Terran Conflict X3; Extreme Addiction!

[luckydog]

Found a Goner Temple in Elysium of Light ( NW of Omicron Lyrae )

[Lionheart]

Found a Goner Temple in Elysium of Light ( NW of Omicron Lyrae )

Did you go inside and check it out? :d


I do not think I have even found that system yet.. arrgh..

I have been finding tons of data online, free ships, maps, etc. Very good to find out some of this.

I have been working my 'bing...' off trying to make 2 million for a super freighter. I finally got to 1.8 lastnight and was going to try to get one, and they are out of stock. arrgh.. Then, after putting money into my new 'old used' Mako, I was back down to 1.4 Million.. (tripple argh). So then, I decided to look up a free ship, to see if I could find a super freighter. I did find one, but not 'huge'. Its a Split Iguanna Vangaurd. Took me forever to find it. Its at coordinates 38.0 0.0 35.0 in the Family Whi system (sorry Mike, I had too, lol). But, try to figure out how the coordinates work!!!!! What a long time that took me. Then, I almost ran into it when I found it. I had to go out in my suit (first time) and move around. Couldnt figure out how to get in, lol.. . Was bumping into the sides. Looked it up online and found out how to claim an abondoned ship.

This thing though is cool, though its not really for cargo. Its an ex-slave ship and has some neat features on it. The architecture of the ship is really unique. Its sort of balanced on hits layout, a rythym of lines (theme of angles), and looks like a mix between Frank Lloyd Wright and Vulcan spacecraft, lol... Its now a cleaned up, Christian company owned vessel! For some reason though, I cannot get Ore with it. I have been living on that industry for ages. Now they say I have inadequate good standing or something. I have to improve my 'good standings'. (Perhaps you have to do this with each ship?).

In the mean time, I can at least run some people around.

NOTE: I took a close up of the nose (last two shots) that show you how much detail that is 'common' on 'everything' in this game. The nose area is just one little area on this ship....

NOTE 2: Note the side view. There are cargo containers near the rear, liquid storage tanks in the middle, and passenger accommodations in the front. (I can carry people now, lol.. )

I would like to know the details on how to set up a ship to do an auto route. That is my next step. It would be nice to have my Mercury doing back and forth hauls of Ore to the Taladianium founderies in Ceos Buckzoid system.



Bill

[Madman]

For some reason though, I cannot get Ore with it.

The Iguana is a TP class ship (passenger transport) and IIRC, all TP class except the Boron Angel are limited to carrying L sized cargo or smaller. Ore is XL sized cargo, so you'll need a freighter (TS or TL class ship) or one of the larger warships (M1 or M2 class) to carry it.

[Lionheart]

Thanks MadMan.. I almost figured it was something like that, as I still had my pilot name on the vehicle registry. Didnt sound right that I couldnt pick up Ore becuase of a new vehicle...


:ernae:




Bill

[Lionheart]

Worked all night last night to get to 2Million. Got there, and found out the Mercury Super Freighter isnt in any of the known early sectors...

This morning, I found out (through Google) that the baby is in the lower right corner of the 'big' map, lol.. Had to take my Discoverer out and do some searching. Found it.

Nice to be able to make 100,000.00 on a single run (when rates are good).



Bill

[FengZ]

i tried to buy this game over the weekend..but the store didn't have it! doh! I wonder if i can buy this through steam or a direct download store.

I bought a few other games tho: Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising, Prototype, and Mass Effect (old game, but i never played it).

So far, Mass Effect is pretty awesome. You'll love it bill...classic sci-fi to the core. It's completely Syd Mead style....

-feng

[Lionheart]

So far, Mass Effect is pretty awesome. You'll love it bill...classic sci-fi to the core. It's completely Syd Mead style....

-feng

Thanks Feng,

I'll definately check it out.

:ernae:



Bill

[Lionheart]

My next project or direction I wish to explore in X3 is auto trading. Has anyone here started this?

