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After I buy a Military Drive Class 2 and try to leave a docking station (on Soholia,) I get stuck in the bay doors.
Is this a curable bug? How do I best buy M.D. Class 2 near Gateway?

More information: it doesn't matter whether it is an inside docking bay or outside.
And both Military Drive class 1 or 2 cause the bug.
I am stuck when departing:
Bug info: Inside docking: the ship will not accelerate at all, if there's enough space I can maneuver about in all directions. When there isn't space it will hit a wall and lose Hull fast.
Outside docking: As soon as I hit the 'Engines On' button the screen shakes up and down wildly and any attempt to fly away results in crashing to the planet surface.

[whatshisface]

I took the advice gregor gave a couple pages back, (to sol, buy stuff, to bernards star, sell stuff, buy stuff)... and now i am very very rich!! my problem is my progres is slowing because of my small cargo space, i need a ship that is cheep and has a big cargo hold. Please help.

[Eva02Soul]

My first choice in the career i'm playing now, after the default saker 3, was the viper 2. Nice amount of room for cargo after you've loaded it up with essentials.

The military drives use a special military fuel instead of just hydrogen fuel, so you probably just don't have any of the correct type of fuel. (MD's also produce radioactives, which are illegal some places, like at sol, so consider that when you buy one)

Don't even TRY combat until you can successfully manually navigate a complete jump, from take off, thru hyperspace, to docking, without using the autopilot even once. And the docking should be at a rotating space station. That is the MINIMUM competancy necessary for combat.

[bahman]

Originally posted by whatshisface@Nov 26 2005, 05:48 PM
I took the advice gregor gave a couple pages back, (to sol, buy stuff, to bernards star, sell stuff, buy stuff)... and now i am very very rich!! my problem is my progres is slowing because of my small cargo space, i need a ship that is cheep and has a big cargo hold. Please help.

So I think you need a bigger car (truck).

[gregor]

Originally posted by whatshisface@Nov 26 2005, 05:48 PM
I took the advice gregor gave a couple pages back, (to sol, buy stuff, to bernards star, sell stuff, buy stuff)... and now i am very very rich!! my problem is my progres is slowing because of my small cargo space, i need a ship that is cheep and has a big cargo hold. Please help.

there is plenty of bigger ships available... you should do some search on various planets (i suggest you try and get something in bernards star as they probably are better stocked). basically if you are on space station you can buy teh biggest one you can afford and then strip. all it needs (for trade in those two safe systemes) is cargo space and engines. you dont' need anything else.

oh and crew. always make sure enough people want to fly!!!! pay them good salary at first, you can sack them later. don't worry.

in fact i have now all my crew on minimum wage :evil: and i drive a panther clipper (has problems with rocket bug, but who needs rockets on such big ship...)

As for shields - yeah this part is a bit strange, because the larger cargo space the larger shields you can have. Imperial explorer is the largest fighter, but for example my cargo ship has so much generators (i think 200) plus i equiped it with all extras (such as energy boosters, autorepair etc.) that it can sustain most of attacks. the only one that burns out the shields and hull to quickly are impersial explorers with particle accelerators. but there are very few of them in systems and i can always load and destroy them.
also dangerous are smaller ships equiped with 100MW beam laser, but only if they have some supports. otherwise i am invincible. my turrets take care of pirate scum.

Guys, try a game called Protostar: War on the Frontier. I remember playing it in the old days; you can trade, explore a sector (including planet surface), several races to deal with, name planets and alien species and you have a story to unfold.

Not as big or as open-ended as Elite, but much more fun. And much less buggy too.

uhmm

protostar was a helpless little game really. With a very small playwindow if i recall right.

[Danny252]

Im doing Sol-Barnards and within 1 game year I've made quite alot of money. Im also on my 3rd ship. 65 tons of space, man!

My essentials:
Drive
Autopilot
Scanner
Nav Computer

Thats all you need when travelling in safe systems! And then you dont really need the scanner.