Having just spent a bit of time searching with Google, I've found that in military terms, the abbreviation 'M' stands not for military as you would possibly expect but for 'machine(ry)' Of course whether that's what the creators intended it to stand for or not we may never know.

Trying to take down a Xenon M2 with my Nova whittling down it's shields with my dual Ion-D's, trying to switch to a B-HEPT but having to dodge the shots again and also having problems keeping the shields down it was taking quite some time to destroy. Then another M2 came up behind me, and I was taki...

I didn't think to sell the things as it was out of character for me to do it, although I did do it later when I met up with Mi Ton again, although to be honest the income gained is easily spent again on SPP's and stuff. For the early starter I just traded in whatever seemed profitable in my sector a...

What a cunning plan. It's in my favourites waiting to be used... I just need enough cash

Care and Feeding of M6's thread:

http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtopic.php?t=48085

.. beaten to it. G is indeed the key. And I use it for orientation and finding out where the hidden gates are likely to be. If you read the description of a system and it says that there's rumours of a gate in it, just look at your grid and pick a direction that hasn't already got a gate on it, and ...

If you don't like dodging bullets with the strafe drive because you think it's unfair or you simply don't have one, there is an alternate way of attacking craft that allows you to dodge bullets, but in a more 'skillful' way. If you roll your ship whilst approaching the enemy and then turn your ship ...

S: Here's a 1 MW shield and you're lucky if you get any weapons

M: Here's a few slightly nicer shields and an arrangement of low grade weapons.

L: One Death Dealer racked up and ready to go. Generally has max shields/weapons.

I can just see the article on the BBC website now about how this mysterious alien race called 'The Teladi' had started an Earth-wide spamming campaign..... better not give it smtp support or they'll be off :lol: I think the Teladi would know better than that considering their failed attempts at usi...

...power consumption. I'm inclined to believe that the rather high power consumption of a A-IRE compared to a B-HEPT on my Nova (and presumably any other craft) is a bug. I say this based not on my assumptions of how much power I believe an A-IRE should consume, but based on the energy display when ...

Okay, so I lied... http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0022-3727/36/18/L03/ The PDF contains more sciency stuff for you to interpret how you wish, but that's a possibly technobabble explanation for the PSG. It would actually give proper meaning to the term 'phased' rather than it just sounding cool when ...

X: We are the Xenon. You will be terraformed. Resistance is futile. K: We are the Khaak. X: And? K: Erm well nothing really. We blow things up for no good reason. X: Well that's a bit pathetic. Where's the motivation? The sinisterness? K: This coming from a race of robots who are short of a service...

His arguments about whether it should be black or shiny were fine, but the main point is surface area. He was right about maximising the surface area, but rather than have one big flat sheet of black metal it would be better to have lots of thin flat sheets stacked together as you might have seen i...

You'll learn, eventually, of the three 'hot-points' that will set off a nerdy and nigh-on unstoppable debate on their respectivce subject. To aid the learning process these are: IIIIIIIIIN ONE: Physics of any kind. Particle, Newtonian, Quantum... Any kind. You are entirely right on that point. 'Did...

You're right, I was wrong on the part of space reaching the same temperature as the radiating body. Well, kind of. If you had a blackbody with a cavity in the middle, then the cavity would have the same temperature as the radiating body. If the laser was situated so that it was completely in space, ...

Because of this, once the temperatures approach each other the space in the localised region of the laser itself would not be such a good heat sink at all, so the best solution would be finding a method that took as much heat away from the laser area as possible and let it radiate away somewhere el...

Here's my Physics based reply. To assume that space is cold because it is a vacuum is wrong. It's quite possible to have a vacuum to have any temperature. It is mainly dependant on the radiation passing through it at the time. For example a vacuum created in a lab at room temperature will itself be ...

Who would you put your bets on? Personally I would have put it on the Pegasus. It might never be able to scratch The Universe, but equally The Universe surely wouldn't be able to hit the Peggy. I mean, look at it go! 1.009km/s with engine tunings. Surely no projectile in the known universe could hit...

Just thought I'd share with you my first experience of a particular mission. Not really asking for help, just venting a little frustration :) So yeah, flying along in my Nova and found out that Big Daddy has been kidnapped by the Khaak. Mightily annoyed. I offer to go help the guy in Ore Belt as it ...

I actually managed to understand that. I'm looking forward to reading anything else you write as it's written in a really user friendly manner. I generally look at coding related stuff, see it in it's entirity and just get immensely confused. That managed to break it down into nice bitesized chunks ...

Decided to make a thread regarding stories of special moments in the game that you really enjoyed. Here's my (first) contribution. ---Xenon's and Doughnuts--- I was doing a 'Help me run away from the Xenon' missiong when I decided that the best way of getting him away from the threat was by killing ...