Conference 7.286::atarist

What IS this stuff about missions?  I've got over 22 hours of play
time, according to the Elite clock, I'm rated "competent" (Fugitive, of
course), I've warped into my second galaxy, which looks and feels just
like the first (I expected the price ranges to be different, at least,
but everything is the same except the names of the planets.) and I
haven't heard a peep about missions.  Is this something that happens
once you rate Elite?

I've gotten tired of buying things, and have taken to making my
credits by bounty and by capturing cargo canisters and, especially,
alien items.

(I finally, after many tries, successfully mined an asteroid for a piddly
1KG of minerals.)

    Hello Jeff,
    	There are five missions(I think) in this version of ELITE (the
    BBC micro had two), but I only know of one person who has had one
    and he is into several days of gameplay and in the eighth galaxy.
    I have it on half rumour that they don't start until you are at least
    deadly. I agree about the galaxy differences(lack of....) but I
    find piracy in anarchic systems pretty hoopy.
    
    Regards
    
    Roger Lane @BIO
    

    
    I haven't seen any signs of a mission on the ATARI version either.
    
    In my BEEB days, I did get offered a mission - a special message
    appears after docking. I don't recall what status level. The message
    asks you to destroy a special type of ship last seen at <place>.
    
    Thereafter you charge around trying to catch the blighter. But its
    always 1 or 2 jumps ahead. After a few hours chase, it appears from
    nowhere, armed to the teeth, with very strong shields and gunning
    for you!. However, once you get on its tail its fairly sluggish
    and you can follow it fairly easily, blagging away - 2 minutes or so,
    taking care not to overheat your (military) lasers - until finally 
    you zap it.
    
    Result - a message thanking you for your help and a promise of future
    missions. I never got that far though.
    
    

    There definitely ARE missions on the ST version; I'm on my 5th one at
    the moment.  I heard somewhere that there are 7 total; don't know if
    it's true.  The mission mentioned in .3 sounds like the first one.  I
    was "competent" and had logged about 24 hours of game time when I was
    asked to undertake it.  I'm only "dangerous" now, so I'm not sure what
    criteria are used to determine when missions are offered.

    Re: .0 -- sounds like you're about due for mission #1!

				*** Daryl ***

    
    Yep once again a definite YES there are missions....but I haven"t
    done one.
    
    
    Spoiler (Sort of)
    
    
    If you examine the disk with a Sector editor
    ( DL11 etc. )
    the only text bits you can read are...the missions
    ..do a search on banks to get to the right area.
    
    Jason

    It can't be just rating. My kid is Deadly and clean with mega credits
    and has never been sent on a mission. He has been into a number
    of other galaxies too.
    
    Steve

    Re .1
    
    On the BBC version, the first mission only started if you where
    in Galaxy ONE. Eager people who blew money for fun & jumped to 
    Galaxy TWO early on missed out. 
    
    Save the Galaxtic Hyperspace until you NEED it !
    
    	Stuart P. 

Well, three years on and some of us are just starting to get into this game !

Does anyone have a definitive answer about the circumstances under which
missions are offered ? I've logged about 27hours of mission time, I am
rated 'Dangerous' and have about 20,000 credits (why bother with more?).

Myself and a colleague are hooked on this game, but we're both getting a
bit fed up waiting for the missions to start !


Cheers,

    Derek.