Excellent thread Mr Slug.
Thank you for your hard work and efforts in keeping us posted of the adventures of Mr McSquid.
Not only is it funny, it is also very enlightening for those of us who's own ideas have become a little stale, or who don't posess the fantastic imagination that you obviously have. Can't wait for the next installment.
Please keep up the excellent work.
Squiddy McSquids possibly short life - {Possible spoilers inside}
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freddiel
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NUKLEAR-SLUG
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Oh dear, today we mourn the loss of a loved one.. <sniff>
Things started off so promisingly, I actually managed to convince a freighter that I was a very scary desperado engaged in acts of a piratical nature and gained myself my second SF but that was to be the only one. In retrospect I suspect my charade was not particularly convincing and that particular Split captain was just of a nervous disposition.
Decided I should probably sort out my Argon rep so I can get jumpdrives again and get the new SF doing something useful, mebbe turn him into a sector-trader perhaps. Remote trading is ok, gets you a little rep and keeps the cash flowing but the real cash and rep boosts comes from the missions with the bonuses. Fortunately I'm currently occupying that happy borderline that exists between persona non grata and shoot on sight so while I'm free to travel thru Argon sectors they won't let me dock in core sectors or buy any goods. That's fine tho, so long as I can dock I can still sell stuff and given the state of the local economy there's always someone down in the border sectors crying out for e-cells and willing to give a good bonus for them.
So I switch to my SF and do a few runs between Queens space and CBSW stocking up those ever-hungry weapon facts then after a while I spot a guy who wants a taxi run to the Pirate base in Antigone Memorial. Now last I checked there wasn't a pirate base in Antigone memorial.. but then there isn't one in Ore Belt anymore either since the local defence force paid a visit. They must have set up a new one! That's handy because I've been picking up any boarding pods I can find since apparently they get a bit rare later on. Not a problem, I task my Kestrel to go scout out the sector while I decide where I'm going to get 255 space fuel from for the guy that wants to pay me 400k for the privelige, decide not from anyone who likes me enough and go back to e-cell trading.
By this point I've managed to convince the Argon that they were right to only suspect me as a foe and that I'm really not all that bad and they let me get back to trading basic goods in their core sectors. Oh, and some stupid M5 exiting a gate and not watching where he's going has managed to knock a 30% chunk out of my hull. Maybe I should invest in some shields..
A few minutes later I'm cruising thru CBSE when I'm somewhat disturbed to hear Betty calmly inform me one of my ships is under attack. Now I've only got three. One is sat in Terracorp HQ awaiting a jumpdrive, ones off looking for pirate bases and I'm sat in the third and I'm pretty sure I'ld have noticed people shooting at me which means... oh, bugger..
"Your ship, Blinkandyou'llmissit! has been destroyed in sector Antigone Memorial by, Khaak Scout"
Total Assets:
1x Maxed Caiman SF 'Tax Deductible'
1x Caiman SF (85%)
150,000cr
Things started off so promisingly, I actually managed to convince a freighter that I was a very scary desperado engaged in acts of a piratical nature and gained myself my second SF but that was to be the only one. In retrospect I suspect my charade was not particularly convincing and that particular Split captain was just of a nervous disposition.
Decided I should probably sort out my Argon rep so I can get jumpdrives again and get the new SF doing something useful, mebbe turn him into a sector-trader perhaps. Remote trading is ok, gets you a little rep and keeps the cash flowing but the real cash and rep boosts comes from the missions with the bonuses. Fortunately I'm currently occupying that happy borderline that exists between persona non grata and shoot on sight so while I'm free to travel thru Argon sectors they won't let me dock in core sectors or buy any goods. That's fine tho, so long as I can dock I can still sell stuff and given the state of the local economy there's always someone down in the border sectors crying out for e-cells and willing to give a good bonus for them.
So I switch to my SF and do a few runs between Queens space and CBSW stocking up those ever-hungry weapon facts then after a while I spot a guy who wants a taxi run to the Pirate base in Antigone Memorial. Now last I checked there wasn't a pirate base in Antigone memorial.. but then there isn't one in Ore Belt anymore either since the local defence force paid a visit. They must have set up a new one! That's handy because I've been picking up any boarding pods I can find since apparently they get a bit rare later on. Not a problem, I task my Kestrel to go scout out the sector while I decide where I'm going to get 255 space fuel from for the guy that wants to pay me 400k for the privelige, decide not from anyone who likes me enough and go back to e-cell trading.
By this point I've managed to convince the Argon that they were right to only suspect me as a foe and that I'm really not all that bad and they let me get back to trading basic goods in their core sectors. Oh, and some stupid M5 exiting a gate and not watching where he's going has managed to knock a 30% chunk out of my hull. Maybe I should invest in some shields..
