Hmm... In Elite the focus was on your ship and upgrading it. this seems interesting, but not quite the sort of space strategy I'd jump right into with my whole heart.

Yep, I know Ilete was more about ship upgrading, but the bits of Lords that reminded me of that game are the fact that you physically need to travel to different planets through space (rather than just clicking a button and instantly getting there), the economics, and of course the attacks by various enemies. I particularly love the robots, my desire to get a Dallek in an audiogame seems to have been met ;D.

My only real irritation with the game is the Pulsars. I don't know whether it's a bug, or just that I'm using sterrio headphones not surround sounjd speakers, but occasionally, when there's been one or two pulsars from one side, another one comes from the same side and completely distroys me, maybe it's a minor bug?

one minor annoyence i have with the game, is it often doesn't feel as if your running around with five other players. I wish they'd implimented a news system, so you got a message everytime somebody else bought a planet or did something, that'd make the game feel more crowded and Imho, more urgent.

Btw, how come planets are so cheap in comparison to chipping supplies?

Hmmm, I've never had trouble with the holes myself, if I remember rightly it does say something about pressing enter in the manual ----- but then again, I did need to read the thing about three times to get all the mechanics of the game.

I've solved my problem with the pulsars, once your shield takes two hits on the same side, you need to press the arrow again to deploy it. sinse i wasn't losing all those resources, I totally distroyed the comp players today (my 4800 coins where the next person down had 2500), maybe I'll try the online game now.

Arjen, the curves aren't a problem, sinse you get bags of time to do anything. Just position yourself betwene the two beacons (pressing space bar will give you a beaping sound when your in the right place), then when you go through them, the computer will tell you the engine power to use, and you've got until the next set of becons to change to the right power, which is loads of time (sinse coins appear just as you go through the beacons, I usually hold off changing the power until I've grabbed them).

I'm really enjoying the game now I've got used to all the puzles.

Ooo sorry, just trying to be vaguely helpfull. Oh, and I've realized I put an extra zero in my last post, it should have read 4800 not fourty eight thousand! now that would be impressived (though probably impossible).