Tales from the spacelanes...

[TGHC]

Good stuff Zigson nice first post.

[Ganelon]

Welcome aboard, Zigson, and an excellent tale!

My own little tale for this morning isn't near as inspiring.. But it deals with something a bit rare.

Some of you might have heard of "Treasuroids"? Ah, now the name alone sounds enticing enough doesn't it? But if you ever see them, they're pretty rare.



This is only the third I've ever seen, and I fly a bit. So there I was, enroute to Rabiarce in my Cobra with a little load of wines and furs, when the scanner shows a bunch of white blips with a couple ships wheeling about a ways off my port bow. I go over to see if it's something interesting, and right in the middle of a little cluster of asteroids, there's the treasuroid!

It's not the first one I've ever seen, and the last one I saw turned into 5 pirate ships when it broke up. So I used some caution. I mined all the asteroids on one side of it to allow for easy manoeuvring, and pulled back a ways before giving it a few light shots with the laser.



All that was inside it was one lonely little fugitive python. He was headed away, not particularly fast, so I slipped up behind him and put him out of his misery. No cargo to scoop, nobody to capture or rescue. I mined the rest of the asteroids, kinda hoping for something good, but all I got was minerals and a bit of alloy.

Still, a body can dream.. Maybe someday I'll come across one packed with gems and platinum or something. I mean, they have to be called "treasuroid" for a reason, right? But anyway, if you've never seen one before.. Well, now you have.

[Spartan]

My recent experiences have brought me out from lurking the boards; I'm one of the old guard, Elite on a C-64. Having found Oolite recently, I've been adding a few OXPs along and along and cruising about the Ooniverse.

So there I am a few days ago, having dabbled in this and that trading, transport, bounty hunting, and helping the war effort on the side. I was already back up to dangerous with over 1200 kills but still had not really found my primary income. Then I discover the joys of salvage, so now the only time I kill a Python is when the fool refuses to hit the escape pod.
What really clinched it for me was when I came across a Pirate Frigate. I swear, the first thought that crossed my mind was not 'how did they get one of those', not 'this is gonna be tough with him and his buddies', no, it was... 'Oh my god I wonder what i can get for salvaging one of those'! Sadly, I have not yet managed to make a Frigate drop the pods.

Today, the high point had been when those crazy Tigers hit me at the witch point with 4 groups at once. Yup, 4 Pythons and 12+ other ships. I'm getting tired of seeing these guys, they just do not learn. Apparently I don't either, because do I run? Ha! Bring it on. I manage to survive, having killed everything but the "Big Rigs", which should have clued them in (RUN AWAY) but they stay in for the end, I have to respect them for that. I managed to get three to eject, the fourth went down with his ship. I've got four salvage drones on my Cobra III and three Pythons fairly close, so I drop a drone on each as quickly as I could inject between them, so they head for the Dredger at about the same time. Soon as I have a bearing on the Dredger I head that way, coming across about eight more pirates, three Pythons and assorted trash. I take down everything but 2 of the Pythons which I convinced escaping would be the better plan. Now the problem is, I only have one salvage drone left. Hmmmm, I'm on almost a direct line between the dredger and the witchpoint beacon, so I drop a drone on one and hightail it for the dredger hoping they have more drones.

They do, and I restock and run back. I get to the last python and hit him with a drone just as the Tiger pack is passing by, so now I have 5 Pythons inbound for the dredger. It was glorious. (insert evil laughter)

I'm thinking I had hit the highpoint, when later on I jump into another system. The Tigers have apparently gotten a clue, because no one is waiting for me. I look around and see laser fire... around what appears to be a Long Range Cruiser! As I get closer on full injection, I realize it's not a fight around the cruiser, it's a pack of pirates attacking the defenseless beast. Civilians can be such morons at times, where is their defense? Bah. So as I start in on them I see flames from the Cruiser, Uh-oh. I manage to save the day or so I thought, the cloud of cargo I thought was from a fugitive Cobra III was actually... escape pods?!? After hurriedly ah "rescuing" them, I turn around and see the Cruiser when it dawns on me.... I just rescued the crew... of a now abandoned Long Range Cruiser. Can even a Super Dredger handle one of these? I'm about to find out. Sadly, apparently not today, all 4 salvage drones failed with various messages, pretty much translating to "Are you out of your mind?" Ah well.

