It's just a game - lighten up
Well that's the problem with X3 I'm afraid. It constantly goes out of it's way to remind you what it is. What the programmers were thinking about is anybody's guess.
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Well that's the problem with X3 I'm afraid. It constantly goes out of it's way to remind you what it is. What the programmers were thinking about is anybody's guess.
Bad lucky, I'm kinda in a similar place with one of the missions I have lined up. Got to jump to a Khaak sector and destroy everything, if I jumped in with an M6 I'd be swamped with 100's of scouts, and I just can't kill them quick enough before getting battered. I jump in with my M7 and the place was full of Corvettes and a destroyer... However I've got some better weapons now, 8x Incendiary Bomb Launchers on my tiger with Flak all around which is great for general missions and can take down a khaak destroyer if I am flying it. Not to mention I now have the Zeus (who's weapons will be moved to something less ugly) that has the firepower to easily take down a Khaak Destroyernice going, wish i could do something like that in the future, this little sabre is sucking soo bad, my combat rating is quite high and well its spawning really tough ships most the time, like zenon QX's and P's, plus L's escorting itso navigating certain systems is quite hard and my little Demeter TS ship well i lose that a lot when its on a trade run
Yep it is absolutely fine with just a mouse and keyboard. I couldn't get the hang of it with a joystick when I first tried it, since then I've got completely accustomed to using the mouse
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finally, ive got myself a scimitar, after many hours of trading with my 3 demeters (capped in teladi space) the scimitar is fairly easy to fit, as they only take 1 type of guns lol also im winged by 2 elites capped in the unkown sector next to PTNI HQ, so im doing fairly well now, time to carry on building my empire.
how do you capture ships?
no one ever seems to surrender for me
Sometimes they'll bail out of there ships when on low health - the script I posted earlier in this thread increases the chance in pilots bailing - although it does make it a lot easier to get a new ship. playing around yesterday on a new save in a falcon acting as a pirate I got myself 2 decently equipped Novas (1 Raider, one Vanguard) and a Boron thing in the space of about 10 minutes. Then the game crashed
Capturing larger ships requires marines, essentially you take down the shields of the enemy, tell your marines to attempt to board and they will fly over in there space suits, penetrate the hull and fight there way though. The instructions has a fairly detailed explanation of it I believe, if not there are loads of guides over on the official forums.
What stations/mines /factories etc are good to build? and wheres a good place to set up base?
thanks
Any end product tends to sell well, but the best are illigal goods mainly space weed and fuel.
The only probelm with them is where you setup the factory, the authorities dont like them and will destroy them. Place them in pirate / unknown sectors or even better in Terran space they dont care about a bit of space weed \ fuel (as long as its for personal use
). The best thing about these is that you dont need to sell them just set the price 1 below average and your station will be constantly empty.Its also worth setting up a hammer and flail complex if you plan to start using M7M's 2-3 of each is enough to keep one going.
I think I've managed to bugger up my install with a mod that replaced the 08.cat and 08.dat files, game won't load now and like a numpty I forgot to back them up. Any chance some kind soul could email them to me from their install? bigblacktom at hotmail dot com
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I dunno if any of the mods I'm running will have effected that, but its worth a try