Got to play some last night. I started in Scale Plate Green with my Nova, Mamba, and Buster Sentinel. I attempted to go through the Xenon Sector to return to the rest of my fighter wing faster but the Xenon destroyed the AI flown ships as they slowed down to enter the exiting gate. So I reloaded and headed north into Split space. Once I got to Menelaus' Frontier, I finally went and got the free ship and sent it back into Teladi space, then only attacked Paranid ships.
I passed through Rolk's Fate with no problems, and called for the other 3 ships of my wing when I got to Atreus' Clouds. It was there that Boron Customs ships started to attack me.
Fighter Wing:
Nova- "White Blade"
Mamba- "Black Blade"
Falcon- "Falcon Escort"
Buster- "Buster Sentinel Escort"
Buster- "Buster Sentinel Escort"
Buster- "Pirate Buster Escort"
Most Boron fighters didn't live long enough to pass me. Durring a long chain of combats, starting with the Boron Customs and ending with Boron Military Hydra, I captured: a Mako Sentinel, a Pirate Falcon, a Pirate Harrier. I would have had several more captures but the dumb AI ruined it for me.
First AI blunder: I had just convinced a frieghter to leave his ship to me with all of its cargo still aboard. I moved up slowly in my Nova to within 70m. I was just about to hit the eject button when suddenly my Mamba flew in fast into the frieghter, wedged between it and the Nova. I attempted to move out of its way so it wouldn't take any hull damage but it kept trying to fly through the frieghter but it blew up leaving me with what is now an almost destroyed frieghter compaired to the near perfect one I was about to claim. Second AI blunder: I was attacking a space station in that same sector. I have destroyed one in the past with no problems. This time I ordered my wingmen to attack my target. For a long time they did so but every so often I noticed one of my ships would have low shields, usually the Pirate Buster. I was holding my position and firing when my weapons recharged. Off to my right is see something fly up into the station and go boom. I look at the sector map and see that one of my busters were gone. Looked at the messages and it said that my Pirate Buster Escort was destroyed by a Bofu Factory.
I have the Mamba and Pirate Buster around for their speed, which makes exploring a lot faster. But if the AI can't control them right I may have to either decommission them or remove them as wingmen and leave them in Argon Prime with the Harrier, which is there for similar reasons.
I was inpressed at how fast the Hydra now falls under me. With just the Nova, using up all of my energy in my HEPT's, I can destroy the shields at take some where between a quarter and a third of its hull away. Then my fighters come in and finish the job.
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I am going to start a new game but to check out the enw ships... how can I script one in to see it and test it? I dont want to ruin my current game by over balancing it by scripting in a ship and or selling it.
I was going to shoot for testing out the Serenity (Firefly class ship), has no weapons so I didn't think it would be a huge over balance. ANd there were a few other smaller M3, M4 class ships. nothing big yet.
I had a hard time the other night and it all amounted to nothing so I wil ltry and start again where I left off in Seizewell. Also, where is the Goner station that sells Jumpdrives? Been a while since I played over in Argon territory.
I was going to shoot for testing out the Serenity (Firefly class ship), has no weapons so I didn't think it would be a huge over balance. ANd there were a few other smaller M3, M4 class ships. nothing big yet.
I had a hard time the other night and it all amounted to nothing so I wil ltry and start again where I left off in Seizewell. Also, where is the Goner station that sells Jumpdrives? Been a while since I played over in Argon territory.
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Well a little more gaming, and btw I figured out where the temple is...
I ended up capping three more dolphins. But one was destroyed by me after I capped it. I jumped back into my ship and it lurched forward and BOOM! ship gone.
A dolphin tanker I had that was near pristine almost made it to a shipyard when it was taken out by pirates. Dirty buggars.
I almost capped a boron dolphin super frieghter but the fighter drones it sent out fired on me and destroyed it. Stupid drones. All in all I have had a very enventful day here in space. But I have noticed Boron Orcas flying in space I frequent now so I am forced to play nice for a minute. The pirates are getting together en mass and destroying stations in their sectors that do not belong to them. There are a lot of pirates, so much so I think that they are large enough to take on the xenon in sector 101 if the xenon came out.
Im going to try to get to the goner temple to get me some jump drives.
I have decided that I will not pilot a boron ship, because of ym hatred for them so I sold my surviving dolphin to repair my mamba a little. I may just sell the mamba but only after I get a few more figthers.
I ended up capping three more dolphins. But one was destroyed by me after I capped it. I jumped back into my ship and it lurched forward and BOOM! ship gone.
A dolphin tanker I had that was near pristine almost made it to a shipyard when it was taken out by pirates. Dirty buggars.
I almost capped a boron dolphin super frieghter but the fighter drones it sent out fired on me and destroyed it. Stupid drones. All in all I have had a very enventful day here in space. But I have noticed Boron Orcas flying in space I frequent now so I am forced to play nice for a minute. The pirates are getting together en mass and destroying stations in their sectors that do not belong to them. There are a lot of pirates, so much so I think that they are large enough to take on the xenon in sector 101 if the xenon came out.
Im going to try to get to the goner temple to get me some jump drives.
I have decided that I will not pilot a boron ship, because of ym hatred for them so I sold my surviving dolphin to repair my mamba a little. I may just sell the mamba but only after I get a few more figthers.
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Well a few hours of gaming got me a good day. I have all my notes at home working on the enxt part of my story but I will drop the jist of it here. I am still dissapointed that the pirates and the xenon and Khaak are so insanely present. I can seldom expand my universe knowledge of sectors because of an invasion fleet form some pissed off group.
