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<H4><A ID="SECTION000200210000000000000">
Ratings</A>
</H4>
<P>
If you want to improve your combat rating fast, there is one simple trick.
Buy a Panther Clipper and equip it with about 300 shield generators. It is
nearly invincible now. Select a system with lots of pirates. Anarchies are
very nice and some dictatorships also work very well. Jump into the system
and switch off your engines. Accelerate time to the maximum and wait for the
pirates to come. When they arrive, simply wait. They will crash into you and
you will get the bonus for destroying them. Only one ship can get dangerous
to you and this is the Imperial Courier which is very often equipped with a
20 <I>MW</I> laser. Fight this one and do it carefully because once this gun
starts to hit you, your shields will degrade very fast and you don't have
the engine power to evade quickly.
<P>
After you have cleaned up the system, jump to a neighbor system and back or
still better, simply jump to another anarchy. Repeat until you run out of
fuel, are bored too much or have advanced to ELITE after 6000 destroyed
ships.
<P>
As soon as you get reconnaissance missions from the military, you can
advance even faster. Pick a mission to a station on a planet with low
gravity and fly towards it. From approximately 500 <I>km</I> downward you can
watch interceptors start continuously. All you have to do is to reduce your
velocity or switch off your engines and wait until they start crashing into
you. In the near of imperial stations it is not as easy, because you will
have to actively fight the attacking Imperial Couriers that would cut you
into pieces otherwise. They are quite easy to destroy, if you adapt your
course until they approach you in a straight line. Then you can activate the
autopilot and fire as soon as they are in range. As long as you move to
follow one of the Imperial Couriers the others are usually too clumsy to hit
you hard enough to cause damage. Other ships can safely be ignored. They
will crash into you from time to time or reduce your shields a few percent
if they hit you with their lasers. Keep well above the planet to avoid crash
landings.
<P>
You can accelerate all this still further if you use an energy bomb to wipe
out a lot of enemies with one keypress. This works most satisfactory if you
are surrounded by lots of police vipers after some little disagreements
with the local authorities.
<P>