keilbaca Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 You use the second controller? LMAO I need to read the manual. Anyways for now, here's my score 75940 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osbo Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 66.420 it gets hard after quadrant 4... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 Getting better - 20640 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osbo Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 84.180 after quadrant 5... watch your fuel gauge! also getting extra lifes in the occupided planets is a good idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scogey Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 i sucked 20 years ago at this one...and i suck now....4740 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackjack Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 First Try 15,900 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Helmet Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 First ever entry in the HSC I need to read the instructions for this one...I'm not quite sure what to do, I just keep blasting everything in sight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osbo Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 luke, use the force (or the map in this case ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osbo Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 new score, 89.720 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Thag Posted April 16, 2005 Share Posted April 16, 2005 Count me in! First real score: 126960 I do have a screenshot on a friends camera, but I can't upload it now. I will later if it's a problem... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
video game addict Posted April 16, 2005 Share Posted April 16, 2005 Is there any significance with these guys waving their arms on the federation planets? I pick them up when refueling, but I don't see any difference. A little improvement not much, will try and play more tomorrow: 24.340 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osbo Posted April 16, 2005 Share Posted April 16, 2005 no, the guys in the federation planets are only waiving at you. The ones you need to get are the ones in the planets that looks like saturn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
video game addict Posted April 17, 2005 Share Posted April 17, 2005 Another small improvement. 36.360 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted April 17, 2005 Share Posted April 17, 2005 42,260 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
video game addict Posted April 17, 2005 Share Posted April 17, 2005 I think I've got the hang of it now! It does truely suck though having lost a few federation planets, I have to back track thru a few boards just to refuel. So I fight a battle, then backtrack thru a couple boards, then come back & fight one more battle, and then start the same process over yuck! But I think I've got the general idea down now. 70.440 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted April 17, 2005 Share Posted April 17, 2005 Man, I wish I had more time to play this week, I LOVE Solaris and can get to the second set of maps if I really concentrate. I'd love to take a shot at that bounty, but alas, this looks like the only game I'll be able to get off this week. Ah well, 83920 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
video game addict Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 I had something odd happen tonight. I'm not sure which quadrant I was in, but the fed planet was in between star clusters. I went down and to the right (4 o'clock position) to kill off a Zylon planet & pick up my stranded guys... Well when I when back to my fed planet to refuel, afterwards I could no longer pass to the left or up! I was stuck off to the right only (dead end!) I saved a pic of this as I was dumbfounded for a moment there, after a few minutes I came to the conclusion that I had to shoot my docking bay. Is this the only way to that Zylon planet? You have to let one of your own planets die?? The wormhole down below would have also put me in the same section of this quadrant. I'm currently sitting on my fed planet in this pic below... Also what is it that gives you extra lives? How exactly are they awarded? Is there a max on extra lives? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Kay Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 (edited) I had something odd happen tonight. I'm not sure which quadrant I was in, but the fed planet was in between star clusters. I went down and to the right (4 o'clock position) to kill off a Zylon planet & pick up my stranded guys... Well when I when back to my fed planet to refuel, afterwards I could no longer pass to the left or up! I was stuck off to the right only (dead end!) I saved a pic of this as I was dumbfounded for a moment there, after a few minutes I came to the conclusion that I had to shoot my docking bay. Is this the only way to that Zylon planet? You have to let one of your own planets die?? The wormhole down below would have also put me in the same section of this quadrant. I'm currently sitting on my fed planet in this pic below... Also what is it that gives you extra lives? How exactly are they awarded? Is there a max on extra lives? 839066[/snapback] The best strategy for this quadrant is to clear the whole thing out of fighters, but leave all the planets untouched. Later in the game, you can end up entering from the east. Then kill the zylon planet behind the wormhole, take the wormhole, kill the other zylon planet, then kill the fed planet and leave the quadrant. Each zylon planet you destroy gives you an extra life (but you can only have up to four extra lives saved at any time), Cheers! Joey Edited April 18, 2005 by Joey Kay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
video game addict Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 Cool! At first I thought maybe for every 10K I was getting one, but then I went awhile without one so I wasn't sure. But that makes since, as I know I seem to get one after I rescue my dudes from Zylon planets. Well I just passed my previous best, but while getting up to grab the camera I accidently tripped over the cord jarring the Atari, so no pic on this update, but I have upped my score to: 77.480 (I hope to break 100K though if I can get some sort of map situated, & try again tomorrow) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Kay Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 (edited) (I hope to break 100K though if I can get some sort of map situated, & try again tomorrow) 839096[/snapback] Zoiks... save yourself mapping - check this website out: I Beat Solaris Although I don't 100% follow the route, it's the best (and perhaps only) guide out there. And even with this guide, I still can't beat the game. WAY TOO MANY cobra fleets to get through to reach Solaris, even with four lives stored up for the final leg of the trip. Cheers! Joey Edited April 18, 2005 by Joey Kay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 No time this week 8820 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Scientist Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 33,820... fun playing this game again, but just too little time to play it (or anything else), as it's a will-the-home-and-garden-projects-ever-end sort of week/month. I'll try it again sometime with the maps mentioned earlier in this thread. -MS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdub_bobby Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 13800 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keilbaca Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 Yeah, the game isnt any fun for me anymore, so that'll be my final score. I MIGHT try later on but thats kinda hard being I work in a couple hrs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 Whew, a little progress. Hard to get much more time on this one, but I wish I did, I am almost back to the second set of maps. As for your Federation planet problem in the lemon-lime quadrant. You don't have to destroy your own planet, but you do have to strike fast. Enter the quadrant from above, and immediately head for the wormhole, get there as fast as you can, before the zylon ship attacks the federation planet. Once through the wormhole, wait for the zylons jump to the planet, rush to the zylon planet, pick up your stranded people, then get off that planet fast. Now race to save the Fed planet. If the Fed planet is saved you will be able to leave the planet in any direction, meaning you can escape, but in any other instance you may only exit the planet from the quadrant you entered it from. This is how I do it. Hope that helps! 104800 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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