After a few more problems of capping Boron ships in Teladi space, regardless of it being a core sector. I had to restart from a previous autosave. I lost a couple of capped ships, but I'm not too worried. I got them back. I am now only capping Boron is either Pirate sectors when there isn't a huge mass of Pirates around, or in Split territory. They don't seem to care one bit about blowing up Boron. I like them. So I spend a lot of time in Family Whi grabbing Boron tankers as they try and make it from the super gate to Boron space. I had to leave and go to Shareholders Fortune as two Oras jumped in with a wing of four makos each. I didn't wait to see if they were after me or not. I'm in a Buster for crying out loud.
My latest capture consisted of two Boron Dolphins while heading out of Family Whi. Capped them both on a full pass. Circles around them completely and they both bailed. Sent the faster one to follow the slower one so they would make it to Seizewell at the same time so I could sell them both. I sold one I capped earlier already to get some cash and begin repairs of my mamba. I think I will keep all my capped ships but my Boron ones.
My wing now consists of...
Starter - Split Mamba - Mama's Joy. Docked for repairs.
Claimed - Argon Buster - Pirate's Paradise. Current ship.
Claimed - Iguana Vangaurd - Docked in Family Whi.
Claimed - Toucan Hauler - Docked in Family Whi.
Claimed - Harrier Sentinel - Docked in Family Whi.
Claimed - Buzzard Hauler - Currently shadowing me.
Capped - Boron Dolphin Tanker - Enroute to Seizewell to be sold, in Family Whi.
Capped - Boron Dolphin Tanker - Enroute to Seizewell to be sold, in Family Whi.
Capped - Pirate Falcon - Enroute to Family Whi, in Ceo's Sprite.
Capped - Boron Dolphin Tanker - Sold.
Capped - Boron Mako - Destroyed.
Capped - Boron Barracuda - Missing, presumably destroyed.
Capped - Boron Dolphin Tanker - Destroyed.
Capped - Boron Dolphin Tanker - Destroyed.
Capped - Boron Dolphin Superfreighter - Destroyed.
Now as you can see I am sticking to trying to cap only Boron ships. Especially now that the pirates are on roids and pissed off at everyone.
The claimed ships are the free ships found through the sectors. The Hauler, I think it was the one in Menalaus' Frontier was kind of hard as I had a lot of upset Boron chasing me through the sector trying to end my existence.
All the ships that are destroyed. The Mako blew up on a gate trying to avoid a flock of pirates entering the gate at the same time. The Barracuda I have no idea where it went. I never recieved a message saying it was under attack or that it was destroyed. It just disappeared from my property list. I was upset about it as it was in near mint. Had full shields and 80% hull with a ful lcompliment of weapons on board.
The Superfrieghter was destroyed by its own fighter drones before I claimed it. The pilot had bailed and I turned to deal with the drones and errant shots from the drones took its toll and destroyed it before I could get away. Stupid drones. One Dolphin was destroyed by me as I ran into it after I claimed it. The throttle on my joystick is real sensitive and when I jumped back in the ship it lurched forward and blew it up. It took half my shields down and destroyed my enhanced goggles on me but nothing major. The last dolphin was taken out my pirates. Bastards!
I am now stuck in Family Tkr with my Buzzard Hauler shadowing me. When I passed through Home of Opportunity on my way to get the Hauler I destroyed two Khaak scouts harrassing the stations. I got some props form the Teladi for it which was fine. Better rep and more credits are fine with me. On my way back. There were three Khaak Carriers with no less than ten scouts and fighters around each station. After four attempts at cleaning them out I just decided to go around. I was forced to clear them off of a station to the south as everytime I passed by the kept attacking me. By the time I was able to get to the north gate it had taken me three hours to circle around the entire sector with my claimed prize without being spotted. I jumped over to Mines of Fortune and was forced to dock at the pirate base there to save it.
After a few more problems of capping Boron ships in Teladi space, regardless of it being a core sector. I had to restart from a previous autosave. I lost a couple of capped ships, but I'm not too worried. I got them back. I am now only capping Boron is either Pirate sectors when there isn't a huge mass of Pirates around, or in Split territory. They don't seem to care one bit about blowing up Boron. I like them. So I spend a lot of time in Family Whi grabbing Boron tankers as they try and make it from the super gate to Boron space. I had to leave and go to Shareholders Fortune as two Oras jumped in with a wing of four makos each. I didn't wait to see if they were after me or not. I'm in a Buster for crying out loud.
My latest capture consisted of two Boron Dolphins while heading out of Family Whi. Capped them both on a full pass. Circles around them completely and they both bailed. Sent the faster one to follow the slower one so they would make it to Seizewell at the same time so I could sell them both. I sold one I capped earlier already to get some cash and begin repairs of my mamba. I think I will keep all my capped ships but my Boron ones.
My wing now consists of...
Starter - Split Mamba - Mama's Joy. Docked for repairs.
Claimed - Argon Buster - Pirate's Paradise. Current ship.
Claimed - Iguana Vangaurd - Docked in Family Whi.
Claimed - Toucan Hauler - Docked in Family Whi.
Claimed - Harrier Sentinel - Docked in Family Whi.
Claimed - Buzzard Hauler - Currently shadowing me.
Capped - Boron Dolphin Tanker - Enroute to Seizewell to be sold, in Family Whi.
Capped - Boron Dolphin Tanker - Enroute to Seizewell to be sold, in Family Whi.
Capped - Pirate Falcon - Enroute to Family Whi, in Ceo's Sprite.
Capped - Boron Dolphin Tanker - Sold.
Capped - Boron Mako - Destroyed.
Capped - Boron Barracuda - Missing, presumably destroyed.
Capped - Boron Dolphin Tanker - Destroyed.
Capped - Boron Dolphin Tanker - Destroyed.
Capped - Boron Dolphin Superfreighter - Destroyed.
