Terran Conflict X3; Extreme Addiction!

[Lionheart]

Bill make sure you have all the Trading Extenions and software, some of the extra commands only appear if you have Mk2 or Mk3 Trading software that might be why you do not see the command. If you have the software on another ship just get the Super Freighter and the other ship to dock at a Ship yard and do a Freight Exchange between ships, that is if you can't find the software for sale close by.

Ahhhh....!

Roger that!

Thanks Mike.



Bill

 

[Dain Arns]

Gig, that's exactly what it did, it crashed into an Orbital Patrol Base I was asked it to dock with. I still have no idea about the missing cash yet.

Bill, I just missed out on one of the bigger Pirate Escort class ones, I saw it turn blue, but I had already pulled the trigger. Argh again. I think the key is to not immediately blast everything to pieces, but stop hitting it and see if it will give up under 25% remaining hull.

 

[gigabyte]

Gig, that's exactly what it did, it crashed into an Orbital Patrol Base I was asked it to dock with. I still have no idea about the missing cash yet.

Bill, I just missed out on one of the bigger Pirate Escort class ones, I saw it turn blue, but I had already pulled the trigger. Argh again. I think the key is to not immediately blast everything to pieces, but stop hitting it and see if it will give up under 25% remaining hull.

The way I do this is to set up my guns with the everything active - full blast in group 1, then I have just 2 lower power guns in group 2, when I see the shields are down I switch to group 2, the hull will drop much faster than shields so by using just two guns you have a little bit of control, and you can judge it better. I was successful in capping a "Pirate Bearclaw Prototype" last night, I have it on the way to a shipyard now and when I get it to safety I plan to repair it and see what it performs like. It was fairly easy to cap so I am not sure if it was a lack of skill by the AI Pirate or if the thing is not a great prize - stay tuned.

 

[Chacha]

I have to confess,

I became an illegal trader of Space Fuel.... Dang! I wonder how? I was blinded by the huge profit.... I was so guilty I want the local police catch me, but they would not.... man, how will I straighten my act?

It was good it was just a game.... will I surrender to local authorities?

 

[Craig Taylor]

"We're off to outer space, we're leaving Mother Earth, to save the human race..."

Mine arrived today! I can't wait to install and see what all the fuss is about.

 

[Lionheart]

I have to confess,

I became an illegal trader of Space Fuel.... Dang! I wonder how? I was blinded by the huge profit.... I was so guilty I want the local police catch me, but they would not.... man, how will I straighten my act?

It was good it was just a game.... will I surrender to local authorities?

lololol...

ChaCha.. One of the things about being a Christian is being able to forgive yourself as well... Dust yourself off, get back in your ship, and set your sights on the 'new' horizon.

:d




Bill

 

[Craig Taylor]

OK - I installed, got everything registered, and tried to run the tutorial. I picked "Humble Trader" to start since it said it wasn't too difficult. Everything was fine up until it asked me to fire at something during "combat runs." Turns out my ship isn't even equipped with weapons! Doh! OK, fine - my question is this. Is it worth my while to repeat the tutorial as a different character (an armed one, anyway), or should I just get on with it? Just how steep is this learning curve, anyway, and how much will the tutorial really help? Thanks in advance for helping a noob.

P.S. Was anyone else reminded of "Dune" with the music on the main screen?

 

[luckydog]

OK - I installed, got everything registered, and tried to run the tutorial. I picked "Humble Trader" to start since it said it wasn't too difficult. Everything was fine up until it asked me to fire at something during "combat runs." Turns out my ship isn't even equipped with weapons! Doh! OK, fine - my question is this. Is it worth my while to repeat the tutorial as a different character (an armed one, anyway), or should I just get on with it? Just how steep is this learning curve, anyway, and how much will the tutorial really help? Thanks in advance for helping a noob.

P.S. Was anyone else reminded of "Dune" with the music on the main screen?

Craig.....

Humble Merchant is a good place to start as $$$ is needed to build a decent fleet (fighters or freighters).
As far as the tutorials.............don't sweat it. The learning curve isn't that bad !! Just get the feel of flying/steering whatever ship you've got and let the auto-pilot do most of the work ( including the shooting ).

 

[Chacha]

Craig on the left side bar of the screen, you can set your ship's wings with ammo.... the right mouse click is to fire... Play with the mouse for range... (that's how my game is set up anyway)

....

Just go on with it... I choose no collision....

 

[Craig Taylor]

Thanks, Chacha and LD. I will press on...