I found where the controls are for starting it. I have all the trade upgrades except for the one that is $500,000 credits. I take it that is the one I need to actually get the system running. (eeeks!!!!!). Right now, the main trade controls are locked out, or gray (unselectable). So I am assuming I need that expensive pack to get it unlocked.

I may go hunting for some scripts. I 'need' auto trade, lol.. I want to go play while the system is making funds.



Bill

[gigabyte]

My next project or direction I wish to explore in X3 is auto trading. Has anyone here started this?

I found where the controls are for starting it. I have all the trade upgrades except for the one that is $500,000 credits. I take it that is the one I need to actually get the system running. (eeeks!!!!!). Right now, the main trade controls are locked out, or gray (unselectable). So I am assuming I need that expensive pack to get it unlocked.

I may go hunting for some scripts. I 'need' auto trade, lol.. I want to go play while the system is making funds.

Bill

Bill, You can set up trade runs with out actually having them fully automated, just select the ship you want to do the trade run in the sector map or from the My Property menu, select command console, then navigation, send it to the location you want and make sure you have the option to notify you when the orders are complete set to ON. When you get the message that the ship has arrived open the command console and this time select the Trade command, once you have bought the commidity you want, order it to the station where you want to send it, and you will get another message when it arrives, so you can sell the goods.

It is not "Automatic" but you can go off exploring and when the messages come in just open the ships console give it a few orders then go on your way. That is what I have been doing for a long time, it keeps me in contact with the ships as well, all you need is the trading extension installed in each ship.

[Madman]

FengZ, It is available on Steam.

Lionheart. You're welcome, and you're correct; if you want your traders to be autonomous, you will need that software.

You bought a freighter? I always steal mine. :tgun2:

[Lionheart]

Man.... This game is way too adictive, lolol...


I found out a few things tonight.

* I can turn on 'Wormhole Visible' so that when doing a hyper jump, I am literally flying through a tunnel of light.
* I can pick up things at other stations remotely with my other ships. I didnt know I could do that.
* I figured out how to set 'Auto Jump' in my ships settings for all ships, so that now they will Auto-Jump (if they have 'energy cells' on board) and will get there in quick order in stead of going through each stargate. Very nice if you want them there quickly.
* I reset SETA drive (Singularity Engine Time Accellerator) to 100% (1000 % in the game) form 650... Much faster in my huge dreadnaught Super Freighter which only does 72 Meters a second in normal time.


NOTE: Learning to jump to gates that are near your targets is a good thing with slower frieghters. If you jump to a gate on the other side of a system from the ore mine station you need, you may have to run through clusters of asteroids, and the autopilots are horrible at that. I have been hitting asteroids many times.

I purchased the 500,000 credit trade system. Hopefully I can get it going tonight or tomorrow....


Awesome game....!

[Lionheart]

I have a quick question. How do you know how many credits you have in the game?

The only time I can find out is when I am trading, at a station. There seems to be no record of it I can find anywhere except when trading....



Gigabyte,

Did you get X3 TC yet?

I think you will freak out. From what I heard, you have 100 more ships then you did in X2. This will be quite a 'jump' for you, no pun intended... :d




EDIT: Side note; On that photo I posted above, the worm hole with my ship going through it. It isnt as brilliant in the screenshot as it is in the game. In the game, its racing past you, and the entire screen is in the tube of starts, and its realy bright in the core center, and your ship comes through over your head and spiral's up through the rushing tube of stars. Its only visible for perhaps 10 seconds or less, but its wild.

I was coming up to a gate, and a war ship, roughly corvette class, that was 'near' a gate suddenly flashed bright and was gone. I am figuring that is what Warp or Jump looks like when not using the gates. Very very cool... lol



Bill

[luckydog]

I have a quick question. How do you know how many credits you have in the game? (Lionheart)

Go to "Personal" in upper left corner......
click on "My pilot status "........
account will show credits.
Or
hit p key twice for account and detailed pilot history.

