Re:Ahhh, multiplayer Elite (Score 1)

I don't get the pseudo-realtime comment. It's totally realtime. I took my friggate up against a couple of well-armed industrial ships the other night and it took me 3 tries to get a good configuration of missles/lasers/guns to take them out. I locked on from a distance, set my ship to orbit one of them at 1k, and when I got in range I opened up with everything I had. My medium pulse laser was draining my capacitor too much and I need that energy to replenish my shields when they drop too low for comfort. I shut down the beam weapon. I still had missles and guns to finish him off, but my ammo was low. I had to fly off to a safe distance and let my capacitor charge back up for another run. He was badly damaged so I wasn't too worried. I had to rely on my laser because my ammo was low. It was a race to keep my shields up and my laser firing but I managed to take him out and the blast destroyed the freighter next to him. There is no comparison to 5 toons standing in a circle repeating the same series of 5 animations beating the numbers out of some new version of a dragon.