And - NO - I can't just play on a different game start. I need to play in the hardest, most unforgiving universe possible. I can't help it even if it makes me cry sometimes... :cry: You should try Khaak Start by Snowslip, lowest rep with everyone except pirates and other khaak of course. What I'd l...

Or just dump them vertically at 1.5 - 2.0K separation. Drop station, num 5 to snap into position, separate vertically, connect, repeat .... the tubes drop neatly down with small complex footprint.

Also, race patrols have more or less wiped out every single pirate base and ship out of existence. The pirate bases re-spawn in random sectors and get killed off again if near any passing patrols so eventually most will end up by default in relatively safe sectors on the edge of the map, like the u...

If we get nothing more than an updated clone of TC ( Yes, spot on. Just add 4-core support so we can have loads of enemies in sector again like in TC V1.21 (I’m still playing V1.21 with cheat script to correct the bugs!!), some new story lines, and bring back the Khaak!!! (or at least some other ne...

EDIT: PS, I do so enjoy playing outlaw games from time to time, with very strict restrictions, such as not buying *anything* from sovereign races, only from pirates, which means I have to "procure" every jumpdrive, and many other equipment items, as well as weapons (never a problem) and shields. Us...

Depends on what sort of game you’re playing. If the station under attack is a long way from a gate and under attack from M7s and bigger then its bye bye station. I’m playing a pirate in current game, protecting pirate assets in Hatikvah’s (Anarchy port), Loomanck’s (Anarchy port + 3 stations) and Du...

2) What would be the ideal set of ships for OOS defense, mostly in terms of minimizing losses. Is it best to combine 2 classes to give them more flexibility in dealing with targets? 3) I assume a M6 or M7 would be preferable for the role with a compliment of fighters: what would be the best M6/M7 a...

In the early days I’d just build a closed loop complex supplying energy, fuel, ore.. just big enough to satisfy the 2 forges. Expensive to start but then free for ever. Now I invest purely in marines. One capture recently had 32 IBLs onboard, not unusual, would have taken ages to produce on the forg...

Just shows you how wrong you can go in this game!! I’ve been buying PBGs (and protecting the pirate fabs) for 10 game days thinking they’re the most powerful weapon I can use which is true IS but not true OOS!!!

Just sold 150+ PBGs and bought HEPTs.

I have 16 falcons protecting my Raptor on sector patrol. The most powerful weapon to equip the falcons with is the PBG but is this true OOS? In sector the PBG is deadly because it hits the target multiple times even though the damage specs for the PBG appear very low. So how does the PBG rate OOS, w...

I find this one of the most annoying features of the game and should have been fixed in an update long ago, tiny amount of stray fire and the station goes hostile (or hit a gate and the pirate station goes hostile, or minor docking scrape same thing). Just last night saved the Duke’s home sector fro...

I only lost 5 marines at PTNI, 18 made it to 3* training (before the attack on the pirate station) and are now on active duty, so not the disaster it could have been. Yes, there’s a pirate base in Freedoms Reach, no training though. I guess part of the problem is getting the military to attack one o...

Jf the Split had had any assets (traders, other civilian or recce ships say) attacked by the station fixed defences Now that’s a very interesting theory, that the pirate stations mostly get attacked because they’re laser towers have attacked a race ship. That would make a lot of sense. I wonder if ...

Well I thought the unknown sector next to PTNI would be a safe haven for training my marines, 3 pirate stations there, well off the beaten track, far away from the gate, Teladi space all around. To my great surprise 4 game days in, a Split Tiger and large fighter support entered the sector and made ...

I’ve just been reading Nuklear Slug's story on Zen and the Art, and he says he always burnt off the guns with ION-D before sending in the marines, so I assumed my marines would get zapped if I tried it against an armed enemy. How odd it doesn’t matter. Maybe TMs are unusual in the way they’re set up...

So if it's just the contents of the ship you’re after then it sounds like you can skip training the marines too hard in engineering. As for the random nature of what’s left in the hold my experience has been that the good stuff like shields and jumpdrive usually disappear so I’m not entirely sure it...

Which game and is it vanilla? This should help for both TC or AP though. This too. Some contradictory remarks in these threads…. although Cycrow says its purely random what’s left onboard after a successful boarding. That’s what I was hoping as I’m more interested in the ordnance as I’m playing a p...

With boarding the engineering skill decides how much damage is done to the hull of the ship being boarded right.... but does it make any difference to the amount of ordnance left onboard the ship when you've finally taken control? In other words if the hull is badly damaged by your marines you'll fi...

X3TC for me, the early versions too before the devs spoilt the fun fixing everything.

X3AP just annoyed the hell out of me, stupid Terran war, no Khaak, silly sectors tagged on, other sectors disconnected... tinker, tinker, bust.

X3TC +1
X3AP -1

i consider my self a veteran of the series i been playing since the very first game in the series and I'm still learning years on which just goes to show how complicated these game can get The complexity is why we all keep coming back!! Latest game I’m playing is Khaak start (by Snowslip) on X3TC, ...