Testing it IMG contract

[PandaBear]

After hearing so many pilot complaining that IMG contract are imposinle for noon to pass.

I decided to test this IMG contract myself with nothing but the equipment that I can buy from Sapphire only.

I make new profile and with just what I got from the start. I was able to completed the race contract. Granded it took me 6 try to completed. Granded I was so use to flying my big Starmaster.

Now to keep doing the contract and see this through myself.

I will keep up with the posting as I completed more hard contract. There no point to post mining contract and such

[Edited on 11-9-2010 by PandaBear]

[Edited on 11-9-2010 by PandaBear]

[PandaBear]

Arm with just the StarGuard cannon and no cm nor missile I was able to completed the escort mission in Olympus prime.

Now to work up some cash to get the biggest ship that I can in Sapphire and to equip myself with the beat equipment that Sapphire have to offer before I head over to Cerulean.

[PandaBear]

Best ship o can find in civl I Raven in Port Ricoch.
Equip myself with
mining beam
fulcrum 3
shield booster 3
repair sys 3
cannon relay sys

weapon
StarGuard cannon
metal vapor laser

4 viper missile

heading to Cerulean now and see if this is enough to get the job done

[PandaBear]

First mission 3 waypoint with 12 enemies.

Use up the 4 missile and my ship shield got damage a bit. Other then that I had no problem pass it on my first try.

Now to dock with the station to rearm and take on Spy mission

[PandaBear]

After docking with Star port 27 I was able to upgrade my ship to Phoenix and weapon
arm my ship with
Maxim-R
Coil Laser
6 exodus missile

Time to spy on the enemies

[Maarschalk]

LOL....after already achieving the rank of Legends and Fleet Admiral it is not to difficult for an experienced pilot as your self to go back and start the IMG quest from scratch cause you know what you need and what to do and how al the controls work....you have the experience.

I myself as a Legend and Fleet Admiral from Legends had a little difficulty in the beginning with mercenary because of keyboard command changes made for the straffe controls so my straffe on my joysticks as setup for Legends was not working in Mercenary so I constantly got in trouble and found it hard till I figured out the changes and adjusted my joystick command keys. And I had no trouble then even thou Mercenary is a tad more difficult than Legends and the AI's are a little smarter and there are more of them......But for a new player who has not played any of the previous games and starts fresh in Evochron mercenary as a complete rookie I can see it beeing difficult but once the difficulties are overcome because of your learning the ropes you feel a real sense of accomplishment.......

[PandaBear]

Hmm use up 2 missile and did the spy contract without any trouble now to head back to Starport 27 to rearm and take on the next contract which is to destroy the capital ship.

[PandaBear]

Originally posted by Maarschalk
LOL....after already achieving the rank of Legends and Fleet Admiral it is not to difficult for an experienced pilot as your self to go back and start the IMG quest from scratch cause you know what you need and what to do and how al the controls work....you have the experience.

that not the point I am trying to make here.
Having already achieving my rank and the experience I gain from the pass make this too easy and I was able to passing this IMG quest so fast.

What I am trying to get at is that people jump on he board and complain it mission imposiable. Now if they have something that prove orherwise it would makerhem think twice.

[PandaBear]

Took on the capital ship with little damage and me reward is the location of the container near by which have Phantom cannon

[PandaBear]

Next mission is an enemies ace in Sierra systerm.
The only upgrade is the phantom cannon which I got from the container

[PandaBear]

Ouch failed that 1 there. The whole screen light up with RED dot. There was guild ship everywhere. This 1 will be hard to pass if jumping on them head on. Now to try and do reverse thurster and take out 1 at a time.

[PandaBear]

Ok was able to pass this ACE mission on my third try. Giving what I saw NOTHING BUT RED DOT on the screen going to make this contract NEARLY unpassable here.

Maybe someone may want to look at this mission and make it a bit eadyer for rookie pilots to be able to pass it.

[Dingo]

red dots are only spots of open space that you havent cleared yet.

[PandaBear]

Time to stop my rant here. After completed 3 way contract in Sierra with what I had post above prove that you can complete the IMG mission with some training.

Time to jump back on my Starmaster with fully loaded equipment and have my fun

[Edited on 11-9-2010 by PandaBear]

[Aures]

I'll do you one better, I'll see how far I can get with the absolute mininum equipment required for a contract. I started a new profile (mercenary start) and sold the missiles I started with. Did the satellite delivery no problem, won the race no problem on the first try (talon with level 1 everything).

Now I have run into an issue with right clicking on sectors I mentioned in another thread. I am going to play around with that and then continue the quest, I can't imagine having any issue cleaning the solar array.

[PandaBear]

Yea I seem to have the problem with startport 3 also. No matter what I do I was not able to right click it. Even after reatartimg me comp and still unable to.

[Aures]

The issue is with right clicking on a sector when using something other than the closest zoom, it is not related to right clicking a particular object to set it as your destination.

Finished cleaning the array, time to mine some roids.

[Aures]

Ok done, finished the entire IMG quest with just my starting kit. The only things I bought or equipped were a tractor beam, cargo scanner C4, countermeasures and fuel. Kept my fulcrum jump C1 the entire time and did the entire thing without a laser, a fleet or any missiles.

I died a grand total of 3 times. First time because when I needed a tractor beam for a contract the station didn't have one so I saved and self destructed (I could have just exited and reloaded or flown to another station so it doesn't really count). Once during the war zone multi-waypoint patrol because some Vonarii scum got lucky with a missile (ok fine, I didn't take my finger off the afterburner when a launched the countermeasure so my bad) and once during the atmospheric patrol after the first 10 seconds for pretty much the same reason (actually it was a new experience fighting in atmosphere with a level 1 shield/engine and a shield boost X1 so I don't mind that it took me a minute to adjust).

So actually you can do the entire thing with the starter gear, don't even need to get the best Sapphire has to offer. Mind you, no way would I go looking for the final destination with a C1 jump drive without knowing where it is. Even then it was pretty tedious and I only did it with a C1 to prove a point. But the whole experiment only took like 2-3 hours. I think I am probably the first person to do the entire quest with such restrictions, let me know if someone beat me to the punch.

If you know what you are doing any AI is easy prey no matter what your gear is. If you don't know what your doing parts of the IMG quest can be really difficult even with the best gear. I found two of the combat missions very frustrating the first time I played through, but I didn't really know what I was doing back then. I played Legends but when I used to fight Vonarii I would jump monkey and kill them all with excals rather than fight properly. I have picked up basic competence in combat since starting to play Mercenary so the whole thing was a cakewalk.

Btw I noticed two minor issues while running through the quest. First is that after you do the second war zone mission the quest message doesn't specify where to dock for the next mission. It is in the same place you got the last two missions from so it is pretty obvious but every other message tells you where to go for the next step. Other issue was the first time I took the multi-waypoint war zone patrol I had to blow up the cap ship before it would bring up the next nav point. Second time I tried it I only had to kill all the fighters. I have noticed a similar thing in the few war zone multi waypoint patrols I have done in my main profile.

[PandaBear]

Thanks Aures you had proven that eventhose it hard for rookie to completed the quest. it still do able no matter what frame/equipment one use. All we need is to learn to control our ship