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Old December 19th, 2005, 01:47 PM

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Default Re: Favorite trick in the game (spoilers possible)

When you have the Aethric Mirror AND an Anti-Graviton Shunt, you may safely clear the entire map of all enemies (and friends, if you feel so inclined) without ever firing a single shot. It's really quite simple:


1: Park your ship over a Black Hole.
2: Use the Mirror on whoever you want to flush.
3: Lather, rinse, repeat.

You have an AGS to protect you from being sucked into the Black Hole. They don't.



Mind you, I have no idea whether you get any points for flushing people down a Black Hole; but at least it lets you steal their stuff.

{Correction: It's not "stealing." It's "claiming those abandoned items that clearly don't belong to anyone, since there's no one here."}

Of course, it might also be argued that it's not a "fair fight" — but when you've got crappy weapons, crappy shields and crappy systems, and there's three fleets of cloaked death waiting for you over that Urluquai homeworld, well… a "fair fight" just doesn't sound quite so appealing, does it?