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I really wish the messages and notifications showed up when you're in map view because that's where I spend like 90% of the game. Also I wish music didn't stop when you docked!
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I was never patient enough to make money in X3 without salvage mods to war profiteer instantlyqueeb posted:Up to 15 capped pirate destroyers now. i dont even know what to do with them. I've seen like one pirate destroyer and that was while I was still in my Rapier The one marine didn't make it  I'm almost ready to start boarding though! My frigate can take things on reasonably well and it has 15 marines ready to die for profitsss
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Mar 23, 2021 18:46
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where in the gently caress are the teladi wanting me to go to rank up here i keep going to brand new systems maybe i should have dropped off my passenger who wanted me to go in the other direction first I thought this would be fast
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Mar 23, 2021 18:49
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Zereth posted:where in the gently caress are the teladi wanting me to go to rank up here i keep going to brand new systems They have a trade station on the far right-side of the map.
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Mar 23, 2021 18:52
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RBA Starblade posted:I'm almost ready to start boarding though! My frigate can take things on reasonably well and it has 15 marines ready to die for profitsss Speaking of which, Egosoft, where’s my Teladi start goddamnit
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Mar 23, 2021 18:53
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Rhjamiz posted:Speaking of which, Egosoft, where’s my Teladi start goddamnit There's one in the base game, isn't there?
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Mar 23, 2021 18:58
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Do I gain anything by building an administrative center in my factory sector, other than it turning from gray to my very own color?
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Mar 23, 2021 19:30
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Is there a way to know where to look for a mission which wants me to drop a resource probe in a location of high concentration of stuff? Besides just dropping probes all over the system (in red hexes) until I find it?
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Mar 23, 2021 19:31
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^Yes just drop things all over3 posted:There's one in the base game, isn't there? You need to get I think rank 10 with Teladi or MIN to unlock it
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Mar 23, 2021 19:31
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Guess I better go buy some more probes if this takes longer so I don't need to keep picking them up again.
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Mar 23, 2021 19:33
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sloppy portmanteau posted:Do I gain anything by building an administrative center in my factory sector, other than it turning from gray to my very own color? Yes, you now have police authority over that sector so you can start setting your ships to scan for theiving SCA ships in disguise. Claiming a sector also lets you declare wares illegal if you want to, but broadly the police authority is useful for really securing a sector aganst piracy.
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Mar 23, 2021 19:37
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I had a "high yield" mission to find .25 ore and .25 hydrogen. I put it down outside the station and left. Across the sector I had a probe that marked 3.0 ore and 1.5 hydrogen lmao
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Mar 23, 2021 19:38
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Slickdrac posted:^Yes just drop things all over Wait holy poo poo I had no idea.
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Mar 23, 2021 19:45
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Uh My pilot seems to have gotten himself stuck inside an asteroid, is there anything I can do about this? EDIT: I took control and rammed my way out. How did this happen in the first place 
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Mar 23, 2021 19:57
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I got myself stuck in an asteroid while Crystal mining. Easier than you think. I had to shoot it until it went boom.
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Mar 23, 2021 20:01
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Zereth posted:Uh It happens regularly to me, collision on asteroids isn't the best though it's easy to get out of them usually. Not alt-tabbing (since the game hates that lol) and no frame drops or anything
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Mar 23, 2021 20:01
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Zereth posted:Uh It's just something that happens with the engine, it doesn't check every frame for a collision so sometimes ships will clip through into objects, you can always get back out eventually.
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Mar 23, 2021 20:03
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Well I'm to the point where I'm building my first shipyards this save. However the input goods the shipyard wants are terran. I've set the global order to Universal ages ago but it's not effecting shipyards? Is there a toggle I'm missing?
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Mar 23, 2021 20:27
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Are you using a terran shipyard blueprint? I believe they have their own type.
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Mar 23, 2021 20:30
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RBA Starblade posted:It happens regularly to me, collision on asteroids isn't the best though it's easy to get out of them usually. Not alt-tabbing (since the game hates that lol) and no frame drops or anything 
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Mar 23, 2021 20:43
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No the shipyard itself is bog standard. Looking closer it wants both regular and Terran inputs. I'm guessing it's for if a Terran ship is being built at my shipyard. I guess I'll wait and see.
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Mar 23, 2021 20:45
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i just noticed that xenon took back 451 from the teladi, so i pop over and ah yes, this fleet would probably do it: its an I and 4 Ks
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Mar 23, 2021 20:51
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The xenon seem quite meh over the southern portions of the universe while the north is getting riddled with xenon stations. It's weird. The terrans have taken over south savage spur, the HOP have pushed into faulty logic, and the teladi are holding company regard quite handily. I really wish they would just add a sort of frontier to the universe with a bunch of xenon core sectors and a big uncolonised border space with lots of interconnection. The xenon being confined to a bunch of pockets kinda limits their effectiveness I think. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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Mar 23, 2021 20:55
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Is there some requirement I'm missing in order to find a black market? I've been scanning a boatload of stations but haven't found a single mission that offers opening up a blackmarket trader. Can't craft the drat emp bombs. At least I am getting some production modules to get a station up and running. Is ship hull considered a good starting station?
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Mar 23, 2021 21:22
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ughhhh posted:Is there some requirement I'm missing in order to find a black market? I've been scanning a boatload of stations but haven't found a single mission that offers opening up a blackmarket trader. Can't craft the drat emp bombs. The Segarian plot shows you the way to one at least if you start as a Terran Cadet.
