Escape Velocity: Nova

[Spartan-II]

Alright, this game is really fun and addictive! Although it costs 30$ to register, I easily scammed my mom into registering it for me!

http://www.ev-nova.net/ <----- Awesome link, provides everything for EV: Nova you'll need to know. DL's, walkthroughs, FAQS and forums! Have fun.

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keke

Ev-nova's a great game. WK showed it to me. I can't access the ftp through my laptop now though, so I can get plugins. :-\

[Spartan-II]

That sucks..
What's your ship, etc?
I have an IDA Frigate that's totally pimped out.. I can easily take out pirate carriers with it.. (Mainly cause of my Pirate Enterprise escorts but, oh well.. ^_^)

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I've got a dozen pilots. About two for each storyline, plus a master starter with a couple million in cash that I use to play around with.

[Giggilyomeromicon]

I stoped playing it but, i hade a IDA Frigat with like 7 turrets. It rocked. But I kind of dident register....

[Spartan-II]

Lol.... Yeah, i'm doing the Pirate storyline right now so I can get the Unrelenting.. Yeah, I make Manticores cry..

[Sikawtic]

I didn't have to register or anything... anywayz... I keep dying... this valkyrie is like "can you help me" then these things swarm in and kill me o_O

[GrassDragon]

Played it, good stuff right there.

[AJ]

EVN is old skool. EV:O was better though. ;)

[Sikawtic]

<LadyAerowen> I'm allowed to have my own opinion, burra :P
<burrahobbit> i dont know where you got that idea from but it is wrong

Oh... anywayz... what should i buy with my starting money? and what should i do first?

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Solar Panels and batteries. Then run around the federation (don't go outside it yet) and look for some good trade routes. Earth to the irish merc place is pretty good I've found, though there are probally better.

Once you save up enough, get a heavy shuttle, and from there just about anything but the viper or terrapin, or valk. From there start upgrading that bad boy and getting missions. Eventually you'll be sucked into one of the storylines, major or minor. Save your char in a new file before you go mission hunting, so you can start over if you make a bad choice. you can experiment with weapons until you find what you want. As a rule, blasters suck, railguns rule, and hellfires rule. But this depends on what mission you're on, ect.

[Uuugggg]

Hah! That game come out 3 years ago!

Though it is, like, amazingly good. Once you get through the six separate storylines in the game, there are total conversions for entire new galaxies, including the previous 2 EV games. Unending playability! Woo! Now, if only I didn't have World of Warcraft to play right now...

[Spartan-II]

Lol, the fastest most profitable trade route ine arly game, is Europa --> Earth. Max out on terrapin escorts and you can get like 150,000-200,00 credit profit a hit. (With you owning a terrapin and having 6 terrapins escorts) In 20 minutes I can make 2 mil early game.. ^_^

[Sikawtic]

Solar Panels and batteries. Then run around the federation (don't go outside it yet) and look for some good trade routes. Earth to the irish merc place is pretty good... Where's this "irish merc place"?

[Sikawtic]

Since my last post I've been trading med packs from earth to that one place, and then equipment to the wolf place...

I started with the lil ship, which I named Lil Blu, after the tutorial run I had enough to buy the heavy ship, which I called, Big Blu. After awhile I saved enough for a spider looking miner thing, which I named Arachnophobia. I am making 58.227k a run, including re-energizing...

yeah.

Anywayz, where do i get a good ship? I want it to have like... 100 storage space, but also have some kick behind it.

~Sikawtic

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Irish merc place.. Let's see.

Take the sw route out of sol, then the se route from that system. The irish place is to the right of that.

[Sikawtic]

I got a starbridge... then upgraded it and stuff.

So... is slaying other ships worthwhile for $$$?

Oh, and thanks for the location ^_^

~Sikawtic

[Spartan-II]

Alright, this is an awesome run (For this, hit Caps Lock so game runs at 2x Speed)

Make enough money from Europa -> Earth to buy and IDA Frigate, buy a Fission Reactor and 4 solar panels with more Capitol you make from it. PiMp that mother out! Then do this trade route -

Earth - Med Supplies (Should be atleast 800 with that IDA, depends on if you retool it.)
Earth --> Port Kane (Kania System) Sell Med, Buy Equip
Port Kane --> Tuatha , @ Tuatha sell Equip, buy LuxGoods
Tuatha --> Earth, Sell LuxGoods, rinse and repeat.
(This takes around 1 - 1.5 minutes to do, because of the recharge on the IDA, Makes around 600-800k a run.)

Also, post your favorite ship:

Zephyr - "M.S. IronMan"
2 BioRelay Lasers
3 Wraith cannons
150 Wraithii
Tunneling Organ
Cloaking Organ v2
- This is the ultimate ambush weapon, cloak and sneak up on something, shoot it in the ass with wraith cannons, or if it hits you, fry it with lasers !

