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Boomer
January 3rd, 2010, 09:34
Then I got X3...

It arrived yesterday at 12:00 & I started playing. After repeated cajoling from my wife to come to bed I finally shut it down at 05:00.

Jeeze talk about addictive!

Bill ole buddy, I blame you personally :icon_lol:

Lionheart
January 3rd, 2010, 10:11
Then I got X3...

It arrived yesterday at 12:00 & I started playing. After repeated cajoling from my wife to come to bed I finally shut it down at 05:00.

Jeeze talk about addictive!

Bill ole buddy, I blame you personally :icon_lol:

I'm sorry Bob.

If t makes you feel any better, I am sufferring to.


Bill

GT182
January 3rd, 2010, 10:46
LMAO.... we are all in the same doghouse Bob. Only I do go to bed at 11pm ... or there abouts. :rolleyes:

Tho I am glad someone else got the blame this time around. ;)

Bob, what are you playing, X3 Reunion or Terran Conflict..... Vanilla or Modded?

aeronca1
January 3rd, 2010, 11:19
LOL, OK, do I hear a new help group forming.... X3TC Annonymous. Hello, my name is Matt and I'm a Terran Addict.......

GT182
January 3rd, 2010, 12:33
LOL, OK, do I hear a new help group forming.... X3TC Annonymous. Hello, my name is Matt and I'm a Terran Addict.......

Wellll..... hold that thought. You never know, but it could happen. ;) LOL

Boomer
January 3rd, 2010, 14:04
Bob, what are you playing, X3 Reunion or Terran Conflict..... Vanilla or Modded?

I got the Gold Version so I put Conflict on my Desktop & Reunion on my laptop. So far I only fired up Reunion to look at it, the lions share of my time is with Conflict.

Mods? Not yet, I am still getting comfortable with the sim but give me time :icon_lol:

I will join the group too... Hello my name is Bob & I am a X3 addict.

Marlin
January 3rd, 2010, 14:14
Hello; my name is Marlin and I'm addicted to Boron. LOLOLOLOL:mixedsmi:

03:30 is common

Kind of reminds me of the old days, "If it's not green it's not beer." in reference to Heineken beer.

Chacha
January 3rd, 2010, 14:30
Eli's my name

and X3 is my game ! :isadizzy:

gigabyte
January 3rd, 2010, 14:45
My name is Gigabyte and I am Xdicted...

GT182
January 3rd, 2010, 16:36
Well, count me in too...... I'm Xdicted.

My life is not as I knew it, and these fellas told me that would happen. Did I listen? Hell no! And I'm glad I didn't. :d I hear it's fun once you get it started and it runs as it's supposed to.... modded of course. LOL

randcbuc
January 3rd, 2010, 17:47
Enablers, all of you. I bought Reunion at the bargain bin at Wally world a few weeks ago and got hooked. I have really done it now, just bought X3TC...I read one thread and now I am an addict...

Hello, my name is Rick and I am and addict...:banghead:

Chacha
January 3rd, 2010, 17:51
Enablers, all of you. I bought Reunion at the bargain bin at Wally world a few weeks ago and got hooked. I have really done it now, just bought X3TC...I read one thread and now I am an addict...

Hello, my name is Rick and I am and addict...:banghead:

Hello Rick....

Welcome to the Nut House.... I mean the Out House! :isadizzy:

Lionheart
January 3rd, 2010, 18:00
<--- nervously gets up, hand holding the styrofoam coffee cup shaking slightly

My name is Bill and I am a Terran addict..

<-- sweat begins to trek a trail down the left side of the face, upper lip is sweaty

I first thought I could handle X3TC when I was staying up till 1:30 AM.. Then it gradually got worse.. I thought I was able to control it..

But then I had to monitor my fleets, and then pick on the Xenon elite fighter groups, and learn more addon script tools, and learn to make ships in Gmax... And before I could close for the night, I had to patrol at least once through 3 sectors to check for pirates.. And of course, recheck my fleet for damaged craft before I could sign out.. This was getting towards 3:30 AM and now recently, till 4AM.

HELP!!!!


<-- falls back into chair, breathing heavy, sweating profusely, mind lost in the 'to-do's' of the fleet at home on the computer, wondering when the backwards engineering will be done on the Heavy Nemesis super destroyer...

