Terran Conflict X3; Extreme Addiction!

[Lionheart]

man this game looks so cool. Must buy it...

Its huge Feng... Huge...

I was thinking last night how wild it would be to have some of the Star Wars worlds in it, with some Imperial ships, some Correllian frieghters running around (AI traffic), some X-wings partrolling Imperial or outland territories.. Those cool football shaped rebel freighters.


The stations near Earth are very Star Trek looking. Begs for some Star Fleet ships to be seen...

I bought one, two days ago....

looking for time to start it...

ChaCha

You bought it!??

Awesome.. But beware, do not blame me for addictiveness.. . You are warned.


Note; Easier to read the PDF Manual on the computer screen rather then the black manual that comes with it. Check for updates.

Your 'home' will be (for now) Argon Prime. Its very similar to Earth but very very far away from Earth.


One of the hilarious things on the game are the ladies voice at the stations. "We have a sale going at the machine shop at level 5", "Argon Flu is going around. Please be vaccinated at our medical center on level 6", "The restaurant is now open for your convinience", "Flight 117 to Home of Light is now boarding at gate 15".



Bill

 

[Chacha]

Its huge Feng... Huge...

I was thinking last night how wild it would be to have some of the Star Wars worlds in it, with some Imperial ships, some Correllian frieghters running around (AI traffic), some X-wings partrolling Imperial or outland territories.. Those cool football shaped rebel freighters.


The stations near Earth are very Star Trek looking. Begs for some Star Fleet ships to be seen...


You bought it!??

Awesome.. But beware, do not blame me for addictiveness.. . You are warned.


Note; Easier to read the PDF Manual on the computer screen rather then the black manual that comes with it. Check for updates.

Your 'home' will be (for now) Argon Prime. Its very similar to Earth but very very far away from Earth.


One of the hilarious things on the game are the ladies voice at the stations. "We have a sale going at the machine shop at level 5", "Argon Flu is going around. Please be vaccinated at our medical center on level 6", "The restaurant is now open for your convinience", "Flight 117 to Home of Light is now boarding at gate 15".



Bill

..Got delivered on Tuesday...

$39.99 .... I got so excited, I got overwhelmed, I don't know where to start, you know I don't read manuals... Perhaps NOW I will start. My sleepless nights will be over....

I got something to learn....

 

[Madman]

I could 'not' dock at any stations though in the Terran sector, at least with my Iguanna. Very odd. I must need something in order to do that, I am thinking.

I don't have TC, but in Reunion, if your ranking isn't high enough a race will deny you permission to dock at their stations.......maybe they just don't like you enough yet.

 

[Lionheart]

I don't have TC, but in Reunion, if your ranking isn't high enough a race will deny you permission to dock at their stations.......maybe they just don't like you enough yet.

This may be.

I think it has to do with the ship. I found this one and at some stations I am not allowed to purchase certain things, including ore. But the rest of my fleet, I can. So I must have to switch over ownership or something on it.



Bill

 

[gigabyte]

Bill here is a new one for you to try, it takes a good number of credits, think 25million+ (if you don't want to wait, run the add credits script). It took me over 120 hours of play time to get there in X3 Reunion (then I found out about the cheat script after I had earned enough to do this...)

Go to an Argon Shipyard and purchase a Mammoth, it is the mega transport, too big to dock so it uses smaller transports to move wares to stations. Well I figured if it has to use freighters to move stuff it must have a docking bay... and guess what I am now Captian of a Mammoth and I have 5 fighters parked in the bays (it will hold more I think but I only had 5 I could use). I loaded it up with a gizillion energy cells and my jump drive and tonight I plan on doing some serious exploring. There is a Split version but I am not high enough in the good graces of the Split to buy that one so I settled for the Argon mega ship.

This sim offers endless possibilities I had left it alone for the better part of a year until this thread started now I am back into it big time.

Unfortunatly I am off for a two week road trip so my sim time will be nil for awhile

 

[Lionheart]

Mike,

That is awesome! I must try it tonight!

I did see that some ships have hanger bays, some for 1, some for 3, etc. 5 though, man...!

Ok.. Exactly how do I add a script. Full detail. I havent done that yet and hearing this, I must do it now. Do I need to download and run the manager program thing I heard about? or just drop a script into a folder? (Please forgive my not knowing this. If there is a webpage that explains it, send me there).


Did you get X3 TC yet? Its been a few days.



Side note; I still havent figured out how to get ships to run on their own in trading routes. Perhaps they do not do this in X3 TC.

Sure was wild to see Jupiter, Uranus, and Saturn last night. Very well done on the planet graphics.. I had goosebumps the entire time, lol...


Bill

 

[Lionheart]

Ok.. Exactly how do I add a script. Full detail. I havent done that yet and hearing this, I must do it now. Do I need to download and run the manager program thing I heard about? or just drop a script into a folder? (Please forgive my not knowing this. If there is a webpage that explains it, send me there)

<-- Me

Nevermind. I found it. :d

 

[gigabyte]

Mike,

I did see that some ships have hanger bays, some for 1, some for 3, etc. 5 though, man...!

