<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Oct 27 2006, 06:03 AM) [snapback]263760[/snapback]</div>
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9 galaxy... if you still see this hyper jump once hyper jumping (just sfter you press the button) start going up and hold down the key, you go to a galaxy full of blood thirsty ufos
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I don't recall a 9th galaxy as such...... but am (partly) familiar with what you describe. Occasionally... like 1 in 50 times......... a hyperjump would malfuction and you'd end up in the middle of nowhere.... no planet, no docking station. Perhaps you can get there deliberatly by pressing the buttons you describe - or maybe I did that accidentally - but I always thought it was a random thing.
Anyway... within a minute or two you'd be attacked by a large fleet of (I can't believe that in a lengthy thread about Elite nobody has mentioned them yet) Thargoid ships. For those who don't know, a Thargoid "mother" ship would spit out lots of baby ones... so an initial attack of 3 or 4 ships would soon become 20 or 30 of them. The small ones died easily, but were very manouverable and hard to hit.
It's been 20 years or more since I last played it..... but I THINK the only escape from the above scenario was to find the sun...... and sun-dive to scoop enough fuel to hyperjump out of there.
Great game: if it were modernised and thousands of players from around the world could do battle/trading in the same galaxies online they'd be needing Elite Treatment Centres for addicts.