X3 Patrol Logs

[Lionheart]

JAN14_2010

After hearing of how much you guys were having fun doing jobs that required a fighter pilot only, I decided to take on that this evening. Man.. lol.. What a blast. Two jobs spying on traitors, 2 jobs returning stolen ships, (one blew up, lol), and another 2 jobs getting ships for stations. Found the stations that manufacture the fighters they wanted, brought them back on my Boa hauler, just in time, lol.. Man.. Time elements are rough at times..


Also kicked butt on some pirates and even had one give up his ship and bail out. I had my Boa pick it up and return it to Argon Prime.

Pretty good fun... A real high.

Screenshots of my Scropion Vanguard leaving a station. I have that thing maxed out on lasers. No room for anything else. I have my guns tuned pretty well also. My rail guns are on 3rd setting, only 2, and 1 setting has some plasma throwers. They do a pretty thorough job on Elite Pirate fighters.



Bill

[Marlin]

Outstanding sir!

I’m having the same problem with storage room as I’m filling up the ship with all the software and ect. There is barely enough room for those all important energy cells, he he he. It might be time to get a larger ship, like maybe that heavy hydra that I posted picks of if, you didn’t buy them all up that is. J

So I’m still waiting for a custom shot of your fleet of Nemesis’s out on patrol!! That just has to be an awesome site! Come on Bill, give up some of those outstanding shots.

I’m loving your patrol logs, and everybody else’s too. Keep em coming everybody!

[GT182]

Marlin, a good fighter that can hold a fair amout of cargo is the Vidarsaurus you have sitting out there with your other ships. I'm carrying 4000 E cells on mine right now and I still have froom for cargo. Give it a try... you can always switch to another if you don't like it.

Bill, those Wasp missles are a hoot to watch. They hit a few times and nailed Pirates but they're not all that effective... what a show tho. LOL

Stardate: 2010 01 14

Headed out after resupplying at mt HQ in Argon prime. I decided to take some help with me and go looking for trouble. LOL Trouble was the 2 small fighters I took... they destroyed them selves so I'm now down to 16 ships in my fleet. No biggie, I'll replace em.

The Battle Cruiser with us was ok. She did exactly like she should with my commands. I even jumped ship to give her a go..,. what a beast to manuver tho. I wanted to find a few ships to bring back and figured she'd do the trick. But all I found was debris in President's End. I thought you could claim all that and bring it back to sell, but you can't. Another day another sector.

I'm not a pilot for the Terran Corp and did a few high paying jobs for them that paid good. Also did a few Sector patrols protecting stations that paid very good. All in all I made another 2 million just flitting around picking the jobs that paid well and wouldn't get me killed. My account is now close to 9 million... not bad for a Militant Profiteer. LOL

Here's my Big Guns... don't mess with her. She can kick butt.... and did. LOL

[Lionheart]

Hey Gary,

That Vadarsaurus sounds awesome. We really need a medium fighter or heavy fighter with lots of cargo room. The ultimate fighter!


Marlin,

I dont have a good way of sending out my Nemesis ships in a fleet without them hurting themselves. For some reason, formation flying tends to get nasty. I wish there was a script that improved formation flying.

I wish I had taken more pictures of that Epic battle I was in with the 2 Q-ships and my fleet of Nemesis' and the Tokyo and her two fighter wings. There must have been over 20 fighter Xenon ships.. (that number will start going up as time moves on, lol).

Way wild though to see Nemesis around like fighters.

I have 6 of those things now hanging at the HQ docks.. Waiting for the next Epic battle..

[Lionheart]

On that picture set above of my leaving a station in the Split Scorpion.. I wish I had a smooth running video capture system. The photos do that scene no justice. The giant station is rotating, the clouds on that planet are gently moving accross a rotating planet. Its like watching a scene from a SciFi movie and you are in it, lol..



Bill

[GT182]

Yeah it is Bill, you gotta try it just once to see. It's one amazing and tough mid sized fighter. And the shields will keep ya all safe and snuggley. When you get zapped the lighting effects are really cool to watch too..... but you are safe.

[gigabyte]

Just a quick note the Vidarsaurus is only in the Apricot Mapping Service Mod, it is actually a "Pimped" up Terran Vidar. Regardless it is my fav ship so far, it has a nice size hold and can support a good selection of weps. The Vidarsaurus version is quite a bit faster so it is very much like a fighter, but with the right load out it packs the punch of Corvette or smal battleship. I am taking my personal Vidarsaurusand a wing of Enhanced Eletes into the Xenon Core tonight for a little "Target Practice" I am hoping to find a couple of Xenon Stations and if I do - "It's Hammer Time"...lol

BTW here is a tip, if you want to capture ships, grab a few Disruptor missles, they are very handy on everything under and M7, they basically shut down the systems and the ship goes dead in space, you can bring down the shields at your leisure and the pilot will bail then when you take control the ship will come back to life in a short time and you have a new proze...