Ok.. Exactly how do I add a script. Full detail. I havent done that yet and hearing this, I must do it now. Do I need to download and run the manager program thing I heard about? or just drop a script into a folder? (Please forgive my not knowing this. If there is a webpage that explains it, send me there).

Did you get X3 TC yet? Its been a few days.

Bill

Hey Bill, No sign of a package yet? I was hopeing to see something before I left but I guess it will be here when I get home from the road trip...

Regarding the scripts, it is a long process, you have to first activate the script editor, to do that make sure you are in space not docked at a station then go into the menus and change the pilot name to - "Thereshallbewings" (case sensitive and type it slowly the double l does not register if you enter it too fast) if you have done it correctly the name does not change on your screen but you will find a Script Editor in the Global Commands menu - then the fun begins. There are a huge number of mods and scripts including FSX style planes like an F14 and an F4U - soo cool looking in space. I had some of the XTM mods installed last time I was playing howver I am running without right now.

Here is the link for a good place to start with mods, the Xuniverse is one of the best I have found for mods - http://www.thexuniverse.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=62

If you want to see some of the ships check out this page - http://www.thexuniverse.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6948

There are several total conversions including the full XTM (Xtended Nod) I havent tried it yet, I want to do a seperate install to try that, and I just don't have the time, besides the vanella game is plenty of fun for now.

Beware if you don't want to stumble on to spoilers there are plenty of them on those forums, most are well marked but you can stumble upon the odd one that is not so obviouly marked as a spoiler.

I am off to make a run in the new mammmoth before I pack the bags for the road trip, talk to you all in a couple of weeks, I keep thinking "Holy Feldercarb Starbuck..." 2 weeks no simming, I am getting the shakes just thinking about it!!!:isadizzy:

 

[Lionheart]

2 weeks no simming, I am getting the shakes just thinking about it!!!:isadizzy:

eeeks! 2 weeks.. I thought you would only be gone a couple of days. Have a safe trip and have fun. I hope its so fun that you dont get a chance to miss the sims and gaming.

Is your mother inlaw going?

Thanks for the tips. They are working. I am now at 20,000,000 in my account, lolol.. Time to go shopping.




Bill

 

[gigabyte]

eeeks! 2 weeks.. I thought you would only be gone a couple of days. Have a safe trip and have fun. I hope its so fun that you dont get a chance to miss the sims and gaming.

Is your mother inlaw going?

Thanks for the tips. They are working. I am now at 20,000,000 in my account, lolol.. Time to go shopping.

Bill

I probably won't have time to miss anything while I am gone, I am meeting up with a very dear old friend tomorrow who I have not seen in 35 years, then it is 2 weeks traveling through the Annapolis Valley to 5 different hospitals teaching the staff (think me qne 350 nurses.... :mixedsmi how to order their office supplies through our Website.

I have a ton of other work piled up but it will have to wait those nurses come first...lol

Wish me luck, I just hope I survive

 

[Lionheart]

Wish me luck, I just hope I survive

Good luck Mike and Gods Blessings and Speed! I hope it goes smoother then ever and more gets accomplished then ever imagined before.





Well, I got the cheat things installed, and created a Baldric 'Terran' ship.

Goodness! I then outfitted it with all the extra's and goodies and took it for a spin, then a few hops through the Boron and Teladi sectors (North West). Awesome!!! This bird is doing like over 600 M/S, lolol... I have roughly 7,000 available in the cargo bay, and I think I can get a good amount of people in it, at least from what I see of the windows on the exterior. I could be wrong. I want a fast personal craft, so I am hoping this will be it.

Next will be the Tokyo class Carrier (Terran / Earth ship). It has a huge cargo bay, and can carry (I think) 64 ships in the hanger bay. And..... (and) it definately looks like Syd Mead made the thing, lol.... So Assymetrical its crazy. The round section on the thing is the hanger deck, evidently rotates to launch fighters, or something.

The smooth new Baldric (screenshots) is the new baby. The Terrans (us) make some smooth, nice looking ships. Love the windows from Engineering overlooking the aft and the underside belly area between the rear main engines. Cool front fuselage as well.


Bill

 

[Lionheart]

Edit; Addition supplement to above post.

On the carrier; Notes. That Tokyo carrier looks like a flying saucer, mounted to a hull that has an engine on the rear, and a huge set of rail gun armament on the nose. Wild design, lol.. Note, that it is HUGE.............! really huge..


On the new Baldric, that thing looks really similar to the ship in that Star Trek series. I cant remember the name of it off hand (I'm sorry fellow Trekkies.. I am old you know). Very clean shape...


