Terran Conflict X3; Extreme Addiction!

[Chacha]

I ran a few crates of "space fuel" last night, and that really helped my bottom line. Since I was flush with credits I hopped over to Argon Prime to the Equipment Dock, but wouldn't you know it --all out of lasers (well, the affordable kind... ). I did pick up one of those trade system extension upgrades so I can check the prices for stuff while in transit. The trouble I seem to be having at the moment is that everyone seems to be stocked with the stuff I can buy/haul.

And I'm still flying around unarmed.

@ Chacha, I got scanned by the cops a little while ago, so they are looking...

If you put the illegal cargo on unmanned ship (remotely controlled) they (police) would not pay attention to it.... police don't scan remotely controlled ships....


... you can get ammo anytime...

[Craig Taylor]

Ooooh...that's very interesting!

[Lionheart]

Some quick screenshots of pulling into the hanger of the Split Elephant super (gigantic) freighter dreadnaught...

* Enter at taxi speed to pathway
* Click on Garage Door Opener button to raise hanger doors.
* sweat as you pass by that huge lower fuselage fin
* Decellerate as you pass the perimeters of the hanger bay
* Decellerate to a stop over the debarcation bays in the floor..
* Activate magnetic docking chocks..
* Repeat till you have had enough..

[Lionheart]

If you put the illegal cargo on unmanned ship (remotely controlled) they (police) would not pay attention to it.... police don't scan remotely controlled ships....


... you can get ammo anytime...

Thanks Eli for the cool tip!



Bill

[Craig Taylor]

I just found an excellent thread over on X-Universe called "Questions from a new player." Lots of great tips there, which led me to conclude that I've been going about this all wrong. I've been flying around in the trader with the scout in tow, when I probably should've been doing it the other way around.

My revised strategy, near term, will be to transfer to the M5 and upgrade it with guns, engine and rudder tuning, and some software enhancements, and then start exploring more and doing some missions. If I find good trade deals along the way, I can use the Mercury freighter to make me some cash.

Unfortunately I probably won't have time to try this out until tomorrow night. Oh, no...now I'm hooked...

[Lionheart]

I just found an excellent thread over on X-Universe called "Questions from a new player." Lots of great tips there, which led me to conclude that I've been going about this all wrong. I've been flying around in the trader with the scout in tow, when I probably should've been doing it the other way around.

My revised strategy, near term, will be to transfer to the M5 and upgrade it with guns, engine and rudder tuning, and some software enhancements, and then start exploring more and doing some missions. If I find good trade deals along the way, I can use the Mercury freighter to make me some cash.

Unfortunately I probably won't have time to try this out until tomorrow night. Oh, no...now I'm hooked...

Hey Craig,

Roger that. With the Trade Extension ( I think thats the one) you can remotely trade with your freighter(s) via another ship, no matter how far away you are. So you could be doing your normal trading while out scouting around. You can activate 'send message when done with a job' option in Auto Pilot settings so that when it arrives at a station (remotely) it will tell you, then do a trade, and send it to a station to sell the cargo.

I was doing this with 2 super freighters while out exploring, but it got to be too much, so I set them on auto sector trading. They both have best buy and best sale additions, so they find all the deals and rake in a bit of cash while I am out spending it, lol..



Bill

[Craig Taylor]

Hey Bill,

It hadn't even occurred to me to put the freighter on "auto" to trade on it's own. That's a pretty cool concept. That best buy/sell software is kind've pricey, so I expect I'll need to stay more involved for the near term until I build up enough capital. In the meantime I'll arm and upgrade the scout for the exploration and defense bits.

I'm currently docked at TerraCorp HQ. Holy cow, is that thing immense!

[Lionheart]

I'm currently docked at TerraCorp HQ. Holy cow, is that thing immense!

It is! lol... A super freighter next to it is a spec. The docks are a dot under one of its struts.. I was checking it out last night. What a giant model and well done too. The guys that made all these mesh models and stations did a really nice job. Same on the ships..




Bill

[Dain Arns]

I need to finish setting up the ships I seized from the smugglers, and start having them work for me.

Geesh, I need 200 telanadium to finish this next mission. I know its rare, and hard to find. Do I have to mine for that I wonder?