A few minutes later I'm cruising thru CBSE when I'm somewhat disturbed to hear Betty calmly inform me one of my ships is under attack. Now I've only got three. One is sat in Terracorp HQ awaiting a jumpdrive, ones off looking for pirate bases and I'm sat in the third and I'm pretty sure I'ld have noticed people shooting at me which means... oh, bugger..
"Your ship, Blinkandyou'llmissit! has been destroyed in sector Antigone Memorial by, Khaak Scout"
Total Assets:
1x Maxed Caiman SF 'Tax Deductible'
1x Caiman SF (85%)
150,000cr
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In the right place at the wrong time.
The Centaur will be called off now and McSquiddy gets treated as per his rep ranking.
No problem there but without fighter craft there is not going to be much bounty hunting.
Will he turn legit or will he trade one of the big buckets for some new iron?
The Centaur will be called off now and McSquiddy gets treated as per his rep ranking.
No problem there but without fighter craft there is not going to be much bounty hunting.
Will he turn legit or will he trade one of the big buckets for some new iron?
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I am impressed with how long he has lasted. I just tried a Dead-is-Dead game and I died within 20 minutes by smashing into a freighter with my jaguar whilst running away from his drones.
This signature is here because it makes my posts look longer and therefore makes me seem like I know what I am talking about - which I do, honest! 
For example, the Ray is the best M2 and a Falcon always beats the other M3s, see!
Hey, now that TC is out the Ray does seem to be one of the best M2's. Maybe I had better change my sig...
For example, the Ray is the best M2 and a Falcon always beats the other M3s, see!Hey, now that TC is out the Ray does seem to be one of the best M2's. Maybe I had better change my sig...
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Nice reading so far - it's a shame you lost the M5 with a back turret (let's be honest that's an abomination). If you ask me ships under attack OOS should do a running attack - that is, keep doing what they're doing, but while doing so, attack its aggressor with the combined damage of its turrets.
Going to keep looking for the next installment. Don't you die on me McSquid and end the story.
Going to keep looking for the next installment. Don't you die on me McSquid and end the story.
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Yep, this story inspired me to try that too and I lasted maybe an hour before smashing into the side of a Casino ship at full speed in a Disco Hauler. The Casino ship gave me lip when I asked where the nearest Shipyard was so I hope I damaged it badly.Demolisher 2 wrote:I am impressed with how long he has lasted. I just tried a Dead-is-Dead game and I died within 20 minutes by smashing into a freighter with my jaguar whilst running away from his drones.
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there is always the off chance he will come across a fighter floating around in space abandoned...
Dunno if finding those legit are against his rules or not. we cant tell him though or that will ruin it
Nah im confident he will manage... maybe he will do another one of those recover my ship missions and steal it again
Dunno if finding those legit are against his rules or not. we cant tell him though or that will ruin it
Nah im confident he will manage... maybe he will do another one of those recover my ship missions and steal it again
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If it's a fast M5 and a long time limit, he could always use the ship for a while to do missions, and still get it back in time to complete the missions. A replacement kestral isn't expensive, and 3 or 4 retrieve missions would probably cover that cost.
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Ah yes..... well spottedTiedyeguy wrote:Except buying a new one goes against his rules.strude wrote:A replacement kestral isn't expensive, and 3 or 4 retrieve missions would probably cover that cost.
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Well it's not a complete disaster, I've still got my two freighters and a reasonable reserve of cash so economically I'm not in any trouble. If I'm going to progress tho I'm going to need a combat capable craft. This means I'm going to have to go stealing things again. You see you try to be good but you end up forced into criminality anyway. I blame society.
This time around I think I may just 'borrow' a ship for a while. With the support I've got from my freighters I can max out whatever I find, use it to capture something else and then return it in time for tea and biscuits and nobody any the wiser. Except the previous owner of ship I've 'liberated' but that guy will be duct-taped and stowed in my hold. shhh!...
Sadly it seems the RNG gods are still out to get me with a vengeance and despite doing cargo runs across a number of sectors it's a good while before I can find a recovery mission. Plenty of stolen ship missions but while the Caiman can fit frontal guns it fairly lacks the speed and maneuverability to chase down anything much faster than a one-legged asteroid. First up is 100k mission, that's the biggest payout I've seen for a recovery so I'm assuming it's something big?
Unfortunately the guys giving these missions out never seem inclined to let you in on those niggling little details such as where it might be and what it is you're actually looking for until they've got you to agree to do it.. at which point they cheerfully inform you there's a broken down Dolphin 80km off the ecliptic of X598 and can you bring it back for the princely sum of 12 credits and a packet of breathmints. And they want it back in 12 minutes. Or else. Yes we mean it, or else. Anyways, this one turns out to be a Falcon Vanguard. M3 nice, but only 48 mins so not really what I'm looking for. Unfortunately having accepted it I've now got to do it. Or else.
