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Meanwhile, its fighters disable the first Manticore and another that jumps in before heading to fight something on the other side of the system! Jackpot. I already have enough money so I just kill it. I kill the Valk, and the Manticore tears up the Carrier. A pirate Manticore and an Association Carrier are trying to board a marauder Valkyrie. Still, the other is disabled, so I rob and kill it.Ħ: This must be the most hilarious thing to ever happen in EV. The Leviathan blows up, nearly disabling me and unfortunately taking out one of the Manticores. One of them boards the Leviathan and they start fighting. I use a bunch of rockets trying to take out the derelict, but don't succeed. That mission earned enough for 50 extra rockets.Ĥ: I stumble on a disabled Manticore, steal its money, and blow it up.ĥ: I find two opposing Manticores racing to board a derelict Leviathan. Fortunately, the segments are very short.ġ: I create a new pilot, skip most of the introduction, manipulate the starting system closest to Gefjon, land, refuse the tutorial mission, unload my useless light blaster, and replace it with two raven rocket launchers.Ģ: I manipulate a mission to a planet that's on my way, then go complete that mission and recharge.ģ: I spend all my money on ammo and jump to Gefjon. But even some of the simple looking segments often had to be restarted over and over because missions, ships, or outfits that I needed were randomly not available, or the randomly placed ships in a system screwed me over, or I just messed up my piloting. Obviously, the defeating pirates with my shuttle and the battles at the end took a lot of tries. This run uses a lot of luck manipulation. Hauling cargo is for chumps, so I'm going to go to the most dangerous system in the Federation, steal money from vastly more powerful ships and then kill them for combat rating. This means I need about a million credits. I would have to board it first, succeed at capturing it with my 1-crew shuttle, then escape from whatever disabled it in a badly damaged ship. First, one would have to spawn at the same time as a pirate that can defeat it, but wants to board it before killing it.

Ideally, I would capture one, but this is insanely improbable.

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It has max jump speed (150% of normal), very nice speed, acceleration, and turning, decent shields, and adequate cargo space, upgrade space, and energy capacity.

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By far, the best available ship for speedrunning is the Mod Starbridge. I have two objectives for the early part of the game: get a fast ship and get 300 combat rating, which is required for the first Pirate storyline mission. Just realize I would need four hands to play perfectly. So you may occasionally see a brief pause as I hunt for the right one. There are dozens of different controls and shortcuts scattered all over the keyboard, though. I use the keyboard almost exclusively, because with practice it's faster than clicking on buttons with the mouse. I only use the map if I don't have time to select the right system before I drift too close to the center of the system and become unable to jump. If I do this before the ship finishes its 180 degree turn, it doesn't slow me down at all. (This brings up the minimap in the top right of the gameplay window.) When I jump into a system, I hold down the reverse key, while selecting the system for the next jump, then start the jump. Instead, I use the hyper select key to cycle through the adjacent systems and choose the destination for each jump. However, the rest of the game is paused while the map is open, so I use it as little as possible. Then you can just hold the jump key until you arrive. The easiest way to choose the system you jump to is to bring up the map screen and lock in a route to your final destination. Top speed and acceleration affect how quickly you travel between planets and the hyper limit. So there are two main stats that affect jumping time: jump speed and turn rate. When you initiate a hyper jump, your ship first turns to face opposite to its direction of travel, then turns to face the direction of the destination system, then begins the actual jump. You can only jump if you're at least 1000 pixels from the center of the system (unless the system is empty). (This is why there's a 2X icon in the top left.) I keep this on at all times, of course. The caps lock key still causes gameplay to be twice as fast though. Unlike previous EV games, there is no speed slider in the settings in Nova. If you're only interested in explanation of what I did, along with a humorous, but mostly accurate summary of the plot, just skip ahead to the segment by segment. First I'm going to talk about the game mechanics and the strategies I used to play as fast as possible.

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