickstarter for Elite 4, it may finally be happening!

I saw the Braben announcement, but that seems a long way off. Also why bother, when we already have the excellent Oolite? See www.oolite.org or Elite Wiki pages.

[marko river]

Same here. Few times I even carried my C64 with me in case I'm going somewhere for a few days. I was so hooked up on Elite. The feeling was... I gotta find that music I was listening to on audio tape while playing. I loved sequels with bigger background story and options, and then modern space games... but somehow the feeling wasn't the same. I guess it is because of age. You don't need much options and graphics if ther is imagination working, I guess.

I think I reache "Dangerous" status or something like that. Few times I tried "conquering" the planet, actually satelite. Ther was a local legend that you had to destroy some big number of guarding ships from satelite that are spawned if you shoot at it. And then you would get the message that they surrender and you would get lot of resources and something.... Anyway I tried it few times and escaped the system when things get out of hand, so it speeded up my kill count. I think I never went further that dimension 2 or 3 because I couldn't finish the second mission with that army ship. I think of replaying the game but I know that's impossible as adult, too much time is needed.

In all those hours and hours of playing, something happend only once to me. I was on my way to planet after jump and some object appeared. It was yellow in radar so I expected a pirate ship, but it was too small. So I went closer, because I wasn't firing at me... When I got close enough I saw it was some irregular object I never saw before. I spent quite some time flying around it and eventually decided to try picking it up. It turned out to be alien item which I carried for a while not knowing what can I use it for and eventually sold it. The fact that it happend so rarely thrilled me back then.

Awesome, awesome game. Too bad I never got to play MoonFall and Mercenary

[Simonius]

I was able to save and delete files in the game, but couldn't load a game after I saved it- it just kept giving me an error. I played in DosBox and copied the save file around, thinking it was a directory issue, but the fact that the game was able to delete the save files means it's a programming issue. Sadly, I deleted the game.