Now as you can see I am sticking to trying to cap only Boron ships. Especially now that the pirates are on roids and pissed off at everyone.
The claimed ships are the free ships found through the sectors. The Hauler, I think it was the one in Menalaus' Frontier was kind of hard as I had a lot of upset Boron chasing me through the sector trying to end my existence.
All the ships that are destroyed. The Mako blew up on a gate trying to avoid a flock of pirates entering the gate at the same time. The Barracuda I have no idea where it went. I never recieved a message saying it was under attack or that it was destroyed. It just disappeared from my property list. I was upset about it as it was in near mint. Had full shields and 80% hull with a ful lcompliment of weapons on board.
The Superfrieghter was destroyed by its own fighter drones before I claimed it. The pilot had bailed and I turned to deal with the drones and errant shots from the drones took its toll and destroyed it before I could get away. Stupid drones. One Dolphin was destroyed by me as I ran into it after I claimed it. The throttle on my joystick is real sensitive and when I jumped back in the ship it lurched forward and blew it up. It took half my shields down and destroyed my enhanced goggles on me but nothing major. The last dolphin was taken out my pirates. Bastards!
I am now stuck in Family Tkr with my Buzzard Hauler shadowing me. When I passed through Home of Opportunity on my way to get the Hauler I destroyed two Khaak scouts harrassing the stations. I got some props form the Teladi for it which was fine. Better rep and more credits are fine with me. On my way back. There were three Khaak Carriers with no less than ten scouts and fighters around each station. After four attempts at cleaning them out I just decided to go around. I was forced to clear them off of a station to the south as everytime I passed by the kept attacking me. By the time I was able to get to the north gate it had taken me three hours to circle around the entire sector with my claimed prize without being spotted. I jumped over to Mines of Fortune and was forced to dock at the pirate base there to save it.
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After playing a little last night, I now have over 5 million credits in my pocket and another million in my 1MJ Shield factory. I also captured a Pirate Falcon that I am currently getting weapons for. Beyond that I haven't gone very far or done much. I sold about 7 ships out of 8 captured in Boron space and further reduced their military force when they tried to stop me again.
The next time I play I will add some stations to my shield fab. The only down side is that one of them is only in Light of Heart. I am not sure I want to baby sit a Mammoth for that long of a trip or risk loosing it to the Kha'ak M2's and M1 along its path. I may instead buy another shield fab or something high end for the time being to increase profits.
*EDIT*
Did some looking up and found I can add the following without needing to add any new frieghters and their available in Argon Prime Shipyard:
Ammunition Factory
Beta PAC Forge
Cahoona Bakery(L) [requires a frieghter to be changed over to Argnu Beef]
FireFly Missile Factory
Mosquito Missile Factory
I will have to start looking into super frieghters if I add any of these to my shield factory. They will consume goods so fast that I will probably have a hard time keeping at least energy in stock. If I do go out and get a Cattle Ranch, I will also bring along another factory to make sure the cost of the Mammoth is worth it. I may look into putting a Solar Power Plant onto my complex and start importing Crystals, which can almost be seen as condensed energy cells. Basicly, next time I play there will be at least one new factory joining my existing one to begin a complex and then I will have to look into how the resources of the surrounding sectors are doing in supporting it and fill in the gaps.
The next time I play I will add some stations to my shield fab. The only down side is that one of them is only in Light of Heart. I am not sure I want to baby sit a Mammoth for that long of a trip or risk loosing it to the Kha'ak M2's and M1 along its path. I may instead buy another shield fab or something high end for the time being to increase profits.
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Did some looking up and found I can add the following without needing to add any new frieghters and their available in Argon Prime Shipyard:
Ammunition Factory
Beta PAC Forge
Cahoona Bakery(L) [requires a frieghter to be changed over to Argnu Beef]
FireFly Missile Factory
Mosquito Missile Factory
I will have to start looking into super frieghters if I add any of these to my shield factory. They will consume goods so fast that I will probably have a hard time keeping at least energy in stock. If I do go out and get a Cattle Ranch, I will also bring along another factory to make sure the cost of the Mammoth is worth it. I may look into putting a Solar Power Plant onto my complex and start importing Crystals, which can almost be seen as condensed energy cells. Basicly, next time I play there will be at least one new factory joining my existing one to begin a complex and then I will have to look into how the resources of the surrounding sectors are doing in supporting it and fill in the gaps.
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My wing now consists of...
Starter - Split Mamba - Mama's Joy. Docked for repairs.
Claimed - Argon Buster - Pirate's Paradise. Current ship.
Claimed - Iguana Vangaurd - Docked in Family Whi.
Claimed - Toucan Hauler - Docked in Family Whi.
Claimed - Harrier Sentinel - Docked in Family Whi.
Claimed - Buzzard Hauler - Docked in Seizewell.
Capped - Pirate Falcon - Docked In Seizewell.
Capped - Pirate Teladi Falcon - Docked in Seizewell 10/29
Capped - Pirate Teladi Falcon - Docked in Seizewell 10/29
Capped - Pirate Teladi Buzzard - Docked in Seizewell 10/29
Capped - Pirate Teladi Harrier - Docked in Seizewell 10/29
Capped - Boron Dolphin Superfrieghter - Sold 10/29
Capped - Boron Dolphin Superfrieghter - Sold 10/29
Capped - Boron Dolphin Hauler - Sold 10/29
Capped - Boron Manta - Sold 10/29
Capped - Boron Octopus - Sold 10/29
Capped - Pirate Teladi Harrier - Destroyed by Pirates 10/29
I had a very long day this past Sunday. As you can see I went Boron hunting on my way to the Gonar Temple to pick up a jumpdrive. I get into Farnham's Legend and start picking off Boron ship after Boron ship. I probably capped one ship for every four I destroyed. Well, I was pretty much left alone by the pirates in the sector the entire time, until they begin attacking the Teladianium Factory. So stupid me attacks them. That was a huge mistake.
