IMG Crates and others - Sci Officer (***SPOILER***)

[Bascule42]

First off, I'm having great fun with EM. I love a learning curve!

OK, the img quest line at one point gives a set of co-ords near Glacia to find some goodies in a crate(s). I go to the co-ords, and cant see a thing. Tried it with a science officer and nav officer. Just to be sure, I am in the right place? And am I right in assuming that crates will show up as purple/pink blips on the radar, as with the "missing sattelite" contracts?



If not....Ho hum, (Where was it again?)

Also, my science officer gave me a message "crates nearby heading 300, pitch 2" (Or words to that effect), but I head that way and cant find anything. A nothing on the radar, (purple/pink blip).

Any help would be appreciated, as I've read on these forums those crates can e quite lucrative to the beginner merc.

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On a lighter note, I now have nightmares about emerging from a jump and hearing the words "Avionics set to planetary mode".

[Ol Slow Poke]

Hi m8!

Yeah, crates can be a bugger to find sometimes. Here's a good trick tho :

If you have a science officer (and you should), you will get directions from him. Point your ship in roughly that direction, then open your nav map and set a jump straight ahead less than 1 sector away (basically in the same sector). U should get another heading from your science officer, so repeat, etc etc until you find the crates.

Cheers, Pokey

[49rTbird]

Hello Bascule42, welcome to the forum and the Sim. Hop onto MP and a pilot may be able to help you if needed.

[Vice]

You're close, but two sector to the left and one sector up from where you need to be. Simply stay in the same sector as the planet Glacia itself and perform your search there.

[Bascule42]

@ old slow poke...that sounds like a good method. Will try that. Thanks.

@ thetiebers...thanks for the welcome. Will be jumping in MP as soon as I can last longer than 20 seconds against more than 2 ships in combat. At the mo, I'm using an old Edge of Choas trick of using inertia to get out of bother an flipping around guns blazing. Need to get used to using countermeasures at the right time.

@Vice Yeah, my science officer did say there were crates in that vicinity. Thanks.

And off we go....

EDIT: Hold on a tic...Vice? As in Vice: Developer of EM? Gotta say, it's been quite a while since I last enjoyed learning a game, as I am now. (I'm 36 and been gaming since the ZX Spectrum days, and so having to actually learn how to play a game is a rare treat, these days it usually involves nothing more than getting t know the keyboard commands)...my hat is firmly raised to you sir!

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[Marvin]

Some tips for finding crates floating in space:

• Mod your HUD so that at least one side of your pitch ladder is in one-degree increments.
• Also mod your compass so that it registers in 10-degree increments instead of 15.
• Use your nav log to track your entry and exit points as you jump in and out of a sector.

[Bascule42]

Hey Marvin, thanks for the tips. When you say mod the hud. Is this an in game thing I can do, or do you mean Mod the hud by changing the textures?

Thats a good idea about tracking where you come in? Will try that.

I'm floating around the surface of a planet now trying to find a wreck with some crate(s). Unsuccessfully.

I think my science officer is just pretending to be very loyal and very skilled, and really he hates me.

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[Maarschalk]

I think my science officer is just pretending to be very loyal and very skilled, and really he hates me.

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Hi Bascule42, welcome to the game and forum.

Threaten to send him out of the airlock if he mis behaves...That will make him change his ways....Did not work for my navigator so out he went....:P:P:P:P:P

[Bascule42]

Heh...send him to find the crate and let me know when he has it. That'll do.

[Maarschalk]

LOL.......:P:P:P:P:P

[Marvin]

I think it was Gorf who, once upon a time, complained about a container he couldn't get to because it was beneath the surface of a planet. I thought it was pretty funny until I spent a good ten or fifteen minutes searching in a different planetary sector and finally coming across the same thing.

And, yeah ... by "mod" I mean changing the textures. You can download the customizing kit and use it as a guideline ... or download a current mod and adjust to taste.

[BraveHart]

"Welcome Aboard Bascule42"....Cya in MP sometime