[Lionheart]

I need to finish setting up the ships I seized from the smugglers, and start having them work for me.

Geesh, I need 200 telanadium to finish this next mission. I know its rare, and hard to find. Do I have to mine for that I wonder?

Dain,


Just start running ore to the Teladianium founderis that are around Teladi Prime and you'll start to see ore coming out of them. Perhaps keep one ship parked at a Teladianium station and when its full or the price is lowered a bit, then you can load the ship. I forget which sector has 4 Teladianium plants in it. Its right be Ceo's Buckzoid. I was doing runs there ALOT... Made tons on Ore sales.. They go through it like crazy. But someone else started taking my business away and I shut it down...


Bill

[Lionheart]

Ok.. Here's something fun that may require plastic underwear...


Open a ship up and have it fly to your sector. Make sure you are both un-docked, floating in space, zero speed. Make sure the ship that you bring over has 'Jump Minimum' set to zero.

Park close to it where you can see the entire ship.

Now, in R menu, find the ship, go to command console, and tell it to jump to another sector.

As soon as its Energy charge occurs in the Hyper Drive, a bright flash occurs, like in Battlestar Galactica. I had seen other ships do this occasionally and didnt know what was going on. Then I had seen my own ships doing it a couple of times when I would send them out. But last night, I did it with one of my HUGE ships near me, and that thing lit up big time, lolol.. Lit up my room like a welder was working in here... A plane outside could have spotted my window lighting up, it was that bright.. lol.


Awesome.......


EDIT: I had to send my Elephant home so I took some screenshots of it.

Now you see it...
BZZZZZZZZZZP!
Now you dont...

1 min later, I get an email, it reports back at the Ceos Buckzoid Equipment Dock.. 1/4 of the Galaxy away..

[gigabyte]

Ok.. Here's something fun that may require plastic underwear...


Open a ship up and have it fly to your sector. Make sure you are both un-docked, floating in space, zero speed. Make sure the ship that you bring over has 'Jump Minimum' set to zero.

Park close to it where you can see the entire ship.

Now, in R menu, find the ship, go to command console, and tell it to jump to another sector.

As soon as its Energy charge occurs in the Hyper Drive, a bright flash occurs, like in Battlestar Galactica. I had seen other ships do this occasionally and didnt know what was going on. Then I had seen my own ships doing it a couple of times when I would send them out. But last night, I did it with one of my HUGE ships near me, and that thing lit up big time, lolol.. Lit up my room like a welder was working in here... A plane outside could have spotted my window lighting up, it was that bright.. lol.


Awesome.......


EDIT: I had to send my Elephant home so I took some screenshots of it.

Now you see it...
BZZZZZZZZZZP!
Now you dont...

1 min later, I get an email, it reports back at the Ceos Buckzoid Equipment Dock.. 1/4 of the Galaxy away..

Bill that looks wild, hopefully I will be operational by tomorrow evening so I can give it a try. I have an Elephant parked at my shinny new headquarters just waiting for something to do.

Things are progressing well with the comp, it turned out to be a bad HDD, the 1st error was in the boot sector which is why I could not repair it, I pulled the drive, used my Predictor and it said the thing was pretty sick, so I copied what I could (and wanted) from it and blew the thing away, then I repartitioned and formatted it and there were errors showing all over the place. Luckly it was under warranty and the shop where I bought it said not to bother sending it back to the Mfg (Seagate) they would be happy to swap it for me, excellent customer service if you ask me because it was almost 2 years ago that I bought it. I was fully expecting to have to wait a week or two for a vendor replacement but no problem, boys fixed me right up I took the drive right in and figured it was only right to reward that excellent service so I asked if they would trade me up if I paid the difference, and for $40.00 I now have a nice shinny new 1 Tb primary drive, I also bit the bullet and picked up Windows 7 Pro 64 bit while I was at it. I am going to try a dual boot with Vista 32 bit (factory install from restore disk) and Win 7 as the secondary, I am not sure how it will work but I want to give it a try, I am kind of hoping I can run some things like FSX from both OS's I have it on a seperate drive so it might work???