By the time I began defending the station I had four capped ships of my convoy. I had them sitting waiting for me about 50km above the north gate. Out of the six ships there, I ended up getting four to jump. Well I begin to head back to my north to south route of capping ships when I grab another victim. A Boron Superfrieghter Dolphin. I pick on these guys cause their slow, have no weapons and the worst they can do it harass me with fighter drones, or if they have escorts it delays the inevitable. Plus they sell for a decent amout. This one had three Boron Mako's. I got one Mako added to my list and quickly dispatch the others. Well I cap this one and low and behold... 6,700+ units of Energy Cells. A cheap way to make 100,000+ credits. I figure at ten ships it was time to get the long journey done with.
I at this point I still have to go to Seizwell because my Argon rep rank is not high enough. They don't mind me in their systems but refuse to allow me to dock. Something about, "We don't want your kind here." Since the convoy moves at the slowest ships speed. I have to travel a minimum of six sectors at 25km... a long time. I begin heading to the north gate with my final two prizes and I see some pirates hit my scanner to the south of me. A whole host of them. Three nova's and four falcons. The falcons are not a big deal but I have a hard time with the back mounted turret of the nova, screws my fighting style all to hell. So I run as fast as I can.
I make it to Atreus' Clouds and see two Boron Hydras patroling with a couple of makos and a pair of Octopus's. I head for them sending my slow ships on a round about around the sector. I get half way there and the pirate death squad pops in and be lines for me. It takes a long time but I play cat and mouse with the hydras and the novas and end up having everyone fire on each other. I found an interesting circle maneuver that I tried on a nova that worked and took him out without it firing at me once... but in the headache the pirates ended up getting blasted by the Borons and I ended up escaping but damaged. I flew through the rigging of a trading station and was able to loose the hydra, one was destroyed.
My convoy is finally near the north gate and I limp there now moving only 100km instead of my usual 144. Damn slow busters. By the way, at this point it has been about three hours of capping and defending. I jump into Rolk's Fate and go all the way around the sector having to fight off only three Mako's as they spotted my crew heading for the north gate. My mako and one harrier was destroyed as they entered Menalaus' Frontier but I picked up a mako as a replacement with better hull and shields.
I enter Menalaus Fronter and am immediately told to leave to be atomized. I make it slowly, remember 25km due to slow boron ships, to Teladi space and just tell everyone to dock at the Shipyard in Seizewell. I run down to the temple to get my jumpdrive. On my way back, Argon and Paranid wont let me dock to buy energy cells and I left all the ones on the Dolphin. I enter Argon Prime and see a few pirate harriers attacking an argon ship. So I intervein. Get all three and get a rep boost and a capped falcon. I try the shipyard, just to see if they like me now and low and behold they do. So all that time I followed those capped ships to Seizewell I could have brought them to Argon and sold them for a rep boost by killing a pirate ship. I got the boost when I killed the first one. I leave the falcon at the shipyard and jump back to Seizewell. Transfer the jumpdrive to the Superfrieghter with al lthe e-cells and jump back to Argon Prime, sell the e-cells, mainly for the rep boost, transfer everything back to the falcon and sell the dolphin. Then I jumped back to Seizewell.
At this point another hour has gone by. I forgot the SETA drive in the dolphin and it was going 25km inside the sector. Now with a jump drive I try for the free ship in the xenon sector south of me. I jump in and get the ship and begin heading out. No big deal there but on ym way out we were over taken by a massive wing of Xenon ships. My free ship goes up in flames but I ended up capping three Xenon N... that is until when trying to recover them a group of Xenon L's came through and chewed me up so I had to start from a previous save.
I sold all my boron ships and will probably sell the worst of my capped ships, but I made my first real million in X3 by capping alone. I think I have enough ships now that I will upgrade a few to ST and begin working some cash with the Split and the Teladi... possibly send one into Argon space for the rep boost. Once I get the ST up and running I will try for that ship in Treasure Chest just to see if I can get it.
Why the Paranid hate me now I have no idea. They were tolerant of me before but I went through their space and was told to leave or be destroyed and now all of their ships are red to me. Perhaps the Boron went crying to them. Well I will have a few days off of playing to spend time with the spouse so when I come back... Trading time. Gives me time to do some research on where the best ST are that I can do. Teladi, Split, and now Argon space.
Oh, I lost my rep with Argon by having slaves on board. Not my fault I felt bad shooting them I was trying to keep them alive, and also not sure if the astronaut bug was still there. I had to destroy another pirate ship in argon space to be able to dock again. Cheeky buggards.
Starter - Split Mamba - Mama's Joy. Docked for repairs.
Claimed - Argon Buster - Pirate's Paradise. Current ship.
Claimed - Iguana Vangaurd - Docked in Family Whi.
Claimed - Toucan Hauler - Docked in Family Whi.
Claimed - Harrier Sentinel - Docked in Family Whi.
Claimed - Buzzard Hauler - Docked in Seizewell.
Capped - Pirate Falcon - Docked In Seizewell.
Capped - Pirate Teladi Falcon - Docked in Seizewell 10/29
Capped - Pirate Teladi Falcon - Docked in Seizewell 10/29
Capped - Pirate Teladi Buzzard - Docked in Seizewell 10/29
Capped - Pirate Teladi Harrier - Docked in Seizewell 10/29
Capped - Boron Dolphin Superfrieghter - Sold 10/29
Capped - Boron Dolphin Superfrieghter - Sold 10/29
Capped - Boron Dolphin Hauler - Sold 10/29
Capped - Boron Manta - Sold 10/29
Capped - Boron Octopus - Sold 10/29
Capped - Pirate Teladi Harrier - Destroyed by Pirates 10/29
I had a very long day this past Sunday. As you can see I went Boron hunting on my way to the Gonar Temple to pick up a jumpdrive. I get into Farnham's Legend and start picking off Boron ship after Boron ship. I probably capped one ship for every four I destroyed. Well, I was pretty much left alone by the pirates in the sector the entire time, until they begin attacking the Teladianium Factory. So stupid me attacks them. That was a huge mistake.
