A FEW HINTS & TIPS FOR -- ELITE -- To start with, think offensive! If you start going soft, you're out! This is the golden rule of Elite, you've got to struggle to survive. The biggest profit lies in trading narcotics from a rich industrial world to a poor agrucial. The profit is also big when trading in medicals and computers from the rich industrial worlds to the poor agrucial. Gold, platonium, minerals, liqures and sometimes furs is profitable to trade from poor agrucial worlds to rich industrial. The fastest route to assets is to travel to a planet which has a Feudal guvorment. This is the most law-less kind of all guvorments (where Corporate State is the safest) and here you can, and will meet many pirates. Shoot 'em and collect the cargo cannisters they leave behind (this requires fuel scoops, of course). Warning! You ought to be equipped with a better laser than the standard puls-type, 'cos there will in most cases be too many pirates attacking at the same time thus resulting in a catastrophe if you're equipped with a lonley puls-laser. NEVER buy retro-rockets. They cost CR 8000 and is almost useless, since all they do is to thrust you backwards a couple of times. Nice to use to escape from your enemies for a short period of time, but it isn't worth the dough. If you want to escape, use the escape-capsule. Your cargo is gone, but you'r getting a new space ship, identical to the one you dropped out from. To speed up the game considerately, buy a docking computer, switch the docking computer to the 'fast' mode under options (+)and the second you press 'C' (when the 'S' sign has appeared in the lower right corner of the radar) you will be in the automatic docking sequence, instead of using most of the game time just approching space-stations. During combat:stop the speed of your craft as soon as the enemies appear. This gives you more time to shoot at them before they return the confetti. If their number is overwhelming gain top speed and fly away from them while using the rear laser to shoot 'em down. The last tactic is preferable if you meet a Thargoid and you've got only a pulse laser. These hints were written by THE FLASH TEAM. We hope they can help you completeing the difficult task ahead of you! Contact THE FLASH TEAM Box 4710 8014 H.Moen Norway Call: +47-81-62868 (Tommy)