What rank comes after 'Elite'?

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:44 pm

Cmdr James wrote:
The next objetive is to get the field storing the count to overflow.

Just in case anyone wants to try this in Oolite, you’ll need 4294967296 kills to wrap to 0.

Dr. Nil · Post by **Dr. Nil** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:20 am

Ahruman wrote:
Cmdr James wrote:
The next objetive is to get the field storing the count to overflow.
Just in case anyone wants to try this in Oolite, you’ll need 4294967296 kills to wrap to 0.

If you could play 24-7 and get a kill every second you should have started around 1872 to be close to that mark now.

If you need to eat and sleep and you can only find an enemy every minute you should probably have started playing some time during the late Upper Paleolithic.

Post by **Cmdr James** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:25 am

It is well established in the elite universe that elite is the top of the system. I would actually find it quite a shame to add anything else. Maybe "2x Elite" at double the kills, but frankly by the time you reach elite, I think the number of kills speaks for itself and a new title is kind of redundant.

polyh · Post by **polyh** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:11 am

You could add a question at the beginning of the game, just like the question at start of registration for this bb: Are you at least 13 years old? If answered no there is another rank added above Elite, that would be 1337.

Post by **Cmdr James** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:16 am

How about at 12800 you go from elite to oolite, and for each 6400 you get an extra o on the front ooolite etc.

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:44 pm

Dr. Nil wrote:
Ahruman wrote:
Cmdr James wrote:
The next objetive is to get the field storing the count to overflow.
Just in case anyone wants to try this in Oolite, you’ll need 4294967296 kills to wrap to 0.
If you could play 24-7 and get a kill every second you should have started around 1872 to be close to that mark now.

If you need to eat and sleep and you can only find an enemy every minute you should probably have started playing some time during the late Upper Paleolithic.

Conversely, you could do all the missions in Assassins consecutively, ensuring 100% annihilation of all ships in each system you visit.

Captain Hesperus

Cmdr Wyvern · Post by **Cmdr Wyvern** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:01 pm

If you had a mind to cheat evilly, you could q-bomb the TOGY a couple of times.

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:53 pm

Cmdr Wyvern wrote:
If you had a mind to cheat evilly, you could q-bomb the TOGY a couple of times.

And what kill rating did that get you?

Captain Hesperus

Cmdr Wyvern · Post by **Cmdr Wyvern** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:31 pm

Captain Hesperus wrote:
Cmdr Wyvern wrote:
If you had a mind to cheat evilly, you could q-bomb the TOGY a couple of times.
And what kill rating did that get you?

Captain Hesperus

It was an experiment at the start of my career mind, while still flying that old Cobby, and well before acquiring the Tiomat.

The rating went from 'Mostly Harmless' to somewhere in the middle of 'Competent' with one well placed mine, and a really big bang.
Unfortunately my experiment sent me into Press Space Commander Land and back to the Academy. Q-bombs are very dangerous toys indeed.
I think I'd rather gain Elite the old-fashioned way by applying excessive laser surgery to pirates.

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:15 am

Cmdr James wrote:
How about at 12800 you go from elite to oolite, and for each 6400 you get an extra o on the front ooolite etc.

Hee hee hee. I like that one.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:34 am

To answer the question how many people actually are Elite: My commander is close to the 10000 now (right now 9698, to be precise). And he is just making his first experiments with the cloaking device (which is going to cost him a couple of kills, of course). Hasn't been in Galaxy 5 for long (just finished Deposed), so the whole fun of Assassins is still waiting for him (and I guess not only this is going to add to his killcount, but also the two galaxies he still needs to cover to even get there (I'm counting Galaxy 5 as "yet to explore", because he hasn't really spent any noticable time in it)).

Cmdr Wyvern · Post by **Cmdr Wyvern** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:58 pm

Fancy some bounty hunting?
Galaxy 5 is full of Anarchies and Feudal states. Add Random Hits to the mix, and your go at scumbag whacking is pretty much made.

As for the cloaking device, I programmed a button on my joystick to toggle it on and off. Yay for joystick software! When things get too hot, I can cloak up with the press of a button, then decloak, shoot down a hostile, and cloak back up before the others start shooting back. Space ninja, hehe.

Rimbaud · Post by **Rimbaud** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:19 pm

Selezen wrote:
Cmdr James wrote:
How about at 12800 you go from elite to oolite, and for each 6400 you get an extra o on the front ooolite etc.
Hee hee hee. I like that one.

I agree, it's genius