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icepick37

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Fun playthrough stories
« on: January 14, 2015, 12:18:26 PM »

So this current run I'm doing I see "Food shortage" pop up and think, huh that's close by, wonder where to get cheap food. Then it clicks. The hegemony jungle world is also super close.



A few overpacked runs and one hermes purchase later and I still pull like 70k in profits, haha. Awesome.

Then I start picking up individual bounties. Well the first time I run my hound into the middle of a wolf, cerberus and the flagship (who said buffalo mk II's could stop sucking?) and got my own dumb self blowed right to smithereens, so I did a ragequit and tried again, haha.

Well the second go around I still lost my poor hound, but this time I was determined not to "cheat" and still pulled off a win with my two hermes and a vigilance. After chasing down the scumbags last two (now barely operable, heh heh) ships for the ultimate revenge, my hound comes back online after action as well.



I love this game.
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Re: Fun playthrough stories
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2015, 04:40:19 AM »

Yeah, the disabled ship repair RNG is really... whimsical.

Definition of "luckier than I deserve:"
  • Start a new game with SS+.
  • Do a bit of bounty hunting in Corvus, come back to Jangala to unload loot.
  • See that the black market has a Tempest. OMG.
  • Do some more bounty hunting and a bit of trading to be able to afford Tempest.
  • Buy Tempest, kit it out and take it for a spin against the nearest pirate fleet.
  • Get in a fight with a Hound and a Wolf. Fly like a complete noob and get between the two enemy ships.
  • Get blown up while trying to shield against the Hound when the Wolf emergency-flushes its Atropos racks.
  • Rage at self.
  • Bring in starter Wolf to finish the job.
  • After battle, find that Tempest has passed repair check.
  • Go on to have Tempest repaired after being disabled in battle two more times (albeit with Reconstruction perk)
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Re: Fun playthrough stories
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2015, 09:17:56 PM »

here's a funny one, i was doing very well as my own faction (paragon, onslaught, mimir, and mamy more capitals) in Nexraelin, i had edited the fleet spawning of the protonians (the red ones), biggest mistake ever, there it was steamrolling me and the entire sector, the red WRECKtangle of death, the protonian dreadnought, from there ypu can guess what happeded
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Re: Fun playthrough stories
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2015, 09:08:54 PM »

Wrektangle of death, lol
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Re: Fun playthrough stories
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2015, 08:15:33 PM »

yep :c wrecktangle, destroyer of souls (and your shiny zeus-class battleships)
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Re: Fun playthrough stories
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2015, 06:05:18 PM »

<Plays Nexerelin
<Decides to remain enemies of ORI and Radical ORI if at all possible
<Spawns next to Pirates
<Allies with them because we're on the same orbit at the same speed
<Sees an ORI Claws Cruiser
<Trades a bit more
<Buys ORI Ship
<Outfits it with 100,000 credits worth of stuff
<Builds a fleet around it after more trading
<Conquers Radical ORI
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