Craig Taylor
January 4th, 2010, 11:54
Waaah -- I haven't played since last year! :icon_lol:

Too many honey-do's and such. But I'm building up some credit with the spouse, and there's a three-day weekend coming up soon (rubs hands together gleefully).

Lionheart
January 4th, 2010, 22:13
Waaah -- I haven't played since last year! :icon_lol:

Too many honey-do's and such. But I'm building up some credit with the spouse, and there's a three-day weekend coming up soon (rubs hands together gleefully).


Trade her some foot massages for hours on the sim....

If you have strong hands and you can sense her desires, you'll have plenty of flight time.

:d


Bill

Marlin
January 5th, 2010, 00:24
Hi, well the meeting haven't taken yet as you can tell by the posting stamp time. I guess I'll have to come back tomorrow.:173go1:

Geez, I still have to check my email.LOL

Chacha
January 5th, 2010, 00:38
Hi, well the meeting haven't taken yet as you can tell by the posting stamp time. I guess I'll have to come back tomorrow.:173go1:

Geez, I still have to check my email.LOL





You are too early for the session, Marlin.... :running:

Marlin
January 5th, 2010, 00:58
Copy that, just had to check. :ernae:

harleyman
January 12th, 2010, 06:24
I am not addicted just yet...

I'm still very much in the learning/struggeling stages.....:isadizzy:

I just fly around aimlesly...LOL

GT182
January 12th, 2010, 10:04
I am not addicted just yet...

I'm still very much in the learning/struggeling stages.....:isadizzy:

I just fly around aimlesly...LOL

Then you are addicted.... you just don't know it yet. ;) :bump:

harleyman
January 12th, 2010, 11:27
Then you are addicted.... you just don't know it yet. ;) :bump:



Hmmmm I just might be... :icon_lol:

Lionheart
January 12th, 2010, 12:20
I just fly around aimlesly...LOL


I do that once in a while, just checking things out. I still paruse the stations, doing super close fly-by's, checking out the details, animations, and things.


Bill

Marlin
January 12th, 2010, 13:44
I just fly around aimlesly...LOL

I wish I could do that.

But NOOOOO, I have to take on missions that say very hard and get my as kicked. So what do I do? Try it again; fail. Do you think I can pass up that cool million creds? Nope.

I did one mission for about 4 hours last night and never did finish it. :isadizzy::icon_lol:

Do you think that I'll do it again tonight? don't know, but I'll let you know.

IanP
January 12th, 2010, 13:54
Some of us are sticking to "Very Easy" until we have more than two E-M Plasma Cannon to play with.

...escorting tankers right now. Enthralling. Honest! :engel016:

Marlin
January 12th, 2010, 13:58
:salute::applause::salute:

You have to start somewhere :wavey::medals:

IanP
January 12th, 2010, 14:11
The miner I'm supposed to be escorting with the tanker got caught up in a whole horde of Xenon Ms and got shredded. It has one system left to limp through, but I don't think it's gonna make it.She cannae take no more, Jim!

Lionheart
January 12th, 2010, 14:17
The miner I'm supposed to be escorting with the tanker got caught up in a whole horde of Xenon Ms and got shredded. It has one system left to limp through, but I don't think it's gonna make it.She cannae take no more, Jim!

lolol.... Oh man..

Your speed is probably down to 20 or 30 M/S. arrgh... Thats going to be a long escort journey..



Bill

IanP
January 12th, 2010, 14:49
It wasn't. Five Xenon Elites made sure of that about 20k out from the destination.

Ouch.

Even the seven or eight Argon military ships that appeared out of nowhere couldn't stop them before they popped both the freighter and tanker, then wiped out my shields before I got them to lose interest.

Ho hum! Back to the storyline...

Marlin
January 12th, 2010, 15:07
Ya know sometimes I wonder if this game really is an online game and people sneak into your world and raise cane every now and then. :icon_lol:

GT182
January 12th, 2010, 15:23
Marlin, it's the boogey man that sneaks in and mess things up. LOL

I've mess up from a saved start and as long as I didn't dock I'd quit out and restart the same save again. Better results?... not always. But then the "jobs" I was trying when I messed up didn't show again. This sim is like a dynamic campaign.. it doesn't alway gos as you plan or think it will. There's many variables that are constantly changing. One job would have paind me over 2 million credits. Seeing I quity out for screwing things up and themn going back to do it over... that same "job" ws no longer there. Boy was I p*@@&d.

