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Dang It

Oh DUH

You mean the Cent and Lightbulb then?? LOL

I get it now...Thanks....
 
harleyman said:
Oh DUH

You mean the Cent and Lightbulb then?? LOL

I get it now...Thanks....
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Yeah that's it, yer getting the hang of it now mason. And there's red and green ones too to check on. ;) Call it a "Credit Check" if you will. LOL
 
GT182 said:
Yeah that's it, yer getting the hang of it now mason. And there's red and green ones too to check on. ;) Call it a "Credit Check" if you will. LOL
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Well alright then...


Question??

Am I the dumbest rookie? Or were you all like me ....?????LOL
 
harleyman said:
Well alright then...


Question??

Am I the dumbest rookie? Or were you all like me ....?????LOL
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I was like you when I start... :isadizzy:

I almost resign and call it quits... :pop4:

But I saw Hannah with 2hs, doing it with ease, so i was challenged.... :monkies:

Right now, I still messes up, sometimes... or I should say a lot of times, they blew my ship into pieces,... but there is always a reset button where I left off and have a new one for me... :bump:

You will soon get the feel of it.... and like all of us..... This is a really huge game.... BIG..... Massive..... you can do easier mission at first.... and you will love it....:applause:

If you would read the post, especially the ones Mike did.... It is a good walk through.... There is a lot of learning to learn....

What I did was print the thread and read it from the print out....
 
That's what I do Mason, just like Eli does.... copy and print every bit of info Mike and Bill put in here. X3 has a hugh learning curve.... ya just have to play with it and learn as you go. That's what I'm still doing... I learn something new about X3 every day and every time I play it. It's stumped me more than a few time but I just stick with it.... I ain't gonna quit because of the little things holding me back. If I can't get thru it I ask for help.

Heck I've installed and uninstalled and reinstalled X3 more times than I can count on 2 hands because of some dumb thing I've done.
 
When I first got this game, I was lost. I didnt know how to set the weapons, where the enemy was, how to read the screen for targets and friendlies. I would try to dock at a station (manually) and crash every time. I couldnt read the black manual, but kept trying. I was buying ore for very high prices and selling it for super low prices, so I lost tons of money.

I didnt know where to go or what to do.... I was totally lost.


Then I just started exploring and as I would travel around, I started learning the little controls, keyboard stuff, etc. I figured out the menu's, auto-pilot, etc.. Mike has been a massive help.

Now, addict... Extreme, lol... At least I wait till night time to play it. Hard to do sometimes. I did brake down 'once' and play it during the day when I was stressed out and needed some relief.. (wiping out Xenon... ). :d



Bill
 
I am slowly learning too..it does get more fun once you get a few basics down..Soon I head to wotk, where I now have it installed too for more practice......


At some point I want to see if my saved situations at work can migrate into my game at home..i think maybe I will get further at work than home as I have more time there some days...LOL
 
Mason, you can use your work saves but you'll have to use CDs to transport them home, or send them by email if you can.... size matters. ;) Some of these save files arr 9mb or larger. I know Homail only allows a max of 10mb sent in a email. Use CD-RWs so you can erase the data and reuse them.

Once you had what you've run at work (shame on you ;)) and get it on your computer at home, go into My Documents/Egosoft/X3TC/save. Put those saves someplace to save them so you can reuse them if you want later on. I just make a SAVE file inside save and cut them to there. Then put in your work saves and you'll be set to continue on.

Remember in the game.... save save save in case you have to go back from a screw up. That way you won't have to start over from the beginning again. It's saved my bacon a number of times.
 
Flash drives!

You can put one on your keychain. You can buy them from 125 megs up to nearly 100 Gigs. (Expensive, but if needed, they are awesome).

4 and 8 Gig portable Flash drives are cheap at Wallyworld and some office supply stores, and Fry's Electronics.. (and NewEgg.com).



Bill
 
I have several flash drives...And a 110 gig removeable.....


I saved this info ..

Thanks GT182 for that ....:applause:
 
Good luck Mason.... at least you'll be able to run with what you have with both computers.
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Being in the FS business, I used to burn backups to CD all the time.. (all the time).. and after several years, I had a huge stock of Discs and my labelling didnt always work, and unfortunately on the discs I needed most, so finding info was pretty difficult.

Discs cost a bit of money for a stack of them, and the CD burning can burn out soon if you use it alot. So I finally went to using HD's as backup storage units. They are very fast, dont turn into mountains, can be stored in small area's.

For me, alternate drives are AWESOME!


What I would like (some day) is a 10 drive stack of HD's on a shelf away from the desk, and be able to link into it (on off selector) and transfer tons of data to the tower, be it Apple files or Win files, games, photos, etc..


Bill
 
Lionheart said:
What I would like (some day) is a 10 drive stack of HD's on a shelf away from the desk, and be able to link into it (on off selector) and transfer tons of data to the tower, be it Apple files or Win files, games, photos, etc..


Bill
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Bill what you want is a Network storage device, I use one for work, an HP it has 3 drives in it right now and it is a dream, connects with an RJ45 so the speed is excellent. I am fairly sure it would work with an Apple as well, HP makes a couple, mine is expandable to 5 drives.
 
gigabyte said:
Bill what you want is a Network storage device, I use one for work, an HP it has 3 drives in it right now and it is a dream, connects with an RJ45 so the speed is excellent. I am fairly sure it would work with an Apple as well, HP makes a couple, mine is expandable to 5 drives.
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Wouldn't you need a motherboard with two ethernet jacks for that?
 
Or a hub/switch/router.

We have a four port wireless router with two desktop PCs, the cable modem and a switch hanging off the back of it. The switch then feeds two more desktop PCs and a NAS device. But then Mrs. P is a school IT tech and I'm an ex company IT tech, so we like messing about with networks and stopping them being notworks. ;)
 
My iMac is amazingly 'normal'. I cant believe it. I must have gotten into them as they really became adapted to the rest of the world. It has a bunch of USB's in the back, one Ethernet, and thats it. No way to link out a firewire, SATA, etc. It would be nice, but the casing isnt set up for that. The huge, powerful Mac is though. But then it houses 4 HD slots, lolol.. I might consider getting one of those next instead of the new 27" iMac. It is more of what I need for my biz.

Good to know on the network though. I'll keep that in mind.


But back to apple, its very 'intell-ish' now, or worldly. Adaptions and interactabilities are pretty common now with hardware. I hope they achieve this with GC's soon. I hate having a special Apple GC card, though it is still ATI and nVidia.

Bill
 
I'm running 2 200Gb SATA HDDs in this computer now. Thinking of adding a third just for more storage. All the new games I'm running are loaded on the 2nd HDD and run from there. I can set up for RAID but just adding a HDD is easier for me right now. Plus I have an external USB 160Gb HDD to store stuff on too. But that can be dangerous if it's not shut down properly. When we moved I lost everything on it and it was shutdown as it should have been before I disconnected it. Oh well, it's all been replaced with new "stuff". LOL

One of these days I'll get a 1 T Sata HDD. Only thing is, doing a defrag will take a long long long time when it gets loaded up with "lotsa stuff".
 
Ahh Thanks Ian...I have a wireless router, a hub too, so I can access that way if ever need to..

Thanks..I think its called network Sharing...LOL :applause:
 
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