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- This file contains a quick start method and additional notes.
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- This quick start (as opposed to the manual version) will make you lots of money
- It was devised by the Red Circle and is all well and good unless you want to be
- in the Imperial military.
-
- First things First:
- 1. Buy the game its fucking amazing.
- 2. Read the other docs by the RC
- 3. Most importantly dont forget to play Frontier through the night and
- lokking like shit in the morning. Not only is this not good for your
- health but it also means that you get to fuck up your mind with the tiny
- text font. But what the fuck! its good innit?
-
- The Quick(ish) start guide. Destined to make you fame and fortune unless
- you die.
-
- Firstly pick the Ross 154 starting position.
-
- This will put you in a position where the most hostile enemy is yourself.
-
- Press F4
- Pick the stockyard.
- Click on the down arrow until you see Hydrogen fuel, buy as much as possible.
-
- Press F4 again.
- Go to the Bulitin Board.
- Go right to the bottom, and click on the message
- `SHIP REQUIRED. Payment of c520 (c=credits) for a ship
- to take a small package to the Fomalhaut system'
- Click on the small box next to it.
- You can if you like ask for more money or a permit but it is not needed
- Click on `OK - Agreed'
- Then Hang up.
-
- Next go up to the FEDERAL MILITARY message.
- Click on the little box next to it.
- Well, as your going to the Fomalhult system any way, why not kill two birds
- with one stone and accept the delivery misson they are offering.
- As you will see they have a strict policy and dont fuck about.
- Accept the misson.
- Hang up.
-
- [N.B. always hang up as sometimes the Bulitin boards crash.]
-
- Press F4 again.
- Pick Launch Request option.
- Launch by pressing F7
- Point the nose of the ship in the air and hit the thruster (return)
-
- RETURN is set thrust faster
- R.SHIFT is set thrust slower/backwords
-
- Thrust until you reach 12000 Meters. This is the Altitude in which
- Hyperspace is permitted.
-
- Press F2.
- Move the cursor keys around until you find the Lacaille (Down and right)
- system. When you have a hyperspace lock the system will have a green halo
- about it.
-
- Press F1 to get to the forward view.
- Now on the 8th icon along you have a hyper space option. DO IT!
-
- You will find your self (unless you have a mis-jump, but thats unlikely
- in a recently serviced ship like yours) now in the Lacaille system. This
- place is a dump lets get out of here.
-
- Press F2
- Move up and left with the cursor keys (if you find you have rotated this
- map then the button c sets it back to normallity) to the Fomahult system.
-
- FRONT VIEW. HYPERSPACE.
-
- You are now in the fomahult system. The place you can make some serious
- money from.
-
- Oaky, press F2 twice and you will have a green screen displaying the
- current system, yes I could go in to detail about how to use this and
- what different things do but we here just dont have the time.
-
- Now if you have explored your icons already you will know that there are
- only a few places in this system you can dock at. To make it easy we
- will pick a space station.
-
- There are loads of places all off the Gas giant Fomahult 4, but those
- are difficult to get to sometimes due to your hyperspace entrance to the
- system in relation to the gravitational pull of different planets.
-
- So instead we will pick a nice vacation ground called Conversion.
- On this menu F7 and F8 zoom in and out respectivley.
- By holding down the right mouse button and moving the mouse the system
- moves also. Rotate it until you see Conversion and zoom in.
-
- Now this Could take bloody ages so it is time to use the function turbo
- zoom. by double clicking on this icon you are hurled to as close as
- possible to your selected target.
-
- If you havent clicked on Conversion then you will be looking at the star
- of the system. Hold down on zoom out F8 and you will see some light green
- orbital lines come in to view and on the third one out will be Conversion.
- Click on it and it will Auto center. Double click zoom in and then zoom out
- from conversion to find the orbiting station, Dobson Terminal.
-
- Now F10 is the autopilot locking system, so get the space station into view
- (it doesnt matter how close as long as you can see the words) and click f10
- then on a space just before the D of Dobson. This will give you a lock.
-
- Phew. Okay now you have a lock get back to the front view.
- F7 is the autopliot/manual/engines off icon so click it around until you
- get the autopilot on.
-
- Now the autopilot is engaged and as the game runs in real time it takes
- literaly days to travel accros even small areas of space. To aid us in
- our quest a stardreamer option is available.
-
- Basically the stardreamer controls speed up time. Above the first few icons
- is a small console. This is the stardreamer control. From left to right the
- options are:
-
- Stop/pause: this also gives you a options screen which is easy to work
- out. It has options to turn off stars and detail control, all
- of these speed up the game when down to their lowest setting.
-
- Play Obvious realy.
- Play x 10
- Play x 100
- Play x 1000
- Play x 10000
-
- So Play is normal time. Not if you want to hang around for years I seriously
- suggest pressing the fastest time option, of course you do get attacked alot,
- but that is a by product, as you are beginner then I doubt iff you will
- have hundreds of ships on your ass.
-
- So, your in the Fomalhult system, on autopilot, heading to Dobson Terminal
- on maximum time x 10000 mode. The distancing will be displayed in AU
- (Astronmical UNITS) and Kilometers.
