Postby Gonz » Wed May 26, 2010 4:06 am
A few things Arg is leaving out about the Astral. Each inhabited allod that you find gives you 45 mins to farm as much loot as you can. There are 3 types of chests: Epic which contains legendary gear, Rare which contains Epic gear, and normal which contain ship upgrades. These chests then go to your ships treasure hold when you loot them. Your ship's treasure hold can hold 20 chests total, of any kind.
The trick here is that you cannot loot the treasure chests until you are safely docked in the home hangar. There is something very exciting about riding around astral with the chance that you could destroy a ship carrying 20 legendaries, or vice versa.
Oh also, there is another aspect of astral combat. If you like to be a sneaky bastard, you can destroy an enemy ship by simply jumping to an enemy ship and sabotaging their reactor. I think the cast time is like a full minute so if this happens to your ship, it is pretty embarassing.
And last but not least, you can board an enemy ship, and loot any of the treasure chests in the cargo bay and transfer them to your ship. Every time one of your chests is looted though, whether it be by an enemy or friendly player, it announces it to the entire party.\\
So yeah, fun shit that is unique to this mmo I'm pretty sure.