[Lionheart]

I have a quick question. How do you know how many credits you have in the game? (Lionheart)

Go to "Personal" in upper left corner......
click on "My pilot status "........
account will show credits.
Or
hit p key twice for account and detailed pilot history.

Thanks LD,

I'll look there again. I didnt see it. Must be missing it.


Bill


<--- cracks knuckles and wipes sweat from palms... end of the day. time once again for some more adventures in space!

:d

[gigabyte]

Gigabyte,

Did you get X3 TC yet?

I think you will freak out. From what I heard, you have 100 more ships then you did in X2. This will be quite a 'jump' for you, no pun intended... :d

Bill

Nothing yet Bill, I am hoping to see it today or tomorrow - "Ears Hopin"

[Lionheart]

Roger that Mike. Lets hope you get it tomorrow so you can give us some tips for the TC version. :d



This thing reminds me alot of FS. You are exploring, tons of sights to see. When you dock at a station, at times, its like landing at an airport. Some are huge stations, some are little ones, so its like 'types of airports', such as international airports and dirt strips. Only difference is, AP needs to land it.

But... The warping from gates and from Jump Drive reminds me of Stargate and also Battlestar Gallactica. The Gallactica could jump from a stand still, no accelleration. This is just like that with Jump Drive. When going through gates, its very similar to Stargates. Touch the puddle and WOOOOSH! You are into the tunnel going through a wormhole...

Really gets your imagination going...


After 2 hours of gaming last night in X3, I took Junior out for a walk. I was thinking, while looking at the stars, what if.... If you had one of those ships 'now'. You could be running people and cargo to Mars, Europa, and other planets and moons, setting up colonies and bases, shuffling cargo and people to and from locations...




Bill

[Lionheart]

Wow...

I made my way to the Terran Sector.. Wolf zero zero zero is just around the corner... (Earth).

Got to see Uranus, Jupiter, Saturn... (not the car company).

Brilliant. Totally new ship and station architectures... Its wild how they did Jupiter. Its HUGE... and has rings that spin and 'whirlwind' in the opposite directions. How they did the animations on the planet, I just dont know.

I couldnt dock at any bases in my humble Iguanna Vangaurd.. arrgh...


NOTE: The one with Uranus in the background (brilliant blue color world) has my ship in it, the one I found, abondoned.. The Iguanna... :d (Makes me think, what if Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Nautilus from '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'... lol)


Bill

[Lionheart]

Back to those screenshots I posted last night at 2AM.

I took a picture of the new Terran (Earth) jump gates. They are more radical looking then the Argon sector rings. Also, you can see how the Earth stations look more advanced. They use alot of cool rings and tall spire looking things in their architectures. Some of their stations are EXTREMELY MASSIVE...


Also, I got into my first furball dogfight last night with Xenon raiders that were trying to attack a Terran delegates ship that I was asked to help escort. Very cool. I hadnt shot anything yet so I didnt know where all the controls were for weapons. I did launch a volley of missles, and shot the lasers, which kept overheating. I also would ram the enemy fighters with my old Iguanna ship, lol... Worked well.


I could 'not' dock at any stations though in the Terran sector, at least with my Iguanna. Very odd. I must need something in order to do that, I am thinking. Thus, since you are only able to save a game at a station, you cannot save when you are deep into the Sol system (Terra / Earth). So I had to back track all the way back out to the main Terrain jump gate to save at a station and keep all my jump points in the Nav computer.

I found I could jump from that one launch point, all the way back to Argon Prime with only about a 150 Energy Cell burn!!!!! Very cool... I may start going there more often. There are Solar Power stations nearby to refuel at for return jaunts.



Bill

[FengZ]

man this game looks so cool. Must buy it...

[Chacha]

man this game looks so cool. Must buy it...

