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Re:Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" [video] by the-dude on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @10:02AM (#38709381)
For enough kills you needed to upgrade your ship, which cost money.
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Re:Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" [video] by codeulike on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @11:31AM (#38710443)
Exactly. I never got enough credits to upgrade my ship much, so kept getting picked off by random pirates. So although the rating was only based on kills, you had to nail the trading to really get anywhere.
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