Posts by danskmacabre

Thanks

Well it seems you can add the Texan and NY Police to the list. I was outlawed in both system for a while due to the same issue, although slightly different circumstances.
These times it was coz I was defending bases being attacked by pirates.

It seemed to better in the Rheinland systems or at least I didn't get outlawed. I might have accidentally fired a few shots across the bow of some Rheinland Police, but maybe they were more forgiving or I was getting better at not shooting Police..

Muhahahaha.. yeah.
But I'm not really looking for trouble, trouble just finds me wherever I go.. but when trouble finds me ... I shoot it and then it's gone for a while..

Hi all, as some of you know I'm pretty new to Crossfire, although have played FL for many years, since it was released actually (off an on).
I'm asking for advice of a good heavy fighter.
I currently use the Titan, which has great armor and decent guns. but is SO SLOW!
I would probably just go with an Anubis , as that's core, but I bet there's better HFs out there added by the crossfire mod.

Can people recommend a decent well armoured HF (Or VHF) that can take up to rank 10 guns and is acceptably manoeuvreable please?

Ah hello!
Yes thanks for those tips, was very useful and I become a LOT richer VERY fast.. lol.
I think I shot up from lvl 27 to lvl 39 in one go!
Mind you I had like 71 pirate pods in my hold to sell!

Had a longish session last night. I did some exploring and ended up in and around the Rheinland systems.
I bumped into a few familiar faces in my journey (players) more than once.
At one stage I have a hold full of Pirate pods to sell and apparently not near a police base to to cash them in.

SO I bump into (not literally!) one of the players (sorry can't remember your name) and get some great advice to goto Hamburg and goto a planet off the beaten track a bit which has a police base.
After several protracted fights through the asteroid field getting there I make about 3 mill profit!
So for the last hour or so I spent my time taking missions on the said base at about 100k per mission, plus nearly a few 100k in profits from selling pods of newly captured pirates.
A real moneyspinner!

Ah ok, I will wait for the plot to unfold as I play the campaign then

You mean the Nomads?
Yeah I've seen that mission (the Intro Crossfire mission in the in-game news) and know how to get to it, I'm just working up to get a decent ship with some nice kit before I attempt it.

As to targeting other ships instead of using the "R" key, yeah I''ll try that, but sometimes in the manicness of fighting loads of opponents, it's not always convenient to do that.

Yes it was written as a bit of RP fun , I'm not really annoyed and I appreciate it's a limitation of the in game AI.

*in character*

So I goto a Kusari Base and get a mission to kill some pirates they're having trouble with. They offer me 100k to do this, so I know it's going to be a bit difficult compared to the equipment I had at the time.
They even offer to send some of their pilots to help me out, which is nice.

Right, so I fly off to the mission location and sure enough lots of pirates there, although conspicuously NO police, but fine I say and proceed to dogfight with Pirates.
After a bit of a scrap, I finish them off but am informed I'm not done yet (Was that in the contract? I think not! but nevermind, I'm doing ok) .

I get to the new destination and start fighting (Alone mind you!), about halfway through the fight, I get a message "I thought you could use some help". Well actually I didn't, doing quite nicely ACTUALLY. Even so I accept.

This is the bit that miffs me.... These cops start flying right in front of me to get a shot at the remaining pirates and then have the AUDACITY to tell me to stop shooting at them! I do my best to comply, but it's not easy when I'm being attacked by a couple of pirates behind me (why don't the police attack THEM!?)

So I DO accidentally shoot the police a few times as they're right in my face, after which they decide to outlaw me even though it's their fault.
After that I'm not only fighting Pirates, but Police as well and am forced to kill off about 10 cops and the remaining pirates, not an easy feat, but manage it.

Thereafter I have to sneak past various Kusari bases and dodging cops etc to get to a friendly system. Which happens to be the next Kusari system anyway.

But PLEASE someone train the Kusari Police to fly in combat properly.... grrr..