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Well that is some well documented code, and no mistake. It keeps mentioning a Cougar ship type, but I don't remember them in the game?

• MarkMoxon 2y ago
  It is in-game, but it is astonishingly rare. Specifically, there is a 0.011% chance of spawning a Cougar during each ship spawning routine, which is around 1 in 9000 ship spawnings And it's got a cloaking device so it doesn't appear on your scanner. Anyone who has genuinely seen one of these in-game is a really lucky commander! Lots of details here: https://elite.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/the_elusive_cougar.html https://elite.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/the_elusive_cougar.htm...
  • another2another 2y ago
    Hmm, I wonder if that's what the second mission was to find? I played it on the CBM64, and seem to remember being given a mission to find a stealth ship. Flew around loads, but never found it as far as I can remember.
    • MarkMoxon 2y ago
      No, the Cougar is nothing to do with missions (in the 6502 versions, anyway - the other platforms have different mission code). It's just a rarely called part of the random spawning routine. Very rarely called. The mission-related ship is the Constrictor, which you only bump into at the end of that mission. Obligatory link: https://elite.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/the_constrictor_mission.html https://elite.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/the_constrictor_missio...