PhillyKickboxingWorld Posted August 1, 2005 Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 Well... In the process of battling here and there, I came to find one of the quickest ways to rack up enough experience points for a quick promotion (if you have three hours to kill), is to, as we say in South Philly, "Go ape sh-t" on all of the planetary bases in one reason. Simple principle... Land in a mission zone, and start flying from one Ter/Ins base(or city) to the next, demolishing everything that you can along the way. PTA every fighter that comes near you (the poor fools) and IOD every ground structure that poses a fire hazzard :-p. Before you know it, once you've decimated about 10-15 bases, BING! The points have racked up, at no greater cost than some time (you wont even spend too much Radine because hyperjumps arent necessary)... Now here is where it gets HILARIOUS! I took some damage after demolishing my 15th base, and decided enough was enough and maybe I should head back to GALCOM for some provisions and repairs, and fresh ATS missiles. "Flight Officer, please plot a course for Galcom and get us off this planet." "Aye Commander... UH OH!" "FO, what's that coming right at us?" "A mountain, sir!" "WARNING, DAMAGE." Everything but the kitchen sink has been dinged, scratched, and smashed. But I want to keep my experience points, so I elect to tough it out. Some time goes by and finally we get the ship flight-worthy (just enough to get off the ground.) With no other systems other than the engines and life support online, we're hauling butt for the sky... we get there... There's Galcom. "UNABLE TO ENGAGE HYPER DRIVE!" I look... The reactor is at 18%. Darn it. I open the compartment on the arm-rest of the Commander's chair and pull out the AAA-Assistance Card (aka: I request a TOW ship.) Two ship comes. I figure, "hey! We're only 7478k from Galcom, so the TOW won't be too expensive." The TOW begins and I go right to Logistix... the ten engineers and million$$$ in parts keeps me at the screen for over an hour. "Well, THAT was exciting." I log off logistix and leave the station... Hmmm.... funny... Why am I in the multiplayer universe? Navitron says I'm nowhere.... I'm going hunting for that darn TOW-ship pilot... I think he was drunk... Probably just my Piece of junk computer throwing in its two cents to cause a glitch... but I laughed myself silly after the whole ordeal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cc Posted August 1, 2005 Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 Good story. How did you know you were in the multiplayer universe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr GamKiller Posted August 1, 2005 Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 Hey yeah nice story. you sounld post it on my website. www.uctips.zoomshare.com in the story section in the comments button. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillyKickboxingWorld Posted August 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2005 When I looked at my Navitron, it had my location as ------... and when I started checking planets and jumpgates, (such as Procon), they belonged to my MP-Map in the docs file. Just fyi, I have since re-loaded the save just five minutes prior to the TOW-ship's arrival and it took me somewhere a tad closer this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Weird. I'll look into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillyKickboxingWorld Posted August 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 Hey thanks. No sweat, though, SC...I still suspect there was some kind of internal nonsense with my computer...the same nonsense that causes all of the ten million glitches this hunk of metal is famous for. Oh, a word to the wise about the Experience Points Technique (Which I see has already been plagerized to the Tips, Tricks, and Techniques section, lol) ... you may or may not run into this... The More bases you destroy, the smoldering rubble and smoke-stacks you will leave in your wake. By the time you've demolished 22000 in Exp, your frame-rate will diminish if you dont have a good system. It gets REALLY choppy the more you blow up. If this happens to you, leave the planet (Space will be fine) and land on another planet with Ter/Ins bases (i.e. The moon) and continue fragging. Happy Hunting, soldiers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Weird. I'll look into it. It just wasn't filtering out the MP regions when doing a search for a station to take you to. I have now fixed this for the upcoming final patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillyKickboxingWorld Posted August 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 Ah, cool. Thanks SC, good lookin out. I'll make sure to get my hands on the patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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