For in-system travelling, you have time acceleration, where it'll speed up time for you, with some interesting visual effects. There are lump gates to determine where you enter a system, but you don't have to find one when you want to leave. For between systems you have a jump drive that you can activate any time, anywhere. Oh, and another thing, no more long travelling times, or jump gates/lagrange points. *spoiler* Merc means I get more cash for doing missions from the terminals, and bounty hunter means in rebel systems, I'm more likely to get attacked by pirates, and hence get their bounties. I'm currently a mercenary/bounty hunter, and I'm almost a merchant as well. Do enough of a certain type, and you get labelled as that, with bonuses that come with it. There really are career paths, one of six, killer, smuggler, pirate, merchant, mercenary, and bounty hunter. There's little side missions as well, if you read the news, and here mention of a pirate gang causing trouble in a system, you can go there, hunt for them, and if you find and defeat them, not only do you get their bounties and a rich reward, but also a secret service weapon. Get tired of those missions where more and more ships seem to come in, and there's no end in sight, and you just want to finish so you can get your money and go home? Now each extra ship will give you a little glee, as you can get a bountie for every pirate ship destroyed, with each bounty between a few hundred or a thousand credits, depending on the system. Considering most missions go for 12000 credits or so, you make about the same trading as you can on a mission. Trading is a viable choice, if you know what you're doing, you can pick up a cargo for 10000 credits, fly to the next system, and sell it for 25000. If you accidentally snap a pic of a military installation, you get in trouble The missons are really varied, from the typical pirate hunting, to transporting crates, to taking photos of a solar system for a calendar competition. It has its little problems, the voice acting is laughably bad, and they need to improve their joystic support, but there's so much good as well! Not to mention it looks farging sweet with all the graphics turned up full. I just bought this game on Saturday, and I can't put it down! I love it! Any fans of space flight sims definately have to try this! It combines the best elements of Freelancer, I-War 2, and Privateer, and adds a lot of its own in there.
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