With some careful tactics, I was able to utterly smash a pirate Enterprise (three times my mass!) that attacked me. Been more than a match for everything I've had to fight so far - though I am generally fighting-averse. I've tossed the light blasters and added a couple of Hail Chainguns to mine, and up-armored it a little bit. But it's a beautiful ship - easily the best ship under 1 mega-credit, and possibly the second best ship in the game, all around. It cost about 850k all told, between the cost of the ship and all the licenses you have to buy from Earth for the weaponry it mounts. I happened to luck out and find a Modified Starbridge-C at the New Ireland shipyards and grabbed it. Yup, the white whale-like ship that's on the loading screen. There's only one ship that first this description - the Starbridge. So I needed a fast ship that was also very durable and could hold its own in a fight. I, personally, decided I was going to do the Polaris storyline. What you do after you've made your first million is up to you. Luxury Goods (SolTuatha), Opals (FormalhautLotus) and Duranium Ore (SolAvalon) are all good "milk runs." I choose the SolTuatha run particularly because it's short, only 3 jumps each way, because you can carry high-value cargo in both directions, and both ends are heavily guarded by friendly ships to protect you from any marauders.) To make the same number of credits in, say, Food or Metal would require hauling a LOT more tonnage. That will net you the most credits per ton hauled. Thus, to maximize your take, you should buy and sell the most expensive possible commodity. It's about 35% profit if you buy low and sell high, regardless of the commodity you choose. (Note: All goods in EV:Nova have the same profit percentage.
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The full round trip should have netted you ~40k+ credits. When you get back to Earth, sell the Luxury Goods HIGH. Just keep your credits above 2000 - or else your cargo shuttles will get PO'd when you can't pay them and will abandon you halfway back to Earth. Are you beginning to get the idea? Buy as much Luxury Goods as you can. Also notice that the price of Luxury Goods is LOW here on N. Notice that you bought them on Earth where the price was LOW, and here in N. Once you get to Tuatha, dock at New Ireland and sell your Medical Supplies. Now, bring up the map and shift-click to plot a course from Earth, to Nesre Secundus, to HJG-1034, to Tuatha. At 60 credits per ton, this will cost almost 6000 credits.
You should be able to buy about 90 tons worth. You're already at Earth, so load up fully on Medical Supplies. Part of this will be for cargo, part will to be pay your rented cargo shuttles.
Now, what do you do with them? First, make sure you have at least 10k credits. Okay, so you've rented the maximum of 6 heavy shuttle escorts. The rent on even an ultra-cheap Terrapin quickly makes them prohibitive. In fact, I believe that these -used- heavy shuttles (which end up costing only 99 credits per day) are, bar none, the most efficient - in terms of profits per ton - rentable cargo ships. And since your shuttle makes hyperspace jumps in one day, this is a lot better deal than it might first appear. One, you can hire -used- heavy shuttle escorts at Earth for only 499 credits each. And then you've got to find the good trade routes - always difficult.
You start the game with a regular (non-heavy) shuttle with only 10 tons of cargo capacity. I've haven't gotten a lot of sleep the last three nights, but I've learned a lot in the process. Real world entrepreneurs say that "the first million is the hardest" after that it gets a bit easier. You may want to read this review if you're not familiar with the EV games.
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More recently, the original authors of Escape Velocity made a PC compatible version called Escape Velocity: Nova.
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Escape Velocity was the only thing I used the Mac in that little office for.
I needed games to keep me from going insane. I first ran into Escape Velocity (the original) when I was doing noon to midnight tech support in college.
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