Thanks mate

Hi, I played X2 a very long time ago and installed it again last night. I think jump drive is sold at the goner temple but can't remember for sure. Can anyone tell me where docking computer and jump drive are sold? I forgot... :oops: Also, what sector is a good place to start capturing pirate fighte...

It depends... If you use IonD's you will damage their equipment. So if they don't bail immediately (at 80% hull), then the equipment gets 'eaten'. Story-time: When I restarted, with my Disco I managed to get a Bayamon :) . With the Bayamon I captured an Orinoco :P . The Orinoco had: A DOCKING COMPU...

What affects the chances of ship upgrades surviving capture? I captured the same ship more then 10 times (reloaded after capture) without Ion-Disruptors. Most of the time, all weapons and shields survive till the "yield announcement" but when the pilot bails out the upgrades just disappear. I know t...

I restarted yesterday on Xtreme and found a silkworm missile (5000cr) in a hidden container.
I will try to capture a ship (probably Bayamon) with A-IREs and no shields installed!

What ship is best for capturing Xenon k`s?

Paranid Perseus with PSGs or Argon Nova with Ion Disruptors?

what graph card would you guys recommend? (not 2 expensive). As others said, the slowdown problem in heavily populated sector is CPU dependant. My advice is to buy a 2.8 GHz CPU with 800 MHz bus and at least 512MB DDR400 (make it two identical sticks). As for graphics card, I recommend Radeon 9800 ...

How about registering your game?!

If you want to build factories anywhere in the X-universe, then buy a TL.
It’s very convenient if you like to capture ships (just tell them to land at your TL), the split elephant has the biggest hangar (30 ships) but the smallest cargo-bay: 11000 or so.

*Edit* it's also the fastest TL: 303.

You can’t capture M6 or bigger ships, and it’s impossible to capture Khaak ships.
You can capture TS, TP, M5, M4 and M3 ships of all the races but the Khaak.

Not seen that for sectors that you have visited before... but I did see one of my traders go through "Unexplored Space" which uncovers the names of the sectors but does not find the stations so they appeared blank until I went through them !! That happened to me too, funny thing is the ships only d...

In v1.2 I could jump to kahaak sectors and kill anything I wanted with a maxed Nemesis. I didn't try to do this after installing v1.3 until today and I have found out that it's not that easy any more. The nerfing of both PSGs and Strafe-Drive makes it very hard to kill kahaak capital ships with a Ne...

I actually find this convenient. If you fly a fast TL and switch to a slower ship without slowing down, the TL will fly forever in a strait line and you will never be able to retrieve it once it leaves your radar range. From a practical point of view if you leave a ship you can dock with, you will p...

This can happen with ships with upgraded tunings. That sounds right, both ships that the AI crashed into stations had maxed Engine-Tuning. Does this mean it's a known issue and a solution is on the way? If the source of the problem is known, fixing it should not be too difficult (making the AI trea...

Is stupid AI a known issue?
Seriously, the AI doesn't use the collusion detection correctly when docking at stations.
Ordering ships to dock at a station may case the AI to crash the ship on its docking target.

It only happened to me twice but I remember others complaining about this a long time ago.

When I use the Strafe-Drive and dock on my TL with the Docking Computer, the sideway movement of the docked vessel is remembered by the game so when I leave the TL with the same ship it moves sideways, hit the TL and explodes. The simple walk-around is not to use the Strafe-Drive before docking with...

Great guide Al, I have one question though:
Some people say it's best to let the shields of your target fully recharge before blasting with Ion-Disruptors again, is this true?

Can you take the transport mission more then once? My combat rank in not high enough (to get the Xenon K), but I did a mission where you need to transport someone who is chased by Xenon and when you drop him off he says something like "remember we never met". I took this mission several times so may...

Best tactic for capturing ships: Hit your prey with 2 Ion Disruptors till its shields drop to 0%, switch to one Ion Disruptor and one BPAC and fire till the hull drops to 87%. Fly away (use SETA) letting the target's shields fully recharge and attack with 2 Ion Disruptors, repeat till the pilot bail...

It is impossible to capture capital ships, Corvettes, TLs, and Khaak ships.
All other ships can be captured, Xenon ships included, I’m no sure about the UFO.

EDIT: I have captured Xenon N, Xenon M and Xenon L ships and I don’t use any scripts (except the MK-3 official script).