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mcmad · Post by **mcmad** » Tue May 06, 2008 12:08 pm

Hi All
Hello Vice,
Fantastic work, played the ER demo, bought the game 30 minutes later.
Enjoying it immensely. I have been looking for something like this for ages, having grown up with Elite on the Spectrum! (yes i am old), and my 8-year-old son loves it too.
I have been charging round the quadrant on single player for a while and I can manage the 8 + capital ok. A Hunter with Banshee, fusion, and excaliber helps, lol.

I intend to start doing some multi-player now, and see how I do on some co-op contracts.
I have two questions: (for the moment)
1. What does "General system notice: new items available " actually mean?
2. in multi-player , are player-to-player communications limited to the "escape" screen chat line?

Again, great game and I look forward to meeting you all online.

Straker Nova · Post by **Straker Nova** » Tue May 06, 2008 2:41 pm

Hey mcmad, welcome aboard, hope to see you in MP soon!
Fly safe,
Straker

Post by **Vice** » Tue May 06, 2008 2:41 pm

Hello and welcome.

1 - It means the inventory pool has been updated and will include new and different items. This happens repeatedly in a system after enough ships have docked with items to cause changes in the inventory pool for stations and or/planets.

2 - Nope, in-game press enter, type, then enter again.

Hop online any time

There are quieter and busier times of the day, many of us have our ICQ numbers in our profiles in case you want to contact some players in advance.

mcmad · Post by **mcmad** » Tue May 06, 2008 3:00 pm

I work....

so online will be late evening for me. say 9pm+ till 2am. for some reason i have had very little sleep since buying ER.....

anybody else suffering ER-induced-insomnia?

warsign · Post by **warsign** » Tue May 06, 2008 3:09 pm

Me too...No sleep...Trade, explore and fight...

verbosity · Post by **verbosity** » Tue May 06, 2008 3:22 pm

Originally posted by mcmad
anybody else suffering ER-induced-insomnia?

yup and ER-induced-divorce-proceedings ( or very near to............)

___H · Post by **___H** » Tue May 06, 2008 4:30 pm

Originally posted by warsign
Me too...No sleep...Trade, explore and fight...

huh funny... mines just involves the fighting part. its great on the dark-side of life, just seems more.. comfortable...

BraveHart · Post by **BraveHart** » Tue May 06, 2008 4:41 pm

Welcome aboard mcmad....Evochron is great for insomnia, just ICQ me and I will be happy to fly some co-op contracts with you. I have way too much free time...LoL.

Good Flying

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Tue May 06, 2008 4:51 pm

Hello, hope to C U out there in MP land.

azpatriot · Post by **azpatriot** » Tue May 06, 2008 5:00 pm

Sleep zzzzzzZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzZZzzzzzzzzz the final frontier! lol

mcmad · Post by **mcmad** » Wed May 07, 2008 11:14 am

ok. spent some time online, which was cool but only Verbosity in the server (Comaslair).
which one of the (semi-permanent) servers see's the most action? Comaslair or the SW clan server?

verbosity · Post by **verbosity** » Wed May 07, 2008 4:29 pm

probably comaslair, there are busy times and quiet times, posting that you will fly in the multiplayer times thread and using icq can help other pilots to know that you are on.............

Post by **Vice** » Wed May 07, 2008 5:06 pm

SW has been pretty active also, we sometimes have 5-8 players on. Just give us a shout when you want to play with ICQ or on the multiplayer thread. Early morning and mid-day ET is often pretty quiet, but some of us can meet you later in the afternoon and evenings.