It turns out Caimans aren't ideal for ship recovery missions either. It works fine if the ship you're looking for just so happens to be near a gate as you can jump around till you spot it. but if it's deeper in sector you have to go looking or it and with a top speed of 89m/s that's not a quick exercise in a larger sector. Eventually tho I find the thing, looks like had I gone north rather than south from the Emperor Mines East jumpgate I'ld have found it almost immediately and not had to do a sector circuit but there you go. Falcon Vanguards aren't very quick tho and I've wasted a lot of time already as I've only got a fraction under 10 mins to return and given the slightly over the top response to me stealing an M5 I'm not keen to have the entire Teladi Home fleet come after me because they think I'm stealing an M3.
Basically I need to get this ship back on time and the only way to do that is to jump it back to CBSE. Unfortunately if I do that then when I return it I lose the jumpdrive. While I'm not hurting for the money that is my only jumpdrive and the Argon are still a little ticked over the Kestrel incident and aren't prepared to let me buy another just now. Time is ticking and there's only one way this is going to work then so I transfer jumpdrive + e-cells to the Falcon, order my SF to head back to CBSE and jump to CBSE myself. Ejecting the jumpdrive I exit the Falcon and order it to make it's way back to the PRG forge (should manage that with a few mins to spare) Meantime I kick in my suit thrusters and start EVAing my way back thru the jumpgate and across Ore Belt to meet up with my SF somewhere along the way.
Halfway across Ore Belt the potential foolhardiness of this exercise dawns on me given that there is potentially still a Heavy Centaur looking for me, but on the bright side my 02 levels are holding out nicely so at least I'm in no immediate danger of suffocation.
Total Assets:
1x Spacesuit
1x Maxed Caiman SF 'Tax Deductible'
1x Caiman SF (85%)
This time around I think I may just 'borrow' a ship for a while. With the support I've got from my freighters I can max out whatever I find, use it to capture something else and then return it in time for tea and biscuits and nobody any the wiser. Except the previous owner of ship I've 'liberated' but that guy will be duct-taped and stowed in my hold. shhh!...
Sadly it seems the RNG gods are still out to get me with a vengeance and despite doing cargo runs across a number of sectors it's a good while before I can find a recovery mission. Plenty of stolen ship missions but while the Caiman can fit frontal guns it fairly lacks the speed and maneuverability to chase down anything much faster than a one-legged asteroid. First up is 100k mission, that's the biggest payout I've seen for a recovery so I'm assuming it's something big?
Unfortunately the guys giving these missions out never seem inclined to let you in on those niggling little details such as where it might be and what it is you're actually looking for until they've got you to agree to do it.. at which point they cheerfully inform you there's a broken down Dolphin 80km off the ecliptic of X598 and can you bring it back for the princely sum of 12 credits and a packet of breathmints. And they want it back in 12 minutes. Or else. Yes we mean it, or else. Anyways, this one turns out to be a Falcon Vanguard. M3 nice, but only 48 mins so not really what I'm looking for. Unfortunately having accepted it I've now got to do it. Or else.
It turns out Caimans aren't ideal for ship recovery missions either. It works fine if the ship you're looking for just so happens to be near a gate as you can jump around till you spot it. but if it's deeper in sector you have to go looking or it and with a top speed of 89m/s that's not a quick exercise in a larger sector. Eventually tho I find the thing, looks like had I gone north rather than south from the Emperor Mines East jumpgate I'ld have found it almost immediately and not had to do a sector circuit but there you go. Falcon Vanguards aren't very quick tho and I've wasted a lot of time already as I've only got a fraction under 10 mins to return and given the slightly over the top response to me stealing an M5 I'm not keen to have the entire Teladi Home fleet come after me because they think I'm stealing an M3.
Basically I need to get this ship back on time and the only way to do that is to jump it back to CBSE. Unfortunately if I do that then when I return it I lose the jumpdrive. While I'm not hurting for the money that is my only jumpdrive and the Argon are still a little ticked over the Kestrel incident and aren't prepared to let me buy another just now. Time is ticking and there's only one way this is going to work then so I transfer jumpdrive + e-cells to the Falcon, order my SF to head back to CBSE and jump to CBSE myself. Ejecting the jumpdrive I exit the Falcon and order it to make it's way back to the PRG forge (should manage that with a few mins to spare) Meantime I kick in my suit thrusters and start EVAing my way back thru the jumpgate and across Ore Belt to meet up with my SF somewhere along the way.
Halfway across Ore Belt the potential foolhardiness of this exercise dawns on me given that there is potentially still a Heavy Centaur looking for me, but on the bright side my 02 levels are holding out nicely so at least I'm in no immediate danger of suffocation.
Total Assets:
1x Spacesuit
1x Maxed Caiman SF 'Tax Deductible'
1x Caiman SF (85%)
