Hi group,
I've actually had occasion to use one before... I forget the twisted
turn of my logic, but I think I was in a ****p with incurable thruster
troubles, and they weren't phantom, it slammed the dock every time I
came in, even after a jump .... after making ****t with only 5.5% hull
left, it was the last straw and I wanted a new ****p, but the ****pyard
had nothing I wanted, even after waiting days, so I took a shuttle and
went "shopping" around the other stations in the system. That be the
first and only time I've ever felt a compunction to use one. I think
there was less loss on a shuttle than anything else in the yard, and
the credits were tight, or maybe they only had multi crew required big
****ps I couldn't afford or something.
I did manage to get a lifter fitted with a class 1 military drive one
time, it was pretty damn useless as you can imagine. Took it to
barnards star and back to sol a couple of times just for giggles.
Think I took a tip from the previous experience with bad thrusters and
just scraped it against the side of the station until the drive was
trash. Kinda sorta nearly works with a courier or explorer if you get
desperate and have patience. I seem to remember doing this on the
amiga version of FE2 and using the rubbish dumping bug to get insane
cargo capacity in it, but I got annoyed 'coz the class 1 military
suddenly became "an integral part of your ****p" and couldn't swap it
for a class 7 :-( was trying to get the most insane jump range
possible I think. It was no fun anyway for combat, no mountings,
stacked it with ****eld gens and just flew into other ****ps but no
lasers gets boring quick, and it still tended to detonate if you hit a
courier or something larger, even with 50 or so ****eld gens.
Anyhoo, maybe in E4 there'll be water planets where you can see the
space****ts built on artificial reefs made out of retired shuttles and
lifters or something muhahahaaaa.
Road Warrior
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