About last night. So I'm relatively new to ED, but spent a huge chuck of my youth on the original Elite on C64, Amiga and later the sequels on PC. I've been playing for a few days and managed to hook a good mate (Russell) in. This is a summary of a 3-4 hour session on Boxing day. So Russell accepts a mission to deliver 4t of Personal Weapons to the Eravate System. He has about 2 hours to do it and so he starts looking for the stuff. Meanwhile, I'm doing a trade run which is netting me about 7000cr on one trip and then returning to make about 2600cr on the return leg. I have a hauler with 16t capacity, but he has the the Sidewinder with 4t. A couple of hours of this and I plan to get a Viper and do some serious ship upgrades. We're chatting on Steam and it becomes apparent that he can't find Personal Weapons in stock anywhere nearby. After a while, I start searching and locate a supplier about 24ly away. I give him the co-ordinates and he tries to plot a ro...
