Oolite Bulletins

I had a go at a broke adder start last night; griff adder, no fuel, no missile, no credits, no nuthin'.

First attempt I managed to hitch a lift with a boa to the next system. Unfortuantely that system was Riedquat (TL4 poor industrial anarchy). I should have just stayed with the convoy, but I got bored and went to help an anaconda in trouble. Got a 9cr bounty off a sidewinder (I think), all my own work. A bit closer to the planet I got ambushed by a moray star boat. I was lucky enough to shoot down the missile it shot at me (seriously, pure luck), but it was soon joined by a python class cruiser and a third ship, I forget what type. That was me done. No amount of dodging was going to get me to the main station and, being an anarchy, there was no chance of rescue by the police.

Second attempt went much better, my lift took me to Zaonce (TL12 average industrial corporate state) and I managed to find a rock hermit in sight of the station. After clearing the asteroids from around the hermit I had amassed the princely sum of 27.8Cr, a fair bit of in-system trading later and I'm up to 500.5Cr and a full fuel tank.

It'll be a while before I can afford a decent ship I think.

Stellar serpent just bit the dust under my laser fire. He barely got out five shots at me (outmaneuvering those things is key to defeating them). Then I went ahead and used my energy bomb to detonate the corpse segments (which I might not have done, in hindsight, as that's gonna cost me the full bounty to replace the bomb. Time to dip into my personal savings again...?)

An easy hit that turned a smidge hard...I found my quarry just off the space lane, so I locked on and started firing. He witchspaced out. No problem, I hitched a ride on his wormhole, and then locked onto him at the new witchspace beacon. I was surrounded by about six or seven cops, but they took no notice of me and my quarry.

So, I started firing again, and he went down fast. Then, an ominous transmission - Q-Bomb: "Can you hear the drums?"

Cue the Symphony of Oh Crap in D Minor...

I hit the fuel injectors and got the heck out of there, barely in time. As I'm flying out, I switch to aft. The witchspace beacon, the fuel station, and all the cops...history. More explosions from the fuel, and this is catching up to me fast...with me using my mil fuel injectors!

I made it out alive, thankfully, but man that was scary. Hey, at least I didn't get blamed for the explosion, and I still got my bounty payment! I still feel back for the cops, tho...

Eldon wrote:

I had a go at a broke adder start last night; griff adder, no fuel, no missile, no credits, no nuthin'.

I have started a commander with that ship. From Switek's Mod I take it?
My first run with it I miss-jumped somebody else's worm hole. Ran away from the fight and then came back and scooped up five Thargletts and shot the rest. Ended up with 3562 cr for one run in an adder. Got injectors and now that is my main income. miss-jump RUN come back gingerly and pick off what I can. I really enjoy the patient game now and then.

Fatleaf wrote:

My first run with it I miss-jumped somebody else's worm hole. Ran away from the fight and then came back and scooped up five Thargletts and shot the rest. Ended up with 3562 cr for one run in an adder. Got injectors and now that is my main income. miss-jump RUN come back gingerly and pick off what I can. I really enjoy the patient game now and then.

Now that's inspired! I'd have never have thought of that as a way to make decent money in an Adder!

I have now a military laser shield boosters and a few other bits of kit. I intend to completely iron ass it as I am getting rather fond of the little runt.

Hey, sounds like fun Leafy. I've got a save for an Iron-Ass Adder somewhere but have never really used it. One day...

Excellent, leafy... that's a real commander's way of doing it.

I've occasionally thought about trying the Adder game, but I could never see how I could make enough money quickly enough to put some decent equipment on it with such limited cargo capacity to prevent me from getting bored. Clearly you've found a good way to go about it!

Fatleaf wrote:

I have now a military laser shield boosters and a few other bits of kit. I intend to completely iron ass it as I am getting rather fond of the little runt.

Wait till you put a Q-Charger on it, hehe!

Fatleaf wrote:

I have now a military laser shield boosters and a few other bits of kit. I intend to completely iron ass it as I am getting rather fond of the little runt.

Amazing how we get bonded to our ships, isn't it? At one point, I was thinking of upgrading to a Wyvern White at some point, but I'm so fond of my Red, I don't think I'll ever trade it in.

They're like old friends. I still fondly remember the Fatal Attraction, my old Python. And although I've been thoroughly enjoying flying a Contractor for a few months testing, and more recently the excellent Cobra S9 (testing something else), I'll always go back to my Boa Clipper the Bilbo Maru in the end.

I'm gonna have to start a new character just for cargo contracts. Can't do that in a Red...but I'm NOT letting that ship go! (Even though I'd probably make a four mil profit in switching to a Boa Class Cruiser...I just can't stand the thought of doing it.)

Dragonfire wrote:

...Even though I'd probably make a four mil profit in switching to a Boa Class Cruiser...I just can't stand the thought of doing it.

The way I got most of my assets was trade on board the Koneko Maru. She was a good Boa Clipper. Just think if I went back, even temporarily (Smivs, please try to convince me to go back).

Start a new save file, man. You're obviously quite attached to your Caddy.