Full missiles Use every missile before buying
a single missile at the space station. Now leave the station,
lock onto the station, but do not fire. Then dock with the
station and sell the missile. Then leave the station and press
M. A
line will extend across the bottom of the screen to verify
entry. Your inventory will now have 256 missiles that can be
sold or used.
Hints & Tips
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 puls-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 lonley puls-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 you'r 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.
