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So how's the Erlking? Does it work out to be stronger than an Asgard (for whatever reason you'd need that lol)?
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  That's in Hatikvah's Choice I A good chunk of the ARG economy ground to a halt. This is why. I'm desperately trying scramble some kind of fleet to take them on, but this game is a day old and I don't have much…
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Mar 18, 2022 09:50
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Antigravitas posted:
I have Xenon piling through both HAT gates and Argon Prime is going to be hosed soon. Though this is mostly because TER and TRI messed up ARG in the first few hours of my custom game.
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Mar 18, 2022 11:29
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I had a Xenon I come through Second Contact II Flashpoint and go up into Argon Prime where it destroyed the Wharf and most of the Stations. Gametime was one day at this point so no chance to stop this by myself. The I then died like most Xenon in Hatikvah's Choice in front of a tiny Spacefuel factory. 60 Large plasma turrets solve a lot of problems I guess.
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Mar 18, 2022 11:37
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lagidnam posted:60 Large plasma turrets solve a lot of problems I guess. I've seen that a couple times in Hat Choice 1, yeah who would win, a xenon war fleet or one (1) libertarian gas station
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Mar 18, 2022 12:38
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Have they improved the pilot experience situation or do I still need a mod to deal with that?
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Mar 18, 2022 12:45
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Womyn Capote posted:Have they improved the pilot experience situation or do I still need a mod to deal with that? Still sucks OP.
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Mar 18, 2022 13:09
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:I've seen that a couple times in Hat Choice 1, yeah I'm trying to get a scrapping station up at the Xenon gate, my "welcome mat of death" has been very effective. Once I scrape together some more credits I'll make it a proper cage. Only problem is when I teleport in sector to Hoover up ~100 drops and A) fill my notification queue for ~10 minutes and B) the station accidentally clips one of the Argon defense fleets and have to take a 2-3 point rep hit when the station deletes them for going aggro
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Mar 18, 2022 14:58
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Yeah welcome mats are effective but strictly OOS, they get nervous when you're nearby and their aim goes to poo poo apparently
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Mar 18, 2022 17:38
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So any ToA trip reports? I'm gonna spend a lot of time with it after Elden Ring (so in anything from 1-50 weeks or so)
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Mar 18, 2022 19:11
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I'm still distracted by roving bands of Xenon and couldn't jump into the expansion sectors yet
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Mar 18, 2022 19:23
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Less Fat Luke posted:So any ToA trip reports? I'm gonna spend a lot of time with it after Elden Ring (so in anything from 1-50 weeks or so) The new starts are really fun! The new ships look great. I haven't seen much of the other content yet.
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Mar 18, 2022 19:52
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:I've seen that a couple times in Hat Choice 1, yeah one (1) moonshine still
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Mar 19, 2022 02:28
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I don't know what I like better, the mental image of "overworked underpaid argon gas station attendent who is Fed Up With This poo poo flipping the turrets on again", or a redneck boron in overalls with a shotgun taking potshots at xenon off the porch
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Mar 19, 2022 02:48
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I will never forget that "space fuel" is whiskey. I will be on my deathbed and remember it. One of the ways I tried to desperately scrape up cash in X3 was camping a Space Fuel distillery in a system where it was illegal and I had a police license and hassling anybody who undocked after picking up some THIS FACILITY IS A FACILITY THAT PRODUCES *pause* ARGON WHISKEY, BETTER KNOWN TO ALL PILOTS AS: *pause* SPACE FUEL and then picking it up myself with a freighter and sending it off somewhere to sell it when I had enough. (I was hoping people would bail out of their ships but that never really worked)
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Mar 19, 2022 03:00
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so I got to the point of "seeing the Erlking" and lol The first thing I did when I dropped into the system was start running couriers for fast trade rep so I was at VIG +0 when they warned me off and then aggroed...with -19, which put them at "unfriendly but not hostile", and then boarding the ship didn't aggro the station or the ship itself so that was just...that.
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Mar 19, 2022 04:43
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It took me a depressingly long time to realise that space fuel was, in fact, booze, and I spent some time in X3 wondering why the gently caress the cops hated my petrol station.