I bought one, two days ago....

looking for time to start it...

[Lionheart]

man this game looks so cool. Must buy it...

Its huge Feng... Huge...

I was thinking last night how wild it would be to have some of the Star Wars worlds in it, with some Imperial ships, some Correllian frieghters running around (AI traffic), some X-wings partrolling Imperial or outland territories.. Those cool football shaped rebel freighters.


The stations near Earth are very Star Trek looking. Begs for some Star Fleet ships to be seen...

I bought one, two days ago....

looking for time to start it...

ChaCha

You bought it!??

Awesome.. But beware, do not blame me for addictiveness.. . You are warned.


Note; Easier to read the PDF Manual on the computer screen rather then the black manual that comes with it. Check for updates.

Your 'home' will be (for now) Argon Prime. Its very similar to Earth but very very far away from Earth.


One of the hilarious things on the game are the ladies voice at the stations. "We have a sale going at the machine shop at level 5", "Argon Flu is going around. Please be vaccinated at our medical center on level 6", "The restaurant is now open for your convinience", "Flight 117 to Home of Light is now boarding at gate 15".



Bill

[Chacha]

Its huge Feng... Huge...

I was thinking last night how wild it would be to have some of the Star Wars worlds in it, with some Imperial ships, some Correllian frieghters running around (AI traffic), some X-wings partrolling Imperial or outland territories.. Those cool football shaped rebel freighters.


The stations near Earth are very Star Trek looking. Begs for some Star Fleet ships to be seen...


You bought it!??

Awesome.. But beware, do not blame me for addictiveness.. . You are warned.


Note; Easier to read the PDF Manual on the computer screen rather then the black manual that comes with it. Check for updates.

Your 'home' will be (for now) Argon Prime. Its very similar to Earth but very very far away from Earth.


One of the hilarious things on the game are the ladies voice at the stations. "We have a sale going at the machine shop at level 5", "Argon Flu is going around. Please be vaccinated at our medical center on level 6", "The restaurant is now open for your convinience", "Flight 117 to Home of Light is now boarding at gate 15".



Bill

..Got delivered on Tuesday...

$39.99 .... I got so excited, I got overwhelmed, I don't know where to start, you know I don't read manuals... Perhaps NOW I will start. My sleepless nights will be over....

I got something to learn....

[Madman]

I could 'not' dock at any stations though in the Terran sector, at least with my Iguanna. Very odd. I must need something in order to do that, I am thinking.

I don't have TC, but in Reunion, if your ranking isn't high enough a race will deny you permission to dock at their stations.......maybe they just don't like you enough yet.

[Lionheart]

I don't have TC, but in Reunion, if your ranking isn't high enough a race will deny you permission to dock at their stations.......maybe they just don't like you enough yet.

This may be.

I think it has to do with the ship. I found this one and at some stations I am not allowed to purchase certain things, including ore. But the rest of my fleet, I can. So I must have to switch over ownership or something on it.



Bill

[gigabyte]

Bill here is a new one for you to try, it takes a good number of credits, think 25million+ (if you don't want to wait, run the add credits script). It took me over 120 hours of play time to get there in X3 Reunion (then I found out about the cheat script after I had earned enough to do this...)

Go to an Argon Shipyard and purchase a Mammoth, it is the mega transport, too big to dock so it uses smaller transports to move wares to stations. Well I figured if it has to use freighters to move stuff it must have a docking bay... and guess what I am now Captian of a Mammoth and I have 5 fighters parked in the bays (it will hold more I think but I only had 5 I could use). I loaded it up with a gizillion energy cells and my jump drive and tonight I plan on doing some serious exploring. There is a Split version but I am not high enough in the good graces of the Split to buy that one so I settled for the Argon mega ship.

This sim offers endless possibilities I had left it alone for the better part of a year until this thread started now I am back into it big time.

Unfortunatly I am off for a two week road trip so my sim time will be nil for awhile