-
- When you get really close your ship will automatically ask for docking
- permission. Unless your a lover of art then speed up the time to max to
- dock quickly.
-
- Enter the Bulitin Board and wait a bit, after a while you will recive a
- promotion form the FEDERATION and some cash from the bimbo.
-
- Now you have cash you can retire!
-
- Well not really just over 800 credits is enough to let you retire after
- trading.
-
- HOW TO MAKE LOADS BY TRADING.
-
- Okay you are the proud owner of an Eagle long range fighter, which is
- just a flashy name for shitty. You really do have very little cargo space
- in the Eagle so it is Important to get as much profit as possible into
- your flying feces.
-
- From where you are the easiest profit to get is to trade robots on a
- Fomalhult to CD 37 (just right of Fomahult). You can now buy 1 tonne of
- robots and trade back with Fomahult.
-
- To make extra money, buy the time you have reached Fomahult before selling
- the robots on the stockmarket try the Bulitin Board. Quite often you can
- find some loony willing to buy robots off you for around 2000 credits.
-
- Doing this often gets you cash quick and sharpish!
-
- TIPS TIPS TIPS TIPS TIPS TIPS TITS TIPS TAPS TIPS TIPS TIPS TOPS
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- The above method also works on Narcotics rather well but has the down
- side of you getting busted SOMETIMES. Sometimes you get away with it some
- times you dont.
-
- On the scanner the colors corespond with the weight of the ship/object
-
- BLUE 1 - 15T
- GREEN 16 - 31T
- MAGENTA 32 - 63T
- RED 64 - 111T
- ORANGE 112 - 159T
- YELLOW 160 - 207T
- GREY 208 - 299T
- WHITE 300T+
-
- Check the file entitled FTRDOCS.LHA for ship specification.
-
- What the fuck is a Plasma Accelerator???
- Well is you have the space to fit one in your ship then
- you must be good. The official manual version of this weapon is
-
- These are very large weapons, usually carried by large naval crusiers and
- battle stations, and are sometimes carried by large trading ships and
- passenger liners in the more dangerous regions of space. They are used
- in the same way as lasers and take up a gun mounting. After firing, they
- take a few seconds to recharge. Two sizes are commonly available, imagin-
- atively named `large` and `small`. Even a small plasma acelerator will
- destroy a well armed hundred tonne ship in single shot. The larger version
- has been known to be used as a planetary assult weapon, destroying selected
- areas of cities from orbit. This has a devestating effect on the local
- population, because the terrifying noise of the beam cutting trough the
- atmosphere can be heard for hundreds of kilometers, and will deafen anyone
- unprotected in the vicinity.
-
- Thats one killer fucking weapon, Imagine it any bastard messes with you
- you blow them away.KAZAZOOM!!!
-
- The missiles that are availible only work if you first lock on to the
- target. You do this by simple using the pointer on the normal view screen
- and clicking on your target.
-
- The missiles work only if your target doesnt have an ECM (they have a 100km
- range).
- The smart missiles overide normal ECM systems but not the naval versions
- and has a greater explosive power.
- The nave grade missiles explode BIG TIME and are immune to any known ECM
- system.
-
-
- This information below is confidential to workers of the FONTIER game
- so thats why the RC is going to tell you lot.
-
- The Mirage ship is a beast of a machine. It is not mentioned in the manual
- the reason for this is beacuse it is practicaly imposible to get hold of.
- you may ask your self why this ship is so special. Well heres why...
-
- Firstly the name of Mirage didnt come up whilst BIG DAVE BRABEN was shaving
- oh no. The name is related to the specs of the ship.
- Basically unless you want to do the following you will never find her.
-
- 1. You need to be of ELITE STATUS for starters.
- 2. Have credits will travel, and travel you must for she is at the outer
- rim .... somewhere!!
- 3. Once found to fly her you need three things:
- A: A top rating in the Empire (PRINCE)
- After that,at one point you will
- be approched by the flagship of the Empire.
- The big honcho gives you the message that
- he requires a mercenary for a right hand man.
- I.E YOU.
- B: A USER IDENT from the SIRIUS corporation
- only able to purchase from the MD of SIRUS.
- Fuck knows how you get this couldnt read the
- memo, sorry.
- C: Military Fuel buy fuckload, tonnes and tonnes
- and tonnes and tonnes and ton......
-
- Forget this. I'm not looking for this thing any body that finds it shout out.
- I'm quite happy with my Panther and my DEADLY rating. and besides the Empire
- wouldnt even talk to me as I'm a captain in the FEDS.
-
- While Im babeling about rateings I might as well tell you:
-
- FEDERATION
- None
- Private
- Corporal
- Sergeant
- Sergeant-Major
- Major
- Colonel
- Lieutenant
- Lieutenant Commander
- Captain
- Commodore
- Rear Admiral
- Admiral
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- IMERIAL
- Outsider
- Serf
- Master
- Sir
- Squire
- Lord
- Baron
- Viscount
- Count
- Earl
- Marquis
- Duke
- Prince
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