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How long did it take you to complete starscape? |
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1 day |
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15% |
[ 2 ] |
1 week |
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38% |
[ 5 ] |
2 weeks |
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23% |
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1 month |
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23% |
[ 3 ] |
6 hours |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
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Total Votes : 13 |
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VonBraun
Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 42
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Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 9:23 am Post subject: How Long did it take you to complete starscape? |
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Poll thing.
took me 2 weeks.
5 top level Xenarch stuff. |
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Artinum
Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 13 Location: Leicestershire, UK
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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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It took me a while, and a couple of false starts, but I made it with all crew rescued and all technologies researched (human AND Xenarch). Not bad!
Someone on here mentioned a method on these forums I found rather useful:
Spoiler (highlight to read): Oooh, my first spoiler text!
Take out all but ONE mining ship and, as soon as you can, find and toast the zone boss. This stops any more ships being made. Now cripple that last miner by taking out NEARLY all the pods on it and wipe out all Archnid evil. You may now roam the grid freely to mine resources.
This means no worms, no ships and no hassle. Great for building stuff, researching other stuff and any repairs you need doing. This method gets old really fast in bigger zones, though. Not to mention slow and rather tougher. |
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icarus Troll
Joined: 01 Mar 2004
Location: Olympia Washington
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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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i am still fighting the zone 3 boss
zone 3 boss = evill |
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Fost Pod Team
Joined: 14 Oct 2002 Posts: 3734
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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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icarus wrote: | i am still fighting the zone 3 boss |
Are you still stuck there? You've been there ages. What a shame, I'd have thought you of all people would have finished the game by now!
Perhaps we need to affect difficulty more with bosses. |
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Darth Dallas
Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Posts: 411
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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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I still managed the Zone 3 boss pretty well even after the 1.5 update. Took still a couple of deaths. I found it better to take something smaller like an Avenger or Prowler over the Devestator. That opening seems to be too much of an exact fit for the Devestator that I often had trouble sidling into that space to do any damage.
So I think the difficulty is fine in my opinion, so all I had to decide to do was try different ships to see if that helped any.
edit: Oh yea, didn't see it on your poll, but it took me a few months I was too busy having fun blasting worms there for a while and building up my excessive toy collection. Yea yea, I know. I'd never need so much stuff. But Earth was proud of the loot I brought back
Well, they better be, I worked hard to get it, er, I mean, the scientists with a huge caffiene supply worked hard to get it. |
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HunterXI
Joined: 26 Dec 2003 Posts: 476 Location: Playing like there is no tomorrow.
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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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Von, just so ya know, gameplay time is generally measured in hours of gameplay
15 hours, all top stuff, 3 identical ships, all with lv. 5 stuff. |
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Fost Pod Team
Joined: 14 Oct 2002 Posts: 3734
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Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 4:30 am Post subject: |
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Darth Dallas wrote: | So I think the difficulty is fine in my opinion |
Oh, I agree - I was just thinking that perhaps all the bosses could be easier when the game is on 'easy' mode - no one who wants to actually plays games on a regular basis would ever play on easy mode to start with anyway.
Maybe we could give all the bosses shield jammers on hard mode too |
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HunterXI
Joined: 26 Dec 2003 Posts: 476 Location: Playing like there is no tomorrow.
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Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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Meh, you can just make an "Expert" mode for that |
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VonBraun
Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 42
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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er i did it in "weeks and stuff" as i don't play for 12 hours a day, and it took me 7 1/2 hours over the SPACE of 2 weeks. |
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hair65
Joined: 13 Jul 2018 Posts: 886
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