 

[gigabyte]

OK so now that we have a small fleet of X'ers (I know it's corny but I couldn't help it...lol) venturing out into the vast unknowns of space, I figure it's time to share some of the better sources I have found for X-Information (I really can't help myself can't you tell...lol). Here are some of my fav sites for Tips, Tricks, Guides, and general information to enhance your X-perience... (I just had to throw in one more...lol)

This is a good start, it will lead you to almost everything you would want to know abut the X-Series of sims - http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=162408

I like this site a lot, it has a great database so you can get specific info on almost any item in the game, beware there are spoilers listed if you want to be a purest be careful - http://www.xdatabase.de/x3-reunion/en/welcome.html

Apricot Mapping Service is the source I use most, lots of well written guides and Mods if you are into that aspect, again there are spoilers so use at your own risk - http://apricotmappingservice.com/
If you are interested in Trading and / or exploring to start and want to learn before going into battle, check out this guide - http://apricotmappingservice.com/pacifist.html
And to get the "Newbie" on the flight path to a longer life this guide is "interesting" - http://apricotmappingservice.com/newbie.html
Look around the Apricot Mapping Service site, there are plenty of goodies there.

And Last but not least is the X-Universe Forum, again plenty of spoilers if you want that kind of thing (I am not against spoilers I use some myself, I just don't want to send people to sites that list spoilers if they want to go the purest route - to each his own right), I have found some great info on this site and it is actually quite a friendly forum just like our beloved SOF well worth a look see - http://www.thexuniverse.com/index.php?c=7

Happy trails my fellow X-adventurers, hope you all enjoy your "X-Periences, in the X-Universe... Ok OK enough already I know...lol

 

[Craig Taylor]

Thanks for posting those, GB. The Apricot "newbie" guide was very helpful. It pointed out a number of things that the tutorial didn't cover. Boy, am I in trouble... :mixedsmi:

 

[pied]

Oh man....

My teenage son saw the posts here, picked up 'Reunion' cheap, and now I don't know when I'll get back to poor old CFS3!

Thanks a bunch!!!!

What an amazing universe, and plenty of action too.

pied

 

[gigabyte]

Oh man....

My teenage son saw the posts here, picked up 'Reunion' cheap, and now I don't know when I'll get back to poor old CFS3!

Thanks a bunch!!!!

What an amazing universe, and plenty of action too.

pied

and.... "Another one bytes the Dust"....

 

[Lionheart]

What an amazing universe, and plenty of action too.

pied

It is..

Last night, I wanted to do something different and just wondered around in various sectors checking things out, looking for anything out of the ordinary.

During this, I decided to work on my 'finding abandoned ships' abilities, and heard there was one in a particular sector, so off I went. I finally found it. Thanks guys for the input on how such ships do not have a 'race' name in front of the ships name in the sector map.. Finally found it and restored it to high performance abilities. Wild looking things. Its a Boron ship, I think a Baracuda. I flew it all the way from the Eastern sectors to Kingdom of Light (South of Argon Prime) and had Jump Drive installed in it. Now I can jump with 100 energycells worth of fuel. (Only holds that much. Small little ship).

After all of that, I parked it with the rest of my collection at Ceo's Buckzoid / Equipment dock.

Then.... Couldnt sleep, and wanted to go back to fighting the Xenon and pirates in the North East sectors. So I loaded my new fighter up into the Tokyo carrier and made the radical cross universe hyper jump and parked in an equipment dock in Omicron Lyre. Tonight, I fight the bad guys! :d


Awesome game...




Mike, thanks for the link and advice to Egosofts forums. Great information there. I go there often for information. I still intend to get that darn Commodities program working. Tough program addon.

Another site I go to ALL THE TIME for references on the galactic map, ships and what they look like, their performances, etc, station statistics, etc, is a Russian site, located here; http://eng.x3tc.ru/

If you dont like cheating, then do not look at the Galactic map, nor do not look at the 'Where are all the abandoned ships'. heh...



Gotta love flying around in the M1 Tokyo Carrier.. That is too awesome. I love how you jettison out the hanger bays in the top of the saucer section. You always leave pointing up.

Some pics of the new ship and also a couple of my Carrier docking with the Omicron Lyre Equipment Station.


Bill

 

[gigabyte]

Thanks Bill, I did see that map site one time and forgot to book mark it, I have it on the notebook now for future use... Unfortunatly it may be some time in the future, my media centre (my gaming rig) packed it in this afternoon I go a BSOD when I tried to load a saved game and I have been running diagnstis ever since :isadizzy:...