[Marlin]

I have been thinking about picking up a corvette class something, then I just picked up a free unequipped Vitar. How F'in cool is that???? That will save me at least a couple of million bucks don't ya think?

Now I have to find someplace that will actually sell me 200MJ shield gens and the weapons. Or maybe, I'll deduct the proper amount of cash and trade the Vitar in for the gunbus mod one.

Oh by the way, I have to classify myself as a Q killing fool, LOL
My trick is to get in fast enough not to die then hover right at the bottom fin and blast away. That ship is so slow that I can strafe just as fast as it goes. It takes a lot of finger action with the w a s d keys to stay out of reach of those big guns, but my last kill I didn't even have to get out and repair my armor. (I did have to wipe the sweat off my forehead though, phew)

[Lionheart]

Oh by the way, I have to classify myself as a Q killing fool, LOL
My trick is to get in fast enough not to die then hover right at the bottom fin and blast away. That ship is so slow that I can strafe just as fast as it goes. It takes a lot of finger action with the w a s d keys to stay out of reach of those big guns, but my last kill I didn't even have to get out and repair my armor. (I did have to wipe the sweat off my forehead though, phew)

Lucky Person you!!!

Thanks for the tip. I'll have to try that out. I have tried quite a few tricks trying to take those things out.




Tonight, I flew around looking for jobs and man, I hit jack pot several times. I think I made 10 million 3 times in a row. Then I checked out a building job which was to place a Solar Power Plant L in a system. I went and found one (hard to locate one that is Large), then placed it near/at the beacon, but the station kept locating far away.. I tried 3 times to get that darn station to place correctly. I tried tractor beams as well (I think) and that didnt seem to move it.. So I reverted my save point (again) and decided not to do that job. I sure tried....

Good fun.

[Marlin]

He He He

EARTH and TWO FREE-BEES

[GT182]

Sweet! Good for you Marlin.

[Lionheart]

Wait.. Whats this????

Do you get a welcoming or something when you get to Earth? This must be the built in game venue?

Nice! and congrats...!

[GT182]

Mission: Patrol Cloud Base NW
Successful - eliminated 14 Xenon ships
Paid: 860,535cr

Mission: Kill Olmanckussut in Rolk's Drift. He is flying Pirate Centaur IM6BT-70
Successful
Paid: 546,914cr

Mission: Scan Asteroids in.....
2 in Three Worlds
2 in Kindom's End
3 in Rolk's Drift
3 in Power Circle
Successful - data delivered
Paid: 540,500cr

Mission: Patrol slot open... Patrol Three Worlds
Successful - eliminated 8 Xenon ships
Paid: 330,992cr

Mission: Retrieve Enery Cells in Antigone Memorial and deliver to Cahoona Bakery M alpha in Kingdom's End
Successful - forgot the number to pick up. Jump drive is handy for this mission
Paid: 400,765cr

Mission: Kill Ho t'Hnt in Cloud Base NW flying Pirate Osprey IM6FX-21
Successful - Jump drive handy again due to time allowance of 13 minutes
Paid: 1,453,099cr

Mission: Patrol against Xenon activity in Three Worlds
Successful - eliminated 9 Xenon ships
Paid: 859,966cr

Mission: Kill Na t'Nst
Successful despite time limit of 10 minutes
Paid: 2,169,167cr

Mission: Patrol Queen's Space against Xenon Pirates
Successful - eliminated 14 Xenopn ships
Paid: 561,437cr Promoted to Warrior

Mission: Scan Asteroids in
3 in Menelaus Frontier - actually scanned 4
4 in Ceo's Buckzoid
3 in Rolk's Fate
Successful - data recovered
Paid: 299,000cr

Mission: Kill Menika Parii
Successful
Paid: 127,473cr

Mission: Patrol slot open to experienced fighter pilots - Patrol The Hole. Also patrol in Rolk's Fate and Atreus Clouds
Successful - eliminated 31 Ka ships including several Ka Korvettes
Paid: 1,041,288cr

Mission: Patrol Kingdom's End
Successful - eliminated 5 Xenon ships
Paid: 401,154cr

Docked at Royal Boron Equipement Dock and purchased Salvage Command Software. Also sold wares At the Boron Free Trading Station

My account at the end with sales and software bought is now at 20,053,388cr. Not bad for 11 missions in 2 days.

Live long and prosper.... so say we all.

Screenshots of the Ka Korvettes in action, and what they're worth destroyed. The last is a "closeup" from one of the monitor screens. It's a bit dark but see where I was.... that thick green fog.

[Lionheart]

Awesome Gary!

Congrats!


How did you print that list of missions?




Bill

[GT182]

I just sat here and typed it out Bill. I did it once, hit the wrong key and lost it all. Then I had to sit backdown a redo it all again.

All of them were just written down on a sheet of paper... what a mess. That's why I made that form, just it make it a bit simpler. Just print it out. But looking at it now there needs to be a way to do multiple forms on one 8x11 sheet of paper and still have room to write things down. Printed out Landscape style might work. You could get maybe six missions on one page, which would be great.