By the time I began defending the station I had four capped ships of my convoy. I had them sitting waiting for me about 50km above the north gate. Out of the six ships there, I ended up getting four to jump. Well I begin to head back to my north to south route of capping ships when I grab another victim. A Boron Superfrieghter Dolphin. I pick on these guys cause their slow, have no weapons and the worst they can do it harass me with fighter drones, or if they have escorts it delays the inevitable. Plus they sell for a decent amout. This one had three Boron Mako's. I got one Mako added to my list and quickly dispatch the others. Well I cap this one and low and behold... 6,700+ units of Energy Cells. A cheap way to make 100,000+ credits. I figure at ten ships it was time to get the long journey done with.
I at this point I still have to go to Seizwell because my Argon rep rank is not high enough. They don't mind me in their systems but refuse to allow me to dock. Something about, "We don't want your kind here." Since the convoy moves at the slowest ships speed. I have to travel a minimum of six sectors at 25km... a long time. I begin heading to the north gate with my final two prizes and I see some pirates hit my scanner to the south of me. A whole host of them. Three nova's and four falcons. The falcons are not a big deal but I have a hard time with the back mounted turret of the nova, screws my fighting style all to hell. So I run as fast as I can.
I make it to Atreus' Clouds and see two Boron Hydras patroling with a couple of makos and a pair of Octopus's. I head for them sending my slow ships on a round about around the sector. I get half way there and the pirate death squad pops in and be lines for me. It takes a long time but I play cat and mouse with the hydras and the novas and end up having everyone fire on each other. I found an interesting circle maneuver that I tried on a nova that worked and took him out without it firing at me once... but in the headache the pirates ended up getting blasted by the Borons and I ended up escaping but damaged. I flew through the rigging of a trading station and was able to loose the hydra, one was destroyed.
My convoy is finally near the north gate and I limp there now moving only 100km instead of my usual 144. Damn slow busters. By the way, at this point it has been about three hours of capping and defending. I jump into Rolk's Fate and go all the way around the sector having to fight off only three Mako's as they spotted my crew heading for the north gate. My mako and one harrier was destroyed as they entered Menalaus' Frontier but I picked up a mako as a replacement with better hull and shields.
I enter Menalaus Fronter and am immediately told to leave to be atomized. I make it slowly, remember 25km due to slow boron ships, to Teladi space and just tell everyone to dock at the Shipyard in Seizewell. I run down to the temple to get my jumpdrive. On my way back, Argon and Paranid wont let me dock to buy energy cells and I left all the ones on the Dolphin. I enter Argon Prime and see a few pirate harriers attacking an argon ship. So I intervein. Get all three and get a rep boost and a capped falcon. I try the shipyard, just to see if they like me now and low and behold they do. So all that time I followed those capped ships to Seizewell I could have brought them to Argon and sold them for a rep boost by killing a pirate ship. I got the boost when I killed the first one. I leave the falcon at the shipyard and jump back to Seizewell. Transfer the jumpdrive to the Superfrieghter with al lthe e-cells and jump back to Argon Prime, sell the e-cells, mainly for the rep boost, transfer everything back to the falcon and sell the dolphin. Then I jumped back to Seizewell.
At this point another hour has gone by. I forgot the SETA drive in the dolphin and it was going 25km inside the sector. Now with a jump drive I try for the free ship in the xenon sector south of me. I jump in and get the ship and begin heading out. No big deal there but on ym way out we were over taken by a massive wing of Xenon ships. My free ship goes up in flames but I ended up capping three Xenon N... that is until when trying to recover them a group of Xenon L's came through and chewed me up so I had to start from a previous save.
I sold all my boron ships and will probably sell the worst of my capped ships, but I made my first real million in X3 by capping alone. I think I have enough ships now that I will upgrade a few to ST and begin working some cash with the Split and the Teladi... possibly send one into Argon space for the rep boost. Once I get the ST up and running I will try for that ship in Treasure Chest just to see if I can get it.
Why the Paranid hate me now I have no idea. They were tolerant of me before but I went through their space and was told to leave or be destroyed and now all of their ships are red to me. Perhaps the Boron went crying to them. Well I will have a few days off of playing to spend time with the spouse so when I come back... Trading time. Gives me time to do some research on where the best ST are that I can do. Teladi, Split, and now Argon space.
Oh, I lost my rep with Argon by having slaves on board. Not my fault I felt bad shooting them I was trying to keep them alive, and also not sure if the astronaut bug was still there. I had to destroy another pirate ship in argon space to be able to dock again. Cheeky buggards.
Kevin 'Wildchild' McIntyre
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My wing now consists of...
Starter - Split Mamba - Mama's Joy. Repairing.
Claimed - Argon Buster - Pirate's Paradise. Current ship.
Claimed - Iguana Vangaurd - ST-PS-01 Iguanna Pilot Level 2
Claimed - Toucan Hauler - ST-GP-01 Toucan Pilot Level 2
Claimed - Harrier Sentinel - ST-PS-1a Iguanna Escort.
Claimed - Buzzard Hauler - ST-GP-1a Toucan Escort.
Capped - Pirate Falcon - Docked In Seizewell.