I am not sure what happened the hardware has tested fine so far, and it does not look or act like a virus, so I am thinking it may either be a bad stick of RAM or the patches that installed Thursday night? I am not to worried about losing anything, my backup system is (always has been anyway) quite reliable and it was not connected so if it is an infection the data on the external should be fine. Regardless it is going to be a major PITA rebuilding the boot drive and OS, then reinstlling all of the apps and games... I was pondering upgrading to Win 7 on the Media Centre or buying a new box with Win 7 preinstalled, I guess I have to $hit or get off the pot now... I know I could build another system, but I would go nuts and by the time I got it the way I wanted it, I would be broke and divorced, Oh the pain...

Keep the bad guys in check for me while I am down, and I hope to be back up and running soon - Ears Hopin anyway...

 

[Lionheart]

Thanks Bill, I did see that map site one time and forgot to book mark it, I have it on the notebook now for future use... Unfortunatly it may be some time in the future, my media centre (my gaming rig) packed it in this afternoon I go a BSOD when I tried to load a saved game and I have been running diagnstis ever since :isadizzy:...

I am not sure what happened the hardware has tested fine so far, and it does not look or act like a virus, so I am thinking it may either be a bad stick of RAM or the patches that installed Thursday night? I am not to worried about losing anything, my backup system is (always has been anyway) quite reliable and it was not connected so if it is an infection the data on the external should be fine. Regardless it is going to be a major PITA rebuilding the boot drive and OS, then reinstlling all of the apps and games... I was pondering upgrading to Win 7 on the Media Centre or buying a new box with Win 7 preinstalled, I guess I have to $hit or get off the pot now... I know I could build another system, but I would go nuts and by the time I got it the way I wanted it, I would be broke and divorced, Oh the pain...

Keep the bad guys in check for me while I am down, and I hope to be back up and running soon - Ears Hopin anyway...

Man.. I am so sorry Mike.

I hope its nothing big and you get it back to running again.

Be strong Sir..


Remember, you 'might' be able to talk the wifey into a new quad core 1 TB iMac with a 27" high resolution screen... You would still need a Windows disc though.



Bill

 

[Dain Arns]

Boron ships are interesting. Look along the lines of the Vorlon ships from "Babylon 5", meaning organic in nature. Might have to start re-watching that series again.

My favorites though are the Terran designs, especially that Tokyo and the Yokohama. I just love the looks. I think you've noted before Bill, like Mead or McQuarrie.

Guess my only gripe about X3TC is the Jumpdrive. Hate having to buy batteries all of the time. I think there is a mod for an Advanced Jumpdrive. Might have to look into that. Some of these ships, like the Sabres, are pretty limited jump range by cargo space. Annoying. If the pirates can do it...

Sorry to hear about your box, Mike. Hope that gets sorted out quickly!

 

[gigabyte]

I hope its nothing big and you get it back to running again.

I am hoping the same, so far all the hardware tests OK, and my first check for virus code came back clean, this leads me to believe it is the Vista update from Thursday night, I should know soon enough???

Remember, you 'might' be able to talk the wifey into a new quad core 1 TB iMac with a 27" high resolution screen... You would still need a Windows disc though.
Bill

ROFLMAO... Oh yeah I might be able to pick up a winning lottery ticket tomorrow to... I would not even try, she wants a new car so anything in the Puter / Guy toy department is not a consideration until we get new wheels... I can still dream, but that's about it.

No fear, I will figure it out one way or another I hae verified the backups so at the most I have a reinstall of the OS and a few days of tweaking to get back to suitable operation. Most of my important apps are also on the second volume so I should not have much trouble getting them running again without the pain of reinstalling.

Back to the drawing board...

 

[Lionheart]

Mike,


Do you have a alternate HD?

If so, can you install that as primary drive, start up Windows or load up Windows on it, then install your original drive as a backup drive..

Then........ (the important part) Go in and copy/paste Windows into the 'original drive' while it is a backup drive.


Then... Power down, switch out the HD's, put the original in main socket, take out the temp HD, and reboot?

EDIT: As I think about it, certain folders many not allow to be copied. So if you had three total HD's, you could boot up one as a temp, link in two that have Windows on them, one being your primary original, and copy/paste from one folder to the other. That way you should have access to system folders via a secondary Windows/Drive/HD... (getting around the usual firewall protections).

Its just a theory.

EDIT 2: If you have old drives that are not SATA and your present board is SATA, there is a clip/wire/socket set, complete with drive powerpack for cheap that you can use to link an older drive into a SATA board. I have two of those kits now and now and then I have to use them for data on an old 500 Gig drive.


Bill