In getting new ships that are in my own command, I have to make a comparison of this game with Flight Simulator. With FS, you can add tons of freeware and payware planes (and scenery, etc) to it. In X3, you can obtain, add, etc, tons of things just as well. This makes it pretty darn expandable, just like FS.


I wonder if we can add worlds? That might be locked in by the game maker group.

What if...................?

 

[Lionheart]

Got it! One 'Tokyo Class' super carrier, M1, dreadnaught by the Terran home world sector!!!! Smells like a new car! :d

What a mammoth 'thing'! lol...

An ocean of hull metal along the top, tons of ribbing structure underneath, a giant super door in the midships Port beam. The saucer section is just simpy huge.. The engines remind me of the Discovery in 2001 a Space Odyssee.


Syd Mead had to have designed this one... Had to have.....

EDIT: Views listing

1. Top view, bow at left
2. Hanger Door; multi level
3. Port (left) side, rear looking forward
4. Engines, top down on left
5. Top rear looking forward, ocean of decking material
6. saucer section
7. Right rear, looking forward
8. Right Front near bow
9. Lower rear right, side near engines
10. Left view, bow at left

 

[Lionheart]

Man...

A few notes on owning your own carrier.

* Can only dock at shipyards, so you cannot save games until you are in a system with a shipyard.

* To take on cargo like Energy Cells, etc, you must use Freight Drones to retrieve your cargo from stations, then do a Freight Transfer after they land

* Remember to make the carrier 'their' (drones) home so you can command them to return to 'home' when they have picked up the cargo. (Fly them seperately by remote AP to retrieve, trade, return).

* The gate is a tight fit. Be careful.

* Probably best to manually fly it through difficult area's. Use SETA drive and have it at 1000%. The Tokyo only clips along at top speed of 87 M/S and axial rotation during an AP parking manuever is extremely slow, as you would guess.

Pretty cool watching two drones leave your cargo bay and dock at a nearby station. These drones can also go extra system to retrieve cargo...

You can set the drones to 'email' you when they arrive.


Bill

 

[Lionheart]

Feng,

If you want to get it online, there is a Mac version here;

http://www.deliver2mac.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=369


I do not have the mac version though, and I do not know if you can install the cheats... so you might hold off until you find out..


Bill

 

[FengZ]

careful with using them cheats...it'll kill your addiction fast. Cuz it removes the "need to work to get something better" aspect of gameplay....which is the key in these types of simulations...

i remember using a cheat in Civilization 4...and soon all my cities were rich and well protected by tanks/planes, etc...i was the power of all...then there was no challenge anymore and it got really boring...deleted the game soon after.

-feng

 

[Lionheart]

careful with using them cheats...it'll kill your addiction fast. Cuz it removes the "need to work to get something better" aspect of gameplay....which is the key in these types of simulations...

i remember using a cheat in Civilization 4...and soon all my cities were rich and well protected by tanks/planes, etc...i was the power of all...then there was no challenge anymore and it got really boring...deleted the game soon after.

-feng

Roger that and I hear yah.

This already happened and I lost my drive as I didnt need to make money anymore, which was the addiction in the first place; obtaining that which I needed to make myself better, and that 'high' from accomplishment.

But.. I decided to try a new avenue which is to see what all the game can do. I want to make some stations and get things animated. I also kept my addiction of making funds (credits) which still gives me that mild high of accomplishment. I will probably figure a way to create a fleet of freighters running trade routes. (I just need to figure out how to get those animated, if there is even a way).

I did consider having a seperate installation of the game just for this when I was overwhelmed at the loss of 'need for trade'. I still might do that.


This even hit me inside, lol... My 'Christian' beliefs were tested. I am not cheating anyone, so I cannot say I am stealing. I want to learn more of this game and do not have months to come up with the funds for obtaining certain ships and stations, though the reward of that 'high' of accomplishment is not as moderate now, lol..

'Catch 22'


Bill

 

[Chacha]

Must be a very interesting game, I have not started it yet, my new copy is sitting on my desk.

I upgraded my OSX to Snow - first.

I might load it tonight on a Dell computer XP, and see how it delivers...

I know myself, I am easily get carried away...

 

[Lionheart]

Must be a very interesting game, I have not started it yet, my new copy is sitting on my desk.

I upgraded my OSX to Snow - first.

I might load it tonight on a Dell computer XP, and see how it delivers...

I know myself, I am easily get carried away...

Hey ChaCha,

I tried it on my hp Laptop and it was horrible. Unplayable. Its an older hp though, about 2 years old, and laptops arent known for being gaming computers unless its something crazy like a Alienware.

Even on my iMac 24, it can stutter now and then.



Bill

 

[luckydog]

Need some help......

I've done the "pilot name change" thing,
the script editor seems to be active,
I've downloaded a coupla interesting scripts to an independant folder but they are in "rar" and I can't open them (do I need to??).
Could someone give me a step by step guide on what to do next...
(or point me to a tutorial)??

Thanks,
LD