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Mar 19, 2022 05:14
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OwlFancier posted:It took me a depressingly long time to realise that space fuel was, in fact, booze, and I spent some time in X3 wondering why the gently caress the cops hated my petrol station. lol
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Mar 19, 2022 08:01
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Did Xenon ships get buffed or something? I looked away from a 3v1 Asgard vs a Xenon I and when I looked back the Asgards were dead and the I had taken 0 hull damage...
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Mar 19, 2022 08:40
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Is specifically are incredibly murderous through sheer weapon output. You need to screen an attack with fighters to draw fire away.
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Mar 19, 2022 09:24
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you could have the Xenon are boardable mod, on the other hand. Yeh, i dropped more cash on egosoft, I think they deserve it for just doing they thang, as opposed to the shitshower that is storecitizen. staberind fucked around with this message at 09:30 on Mar 19, 2022 |
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Mar 19, 2022 09:28
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Gonna be hard to go back to playing without VRO, poor fella.
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Mar 19, 2022 10:41
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I’ve just started a new playthrough as Young Gun, got a couple mill through crystal mining and used it to buy a M ore miner that’s puttering around grand exchange mining silicon. Is there any nvidium around there? I didn’t see any. What’s the best thing to do with the next few hours of gameplay? I’m dabbling with the player HQ and Hatikvah missions, anything else?
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Mar 19, 2022 12:39
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I think there is nividium somewhere in the northern grand exchange sector? It should tell you on the map hex whether or not the sector contains a resource. Generally to start out I just buy some miners and tell them to automine, a nividium miner is a good start because while it will cap out quite quickly, it fetches a lot of money per-miner up until that point. Turning the HQ into a factory is also a good bet.
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Mar 19, 2022 12:57
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There’s a fun bug where your salvaging ships will struggle to drop off wrecks if you ARENT in system. Usually it’s the other way around. It doesn’t help that they are painfully slow. The New ships are neat looking.
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Mar 19, 2022 15:09
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Assisitant! I regret to inform you, but the terms of this race require the use of a medium ship! Assisitant! I regret to inform you, but the terms of this race require the use of a medium ship! Assisitant! I regret to inform you, but the terms of this race require the use of a medium ship! Assisitant! I regret to inform you, but the terms of this race require the use of a medium ship! Assisitant! I regret to inform you, but the terms of this race require the use of a medium ship! Assisitant! I regret to inform you, but the terms of this race require the use of a medium ship! Assisitant! I regret to inform you, but the terms of this race require the use of a medium ship! Assisitant! I regret to inform you, but the terms of this race require the use of a medium ship! Assisitant! I regret to inform you, but the terms of this race require the use of a medium ship! Assisitant! I regret to inform you, but the terms of this race require the use of a medium ship! boso ta shut the gently caress up challenge do yourself a favor and when the race thing comes up, do it all the way through to at least the step after the race because for that period of time the game seems to assume everything you're doing is related to the race and can apparently get stuck in a loop of having boso ta call you repeatedly and infinitely to inform you that whatever it was you did isn't required or appropriate for the race
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Mar 20, 2022 02:27
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So, I'm just going through the Terran plots - is there a recommended order? On the Yaki one, I'm up to choosing where I take a Yaki fighter, out of TER and "my employer" Boso Ta. (He should really stop referring to himself as such, IMO. I own the station he's on, plus some others, while all he owns is a fish tank) Not sure which to give it to - Boso seems to let me keep it, while I assume TER will give me something roughly equivalent. As for the "covert mission" one, I've gotta get an EMP bomb and an SDS (or whatever it is). Should I finish this one before progressing down the Yaki quest? Since that seems like the main mission. Could be mistaken though
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Mar 20, 2022 13:27
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Give it to TER.
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Mar 20, 2022 13:32
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Id say keep it, i prefer having early access to Moreya to a Katana you can easily buy. Edit: You can also keep the Moreya to safely explore all Xenon sectors, im pretty sure it doesnt work with the Katana you get.
