Terran Conflict X3; Extreme Addiction!

I did a bit more flying in X3 last night. I found that if I went through a couple of systems, I could find some really good deals on frieght to purchase.


Also, when shopping, you can scan through the various stations in Sector Map, click Enter to bring up the list (autopilot, info, etc), and click on the Info selection. There, you will see the readouts for the various things they buy and sell. Also, you will see 'bullets' or gold scalers of things they have in stock, etc. If you are buying and their stock is really high, go there, as the product will be cheap. If they are low, dont even bother.

Now, if you have cargo and you wish to sell, then look for the gold sliders that show the least in supply.

I found a super good deal on Cahoonas last night, and eventually found a station that needed them badly. I made a fortune in one flight. :d

Right now I do not have Credits readout when running Stations/Info. I tried to buy a Satellite so I could get the 'Good Deals' readouts for each system, but for some reason, I cannot purchase one.


So much to learn.. arrgh.



Bill
 
Thanks for the dialogue Bill......
I downloaded two nights ago, spent last night "jumping" around and docking. Tonite I'm planning to try a little trading. Your advice has been very helpful !
LD
 
Most welcome man.

If you discover anything cool, let us know, (especially me, lol).


The discovery of each new system is really addictive. For a while I was getting lost. Some gates are hidden and you have to go looking out in the edges of the sector, behind asteroids and things to find them. Some are sideways, so seeing them is really difficult.

If you open the Universe Map, you'll see that everything is joined in 4 coordinates, so its like a flat grid (sort of, its still 3D if you use the arrow keys to select different sectors on the Universe map).

I found you can find some missing gates by finding them going through them from another sector. Find the systems near it and gate to that one system and you can find yourself going through the gate you couldnt find. Its then mapped in your NAV system and charted in your Sector and Universe maps.


Bill
 
Bill I see you have the X3 bug bad, it is very addictive. I have been doing the Explorer thing since you first started this thread, I am up to just over 80 systems in my nav map now (I had 96 in one of my saved gaves but it was from last year so I am rediscovering the universe) I did some digging and there are just over 160 systems in total so we all have a long way to go.

Here are a couple of tips from Gig's Travels.

There are Scanner upgrades in the equipment docks, as soon as you can afford it grab a duplex, then a triplex scanner, they extend your ships scanning range and make exploring systems much faster.

If you want to start making real profitable runs, get into the Teladi systems (North East) they sell some great scanners and are very "Profit Minded" so you can often find valuable items there that can bring high profits in other systems.

Learn how to remote command your ships, I like to explore using a Discover L (it is an upgraded model to the one you get first) and when I find a good buy I access my Mercury Command Comsole and Order it to do the freight run, while I go exploring another sector.

Make note of the items in the Bulletin Board system, they are often good hints to profitable trade routes.

Watch out for the Pirate Sectors, (I have located 8 so far) you run across Pirates in many sectors, but they are in small groups, if you get into a Pirate Sector, they are like Wolf Packs you want to have you way planned out of the system real quick - unless you decide on the Pirate life, then it will be home sweat Home.

If you are using a ship to explore like a Buster or Discover, don't load it down with freight, go for the system upgrades, scanners, engine, booster, jump drive, and all the software upgrades you can find (and afford), leave the freight to a Mercury and let it do the grunt work.

I am no expert, but I have been playing the game off and on for over a year, it can be very addictive, there are so many directions to go and roles to take, I personally like starting as a Freight Hauler, but I quickly move to my second ship and use it more like an explorer and remote control the freighter.

Things really start to get intresting when you have enough credits to build a station and home base of your own, but that takes serious credits, I got that far once, but I trashed that save game when I reformatted so I am building up to that level again now.

See you in space guys...
 
Thanks Mike for the info!


That Discoverer hauls 'boot'! I can shoot straight through systems in it. I got the engine tuned to the max, so she is cooking at around 260 m/s. The Mercury only does about 97 m/s.

I finally found up/dn/right/left thrusters (no rotation, only sideways movements). A,D,S,W keys, for those that are beginning. Now, after undocking from a station, I hit the S key for a short while and the ship moves straight down away from all the structural area's.

Which reminds me, I almost collided with another freighter that was leaving the same port, lol.. I kept waiting for him to manuvere. Bad timing..



Bill
 
Here are some basic price limits newbies should go by;

Product Buy Sell
_________________________________
Cahoonas 72 100
Ore 92 127
Energy Cells 12 20

I found some interesting deals last night that exceeded those prices... Shop around...
 
Lionheart said:
Thanks Mike for the info!


That Discoverer hauls 'boot'! I can shoot straight through systems in it. I got the engine tuned to the max, so she is cooking at around 260 m/s. The Mercury only does about 97 m/s.

