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A FEW HINTS & TIPS FOR ELITE
By ???. Edited by Parasite.
To start with, think offensive! If you start going soft, you're out!
This is the golden rule of Elite, you've got to struggle to survive.
The biggest profit lies in trading narcotics from a rich industrial
world to a poor agrucial. The profit is also big when trading in
medicals and computers from the rich industrial worlds to the poor
agrucial.
Gold, platonium, minerals, liqures and sometimes furs is profitable
to trade from poor agrucial worlds to rich industrial.
The fastest route to assets is to travel to a planet which has a
Feudal guvorment. This is the most law-less kind of all guvorments
(where Corporate State is the safest) and here you can, and will meet
many pirates. Shoot 'em and collect the cargo cannisters they leave
behind (this requires fuel scoops, of course).
Warning! You ought to be equipped with a better laser than the
standard pulsE-type, 'cos there will in most cases be too many
pirates attacking at the same time thus resulting in a catastrophe
if you're equipped with a lonely pulse-laser.
NEVER buy retro-rockets. They cost CR 8000 and is almost useless,
since all they do is to thrust you backwards a couple of times. Nice
to use to escape from your enemies for a short period of time, but it
isn't worth the dough. If you want to escape, use the escape-capsule.
Your cargo is gone, but youre getting a new space ship, identical to
the one you dropped out from.
To speed up the game considerately, buy a docking computer, switch
the docking computer to the 'fast' mode under options (+)and the
second you press 'C' (when the 'S' sign has appeared in the lower
right corner of the radar) you will be in the automatic docking
sequence, instead of using most of the game time just approching
space-stations.
During combat:stop the speed of your craft as soon as the enemies
appear. This gives you more time to shoot at them before they return
the confetti. If their number is overwhelming gain top speed and fly
away from them while using the rear laser to shoot 'em down. The last
tactic is preferable if you meet a Thargoid and you've got only a
pulse laser.