Next Mission ?

Lycanthrope · Post by **Lycanthrope** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:13 am

OK, just blew the Constrictor out of the sky, boy that felt good.

As I am still in Galaxy 2 is there any recommendations to what mission to choose next ?

jonnycuba · Post by **jonnycuba** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:24 am

http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Oolite_Missions

try this...

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:44 pm

In Galaxy 2 Ionics is the mission of choice for you.

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:46 pm

I second that, Ionics is a good choice.

Lycanthrope · Post by **Lycanthrope** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:48 pm

Thanks for the advice, just nailed the Ionics Funnelweb

Lycanthrope · Post by **Lycanthrope** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:49 am

Ok, took out the last whitetail lastnight. Bit of an anticlimax at the end, but hey the whole mission did tune up my skills a bit, and upped my kills.

A big thanks to the author.

Further recommendations required, ie stay in Galaxy 2 or move on

LittleBear · Post by **LittleBear** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:05 pm

Galaxy 3 and the "Thargoid Plans" I'd say!

Then 4 for Nova, Lovecats and Deposed.

hircus · Post by **hircus** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 5:52 pm

Restarting an old thread here: apart from stumbling into it, or reading the Wiki, is there a way for users to get the hint that they need to go to Galaxy 3 to get to the next mission (Thargoid Plans)?

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:25 am

hircus wrote:
Restarting an old thread here: apart from stumbling into it, or reading the Wiki, is there a way for users to get the hint that they need to go to Galaxy 3 to get to the next mission (Thargoid Plans)?

No, and why should it?

Missions are (in my humble opinion) like easter-eggs in the game. If you're just playing it without any additional information the only way to get a mission is to accidentally find, or - as you so beautifully put it - stumble into it. If you want to plan your mission career, please refer to the documentation (read: wiki).

That's by the way exactly my experience with Elite. I played Elite from some Gold-Collection for the C64, which had only very rudimentary documentation. So I had no idea that something like missions existed at all. Therefore I was taken completely by surprise when after a long while of playing suddenly - without any prior warning - my very first mission screen popped up (it was the Constrictor hunt). Never had I expected something like this! I had done a lot of trading, planet-hopping, bounty hunting, pirating, etc. I really thought I had seen it all. And with one little docking, all out of a sudden, the game was taken to a completely new level. Missions! Something never seen before. I still remember just how excited I was.

So, when I had hunted down the Constrictor I started to visit every planet in Galaxy 2, because I was so afraid I could miss another mission, if I didn't get to the right place. Sadly for me the next one was waiting only in Galaxy 3...

hircus · Post by **hircus** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:01 pm

Commander McLane wrote:
That's by the way exactly my experience with Elite. I played Elite from some Gold-Collection for the C64, which had only very rudimentary documentation. So I had no idea that something like missions existed at all. Therefore I was taken completely by surprise when after a long while of playing suddenly - without any prior warning - my very first mission screen popped up (it was the Constrictor hunt). Never had I expected something like this! I had done a lot of trading, planet-hopping, bounty hunting, pirating, etc. I really thought I had seen it all. And with one little docking, all out of a sudden, the game was taken to a completely new level. Missions! Something never seen before. I still remember just how excited I was.

Ah, thanks. I missed out on the original Elite series, and with all the mission-oriented OXPs, where the parameters of the missions are necessarily made more explicit, I was wondering why the same is not true of the built-in missions (there's the Trumbles mission that every old-timer is coy about, but in that case it's essential -- one would not want to spoil the surprise!)