Caltrops - Gamerasutra





	[quote name="laudablepuss"][quote name="Creexul :("]Jsoh and I started this up after he resurrected some ancient dead thread about Freelancer, where ladaublepus said something about cooping it up with his brother. So we team up in LAN starting from square one, and an hour later we had $10,000. The plan of course is to just do cargo runs. Cargo runs make us rich as fucks, but they take an amazing long time of nothing but piloting through trade lanes and jump gates from one planet to another. It's like 20 straight minutes of flying and flying, with the occasional lane hacker who we punish by sandwiching them with weapons fire, then our tractor beams fight over their cargo, in front of the horrified eyes of their ex teammates. Once some faction called "gaians" lane hacked us, and they showed up as neutral, so Jsoh was like, "let's just go, they are neutral," but it was too late, I opened fire on them and they were immediately hostile, after yelling at me about HEY CHECK YOUR FIRE (I'M EVIL). So Jsoh joined in and flanked each ship with a thousand shots per minute, playing judge jury and executioner, being the final arbiter of everything their lives have led up to, because THEY FUCKED WITH THE WRONG COOP BRUDDAS. Anyway after a couple more plain old cargo runs through ice fields and nebulas and THE DETROIT DEBRIS FIELDS and shit, our cash jumped up to $40,000, then $100,000, then $200,000. A little research on Jsoh's part (from his finished single player campaign) helped map out what commodities (like luxury food or water or whatever) we'd buy up and fly. Then we'd upgrade freighters and do more runs and such and such. I'd say another day or two and we'd have the best shit in the game. But it will take more exploring. The way the commodity selling system works is say you land on a planet or dock in a space station, and they are selling water, it will tell you what the price of water is in any other planet or station you have previously been to. So the more places you go, the better you will know where to buy and where to sell. So there's always some station I want to land at to pick up the info and then just leave. This is probably what Eve Online is like (except not as boring).[/quote] Did they ever make an expansion pack or anything? (Been away having various horrible adventures in the OMG REAL WORLD. How are you guys doing? Good good.)[/quote]