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Mar 20, 2022 13:34
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Agreed on keeping the Moreya being preferable, it stays useful as a fighter and the Katana is basically immediately outclassed by the Kuraokami anyways e: ToA quest spoilers, the temptation to drop the PHQ into Leap of Faith as a way of bootstrapping station creation is not-insignificant, it's a shame that the usage of protectyon is literally "one ton, per station, per ??? period of time" that makes it almost useless to actually haul out of the sector en masse Ursine Catastrophe fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Mar 20, 2022 |
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Mar 20, 2022 15:00
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I'm of the opinion a free Katana is more useful to me over an S class fighter, I mean I'll eventually trade up to a Dragon or Nemesis because I think they look even sweeter ( and more fun to fly ), but a Katana is a brokenly good Corvette ( especially after you invest in a few mods ), and by the time the Katana comes up I'm looking to upgrade from my starter Kukri and I don't like the aesthetics of the Moreya. Also, when I drop the Katana as my personal battlewagon I'll still have a use for it intercepting Khaak in asteroid belts until I've upgraded to L miners.
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Mar 21, 2022 05:49
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Hmm, OK then. So I guess really, the main benefit of giving the fighter to TER is I get some extra cash, in the form of a Katana. I mean hell, does it at least have a cool paint job?  I think I'll I'll probably hang onto the fighter, even if it's kinda weird looking. Since I already have a (not quite as good) Katana and money's easy enough to come by, compared to exotic ships. Are any of the other Yaki M ships good as a personal ship? If not, I'm considering just getting a split Dragon, or whatever it's called. In my original X4 save, I found that that thing armed with two split space shotguns is fantastic! EDIT: Actually, speaking of L miners, how good are they compared to Ms? In my original game I never bothered going to L class miners, although it possibly would've been better to. Do they need a bunch of escorts and a bucket of drones to be effective, or are they pretty good on their own? (Also, what are the best sectors to send them to? Since it seems like mining has been re-jigged since I last played, so Argon Prime isn't very good anymore) Major Isoor fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Mar 21, 2022 |
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Mar 21, 2022 07:04
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L miners are, I think, better if they are travelling long distances off the highway. Also they have the advantage of being generally capable of fighting off khaak attacks with their defence turrets. They have the same issues as all L ships, sluggish to respond, but if you just need them to fly a long way in a mostly straight line they're OK.
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Obligatory Video post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz-cmZWjiVo M are the most efficient overall while L has the benefit of defense. L miners can actually be very, very efficient if you give them high rank captains. Otherwise they will never outperform Ms but they are so much more durable that you eventually will start only using Ls.
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Quick heads up about the ToA missions. Finish the questline in Avarice last. You're supposed to make a decision and depending on what you choose, one of the factions will drop to -25. There are 2 missions to help with that but none of them get you back to -9 or higher. The problem is that the ToA factions don't have criminal traffic to raise your standing, don't award the right kind of missions or give rep when you kill a Xenon next to a station. The only way to raise your standing is trading and that requires at least -9.
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Mar 21, 2022 09:11
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It will drop to -25 no matter what? So if I get it up to 100, it'll still drop to -25?
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Mar 21, 2022 09:19
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a7m2 posted:It will drop to -25 no matter what? So if I get it up to 100, it'll still drop to -25? 30 is max you can get. in a recent start i accepted an 11 million payout mission,( to board some ship) which bumped me to over 10 standings with hatikva from 0. and yeah, someone said before about the best time to play x4 being just before an update, originally i thought "? huh?" but now i am looking for updated api's so i can keep mods working in 5. ugh.
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Mar 21, 2022 10:27
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Major Isoor posted:Hmm, OK then. So I guess really, the main benefit of giving the fighter to TER is I get some extra cash, in the form of a Katana. I mean hell, does it at least have a cool paint job? staberind posted:30 is max you can get. ZombyDog fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Mar 21, 2022 |
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Mar 21, 2022 12:59
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Been playing for a week or so, this game rules. Space Mount and Blade is exactly what I was looking for.
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a7m2 posted:It will drop to -25 no matter what? So if I get it up to 100, it'll still drop to -25? sort of I was at +17 before the drop, and it kicked me up to +17 again after I blew up a casino and paid off 15mil. The latter was where all was "forgiven" and I got the old rep back, but a bunch of fighters were still leftover aggroed so arguably it might have been better to kill all of them then do the second part, since obviously with that many still-hostile things "just shut down all turrets and ignore them" was....iffy
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