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You can get a decent domina level if you donate the right items. Gems, cubes, and jewels might be enough to get you high enough if you actively seek them all out.

You could also collect as many autons as possible and save a bunch for the ICS once you get the sacrifice power off one stray shot should finish it (or you).

It would certainly be very challenging.
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There is also exploiting the AI and looting ships the computer has killed. 8-)
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Wolfy wrote:There is also exploiting the AI and looting ships the computer has killed. 8-)
Hey that's not exploiting the AI... trans is a dog-eat-dog world. That is quite a valid way to get sweet loot without fighting.

We need to be specific here though...do missiles count as shots? And are autons okay?
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Once I've managed to finish testing SM&M, I'll give this a go in a freighter.

EDIT: In fact, I've already started....conduct will be Pacifist: No missile weapons installed, no weapons EXCEPT mining weapons , which can't be used for combat.(Edit2: And possibly the EMP cannon). Mods will be installed, but can't be used. (They're nearly all weapons :P)

So far, I've upgraded my shield to an ioniser, and am mining Eridani while a whole bunch of Centauri attack me. I've killed THREE of their stations by staying very still right next to them and letting the guards kill the station. :P
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First this should be moved to its own thread ... "conducts"/"challenges"/whatever...

In Nethack this conduct is called "never hit with a wielded weapon".

So, in that term firing a weapon would be ok, mining for example. You could fire as many weapons as many times as you liked, as long as you dont hit something with them ^^

How many times the player hits a station or ship is not kept track of as far as I know - just how many times a weapon is fired and how many ships/stations of what type the player killed.

So this conduct would be difficult to track...
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no with the enemy ships/stations destroyed and the items installed and amount of weapon fire and a whole lot of math you would be able to see if he was cheating
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CFG wrote:First this should be moved to its own thread ... "conducts"/"challenges"/whatever...
Hey presto! I've started the thread in the Commonwealth!
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Shrike wrote:Once I've managed to finish testing SM&M, I'll give this a go in a freighter.

EDIT: In fact, I've already started....conduct will be Pacifist: No missile weapons installed, no weapons EXCEPT mining weapons , which can't be used for combat.(Edit2: And possibly the EMP cannon). Mods will be installed, but can't be used. (They're nearly all weapons :P)

So far, I've upgraded my shield to an ioniser, and am mining Eridani while a whole bunch of Centauri attack me. I've killed THREE of their stations by staying very still right next to them and letting the guards kill the station. :P
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next time, I'm doing that. For now, I'm not risking the savegame (it SHOULDN'T ruin it, but I'm running vista, so yeah....all bets are off [and my copy of vista is AMAZINGLY unstable, even for vista, at times])
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ThePrivateer wrote: We need to be specific here though...do missiles count as shots? And are autons okay?
Okay... My guess is:
Autons ARE OK.
Missiles ARE NOT OK.
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