Rob enemy's ships, participate blocades, battles etc., get money for this.One of variants - join pirate gang to rob everyone. There could be a number of unions in the Galaxy, so that you can join one ,have different legal status for different unions. Maybe exclusion should be Feudal and Anarchy planets.Ģ. 'Damn food again' at Sinclair.You become rich too fast.ġ.You become Offender when you attach clean ship at any place and the police comes to protect the victim (if available and not buzy at the system).Once you shot police, you become Fugitive. Too rich cargo, gold and gems every time. I am not satisfied with the fact that you remain clean if your the only revenue is robbery.So that the game becomes just dumb flying from star to star and attacking Pitons and Boas.This wasn't so at Sinclair AFAIK.Ġ. but once it was in lots of other uses came up.Looked into mods, did not found appropriate one. This was originally so that traders could have non-hyperspace fighters (Sidewinder, Mamba, etc.) as escorts. (EDIT) you can follow a ship through hyperspace just by flying into its wake, for no fuel cost. Your reputation builds up quicker if you stay in the same place, whereas if you go somewhere new there's a good chance half the NPCs won't have heard of you.

Similarly if you get a rep as an assassin, the police may harass you even when you're clean - whereas if you're known to be a trader they might give you the benefit of the doubt when they stumble across you in a fight with another clean ship. and if you behave like a taxi they'll largely ignore you. whereas if you behave like a trader they'll try to rob you. So if you behave like a bounty hunter most of the time, pirates will mostly avoid you unless they have you outgunned. it tracks your 'profession' based on your actions, and uses this to adjust NPC behaviour. This allows for some very interesting playing around with mission deadlines (and time loss as a consequence for your actions - whether needing to repair or being forced to do community service for your crimes) that means you don't always just pick 'shortest route' jump time is proportional to the square of the jump distance, so lots of little jumps are quicker than one big one. Realistic scale is great for a lot of things (planetary landings, for example!) but I think it inevitably compartmentalises the gameplay. And then a Thargoid warship might show up and *everyone* will drop what they're doing to fight it regardless of their previous differences. Or you can be the bounty hunter coming along and rescuing the trader from pirates. You can get attacked by pirates and a group of bounty hunters returning from raiding a nearby anarchy can see this happening and come to your aid.

cartoon scale (but Elite+'s non-player-centric simulation): this gives the ability for 'living' NPC interactions to just happen, in a way that they don't much in the later ones.

Lots of places - see previous point - require long jumps to get into. if you make a 6.5LY jump you'll have to stand and fight. So if you make a 3 LY jump you can probably run away from most danger. Same fuel reserve powers your boost (once you've installed it). only enough fuel for a single max-range jump. The recent versions of Oolite know whether or not a system is a bottleneck and spawn NPCs accordingly: try getting into the top-left of Galaxy 2 with a bunch of passengers or courier missions on board and you'll find out what I mean jump range locked to 7LY for all ship types: this gives the map a very definite topology of routes. It's definitely worth a look in its own right - while it started out as an Elite clone, it's developed further since - but it's also interesting if you never played the original Elite because it follows a few of the design decisions from that which weren't in FE2, FFE or Elite: Dangerous.

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