Capped - Pirate Teladi Buzzard - Docked in Seizewell 10/29
Capped - Pirate Teladi Harrier - Docked in Seizewell 10/29
Capped - Boron Dolphin Superfrieghter heading to Seizwell. 11/02
Capped - Pirate Teladi Falcon 10/29 - Sold 11/01
Capped - Pirate Teladi Falcon 10/29 - Sold 11/01
Capped - Pirate Falcon - Sold 11/01
Capped - Boron Dolphin Superfrieghter - Sold 11/01
Capped - Boron Dolphin Hauler - Sold 11/01
Only played for an hour and a half last night but did a lot. Capped two more Dolphins and another Pirate Falcon. I sold the Dolphins and three of my capped falcons to upgrade my Iguanna and my Toucan to Sector Traders. After selling the five ships and outfitting the two ST's I was down to $18,000 some credits. It is expensive to fully outfit a sector trader. I didnd't put Fight Command Software in them though as I used my Harrier Sentinel and my Buzzard Hauler for mobile support. I just put them out there to stop them from being docked at shipyards.
I jumped over to Family Tkr to explore and make my way further east. By the time I was finished for the night I went from $18,000 credits to $1,083,000 credits from my two STs. One is in Greater Profit (ST-GP-01) and the other is in Profit Share (ST-PS-01). I will leave these two guys up and running for a while where they are until I get another ST going and put him in Argon Space and move one of the two currently into Split space.
So I made my first million from selling capped ships and my second million trading. I am going to get my fighter wing built up now to support these two ST's and then get a third ST up and running and then try to build up a factory system.
Starter - Split Mamba - Mama's Joy. Repairing.
Claimed - Argon Buster - Pirate's Paradise. Current ship.
Claimed - Iguana Vangaurd - ST-PS-01 Iguanna Pilot Level 2
Claimed - Toucan Hauler - ST-GP-01 Toucan Pilot Level 2
Claimed - Harrier Sentinel - ST-PS-1a Iguanna Escort.
Claimed - Buzzard Hauler - ST-GP-1a Toucan Escort.
Capped - Pirate Falcon - Docked In Seizewell.
Capped - Pirate Teladi Buzzard - Docked in Seizewell 10/29
Capped - Pirate Teladi Harrier - Docked in Seizewell 10/29
Capped - Boron Dolphin Superfrieghter heading to Seizwell. 11/02
Capped - Pirate Teladi Falcon 10/29 - Sold 11/01
Capped - Pirate Teladi Falcon 10/29 - Sold 11/01
Capped - Pirate Falcon - Sold 11/01
Capped - Boron Dolphin Superfrieghter - Sold 11/01
Capped - Boron Dolphin Hauler - Sold 11/01
Only played for an hour and a half last night but did a lot. Capped two more Dolphins and another Pirate Falcon. I sold the Dolphins and three of my capped falcons to upgrade my Iguanna and my Toucan to Sector Traders. After selling the five ships and outfitting the two ST's I was down to $18,000 some credits. It is expensive to fully outfit a sector trader. I didnd't put Fight Command Software in them though as I used my Harrier Sentinel and my Buzzard Hauler for mobile support. I just put them out there to stop them from being docked at shipyards.
I jumped over to Family Tkr to explore and make my way further east. By the time I was finished for the night I went from $18,000 credits to $1,083,000 credits from my two STs. One is in Greater Profit (ST-GP-01) and the other is in Profit Share (ST-PS-01). I will leave these two guys up and running for a while where they are until I get another ST going and put him in Argon Space and move one of the two currently into Split space.
So I made my first million from selling capped ships and my second million trading. I am going to get my fighter wing built up now to support these two ST's and then get a third ST up and running and then try to build up a factory system.
Kevin 'Wildchild' McIntyre
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I have added a Mosquito and a Firefly Missile fabs to my 1MJ shield factory. I haven't been able to run my game very long after getting them in place because something is now causing it to completely crash. But as far as I can see I am bearly keeping up with the demand for materials. The shields still sell them selves. The missiles are stacking up a little but it is still too early to say if they were good investments or not.
Current Fighter Wing:
Fighter Wing:
Nova- "White Blade"
Mamba- "Black Blade"
Falcon- "Falcon Escort"
Falcon- "Falcon Escort 2"
Buster- "Buster Sentinel Escort"
Buster- "Buster Sentinel Escort 2"
Buster- "Pirate Buster Escort"
Other Ships: (Off the top of my head, don't really pay attention to these ships)
Valture Universal Trader
Toucan Hauler Sector Trader (Seizewell)
HOL Complex Mercury
HOL Complex Mercury 2
HOL Complex Iguana
Storage (don't know what it is right now)
Iguana Vanguard (sitting Aladna Hill waiting to be escorted to HOL)
Something (sitting in Omicron Lyrae to be pieced out and sold)
Harrier Sentinal (sitting in Argon Trading station in HOL)
No new captures, tonights game play was purely building and rearming of fighters. The little fighting I did get in was lost to the crashes. It maybe the high graphical demand of the sectors I am in along with the large number of ships causing the problem. As soon as I can I will head out for the pirate sectors again but leave a couple of my escorts behind to play as station protectors.
I am in too low standings to buy a Beta PAC Forge to add to my complex, but I can add both the Ammunition Factory and the Cahoona Bakery I have been looking at. No matter what I will have to either add more transports to buy the supplies needed or add the stations to make them for myself to support future expansions.
Over all I only spent less than 2 million credits adding those two stations and the connecting kits needed. I haven't pulled out or added any more money to the station and its currently holding about 1.5 million credits. I have about 3 million myself. I am going to continue to expand the complex in Home of Light for a while periodicly and then see what to do from there. Pirating will still be my main money maker, but will probably have to leave behind some of my escorts as they tend to destroy my captures because they had shot me. I also still have a lot of space week and space fuel sitting in my escorts cargo holds waiting to be sold. I hope to play again next weekend.
