Bought this last night on steam.
Any useful tips for a newcomer to the game and genre?
As long as you get past the steep learning curve you will be fine, visit the egosoft forums lots of help and even a few beginer guides.
If you get stuck just ask.
X3:Terran Conflict has arrived
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As long as you get past the steep learning curve you will be fine, visit the egosoft forums lots of help and even a few beginer guides.
If you get stuck just ask.
i dont bother trading at the begining i jump in my ship and head for nearest target of opotunity.
If you can capture boron ts's you will soon be rolling in proffits.
What you should be saving up for is a nice shiny M7, fully equiped they can lay waste to entire fleets.
there are profiles avaliable for the stick have a look in the egosoft forums its there somewhere.
Hi guys.
New X3TC player here, looking for some traiding advice.
I started traider story. Just accomulated around 5 millions(found and sold a few ships and some stock) and have Mercury and Mamba ships.
What do I do now? Im a bit lost... I thought to use Mercury to start traiding. But have no clue how to set it up... Looked at command software mark 3 software but I have no idea how to use it...
Please help!
Sorry for my English
you can get mk3 trader from the terracorp hq(home of light) or any telardi equipment dock.
With 5m in the bank i would buy a TP and start training marrines. Once you have them to about 3 stars look for lone M7M's or higher TL's and order them to pirate space and capture them (easy money). Once you have a M7M then you can look at captureing M7's, M2's and M1's.
Another thing you can do is start some of the plots.
Strange problems never come accross them my self, or have i?????
1) A joystick should keep working in all menu's but i do think that it will pause on a keypress when you navigate the menu. Is this what you are seeing?
2) sector maps i have had a condition where the the Keyboard refresh rate seems to screw up (ie you press a key and it sends 10-20 key presses, instead of one) to fix this alt-tab to windows and back again.
3) i dont think dropping the gfx settings will solve the problem, it only tends to solve lag related issues.
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nothing wrong with your system spec it should be able to run the game maxed. Although the game is a real memory hog, 2Gb will run the game but 4+ is recommended.
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Sounds like a problem with the joystick \ system then. Might be worth checking the drivers.
Like i said if you get that keyboard problem all you need to do is alt-tab to windows then back to the game and it will dissapear.
dont know of a good one, i just look for systems with SPP's and lots of other stations.
Its not hard, just map all the important controls to the joystick ie targetting, missile selection\fireing and strafe.
You are now setup so duing combat all u need is the joystick. when you arnt in combat then using the keyboard isnt a problem.
The only time seta wont activate is when you are docked at a station.
hey guys doing well now
I'm saving up for another transporter and wondered what was good and preferably faster then the mecury.
Unless its changed, i dont use ut's. The ship needs at least 1 25mw shield and a jump drive to become a UT.
I like carman super freighters, reasonable speed and lots of cargo space.
Thats why i dont use them, cant afford to lose traders in my current game.
Im playing a never buy any ships game. Every ship i need i have to aquire by other means
so far ive got, that ive bothered to keep.
2 M1's
2 M2's
2 TL's
1 M7M
2 M7's
2 HCP's
30 ish M5-M3's (started building complexes so i can equip them an make use of my carriors)
20 ish TS's
oh and 1 TP / M8.
My current favorite is the Teladi Shrike,
http://roguey.freewha.com/gaming/pc/x3t/ships/get_ship.php?id=160
You can take on anything with it, fleets of fighters will just get vaporised by its flaks while capitals will be blasted to sheds by its gause cannons.
If you fancy geting down and dirty you can jump into a docked fighter, or just keep a wing on standby if you want.
All this and a massive cargo bay for scooping up all the nice left overs floating in space after you have wiped out a sector.
The Split Tiger is more fun than the Shrike though. Looks better and faster
Left/Right turrets can take IBL's as do the front firing guns. 12 IBLs firing forwards makes a right mess of anything. Plus all the turrets will mount flak so it will rip fighter swarms to shreds on its own.
But it cant dock any fighters
How long can it keep those 12 IBL's fireing before it runs out of energy?
Remember the Shrike can fire 8 IBL's and 4 GC's. So its has same amount of forward firepower except the GC's wont run out of energy half way thru the battle.
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Yeh the lack of fighters is a shame, but I didn't ever really used them as cover whilst flying it at all. It was more than capable of taking out large groups of fighters on its own. so I'd do that then work towards the capital ships.
Can't recall how long it keeps the front guns firing, certainly long enough to take out any single capital ship I've come up against (although I believe the Terran ones have more shielding - haven't tried on them)
The Shrike is a great ship and arguably the better overall. I bought one long before I got the Tiger from a recommendation from you ages ago (probably this thread somewhere) - buy I tended to leave the AI flying that one whilst I fly the Tiger
Not sure which ship to work towards in my new save at the moment. I've got about 10 fighters, 6 freighters, 2 of those fighter transporters (dead handy little ships
Don't feel like getting an M7 yet, and would like to try out something new, might get a Heavy Centaur or a Heavy Nemesis along with more freighters for more profitssssss.
If you are going for more m6's then i suggest you try and capture a Heavy Centaur Prototype or a Hyperion. Both very good ships and even better they are "free"
You could also try out a Skiron, or if you have completed the terran plot a Springblossom.
you can get a complete list of race ranks here.
http://www.thexuniverse.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13455
Never had any problems installing patches for this game.
The only problems i know of involve installing the wrong patch or manually patching a steam version of the game.
lots of startup guides over on the egosoft forums (if i get some time ill see if i can find one for you).
The only plots ive bothered to finish is the Terran, and final fury. Realy should get round to finishing the others. But i know enough to advise people on any of them.
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This looks like i should be good
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=1571302
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The controls still have the same learning curve they have always had. X3TC does have a new slidebar interface that does help a bit but they are still complex.
I dont know about strating a game but if you were to start a game then go for the humble merchant start and read through the guide i posted above.
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Oh yes i highly recommend a joystick its the best way to play the game.