Fanclub Das Freakmagazin 2/FANCLUB2.ISO/losung/frontier.txt

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~Frontier : Elite 2

Tips By Nigel Brodt-Savage.

The best configuration for a ship I find is an Asp Explorer or
Imperial Courier with shield (10 for the Asp and up to 20 for the
Courier) 30MW Mining laser (it may be slow but it destroyed an
Imperial Courier with 16 shields in two shots!) this only weighs
10 tons which is a bonus, Auto pilot (obviously!),Radar mapper
(to check out prey and attacking ships), Naval ECM,Energy Booster,
with a Asp Explorer I replace the class 3 engine with a class 3
miltary drive to save more space and if I have space, two or
three cabins.

(This configuration I find is the best for exploration, and bounty
hunting, with the money cheat I don't bother with trading it's to
boring), If you have jumped into an uninhabited system you can
check to see if there are any pirates about, go to the system
map zoom out until you can see all the planets, then rotate the
map around, You will see a black dot (looks black cos I've got a
mono monitor so it might not be black on a colour) this is usually
you keep rotating and any other dots you see are other ships, you
can target these with your autopilot and see what type of ships they
are, (this tip will of course work in inhabited systems but not all
of the ships you might see are dangerous.

Want to jump 656 light years with a class 2 or better drive?
All you have to do is to scroll the galactic map for about 656 light
years away from your position and you will suddenly that you can
jump into systems, this also works at multiples of 656 lights years
eg 656*2=1312 light years although why you would want to I don't
know since I have been as far as the Perseus arm but I not found any
inhabited systems, although at around 12000 light years out I find a
group of explored systems, but no stations, maybe there is a group
of inhabited systems nearby (unfortunately these inhabited systems
could be up to 600 Light years from the explored system you are
looking at so it's a bit difficult to find out), jumps can take as
little as 2 tons of fuel so it's easy to jump in explore then return
to inhabited systems via the same way as you arrived (takes time to
scroll through the map though), don't be complacent though and think
that just because you are 656 + light years away from humanity that
you can't be attacked by raiders, they can jump into the system the
same way you did (but it's less likely).

Oh if you haven't heard about the money cheat here goes, start at
mars and sell everything on your ship then buy two cabins and go
to the bulletin board find the add placed by Sean Singh (I think
that's the name) he wants to go to Lalande 2118 in a pronto,
except his offer, and goto the ship yard then try to part
exchange your ship for a lifter class craft until you have the
amount of dosh you want (a tip here is to get enough money to buy
a class 1 or 2 military drive, then return to the ship yard and
repeat the process, this speeds things up, the price in the Part
exchange is based on the ship and the drive in your ship, every
thing else is ignored so it's best to sell everything except the
engine before selling your ship) when you have the money you want
goto the bulletin board and look for the add that is offering £80
for information on Sean Singh, say his in your cabins, that gets
rid of him and then you can sell the ship and buy whatever you want.


~More Tips from Nigel Brodt-Savage

Little tip for working out if you can complete a delivery in time
this works on the principle, that it takes 7 days to make the
maximum range jump for any engine, so using this formula you
can calculate how much time will be spent in hyperspace

Distance to solar system / max range of engine * 100

This will give a percentage, just multiply 7 with the percentage
eg, if the solar system was 5.86 ly away and you have a max ly
range of 8 ly = 5.86/8=0.7325 * 100 *73%

7*73%=5.11 eg it will take 5 days in hyperspace to reach your
destination then just add 4 to 5 days, for the time taken to reach
the station from the jump point (if you arrived at the station and
you are within minutes of overshooting the arrival date, DO NOT
SPEED UP THE TIME CONTROL, for some reason if you do this it
takes 30 minutes to dock (30 in game minutes, you  will still
take only a couple of non game seconds to dock))



~Cheat to become ELITE in minutes !

Get the Mining Laser.
Go to Mars High and Refuel.
Go to Phobos.
Stop half a KM from the surface.
Fire continously at the Planet.
Stick Time Advance on 100.
After a few seconds, the message "Well Done Commander !" will
appear an you'll go up a rank.
Repeat from where you fire continously until you become ELITE.