IanP
January 12th, 2010, 23:19
I used to play EvE-Online. Don't talk to me about ganking. http://www.ianpsdarkcorner.co.uk/notfair.gif

GT182
January 13th, 2010, 05:43
I used to play EvE-Online. Don't talk to me about ganking. http://www.ianpsdarkcorner.co.uk/notfair.gif

Ian, what in hell is ganking? I know you're in the UK but I've never heard that one before.... anywhere. Is it ganging up on someone or something?

Matt Wynn
January 13th, 2010, 06:40
ganking is a word commonly used in online video games, usualy used in an MMORPG. Ganking is the process in which a group of charecters gang up on one or more players that do not have a chance to defend themselves, Or when one high level player does the same action to a player way below his or her own level..

wait i'm a Ganker.... Yes i made sure the first letter was a G 5 times :icon_lol: i'm addicted for sure, just running freight around like a mad man...

IanP
January 13th, 2010, 06:49
In EVE? Far more likely to be a whole group of people in high level ships targetting individual week-or-so-old players in cruisers.

There's a simple trick to it - take two interceptors (high level frigates - smallest class of ship). Give one a webbing device, the other a warp scrambler. These two web, then scramble, the innocent cruiser so it can't escape. Then the bug guys take it out in one or two shots.

If you do this in the starter areas or close to the starter areas, you can make a mint very quickly just by collecting and selling the salvage from the destroyed ships. Plus killing people who don't know how to defend themselves, let alone having the equipment to, is apparently "fun".:173go1:

GT182
January 13th, 2010, 18:41
You guys tlaking about sticking with Very Easy and Easy Missions... they don't pay all that much. ;) Some of the Very Hard Missions aren't all that bad.

I had a VH Mission tonight that odered the taking out of only 2 ships. I got them and made 1,900,000 credits. But it turned out to be a con job by a Split. Once I destroyed the ships I lost recognition. LOL Now all Argon are highlited in red. No one is attacking me going thru sectors to get back to Argon tho. And once back and heading to my lair, they're still not attacking. I think I just might survive and be able, sommehow, to get my good standing back... I hope. I look at it this way, credits are credits and ya got to make em to eat and survive. ;)

And be very leary of taking on passengers.... sometimes they are not who they appear to be. They will "KEEEELL you!", as Achmed The Dead Terrorist would say. :bump:

aeronca1
January 14th, 2010, 05:30
Ian, what in hell is ganking? I know you're in the UK but I've never heard that one before.... anywhere. Is it ganging up on someone or something?

HeHe. Ganking is THE reason I'm zooming around in the universe now :running:

I had enough of it in EverQuest and World of Warcraft to last a lifetime. It usually refers to someone or some group stalking your online character. It is sometimes also extended to what certain "organizations" do online to get items and $$$ to sell on their online sites. They "camp" NPC's 24/7 "ganking" regular players......

Some people just love to ruin the fun of others.......

EDIT: Ooops, already answered.....

GT182
January 14th, 2010, 06:47
Well then, I as one have been "ganking" on Ka and Xenon. And I love it. :d

IanP
January 14th, 2010, 07:11
It's only considered "ganking" if it is done to another player who is unable to defend themselves/do anything about it.

Think of it this way... If every time you buy a new ship, an elite Xenon battlegroup appear out of nowhere, blow it up, you might be a bit miffed. Now imagine it happening every time you buy a new ship and you'll start understanding why EVE is having problems retaining new players. The Moderators and developers actively promote player-versus-player piracy as being one of the primary intents of the universe they created.

You can't gank anything in X3, sorry... No multiplayer, let alone PvP, functionality. :d

GT182
January 14th, 2010, 08:34
You can't gank anything in X3, sorry... No multiplayer, let alone PvP, functionality. :d

Yeah, but I can think of it as the "one against the many". It's the "Live long and prosper theory" I have in X3. ;)