I finally found up/dn/right/left thrusters (no rotation, only sideways movements). A,D,S,W keys, for those that are beginning. Now, after undocking from a station, I hit the S key for a short while and the ship moves straight down away from all the structural area's.

Which reminds me, I almost collided with another freighter that was leaving the same port, lol.. I kept waiting for him to manuvere. Bad timing..

Bill
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Bill Just wait, once you get your credits built up head into the Boron systems, when you find one of their ship yards grab a Mako Sentenial or an Opus Vanguard, if you like Firepower you want the Mako, it can be loaded for bear, the speed is reasonable (over 200 M/S), but it can carry some serious weps. If you want speed grab an Opus, it is not very expensive, under 80K and talk about speed, if you tune it up you can get close to 500 M/S. That is one of the scout class ships, I am using it right now to explore with, not too heavly armed just a couple of lasers, but if you run into a heavy Pirate pack you can beat the feat and get clear with no problem, nothing can keep up with that little puppy.
See ya around the Stars...lol
 
gigabyte said:
Bill Just wait, once you get your credits built up head into the Boron systems, when you find one of their ship yards grab a Mako Sentenial or an Opus Vanguard, if you like Firepower you want the Mako, it can be loaded for bear, the speed is reasonable (over 200 M/S), but it can carry some serious weps. If you want speed grab an Opus, it is not very expensive, under 80K and talk about speed, if you tune it up you can get close to 500 M/S. That is one of the scout class ships, I am using it right now to explore with, not too heavly armed just a couple of lasers, but if you run into a heavy Pirate pack you can beat the feat and get clear with no problem, nothing can keep up with that little puppy.
See ya around the Stars...lol
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Hey Mike,


Awesome man! Thanks for the info. I will look for it. I'll go to one of the ship yards and window shop, lol...


I found the Teridian stars last night, far North by NorthWest. Very wierd territory. No hits by pirates yet, thank goodness.. One chase me but couldnt keep up. I was in the Discoverer though. (I got the hull repaired finally).

See you out there.

Bill
 
Different worlds of x3

Hey all,

I thought I would post some of the tons of planets that I am finding in this huge game. I cant believe them all. Some I am thinking are shared, like a sector might be on one side of a world, and a station is on the other side as well, so you can gate to the other side..

Some places I gated too were basically Nebula's, like being in a red or green cloud.. Some places are heavy with tons of asteroids.. Some are almost nothing..

Some planets are either pretty huge (fills the screen) or you are in low orbit. Seeing the clouds move, detail on the terrain, and floating around in a 3 axis condition can get my stomach upset, lol.. I kid you not.

Wild game.


Note; the Tan planet really struck me. Its like a version of Mars and Dune (Arrakis). Hardly any clouds, tons of dunes, all sand.. Mars is red though, like Oklahoma... :d
 
And here are a couple of some of the ships and stations. There appear to be many forms of races, and of course, each have their own ship and station architectures. This is a very small sample. I havent been doing photo runs in this. Mostly learning and exploring..

There are some wild looking craft. The one with the green illuminated ribs is very strange. Some of the stations, like star born factories, are pretty amazing with detail. Small cars can be seen riding rails on the structures, AI ships docking with them, etc. Dogfights with pirates going on. You name it..

Below, on that station (first two pics), I was freaked on the size. Its 4X the size of a regular Argon free trade station. I flew through the middle of the structure. The ships are all AI, out doing things. Some are warships, some are frieghters, etc.... Some are even civillian.


Bill
 
Very cool shots Bill, I keep meaning to take some shots but I always get to wrapped up in exploring and never think of it. I will have to try that this weekend, I an going off line tonight after I finish the Hard of Hearing Chat, I finally broke down and picked up some new RAM so I wil be breaking the box down and doing a small upgrade, I don't expect much change in X3 but I am hoping for a boost with FSX, I am getting reasonable FPS now but I hope 8 GIG of resh new RAM will make it even better.

See ya on the flip side...
 
Mike,


Do you ever trade 'computer chips'? I have been trying to find a plant that has tons of them (full stock for cheaper prices) and cannot find a good one. Can you recommend a system that has them?


Also, I have been trying to find stray, hiding jump gates and having a rough time at finding them, even in back tracking from other systems. I have tried moving to the top and bottom of the grids (3D side view on sector map) and that didnt help. Any advice on that?


I found a blown up jump gate the other night in a very dismal, reddish, dark sector. I guess that one is at least a 3 port system now, lol..



Bill
 
If you want to change your pace a bit and live though a movie like experience, get Freespace 2. It's ten years old, but thanks to a public source code it gets lots of graphics updates.

Battlestar Galactica even copied its "flak barrage" feature and dogfighting style!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeSpace_2_Source_Code_Project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Htlboxart.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Htlsobekflak.jpg

Unfortunately, the SCP homepage is down at the moment.