[Sikawtic]

Thnx for the great route! and the 2x thing, y didn't anybody tell me about this before :@

Oh, my ship is like:
starbridge C
x3 laser thigns
x1 rocket thing
yay! (i need a new ship...)

[Spartan-II]

Heh, I got bored and made 3 new files..

"M.S. Razer"
Mod Starbridge

Equip:
3 Medium Blasters
3 Light blasters
2 Light Blaster Turret
1 Radar Missile Launcher
4 Carbon Fiber
3 Solar Panels
1 Civilian IR + Radar Jammers.

Yeah.. ^_^

Also, Vell-os rule, i've taken out 1/2 of outbounds defense fleet with 1 Javelin.. O_o_O_o_O_o

[Killphill]

Yah, I pretty much spent an entire week playing that game once... I havn't regeistered so Cpt.Hector blows be up everytime i move... I got up to the point were I had a Vell-Os Dart... then it said i had to regeister.

One of the best games I've ever played!

[Spartan-II]

Lol, made another profile!

'M.S. Brimstone' - Nil'Kemoras Scarab

2 Capacitor Pule lasers
1 Polaron Torpedo launcher -Fire while cloaked-
1 Multi-Polaron Torpedo Launcher -Fire while cloaked-
1 Polaris Jammer
1 Nil'kemoras Jammer
9 Shield Organelles
2 Organic Shield
1 Fusion Reactor
1 Matter/Anti-Matter Generator
1 Cloaking Organ
1 Fast-Jump organ
1 Tunneling Organ


If you in the Polaris string, I have an awesome trade route;

Ver'avo (Can't remember plaents name); Buy Bio-Components.
---> Ver'Ikar(Same for planet..); Sell and buy equip.

These systmes are only 2 jumps apart, it's great. Rent a Cambrian, and you can make 1.2 mill in around 30 seconds or so. =]

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Pissh. That's nothing. This is my specfile for Generic Joe (my starter pilot).
Ship specs:

Name: Light Capital Class S-25 Starbridge C
Type and Class: Mod Starbridge
Total Mass: 90
Turn Rate: 277°/sec = 1.29 rotations/sec
Accelleration: 377u/sec = 1.29 sec to top speed
Top Speed: 490u/sec
Jumps: 8 with regen
Cash: 20M+
Kills: 12000+

Outfits:

3 Fusion Pulse Cannons
200mm Fixed Railgun
4 Matrix Steel plates
Gravimetric Sensor
IFF Decoder
Auto-recharger
Afterburner
Port & Polish
Vectored Thrust
Horizontal Booster
Pirate Sensor Boost
4 Solar Panels
Pirate Jammer
Exotic Ships & Weapons License
Sigma Engine Tune-up
Sigma Electrical Rewiring
Sigma Mount Reinforcement
2 Sigma Mass Additions

Ranks:

Hypergate system access
Knight of Red Branch
Member of the Guild of Bounty Hunters (but not ranked for some reason)
United Shipping Courier

PLUS:

All non-campaign missions completed with the exceptions of:
Bounty Hunter final two missions.
Wild Geese Dead branch and Refusal branch.
Final GLi-tech mission.

All campaigns accessable with the exceptions of:
Auroran through the randon chance mission. Still accessable through visiting Herran House.

All goverments are friendly with the exceptions of:
Pirates and Polaris Warrior Caste.

All systems mapped.

Who's your God? If you want this pilot..just AIM me. I'm sure we can get a deal. And I used no plugins of any sort when making this guy. All done on the vanilla game, by hand.

[Spartan-II]

How did you get 90 total mass?!?!?

A starbridge just doesn't suit me.. I like big badass ships that make you think "Oh shit...".

[iHawk]

My ship was a leviathan that I changed from a huge cargo runner to a warship that makes manticores look like vipers. My main weapons are aurorian pulse cannons, railguns and tons 'o' ir rockets.
Ir rockets are weak but when you have 4 or more launchers you can launch them fast enough that its like homing machine gun rounds. :D

P.S. Pirate Ion beam thingies arn't bad either.

[Spartan-II]

True, but they are close range weapons.. So my 4 200mm Railguns + 2 150mm Railguns + 2 100mm Railguns + Hellhound and EMP missile launchers own you.

Or, around 1-2 Polaron Multitorps up your ass, and your toast. :D
(Not to mention 2 CPL's)

[iHawk]

I haked the game once and made an Arorian Thunderforge (best ship in game) and suped it up with the railguns spacestations use. As well as thunder hammers, pulse cannons, other railguns, bio lasers,the big purple laser that the Polaris use and every Velos weap (including create dart) so HA!