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Mar 23, 2021 21:25
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ughhhh posted:Is there some requirement I'm missing in order to find a black market? I've been scanning a boatload of stations but haven't found a single mission that offers opening up a blackmarket trader. Can't craft the drat emp bombs. Do any of the EMP bomb components require the black market? IIRC, you can get everything from asteroids, lockboxes and Xenon or Kha'ak ships. Haven't actually tried to make any yet this run, but am about to need them.
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Mar 23, 2021 21:29
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you can also straight up buy emp bombs from traders on pirate stations and free ports.
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Mar 23, 2021 21:31
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OwlFancier posted:The xenon seem quite meh over the southern portions of the universe while the north is getting riddled with xenon stations. It's weird. That would be awesome and terrifying. They are stupid powerful if they decide to be. Teladi may be holding strong in yours, but in mine, they have taken, Company Regard and all of Hewa's Twin, and are trying to push into Trinity Sanctum. A fleet of 1 I and 3 Ks from somewhere managed to wander into Profit Center Alpha and wipe out the equipment dock and both ship production stations also, so they're now also starting to lose ground up north in Ianamus. I was about to do a new run and make some different story decisions, but now I'm going to just let things run overnight and see how bad it gets
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Mar 23, 2021 21:39
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Is there a way to tell if a station is in range of one of my sattelites other than going away and seeing if it changes to "Time until information expires"?
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Mar 23, 2021 21:40
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if you select the satellite it has a little range ring.
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Mar 23, 2021 21:43
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chglcu posted:Do any of the EMP bomb components require the black market? IIRC, you can get everything from asteroids, lockboxes and Xenon or Kha'ak ships. Haven't actually tried to make any yet this run, but am about to need them. I think lodestones only drop from asteroids, but regular traders sometimes carry them. The remote detonators & secure containers are both in lockboxes and from pirate drops. I'm not sure they drop from xenon/kha'ak though, I think they only have SETA and mod components.
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Mar 23, 2021 21:44
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Oh, google found me a better way of getting out of stuck things: select a station far away and choose External View and suddenly collision stops being checked for your ship. Which is good because I was REALLY stuck in that station. Also do satellites have vertical range because sometimes it looks like a station is in range but it isn't.
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Mar 23, 2021 22:09
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Zereth posted:Oh, google found me a better way of getting out of stuck things: select a station far away and choose External View and suddenly collision stops being checked for your ship. yeah, kinda funnily the high attention zone is around the camera, not around the player, so
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Mar 23, 2021 22:10
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Zereth posted:Also do satellites have vertical range because sometimes it looks like a station is in range but it isn't. Sats have a circle. Sometimes stations are above or below the ecliptic. If you order a ship to drop a sat and tilt the camera a bit, you can move the drop marker by click-draging it while holding alt.
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Mar 23, 2021 22:48
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It's finally time to switch to a Rattlesnake. So thinking about the optimal loadout as player ship, maybe something like: Engine: SPL Travel Shields: All TER MK3, they look to be plain better in every way that I can see 4x PAR L Plasma Turrets (front mount) - Set to attack current target 2x ARG L Beam or pulse (back mount) - Set to attack fighters. Or just more plasmas set to attack capital. M turrets all ARG Flak? Biggest question mark is the engine, SPL have the highest cruising speed but with that insane TER shield capacity I might just be boosting all over the place and it could be worth it to get more travel speed. Do TER have plasma turrets? I don't see them at the Segaris shipyard at least.
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L turrets can't track, just put even more Plasma in there. Beams are only worth it if you have enough to fry a fighter before it can evade. Once you reach a critical mass of beams they become more effective than anything else at frying fighters, but in small numbers they are ineffective. M turrets all flak, indeed.
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sloppy portmanteau posted:It's finally time to switch to a Rattlesnake. So thinking about the optimal loadout as player ship, maybe something like: Engine: GOOD GOD DO NOT USE SPLIT ENGINES! They take 25% longer to get up to speed than anything else. Use Terran, they are twice as powerful, and you probably will want All-Around over Travel, for both the sub warp speed boost, and that it gets into warp faster than a travel drive Shields: Yeah, TER have a higher mk level for shields of M and above and are best to use. S shields, TEL are better Turrets: The PAR and TEL weapons always feel like they have too much difficulty in tracking, ARG have double their tracking and minimal DPS and range falloff in comparison. SPL give about as good tracking and more DPS potential, so either of those are good choices for race choice. Don't use beam turrets of any size, they're just absolutely terrible and do no damage in addition to having worse tracking than Pulse or Bolts. Bolts are pretty decent at multirole, Pulse are better for scout size or missiles. Flak is is life for M
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Mar 23, 2021 23:05
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Split engines generally seem to have higher cruise speed which can be desirable for capitals, because it allows you to waive off if you overcommit.
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Mar 23, 2021 23:08
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Any way to tell miners attached to a station to mine only specific ores? All my dudes have a hardon for ice.
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Zereth posted:Oh, google found me a better way of getting out of stuck things: select a station far away and choose External View and suddenly collision stops being checked for your ship. In the past I've used the method of 'back up to edge of asteroid, hit travel drive, then alt-tab out. When it's alt-tabbed it drops a lot of frames and the collision detection tied to those frames.
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