SpaceSimCentral

Hi, since playing the FE back in 95 with the bugs has the missions to get the Thargoid ship fixed? The problem I had was/seemed to be around killing the spy satellites with the military torpedo, on getting the ship I just kept on getting attacked trying to fly to a station, as soon as I clicked to max speed x5 i think the alarm would sound and a ship would attack, as soon as I destroyed it and clicked on x5 same thing happened, so flying to a station from the jump point went from 3 mins flight time to a near impossibility, or 3 to 4 hrs flying at a low game speed boost x2 or x3. I got the science magazines to keep an eye out for the mission to get that ship with the class 4 military drive, (sorry cant remember the ships name too long ago) as soon as the article came up I wentt to the system and docked, waited for the thing to come up and paid for the most expensive ticket therefor starting the campaign, I had the ship and mission to search for I belive to remember was the last location of the original ship but you only find the data tape, I think you had to destroy the spy satellite too, but cant remember. on getting the data, flew back with the report, I did a small cheat on keeping the ship by buying a cheep ship, sent report lost that ship I just bought then bought the new ship with that class 4 drive, I then did the next part to find an unknown base several hundred LY from civilisation, to which I found of course it was the thargiod base, I did several missions to aquire the thargoid ship, but from there I had problems as described eariler, constant attacks. I believe I didn't destroy one of the satellites on a previous mission as I couldnt be bothered at the time, so I think this caused the problem.Thanks P.S I tried again with this new 3d version but I missed the deadline by a day or 2 to get to the "conference" for that ship, also didnt prev save in advance so I just gave up and didnt try again

Anyone?

 I also had the exact same issues as you when I played the end missions 'back in the day'. I think I probably didn't even know that there was a satellite to ruin the game if not destroyed and was hounded by assassins for evermore afterwards. Sadly I have a 6 month playing gap in save games between the end missions and the previous point (there's probably a floppy-disc with game backups lost somewhere!) but I guess it'll be more fun to start over and re-live the whole game over once more than picking up again after such a long time. If you have a save game and are missing arriving for a deadline by a few days then Buffet might also enable you to turn back the date a little before hyperspacing to let you achieve the target date. I figured I missed a satellite, though at the time I couldn't be bothered to find them "thinking it was a waste of time". To get to that point in the game took ages I mean weeks not days or hours lol. I later found doing a new game (useing commadore amida A600+ at the time ), then getting the pc version when I could afford a pc, wow 150mhz, 16mb ram, soundblaster 32bit and 100mb or so HD all for £1200, I managed to find a quicker way of racking up credits via Sol system and that forbiden system only with a permit up north of Sol delivering elligal cargo, racking up mill credits at a time, and didnt take long to get to the mission in question. That time I know where I went wrong, succeeded, as soon as I got the thargoid ship, retured to sol, bang! messed up and screwed up my save files Grrrr lol. I tried again as the new Gfx version came out but as I said I missed the deadline to get there, too quick for with this pc, insdead of days, took amatter of hours lol.