*EDIT*
Here is a pic of a Super Star Destroyer trying to get through a gate. Trying to see what models would be nice to add to my game, and this was not one that I kept.
Here are some pics of my adventures, newest to oldest:
A pic of the list of ships I captured in Sacred Relic and now leading to Omicron Lyrae
Kha'ak have taken over the sector
There goes the only station in the sector
There goes the neighborhood and a very good sector for capping
This is what you don't want to see with in the first few hours of playing
Current Fighter Wing:
Fighter Wing:
Nova- "White Blade"
Mamba- "Black Blade"
Falcon- "Falcon Escort"
Falcon- "Falcon Escort 2"
Buster- "Buster Sentinel Escort"
Buster- "Buster Sentinel Escort 2"
Buster- "Pirate Buster Escort"
Other Ships: (Off the top of my head, don't really pay attention to these ships)
Valture Universal Trader
Toucan Hauler Sector Trader (Seizewell)
HOL Complex Mercury
HOL Complex Mercury 2
HOL Complex Iguana
Storage (don't know what it is right now)
Iguana Vanguard (sitting Aladna Hill waiting to be escorted to HOL)
Something (sitting in Omicron Lyrae to be pieced out and sold)
Harrier Sentinal (sitting in Argon Trading station in HOL)
No new captures, tonights game play was purely building and rearming of fighters. The little fighting I did get in was lost to the crashes. It maybe the high graphical demand of the sectors I am in along with the large number of ships causing the problem. As soon as I can I will head out for the pirate sectors again but leave a couple of my escorts behind to play as station protectors.
I am in too low standings to buy a Beta PAC Forge to add to my complex, but I can add both the Ammunition Factory and the Cahoona Bakery I have been looking at. No matter what I will have to either add more transports to buy the supplies needed or add the stations to make them for myself to support future expansions.
Over all I only spent less than 2 million credits adding those two stations and the connecting kits needed. I haven't pulled out or added any more money to the station and its currently holding about 1.5 million credits. I have about 3 million myself. I am going to continue to expand the complex in Home of Light for a while periodicly and then see what to do from there. Pirating will still be my main money maker, but will probably have to leave behind some of my escorts as they tend to destroy my captures because they had shot me. I also still have a lot of space week and space fuel sitting in my escorts cargo holds waiting to be sold. I hope to play again next weekend.
*EDIT*
Here is a pic of a Super Star Destroyer trying to get through a gate. Trying to see what models would be nice to add to my game, and this was not one that I kept.
Here are some pics of my adventures, newest to oldest:
A pic of the list of ships I captured in Sacred Relic and now leading to Omicron Lyrae
Kha'ak have taken over the sector
There goes the only station in the sector
There goes the neighborhood and a very good sector for capping
This is what you don't want to see with in the first few hours of playing
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Whoa, a quick shprt one before I begin work. I ran into a sector... foget the name but its near Treasure Chest. I jump in and see five busters with no name or race designation. But they are flying, and in fact head strait for me. They offer no quarter, do not respond to comms, and scanning just tells me the normal type of ship they are in.
I wasn't on a BBS mission as I have only taken two and finished both. Weirdest thing ever... Oh and the mamba in the pirate sector with all those mines you cant see... piss me off.
I wasn't on a BBS mission as I have only taken two and finished both. Weirdest thing ever... Oh and the mamba in the pirate sector with all those mines you cant see... piss me off.
Kevin 'Wildchild' McIntyre
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To get the Mamba you have to come in on the z-axis I believe and be very carefull. Some people have claimed the ship and then transported jump drive and energy cells to get it out with no problems.
I plan on heading back that way next time I play. I intend to pass through Cardinal's Domain and get the freebie ship a couple sectors south west from there. I will then head up to Black Hole Sun area and try to get Xenon invasion missions. Need to figure out how many of my escorts I want to bring with me. Will see how many missions I get to raise my funds before making a choice of where to go from there. But pirating Boron will always be a high priority in hopes of capturing triplex scanners, except in Argon space where the locals wouldn't like it.
I plan on heading back that way next time I play. I intend to pass through Cardinal's Domain and get the freebie ship a couple sectors south west from there. I will then head up to Black Hole Sun area and try to get Xenon invasion missions. Need to figure out how many of my escorts I want to bring with me. Will see how many missions I get to raise my funds before making a choice of where to go from there. But pirating Boron will always be a high priority in hopes of capturing triplex scanners, except in Argon space where the locals wouldn't like it.
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No I can get it. It only took me three tries to figure it out because the forums said you can see the mines... but you can't. Not on the HUD or the sector screen or visual. But I was able to pilot my buster up to 500m to it and hop out and space walk. I went down and had the buster flollow me. However. As soon as I get out there are three wings of pirates that hunt me down.
The first time I forgot about angle and told the mamba to head home, but it cut a 45 degree angle upward to the gate and triggered the mines. The second time the pirates hunted me down with a wing of four novas and another of falcons. I was able to take out the two wings of falcons but the novas are just way to much for me as Im in a buster. I am about to go get the nova and trade out ships.
I've got it now as I went back in there and went way around to get to the gate. I tried to get to the Anarchy base but they don't like me.
I also noticed another weird thing. My rep with the Boron is increasing and I keep killing them. Not in Boron sectors but Pirate and Split sectors and my rep with them is higher than the Paranid and I haven't even shot at one of their ships.
I sold some of my ships and capped some more. I am going to sell my busters and repair my falcons for the OOS escorts. My two mambas now Im going to outfit for me and for escorts until I get my nova.