I am just finishing the Win 7 partition now, and will start the install in a few, wish me luck.

[Lionheart]

Bill that looks wild, hopefully I will be operational by tomorrow evening so I can give it a try. I have an Elephant parked at my shinny new headquarters just waiting for something to do.

Things are progressing well with the comp, it turned out to be a bad HDD, the 1st error was in the boot sector which is why I could not repair it, I pulled the drive, used my Predictor and it said the thing was pretty sick, so I copied what I could (and wanted) from it and blew the thing away, then I repartitioned and formatted it and there were errors showing all over the place. Luckly it was under warranty and the shop where I bought it said not to bother sending it back to the Mfg (Seagate) they would be happy to swap it for me, excellent customer service if you ask me because it was almost 2 years ago that I bought it. I was fully expecting to have to wait a week or two for a vendor replacement but no problem, boys fixed me right up I took the drive right in and figured it was only right to reward that excellent service so I asked if they would trade me up if I paid the difference, and for $40.00 I now have a nice shinny new 1 Tb primary drive, I also bit the bullet and picked up Windows 7 Pro 64 bit while I was at it. I am going to try a dual boot with Vista 32 bit (factory install from restore disk) and Win 7 as the secondary, I am not sure how it will work but I want to give it a try, I am kind of hoping I can run some things like FSX from both OS's I have it on a seperate drive so it might work???

I am just finishing the Win 7 partition now, and will start the install in a few, wish me luck.

Instead of wishing you luck, I pray it goes awesome and is 'blessed'! How about that! The 'force' be with you.


Great store. I wish our BB was like that. FE is pretty good to deal with.

1TB drives.. Now a household name. Can you believe it! We didnt get flying cars in the future, but we did get 1TB drives for $100.00.. Awesome!!! We are blessed man..

Get that baby going and get space borne again!




I blew up my 'Milch Kiew'... (elephant). arrgh.. Had to start from a previous station dock save.. I was going in close to my Tokyo, doing a transfer of ships to the Tokyo for a run to the Terran system to hunt Xenon, and got too close to the saucer section.. blew up my Split jaggernaught Elephant..

<--- smacks self.. upside the head.. drops of stress sweat sprays on mammoth iMac display screen..

[gigabyte]

Thanks Bill, things are looking up, I have Vista installed and the AV configured and running, (still have to restore some backup data), and I am just finishing Win 7, A/V is almost finished the initial scan. Hopefully I will not be too busy tomorrow and I can start "Tweaking".

I must say I am very impressed with the finished product of Win 7 so far, I tested teh beta and there was not a lot of WOW factor for me, it was stable and ran fine but I didn't see the need to cough up $300.00+ to upgrade, I am glad I did do it now though, so far it look like I will be able to run some apps from a single install using both versions, it works for the few I have tested so far. The big test comes when I boot up FSX and X3 again, it would be nice to be able to make that work just for the h€ll of it.

[Lionheart]

Thanks Bill, things are looking up, I have Vista installed and the AV configured and running, (still have to restore some backup data), and I am just finishing Win 7, A/V is almost finished the initial scan. Hopefully I will not be too busy tomorrow and I can start "Tweaking".

I must say I am very impressed with the finished product of Win 7 so far, I tested teh beta and there was not a lot of WOW factor for me, it was stable and ran fine but I didn't see the need to cough up $300.00+ to upgrade, I am glad I did do it now though, so far it look like I will be able to run some apps from a single install using both versions, it works for the few I have tested so far. The big test comes when I boot up FSX and X3 again, it would be nice to be able to make that work just for the h€ll of it.

Awesome to hear Mike.

Their vista (cough) made me an enemy for a while.. I hated that thing and being forced to use something goofy was outrageous. But I always hoped that Win7 would be the one that brought MS back to their feet. Glad its looking good. I hope it runs awesome man..




I just created my first fighter wing of all my claimed fighters I found abandoned.. I think I shall call my wing, the Salvation Aircorps, lolol.. (Salvation Army would be troops, right? So I guess they need an AirForce.. the SAAF...! )


4 Birds total in my squadron, and we have Aurora's, Tornado's, and Beluga missles... We intend to dent the hulls of the Xenon fleet!