P.S: I've played the first "X" episode (released 1999 or 2000). Had a cool, interactive intro but became boring fairly quickly. :kilroy:
 
Lionheart said:
Mike,

Do you ever trade 'computer chips'? I have been trying to find a plant that has tons of them (full stock for cheaper prices) and cannot find a good one. Can you recommend a system that has them?

Also, I have been trying to find stray, hiding jump gates and having a rough time at finding them, even in back tracking from other systems. I have tried moving to the top and bottom of the grids (3D side view on sector map) and that didnt help. Any advice on that?

I found a blown up jump gate the other night in a very dismal, reddish, dark sector. I guess that one is at least a 3 port system now, lol..

Bill
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Bill I did come across a system that had a computer chip plant I believe it was one of the Boron or Teladi systems? Check out the systems in the extreme north Teladi Prime, Family Whi, that area. I have never made a run with computer chips but I have seen some factories with large supplies. I will check a couple of my save ganes when I get a chance.

The gate questions, that is one of the dynamics of the game, many systems have only 3 gates anyway (some just 2), but there are numerous systems with hidden gates, they will not appear until you reach a specific level or achieve a better reputation with some races. I have been looking for a couple of gates for over a month now I know they exist but they have not been reveled to me so I keep exploring and trying different Bulletin Board missions hoping to build up my Rep, sooner or later they will appear. You also need to get the scanner upgrades to see a few. One thing that will help is to get the Police License that does open up a lot of systems and increases the rate at which your reputation grows with some races. Don't underestimate the Bulletin Boards some of the missions seem like low paying, but completing them builds up your rep and goodwill that will pay in other way besides credits, kind of like real life.
 
Bjoern said:
P.S: I've played the first "X" episode (released 1999 or 2000). Had a cool, interactive intro but became boring fairly quickly. :kilroy:
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Bjoern, I doubt you would be bored with the latest versions of X3, it has probably the best variety of any space sim I have tried (an I go back a long way) the thing I like is you can pick your own destiny, and switch if you like. I am a huge fan of the Wing Commander/Privateer series and still dig out WC 3 & 4 from time to time, this is as good in the story line as privateer and better in variety than any other. All I can say is They came a long way baby...lol
 
Thanks Mike,


I was wondering if they were hiding for a reason. Also, I was assuming that most systems had 4 gates. When I found one gate blown apart, then I got the feeling that assumption could be terribly wrong, lol.. .

I have been exploring South lately. Last week was a pure Northern and Eastern excursion. Alot of grim stuff down in the South West quadrant, lol...

I'll look around for some high quantity Chip manufacturers. There has to be some around...


That Teladian quadrant is wild!


Bill
 
WOW! Nice screenshots! Man...you are so tempting me. I'm still going through Fallout 3 right now, but i will probably buy this game when i'm done w/ it. Looks like a very good *classic* sci-fi game....just my style.

I still remember working on Wing Commander Online about 12 years ago over at Origin. It was gonna be such a cool game (probably similar to this one)...but the technology at the time just couldn't support such a "advanced game." (the only Massive Online game out at that time was UO...not even 3D). Anyways, EA canceled the game....sad. I always think that the Wing Commander IP has a HUGE following.....somebody should bring it back....

-feng
 
I'm up to three ships now...trading mostly ore and a little energy. Staying mainly in the Argon/Boron systems.........
Which direction to the Teladian Quad ??

LD
 
FengZ said:
WOW! Nice screenshots! Man...you are so tempting me. I'm still going through Fallout 3 right now, but i will probably buy this game when i'm done w/ it. Looks like a very good *classic* sci-fi game....just my style.

I still remember working on Wing Commander Online about 12 years ago over at Origin. It was gonna be such a cool game (probably similar to this one)...but the technology at the time just couldn't support such a "advanced game." (the only Massive Online game out at that time was UO...not even 3D). Anyways, EA canceled the game....sad. I always think that the Wing Commander IP has a HUGE following.....somebody should bring it back....

-feng
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Man Feng,

Youve been into all the games, lol..

I hadnt seen you in a while. I figured you purchased it and was deep into the X3 Universe, lol..


I'm up to three ships now...trading mostly ore and a little energy. Staying mainly in the Argon/Boron systems.........
Which direction to the Teladian Quad ??

LuckyDog
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LD, youve already got a 3rd ship?? Dang..

I lost money on Ore and was going to go for computer chips trading, but dang, no systems have it in stock.

Can you 'auto-trade' the ships? Can they run themselves?

If you explore deep North as far as you can go, then start bearing East, you will bump into all the Teladian systems.

I was just up logging new gates and factories and systems in the far North East. Man... The gates just keep going and going.... I cant believe how far everything goes..



One cool thing is the music. Each system seems to have its own music and some are pretty cool. I wonder if its possible to get the music to listen to on iPod?



Bill
 
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