Trumble infestation

Post by **winston** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:18 am

I caught a nasty infestation last night when engaging in scooping dubious goods from space (the less said about how the goods got there in the first place, the better). I thought I'd let the little critter stay for a while because I had a lot on my mind - the Thargoid wars for starters.

This is not a great place to get a Thargoid infestation. Fighting Thargoids with half a dozen trumbles running around your ship's flight deck makes for tough battle. So I decided they had to be exterminated.

Some of them were tough buggers. I almost lost the ship once or twice trying to get rid of every last one, knowing that if complete extermination wasn't done, they'd just keep coming back. Don't let the blighters breed or you'll regret it!

Evil Juice · Post by **Evil Juice** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:38 am

I must say that on the verge of a nervous breakdown i used the most unortodox non-conventional insecticide. XML

Commander Gralen · Post by **Commander Gralen** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:22 pm

kill 'em?

How do u do that?

Tell me!

Lanx · Post by **Lanx** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:40 pm

Evil Juice:

Trumbles are best served hot

Search for "Trumbles" if that was not clear enough.

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:59 pm

spoiler: complete:

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Abj trg bhgn gurer dhvpx orsber lbh sel gbb! (ulcrefcnpr bhg vf n tbbq jnl, cerfrg n fgne)

copy/paste into http://www.rot13.com/index.php

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:58 am

You want to know a much easier and more phpBB frienly spoiler method?

open a quote tag, set the font to white colour and write your text in the quote tag, then the viewer has to highlight it to view.

Looks like this (highlight to view):

SPOILER!!! wrote:
There are 15 different kinds of trumble. The first 14 are just different coloured, cute little animals. The 15th is a sort of super trumble that grows, eats the other ones, develops sentience, posesses your body and takes over your ship.

Yeah, like anyone's gonna believe that...<BRAINS...BRAINS...>

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:41 pm

Neat trick, but that wouldn't work for the wiki?

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:11 pm

Does it need to be done for the wiki?

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:52 pm

IMO, yes, people keep coming back for info about missions, so the current spoiler-section (trumbles served hot IIRC) is a bit sparse...

I mean, it's all good and well for veteran Eliteers/Ooliteers to be all smug about how we all know how to do stuff, but people overall *do* like cheats, so it'd fill a need...

Some missions are... 'Weird' because of the og. Elite ancestory, esp. the Constrictor mission, I clearly remember thinking not getting any info rightaway was a scripting bug etc...

A lot of young people I know, buy games, download the cheats *rightaway* and just walk through games like that. Personally, I think that's very, very weird, I mean: they buy a game, and play it through, often within the first hour or so... Then they buy another etc... Where's the fun in that? But it seems like common behaviour nowadays...

rbird · Post by **rbird** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:06 pm

Is it my imagination, or are trumble-canisters much more common these days than they used to be? I don't remember ever noticing one until the 1.63 windows version was released. Of course, my play style has changed recently as well (in that I'm now scooping MANY more canisters than before

). Perhaps that has something to do with it.

Fortunately, I haven't run across any containing actual live trumbles (yet).

Bob

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:16 pm

sFunny, I had the impression there were actually less Trumbles cannisters since 1.63

Maybe I changed my style, too. But in the other way... (I do tend to ignore a lot of cannisters, lately, since I feel I make enough money already...)

ArkanoiD · Post by **ArkanoiD** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:07 am

Rxke wrote:
IMO, yes, people keep coming back for info about missions, so the current spoiler-section (trumbles served hot IIRC) is a bit sparse...

I mean, it's all good and well for veteran Eliteers/Ooliteers to be all smug about how we all know how to do stuff, but people overall *do* like cheats, so it'd fill a need...

Some missions are... 'Weird' because of the og. Elite ancestory, esp. the Constrictor mission, I clearly remember thinking not getting any info rightaway was a scripting bug etc...

A lot of young people I know, buy games, download the cheats *rightaway* and just walk through games like that. Personally, I think that's very, very weird, I mean: they buy a game, and play it through, often within the first hour or so... Then they buy another etc... Where's the fun in that? But it seems like common behaviour nowadays...

Well, trumble (tribble there) mission was in E+ and i figured what to do by myself without any cheats