To All New X2 Players - Starting Out * SPOILER ? * UPDATED

[Fitzy Of Sydney]

Excellent!

[Spaceweed Adict]

Don't worry fitzy theres still plenty of us X2'ers out there always willing to help a lowly pilot on his way.
X3 bin there dune that personal HQ tons of complex's but in the end i ended up back in the X2 universe.
Don't ask me why but there's just something X2 has that X3 dosn't.
Well will see if TC will convert me.
Who knows I most certainly will give it a good airing.

[Fitzy Of Sydney]

Don't worry fitzy theres still plenty of us X2'ers out there always willing to help a lowly pilot on his way.
X3 bin there dune that personal HQ tons of complex's but in the end i ended up back in the X2 universe.
Don't ask me why but there's just something X2 has that X3 dosn't.
Well will see if TC will convert me.
Who knows I most certainly will give it a good airing.

Is X3 able to be played as online Multiplayer?
Will TC be?

And if not........ WHY not!!!

[Spaceweed Adict]

Is X3 able to be played as online Multiplayer?
Will TC be?

And if not........ WHY not!!!

Simple anwser no.
As for TC don't know your going to have to ask the Devs at Egosoft about that. But personally I can't really see it being multiplayer as by the looks of the preview its the X3 engine and that is defo not multiplayer.

[somalezulus]

Think of your Universe being filled with, let's say, 1000 humans. (That means allmost 8 per sector, as an average.) All of them starting broke, like you. Shooting your ships for cargo or reputation. Breaking the best roids for mobile mining before one has a chance to put a mine on it. Trying to place stations only to see them blown by others for the robbery. Do you honestly want to see that? Or will you enjoy X Universe single player in a reasonable world with decent AI?

If EGOSOFT makes this Universe multiplayer, I will not buy that game. Maybe cooperating with a few friends I have in Real would be OK. But to meet a whole bunch of greedy newbies like I was once, NO THANKS!

[Fitzy Of Sydney]

Well I have enough fun just using the cheat to understand the economics and control of ships a bit more. There are always things the manual and tutes don't teach. I have started from the beginning again, with no modding at all. Definitely I appreciate the game more now.

[adobis]

Well it's a good tip you give Nanook

But here is another, if you're very good in fight, after selling the equipement of the Express, and that your Discoverer is full equipped, try to cap some Pirates Bayamon (I said if you're very good!) or Mandalay!

[Lowkee33]

(My friend has a better computer than me, so I don't get to play X3).

I personally don't like having a plot, so I'm forced to start with a Discoverer and 1000c. I find the best way to make money is at the bulletin boards, 2k here, 3k there. I buy full storage space for the ship and make small gains when I can't find anything at the Boards. 130k later and I get a mercury, the big time .

I like starting like this because I really know my discoverer and profit scales of the many goods.

As this is a hint thread I won't change the color here.

Equipment docks will buy whatever weapons/shields you have even if they don't sell them. Since nobody is buying the AIREs in Three Worlds, there is good profit there. 10k is a good amount of money from a 57k investment. It;s a little cheap, but so is stripping the Transport ship.

Peace and Love

[Coolio101]

I dont know how to sell stuff from the express. When i try to it says product not bought. Should i try other stations?

[pjknibbs]

Yes, you should. Stations buy resources and sell products. Note that shields aren't a resource for anything, so you'll need to sell those at an equipment dock.

[Coolio101]

Hmm let me see if i got this straight. Im playing mission 2, i pick up the scientists. Once i get back to Argon Prime, i dock at shipyard and sell all my stuff on the Express? Or just dump it into space?

[Nanook]

Just dock at TerraCorp, where the scientists are supposed to go. But before contacting Elena Kho, sell the gear from the ship. Terracorp is basically an equipment dock, and should buy everything you can sell. Remember, though, that you can't sell extensions or software of any type. You'll need to transfer those to another ship if you want to keep them. BTW, you can't sell equipment at a shipyard. Shipyards only buy ships.

[mrbadger]

Hmm let me see if i got this straight. Im playing mission 2, i pick up the scientists. Once i get back to Argon Prime, i dock at shipyard and sell all my stuff on the Express? Or just dump it into space?

There's another mission later where you get an even better ship. Again this should be stripped bare before you give it back.

[adobis]

More over if you're a good pilot and that you have the fully equipped Discoverer, you can try to cap a pirate Bayamon

[Nanook]

Or put an APSG in the rear turret of that Express, and try to cap a few of the 'super' pirates that attack you in that mission. If you're lucky, you can get some pretty awesome Bayamons and Orinocos. A 300+ m/s pirate Orinoco with 32 engine tunings is probably the best fighter you'll get in vanilla X2. A 412 m/s Bayamon is nothing to turn your nose up at, either.

[Spaceweed Adict]

Or put an APSG in the rear turret of that Express, and try to cap a few of the 'super' pirates that attack you in that mission. If you're lucky, you can get some pretty awesome Bayamons and Orinocos. A 300+ m/s pirate Orinoco with 32 engine tunings is probably the best fighter you'll get in vanilla X2. A 412 m/s Bayamon is nothing to turn your nose up at, either.

Yer true but a standard bayermon is good enough to us real combat pilots
As for the orinoco well thats good enough to take down Khaak M3's just capped one last night in my little oninoco.
Oh by the way new X2 game again due to system crash lost my hole empire but never mind am on my way to building another
And having fun doing it, makes a change to be vunarable again.
No TL to run to when things start getting a little hot.
But that won't be for long.

[Nanook]

....
Yer true but a standard bayermon is good enough to us real combat pilots ....

But then again, it takes a 'real combat pilot' to cap one of those specials in a mere Argon Express.

[adobis]

TPs are only good for Borons I think
Well only in 1.2 I used TPs Boron as freighter, that's all

[Spaceweed Adict]

But then again, it takes a 'real combat pilot' to cap one of those specials in a mere Argon Express.

Yer right but with APSG's its bloody hard to miss now isn't it.
Nar couldn't be bothered with that never bother with those pesky pirates just let the dragon deal with them
Arr well as I said the Earthcorp empire is no more but what was will be again
This time its strictly vanilla and extreme but am still going down the same road that is I'm going to run my empire solely on captured ships.
It worked once so why nock it.
Felt waird thou flying this bet up piece of junk bandana give me, God no weapons, wouldn't pull you out of bed, Corners like as if the wife's driving and as for cargo space well I could carry more on the back of my bike but well I suppose that was what they ment by extreme
But well I've now got an Orinoco fitted with just about everthing I can cram in it and My TS is now UT level 25.
So here we go again on the long road to restore the prestige and might of the the EARTCORP empire

[Spaceweed Adict]

TPs are only good for Borons I think
Well only in 1.2 I used TPs Boron as freighter, that's all

Yer True there adobis
You just give me a good idea there mentioning the boron.
Getting that bloody BBS message about the Boron princess needing to get stoned then pissed to cure this illness she has well I must be suffering the same thing becouse like a good boy that I am I take my medican too.
Right trusted friend the boron call me, well not for long
guna wack some of there TS's and cap a few and just before they make me public enermy number 1 I'll give'em the booze and weed to sort out the princess then I'll be Queens Knight again
Cool aye
Think it will work