X3 Patrol Logs

[Lionheart]

Use your membership card, or frequent buyer ... Lionheart....

LOLOL... Why didnt I think of that..

CraigsLog Stardate 9335.9 - made it over to Akeelah's Beacon from Hatikvah's Faith via Aladna Hill. No sooner had I popped out of the gate into AH, I got pinged by a Mercury Hauler wanting to know if I would be interested in a used ship. After looking it over I said "Sure, why not. I can always use another beast of burden." Then, while I was fixing her up by the side of the space lane, along comes this down-on-her-luck fighter jock with a beat-up Nova Sentinel looking to unload it. It's a little too slow for keeping (upgradeable to only 123 m/s?), but I know I can turn a decent profit from it.

Craig Taylor

Man. You have the same bug I have. Sometimes I feel like a used car salesman or vehicle restoration NUT! lol...

A good deal is hard to pass up.

If you can supertune your ships, do it.. fassssssssssssssssssssst.......



Bill

[Craig Taylor]

I can't resist a good deal when I know I can make a buck. After a couple of lucrative trades I started feeling like a Ferenghi!

I'm not familiar with 'supertune.' Where do you purchase it?

[Lionheart]

I'm not familiar with 'supertune.' Where do you purchase it?

I have no idea Craig.. Its in the Cheat list. I hope its not a custom cheat script. I can almost swear I have seen this at some stations. That or just Turbo. I need to start noting on locations that I see some of these options.


Bill

[GT182]

Use your membership card, or frequent buyer ... Lionheart....

And he's just a tad too young for that Senior Discount we all love..... and hate. LOL

[Chacha]

And he's just a tad too young for that Senior Discount we all love..... and hate. LOL

SC.... Eeeks...

I was asked by family to buy them a wine the other day.... Thanksgiving.... before I go to their house.... I took a wine to the counter and the lady asked me for my ID and asked me if I am over 21! And needs to see my ID... I am over half a century old....

I received an AARP discount card when I turned 50, but they don't accept my SC discounts I have to prove I am SC! back to the topic

Lionheart is a very very young dude.... never been.... (I will stop there!)

[Lionheart]

lololol..

ChaCha.. I am way old! Almost 50.. I have 48 eyebrows..

[yank51]

Got you all beat with the age thingy, but nevermind....lol
Anyway, was doing great last night, until I took on an easy job (rated easy anyway) of following someone to report on their docking location. Seems pretty straightforward, right?? Well, as I'm jumping through gates following him, I got to thinking, maybe I should be armed, eh?? Well, no sooner did I get this thought, then coming through the gate I was going to go through comes a bunch of small red colored "targets". Well, you can figure out the rest. I went down in a blaze of glory....lol
Fortunately, I have a lot of "saves", so no harm done. but, I'll be a bit more careful about which jobs I take....

[Lionheart]

as I'm jumping through gates following him, I got to thinking, maybe I should be armed, eh?? Well, no sooner did I get this thought, then coming through the gate I was going to go through comes a bunch of small red colored "targets". Well, you can figure out the rest. I went down in a blaze of glory....lol
Fortunately, I have a lot of "saves", so no harm done. but, I'll be a bit more careful about which jobs I take....

I know what thats like.. I went into battle once in my beat up, high speed Split Iguanna Vanguard, which is half cargo, half people hauler (sort of like a Millenium Falcon but more like a long office building shape, beat up and rusty, but very fast), and I have these lasers in the front, and all they seemed to do was clean the hulls of the enemy. They did nothing to their shields... arrgh.

Another time, just last night, I am going to pick up people at a station to transport them to some place in a nearby sector, when my AutoPilot decides to come in too hot for the docking. I slid through the station, seeing all the cool bits inside, flying sideways at about 1,000 M/S and decellerating. I thought, hey! I lived! nope.. Get through it all, out a ways, and then the famous outside shot, big BOOM, and then the sad X3 funeral music...

Went back to a previous save and tried again..



Bill

[Lionheart]

DEC03-2009

2 Baldric class Terran high speed freighters have been added to my HQ via our own workshops. I spent some time outfitting them, taking them to Terracorp for Hyper Drive installations, Transporters, then back to Argon Prime for cargo bay and engine enhancement tunes, then installed all software/hardware systems for freighters, some missles and lasers as well for defense.

Ran some supply runs for Energy Cells, etc, for my stations (3) in the Mercury Super Freighter, then did some shake down runs in the new Baldrics. (Usually this means a test hyper jump to a far of sector, look around, bring it home again, and activate it on auto-trading somewhere). This time, I stuck with the second Baldric and headed out to Omecron Lyrae and did some successful taxi runs for people.

Returned to base. Couldnt sleep. Got back into X3 and did some maintenance on some beatup ships I had bought. I shuffled them to Terracorp for Hyper Drives and Transporters, then had their hulls repaired and all returned to HQ and aboard the Elephant. The Elephant dreadnaught supply ship has hanger bays in it for small ships, so 2 of those ships went back into her hangers..


Kind of a busy but quiet evening.. Only one run-in with no victory.


Bill

[Craig Taylor]

I made it to Legends Home the other night, home base for OTAS and also has an Argon 'Super' Shipyard. That thing is HUGE! Anyway, while waiting for two of my recent fixer-uppers to arrive for sale at the shipyard, I decided to accept a mission to escort an OTAS convoy from a sector about four jumpgates away back to Legend's Home. The mission box said 'average' so I figured "how hard can it be?" I accepted and jumped over to where they said to pick up the convoy...

As soon as I arrived I was 'engaged.' Must have fought off 3-4 waves of pirates before the last OTAS ship jumped into the next sector. Wash, rinse, repeat. Had to dial my own graphics settings down because X3 became a slideshow with all the action. Unfortunately the OTAS convoy went down in a blaze of glory in the third sector, and the mission self-aborted. I couldn't believe the number of pirates that materialized for this. It was cool to see all the other "good guys" join in on the action, too. The final stand took place in Aladna's Hill where there is an Argon orbital defense platform. Stuff was flying everywhere! The main lessons I took away from this are not to try this in a single ship (bring some extra fighters for company), and that big ships don't do squat against fighters. You need to counter fighters with other fighters.

[Lionheart]

Man... Must be a bad night for missions..

Every single quick delivery failed.. Last night, I think I was successful at all of them.

arrgh..


Bill

[luckydog]

Luckydogalog: Stardate 2009.12.06

Stuck in Black Hole Sun forever trying to fix ship's computers and coms.....
almost done.......(I hope)......
Had to personally escort a fighter wing (due to com. problems) from Nathan's Voyage to Grand Exchange in order to replace the wing that was decimated.
My plan is to totally blockade all Xenon and Pirates from Scale Plate Green east to Tears of Dread with fighter/police wings and laser towers.

A bit of good news:
One of the Nav. officers gave birth.....
it was her first..........
and she let me hold it for this picture:

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Cute little bugger !!!

[yank51]

Goodness LD, who's the father?? lol

[Chacha]

Luckydog,

Your intense, powerful, brilliant, eloquent, flamboyant, expressive (I am running out of adjectives) imagination fascinates me....

[Lionheart]

I agree.. In the past 3 weeks, he's turned into a really good SciFi writer, lol..



Bill