I've got twelve ships now, with half of them running at 100%. Got up to 2mil, but am back down to 600k after outfitting and repairing some ships. My two ST are doing ok, though I can't see what level they are. I THINK one is level 7 but I'm not sure. Their names are so freaking long the end just has a bunch of ... I also cant find out how much they make per trip it doesn't log in.
Oh I took down a wing of Xenon. Ten ships under the command of a P. I was so happy with myself. The M and L went down fairly well. The P was a huge pain as my buster isn't up for larger ships like that. I was in Argon territory and everything they sent at them they wiped out, although I noticed a damn Argon Carrier in sector not doing anything it was actually heading away from the fight. I was hoping for a bail of at least the L or M but nothing.
The first time I forgot about angle and told the mamba to head home, but it cut a 45 degree angle upward to the gate and triggered the mines. The second time the pirates hunted me down with a wing of four novas and another of falcons. I was able to take out the two wings of falcons but the novas are just way to much for me as Im in a buster. I am about to go get the nova and trade out ships.
I've got it now as I went back in there and went way around to get to the gate. I tried to get to the Anarchy base but they don't like me.
I also noticed another weird thing. My rep with the Boron is increasing and I keep killing them. Not in Boron sectors but Pirate and Split sectors and my rep with them is higher than the Paranid and I haven't even shot at one of their ships.
I sold some of my ships and capped some more. I am going to sell my busters and repair my falcons for the OOS escorts. My two mambas now Im going to outfit for me and for escorts until I get my nova.
I've got twelve ships now, with half of them running at 100%. Got up to 2mil, but am back down to 600k after outfitting and repairing some ships. My two ST are doing ok, though I can't see what level they are. I THINK one is level 7 but I'm not sure. Their names are so freaking long the end just has a bunch of ... I also cant find out how much they make per trip it doesn't log in.
Oh I took down a wing of Xenon. Ten ships under the command of a P. I was so happy with myself. The M and L went down fairly well. The P was a huge pain as my buster isn't up for larger ships like that. I was in Argon territory and everything they sent at them they wiped out, although I noticed a damn Argon Carrier in sector not doing anything it was actually heading away from the fight. I was hoping for a bail of at least the L or M but nothing.
Kevin 'Wildchild' McIntyre
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Played for about an hour last night. I'm up to 17 ships, but I think I have to sell two or three of them. I'm getting to the point where I have more ships in dock than flying around. I capped about four ships last night but my intent was to find the Nova.
But when I get to the pirate sector that borders those two unknown sectors I can't find the stinking gate. There is literally nothing in Montalar (I think thats the name) I saw a Paranid and an Argon frieghtor but they hopped in and jumped right back out. I flew in that sector for half an hour and gave up because I couldn't find the stupid thing. TW do you know what the coordinates to that west gate is?
But when I get to the pirate sector that borders those two unknown sectors I can't find the stinking gate. There is literally nothing in Montalar (I think thats the name) I saw a Paranid and an Argon frieghtor but they hopped in and jumped right back out. I flew in that sector for half an hour and gave up because I couldn't find the stupid thing. TW do you know what the coordinates to that west gate is?
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The coordinates are about (-150,0,0). It is way out there and doesn't show up on radar as soon as you would think. The next sector is just as empty but the gate isn't that far off the map. The gate in that unknown sector is towards the south west corner but there is a squash mine field a couple of km in front of it. You can target squash mines by hitting the target nearest enemy key (default shift-t). The second unknown sector has some asteroids in the south west quadrent and in there is the Nova. Every time I have gone for the Nova there has always been a Pirate wing in the sector consisting of a Nova and two busters. Your new Nova will be really slow, about 42 meters per second compaired to the Mambas 145 meters per second. I strongly reconmend transfering a jump drive, navigational software, and energy cells over to it and have it jump to a populated sector to wait for you.
It is random what equipment the freebie ships come with. The first time I got the Nova it only had 2 AHEPT's but this time it came with 4. I have added 4 BPAC's and thats what I am running around with for my primary weapons. The turret has an APAC in it and does a good job in keeping my tail clear. Also another random thing is when I went and got my Nova this time there was a Kha'ak cluster waiting for me on my way out. I was forced to transfer equipment under fire and didn't know if my Nova made it out or not until I got to the next sector. My own shields were almost gone, only a shred left, and I was relieved to see the Nova sitting by the North gate waiting to be ordered to turn around and head to the Teladi Trading station.
It is random what equipment the freebie ships come with. The first time I got the Nova it only had 2 AHEPT's but this time it came with 4. I have added 4 BPAC's and thats what I am running around with for my primary weapons. The turret has an APAC in it and does a good job in keeping my tail clear. Also another random thing is when I went and got my Nova this time there was a Kha'ak cluster waiting for me on my way out. I was forced to transfer equipment under fire and didn't know if my Nova made it out or not until I got to the next sector. My own shields were almost gone, only a shred left, and I was relieved to see the Nova sitting by the North gate waiting to be ordered to turn around and head to the Teladi Trading station.
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Figures... I new it was out there but didn't realize it was that far. Also, what are the better ships to have for escorts in sector and OOS? I am currently keeping all of the mamba's, busters, and falcons I cap. I just got a Percius (spelling) and want to keep it for something for the rear turret.
Also what is the better ship to use for personal use? The mamba or the Nova? I want a fast ship with decent weapons and shields but I know you sacrifice something at the gain of another. Right now I am running a buster with 4 BPAC but I only ever use 2, the drain is a killer and I would rather hit more often than hit less with twice the punch.
Also what is the better ship to use for personal use? The mamba or the Nova? I want a fast ship with decent weapons and shields but I know you sacrifice something at the gain of another. Right now I am running a buster with 4 BPAC but I only ever use 2, the drain is a killer and I would rather hit more often than hit less with twice the punch.
Kevin 'Wildchild' McIntyre