X3:Terran Conflict has arrived

Enjoying this even more now, I found a ship, or actually bought a second hand m5 for 8000 credits, which I thought was a good deal.
Stuck guns on it and flew about having some fun, but making no money, so now I've went back to my TS and am doing some poor trade runs again.

Very slow progress, I have found a grade 64 silicon asteroid I want to exploit, but as yet I am somewhat unsure how best to go about this, and even if i am allowed to, its in ore belt.
 
As soon as I had enough money I bought a wheat farm and put it in Argon prime along with 2 mercury freighters, 1 to buy ecells the other to sell wheat. If you do buy a factory make sure you go into command menu and set a cash limit, otherwise you won't get any into your bank unless you physically do it.

You will need a factory, a few freighters to buy and sell product/resource and enough cash in the factory to start it all off.

Also go into command console for your freighter and look for "home" and set your factory as the home base for that freighter, then you can set it to automatically sell or buy from that factory.

I hope some of that makes sense but I'm sure once you start digging in the menus it will all become clear :)
 
Yes, I do have an idea, can you dump the thing anywhere in space?

What I was pondering was mk 3 trade software, if i have that can i set a mercury to just slowly crawl around and do its own profitable trading?

Would this work better in conjunction with advanced satellites? Again do i just dump these in a sector and expect them to work survive and not be shot down?
 
Factory can be placed anywhere you choose. Trade Software Mk3 will enable you to start a sector trader so make sure you pick a good sector, then when the pilot reaches level 8 you can make them a Universe trader (make sure you explore as much as possible for this to work best) :)

If you buy satellites all you do is eject them from your cargo hold, so where ever you do that is where they will stay ... until they get shot by pirates :p Satellites just let you check a sector for product prices and to just generally keep an eye on it.
 
Thx Sparc, you've very helpful within this thread.
The game seems to have such wonderful depth.

I returned to Ore Belt late last night to find the NPC ore stations had been destroyed whilst I was away, intriguing, so now the easy cheap bonus of bringing ore to the plutarc mining company hq is gone as there are no ore refineries.

Might use that as an opportunity.


Are some sectors more secure than others? Is there any way in which this is guaged?
 
SPARC said:
As soon as I had enough money I bought a wheat farm and put it in Argon prime along with 2 mercury freighters
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if your going to put factories in Argon space, try 1mj shield factories in Home of Light, it's a known money spinner as the NPC's cannot get enough of them. another nice little earner is Nostrop oil over in PTNI Headquaters sector in Teladi space, set up a small complex of 1 Large flower farm, 1 Large sun oil refinery linked with a complex construction kit, it pays for itself in no time at all.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Are some sectors more secure than others? Is there any way in which this is guaged?
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If you click on a sector in the universe map, on the right panel at the top it will tell you the security level of either Core or Border and also the race of that sector.

Core security level is more safe and will have police in that sector as well as patrols.
 
one thing I've found in xtc, is no one has missions.

Flew around for ages in the starting sectors and only seen one 1 passenger transport mission.
 
VoG said:
if your going to put factories in Argon space, try 1mj shield factories in Home of Light, it's a known money spinner as the NPC's cannot get enough of them. another nice little earner is Nostrop oil over in PTNI Headquaters sector in Teladi space, set up a small complex of 1 Large flower farm, 1 Large sun oil refinery linked with a complex construction kit, it pays for itself in no time at all.
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The 1mj shield sell like hot cakes, I have 10 in argon prime and it is always sold out. I also have 2 other 1mj shield complexes swell but the one in argon is the best.
 
What start did you do?
The humble trader i am doing has loads and loads, mainly unsuitable for me of course, like retrieve ship missions where the timelimit imposed appears impossible given the damaged ship at the other end, even when fully repaired can't move for love nor money, then i fail, then the cops show up and blow up the ship i am trying to haul back
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
What start did you do?
The humble trader i am doing has loads and loads, mainly unsuitable for me of course, like retrieve ship missions where the timelimit imposed appears impossible given the damaged ship at the other end, even when fully repaired can't move for love nor money, then i fail, then the cops show up and blow up the ship i am trying to haul back
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the xtc mod so the terrain

"new career" start.
 
Anyone else playing the xtended mod?

edit: hmm seems certain things are still broke in the mod in relation to the terrans, think I'll go back to vanilla for now.
 
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i caved in and bought it havingh not played a x3 game since reuinion , im just doing vanilla but added a must have script
"auto explore"
which improves the default exploration command which would only map a sector and makes the ship jump though a gate and start maping another sector again without it beeing ordered to.

seems to be working very well, i noticed someone made a mod that apears to add a chat channel overlay thingy to the game http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=3491244

which might make the game feel a lot less lonely
 
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