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It's not always that easy though, and this will trigger other bots to attack you. Combat can be incredibly simple - just sneak up on your foe, open fire and blow it to bits before it can react. I've spent most of my eight hours blowing up bots - enough of them to get a medal in fact. Eight hours was enough to make me hook out some money (there are a huge range of ways to pay, from credit cards to various internet cash transfer options, including PayPal) to continue to play it.

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Vendetta Online comes with a free eight hour trial. The ships and the weapons change too as you move around. If you want to save up huge amounts of money I suspect trading is the way to go, but, to be honest, killing bots is good practise and the loot you take will more than pay for the upgrades to ships, repairing them and the like that I've come across to date. That said, the biggest trader you can buy as an Itani requires mining-4 as well as trading-8, so some mining is almost certainly well worth it.Īs you travel around you will find the missions on offer, and the commodities available change. There are also mining missions out there which do similar things, although I must admit mining is not top of my priorities.

It's a win-win situation, unless you want to be a miner. The loot you gain also gets you experience in trading.

This can be very important for access to bigger and better ships and weapons as heavy weapons and/or combat levels are often the limiting factor. There are bot-hunting missions you undertake for the military, in which you practice light weapons (and probably other skills too as time goes by) but gain bonus training in combat and heavy weapons.

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The first time I completed a simple trading mission, I also received a bonus to bring my trading license up a level - and thus gained access to a fairly nice general purpose ship. However I would strongly recommend looking at some of the basic missions on offer. Once you have completed the various training missions you are, more or less, on your own. Note, however, that it's not always the case that weapons, or ships, requiring higher license levels will actually give you a better weapon or ship, although that is largely the case, as you might expect. These are described as 'licenses' and as your license levels increase you also increase the access to weapons and ships. However, you obtain experience points in combat, light weapons, heavy weapons, trading and mining. In Vendetta Online there aren't character stats directly. Why? Well, if you pass the test (it's not hard, although there is one step where I suspect everyone will die, even if they are experienced players running out a new character) you get given sufficient experience to get access to better spaceships and equipment. You start, inevitably, as a rookie pilot, and there are a family of training missions, then a basic pilot's test which is well worth taking. There are three races in Vendetta Online - it's not really clear that there are appreciable differences between them though, but access to weapons and ships is affected by race. One nice touch is if you return to a space station heavily damaged, you have smoke and sparks billowing from your craft on the distance shots, such as entering and leaving a wormhole (as in the picture above). Comparing this game to Elite is not a bad thing, and the graphics of the modern interface are truly amazing.

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Never having played EVE Online (I'm saving up for an Intel Mac so I can have a look), I'm not sure if that is 100% fair - and many of the people who play Vendetta will swear if you mention such comparisons, but I do remember Elite and Vendetta Online certainly has elements that strongly remind me of that, although none of the developers have ever played Elite. It is incredibly tempting to describe Vendetta Online (available from here on Windows, Mac and Linux) as an updated version of Elite, or as EVE-Online-lite.