thanks for the replies ppl, i will restart and do the plot, it is nice to know I can do the plot without having to build up lots of credit, ships and fabs again. One question though, i seem to remember that there is an update/service patch that is needed before i can play the game or will it play st...

Hi, I have just returned to X3 after a 2 year absence, I restarted an old game save and quickley realised why I stopped playing, in my current vanilla game I have 5 complexes a mamba raider, an elephant and 15 UT,s so the game for me had reached an end. So I want to restart and play the plot, the on...

Borrowed it off a freind while he was on holiday, I had my own copy by the the time he returned. All I need now is a decent system to play it on

I have started to build the first stage of my Empire in KE and the 2 sectors directly joinig. Do I need to spend hard earned cash on OOS defence when I would rather use the money to set up another set of fabs in Teladi space ( I want to build large sets of fabs in each of the races space). I have a ...

Cheers, last time round i set up my stock mine in CBSW and that worked quite well, I was thinking of trying Ronkars clouds as well. Has any one had much luck there?

Where is the best location for setting up a silicon stock mine? It needs to be relativaly safe as I have no sector defence and 5 fabs in and aroud KE Also how can you make your mining fleet (1 vulture and 3 dolphins) to all jump out of sector together so i can mine all over the universe and then ret...

If you buy mines you would have to scan them first, dont buy mines in the beginning as the return is quite slow. i would do the first two missions and get tne Mercury and trade silicon, you wiil have enough to buy facs in no time

i use Baymons for my spp, they are fast and cheap

I have not tried the Perseus yet, looks like I will have to dust off the old Bayamon and go make friends with the Paranid.

Mr pjknibbs

Do you ever sleep? You seem to be on here 24/7

I have used the Nova in my previous game(pre hard drive crash :evil: ). can anybody recommend an alternative M3 for my restarted game. i have 5 facs up and running and about 4 million in the bank so cash is not a problem. It needs to be a good cap ship with enough room for e-cells for the jump drive...

The same thing happened to me a few months ago, my hard drive crashed and I lost everything. I spent quite a while considering whether to start from scatch or scipt the game back to the position i was in when before my machine went tits up. In the end I resarted and enjoyed nearly every hour of rebu...

which station is an sd

This a question I was about to post myself. I know you need to stay freindly with the Split, because they are the only race that sells 25w sheilds and the Taladi sell the best sell/buy software that you need to trade remotely. I cannot upset the Boron because my Mini Empire (2SPP's,2 Silicon mines a...

Do I understand this correctly, a Mk3 trader will let a ship of your chosing trade automaticaly in every possible wares in 1 sector until it reaches lv8 and becomes a uni trader? Does it then trade all over the universe? If this is correct what ship is the best at this job ( I was thinking its betwe...

Was the merc you recieved after the 2nd mission in better condition than 5% hull? I have heard this is the case if you do not sell the equipment off the express.

Thanks, I now have a bayamon and 400k. My merc is plodding around selling silicon, it is still going to take ages to get my M3. Still resisting the urge to use a scipt, but its getting harder. I still need 1.5m :evil: should I buy a SSP in KE and leave it running over night, help me , resistence to ...

I have just lost 12 hrs og game play thanks to a corrupt game save. this is not the first time this has happened. Last month my hard drive crashed and I lost all my game saves. I have never got to the position of owning a major empire and about 5 factorys is all I have ever managed to aquire before ...

Cheers, that hopefully clears most things up. As for Ban Danner he has been seen at numerous Boron rubber fetish parties dressed as Michael Jackson dangling small Boron children out of 5th floor windows. The Argon goverment has sinse revoked his licence to run the Iddy Biddy Kiddie Day care nursery ...