Game:

Frontier: Elite II (1993)

Category:

Tutorial

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01:30 Autopilot failure "worked" on the first attempt.
01:40 Ship durability is much less than the damage a ship doesin a collision, so even a smaller ship can kill you by ramming.
02:05 I counted 16 hostiles, most of which are actually groups of 3. That's normal for Riedquat.
02:10 "Dock with no cash just before midnight": If you can't pay the docking fee, then it is treated as a fine, which has to be payed by midnight or your ship is impounded and lose the game. All over a 1-4 credit docking fee. No accommodation is made if you dock seconds before midnight.
02:27 A ship without atmospheric shielding will explode as soon as it hits 1000km/h
03:00 Just to add to this ship's woes, the Lion is the largest ship that will die to a single mining laser hit.,
03:10 Similar to the "dock before midnight problem". The fix for the bulletin board bug is to wait until midnight. This will kill you if you have a fine. Ouch.
03:15 You can scoop hydrogen fuel from stars as well as gas giants - but you need a shield as well as atmospheric shielding.
03:51 The copy protection on this game was widely hated, far beyond the degree to which all copy protection was normally hated. Early versions of this game didn't tell you if chapter titles and headers counted in things like "3rd line of page 42" (They did count, and this was a little bit nonstandard). On top of that, you didn't get any immediate feedback on whether you got it right or not, so you sort of had to figure it out one death-by-ship-impounding at a time. The in-game police calling the player a criminal was the crowning touch of obnoxiousness - unless the player actually was a criminal, because the pirates removed this stupid bullshit anyway. No self-respecting pirate would relase a game with such an awful misfeature.
04:15 I really do have 2 copies of the manual. That comes from having legitimate copies of the Amiga and PC version of this game.

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