And yes, this was long for a first post.

[Commander McLane]

Hi Spartan, and first of all welcome to the boards, and of course to this great game!

Smashing first post! Seems there's a lot going on in the Ooniverse...

[TGHC]

Welcome aboard Spartan, nice first post.

[Smivs]

Hi Spartan,
and welcome. Great first post. Life's never straightforward out there, is it?

[DaddyHoggy]

Welcome Spartan, as others have already noted - excellent story telling on your first post!

[Cody]

So you think that you’re a ‘top gun’ do you? Have a go with both McLane’s NPC Shields and Smivs’ TG2 OXPs installed… I did just that in a standard Cobra Mk III, and got my ass handed to me in very short order. I hit the injectors after this pic, but the Wardogs’ Cobra Mk I escorts hunted me down and gave me a right good slappin’… ‘Press space, Commander’.

[Yah-Ta-Hey]

In G1, coming out of Enonia in a brand new, fully loaded Griff Boa headed to Raaze, I come across this HUGE vessel called the BARAD-Ur so to test the might of this fantastic sight.. I let loose a ripple of missiles and my military lazer.... OH Boy.... It destroyed all my missles in a second, then looked like a roman candle gone crazy... all the while, it is fluctuating so rapidly, I could not get a target lock on it. Then I noticed a whole mess of red roman candle balls coming staight at me... must have 30 or more and as soon as 1 hit,,, it was like being hit with a paint ball gun on auto only more spectacular. needless to say, I lasted all of 3 seconds against it, then as the press space commander came up, I watched it non-chalantly scoop up my 140 tonnes of cargo in 1 big gulp.

It was totally worth doing it... now, there is a Venom in the area... He is next to be tested because he is one big ugly mother and worthy of a coup tap.

Yah-Ta-Hey looking for something not quite so big.

[Okti]

In G1, coming out of Enonia in a brand new, fully loaded Griff Boa headed to Raaze, I come across this HUGE vessel called the BARAD-Ur so to test the might of this fantastic sight.. I let loose a ripple of missiles and my military lazer.... OH Boy.... It destroyed all my missles in a second, then looked like a roman candle gone crazy... all the while, it is fluctuating so rapidly, I could not get a target lock on it. Then I noticed a whole mess of red roman candle balls coming staight at me... must have 30 or more and as soon as 1 hit,,, it was like being hit with a paint ball gun on auto only more spectacular. needless to say, I lasted all of 3 seconds against it, then as the press space commander came up, I watched it non-chalantly scoop up my 140 tonnes of cargo in 1 big gulp.

It was totally worth doing it... now, there is a Venom in the area... He is next to be tested because he is one big ugly mother and worthy of a coup tap.

Yah-Ta-Hey looking for something not quite so big.

Which OXP is that from?

[Cody]

I believe that's from McLane's Personalities OXP... it's Lestradae's ship, I think.

[Commander McLane]

Sounds very much like Lestradae. Should have said so in the ship's name, too.

[Yah-Ta-Hey]

Yes, personalities.oxp and I believe it said what you said.
There is also a galcop vice detective who is running a varik space plane who is pure evil to go up against.
I saw a caudecus OMEGA that I knew better to go up against. Yup... that one needs more muscle than I have.

[Okti]

Yes, personalities.oxp and I believe it said what you said.
There is also a galcop vice detective who is running a varik space plane who is pure evil to go up against.
I saw a caudecus OMEGA that I knew better to go up against. Yup... that one needs more muscle than I have.

And please check your Private messages.

Edit: Yah-Ta-Hey, when you log on BB next time, please look at upper left corner to see if you got any private messages!

[CaptSolo]

Sounds very much like Lestradae. Should have said so in the ship's name, too.

Commander McLane, is there a compatibility issue with Personalities and Oolite 1.75? Note: I do not have 1.75.1.

@Yah-Ta-Hey: I saw that beastie too and although his com messages sounded threatening I was not about to mess with him.