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That was deeply unsatisfying. I am so glad I didn't try and blindly persevere with killing all those ships for a rubbish "Congratulations" message.

On to bigger and better things now.

It's alright - found it. Thank God!! Smivs - just saw your post. Oh yes - I love this game. This is what Elite should have been 29 years ago (if the computing power had existed, of course!). The expansion packs just make the whole thing awesome. I desperately want to get to Deadly before 5th August ...

OK I am terminally bored of this mission now.

Is there any way I can amend the save game file or anything else to reduce the number of Ramazan ships needing to be killed down to something more manageable (like only another 5 say)?

Otherwise I'm offski from Ramaza and won't be returning.

Thank you

This mission has encouraged me to invest in Port and Starboard Military lasers to deal with the Weapons platforms so I can't really complain - I had never seen a use for anything above and beyond fore and aft before.

Oh well, back to it - only about 1608 or so ships to go

I'm doing what I think is the final Ionics mission taking on the Ramazan military (the one where they start out with 190+ ships). It started out as quite good fun but currently I have killed c. 30 ships but now there don't appear to be any more forthcoming. I'm sat near the space station waiting for...

I was having difficulty (having saved in Notepad after my son took my saved game for a spin ). I found re-opening in Notepad++ and going Encoding>Convert to ANSI successfully replaced the file so Oolite would recognise it again.

Oh yeah! First Platinum contract run made for a fee of 8000ish Cr. Now have options for a gold contract with fee of 15000 Cr. I will afford that new ship soon enough!

Awesome - thanks guys. I am a past master at run away whilst administering rear laser. Every now and then I think it might be nice to be a courageous individual fighting from the front but you can't spend those Cr when you're dead!

Brilliant advice above - thanks. A couple of times when I've approached a Seedy Bar, all hell has been breaking loose in the vicinity and these utter gits flying Imperial Couriers seem to take an instant dislike to me and blow the heck out of me. In a standing fight, I don't seem to stand a chance a...

Thanks guys. I'll go back in again and see if the target pops up.

I'm doing a mission in Random Hits and am at the system where the target is to be found. I have been back and forth from Witch point to Space Station to Seedy Bar to Rock Hermit to sun and back, jumped out of system and back in again and generally tried to do as much as possible to find the target b...

I just keep finding new ways to enjoy this game! Downloaded Random Hits and took out my first 'hit'. Boy that was fun!!!

Oh wow! Saw this stream of red dots coming off a mahoosive ship and thought cool, that's a frigate! Didn't realise it was an enemy pirate frigate firing at me !!!! Employing the standard Cmdr Tricky tactics of running away and blasting with the aft laser (and taking out the stream of ECM hardened mi...

I think I will try the BCC next as I would like to give a bulk hauler a go before moving onto the OXP ships.

Shouldn't take too long to save for it either if I have many trips like the last one: nearly 5000 Cr (from bounties, rescue fees and plundered cargo )

Hmm, I've got too used to blowing Pythons up to want to pilot one I think :) What about the Boa Class Cruiser? How does that fair? I like the look of the SuperCobra!!! Just think it might take me a while to save for it! Rather like the look of the Caduceus too. Concerned that might feel a bit like c...