Congratulations to the fourth winner.

Sadly, with the end of the forum quest comes the end of my involvement with the X Universe community for the next few years. For those who don't mind steam, Enjoy Rebirth!

Why? Because it was obviously not part of the capture from the game (because it doesn't change on sector switch) and was added in the editing process. So if you're going to apply that logic then all the video transitions and the final screen should be counted as well, they're in the video yet are n...

It is possible to pass on some sectors in question 1 or will missing answers count as wrong?

Triaxx2 wrote:I'd rather see them on Gamers Gate. It's more likely to have them since they're newer games, and the rewards for buying are better.

They're already on there, in just about every combination you can imagine (superbox, X3 gold, terran war package, individual games etc.).

X3 Reunion continues many of the themes of X2, the same story and style of story missions and the same balancing. X3 Terran Conflict radically reworked the balancing and added quite a few more systems. This is sort of X3 proper. AP is an alternative mix of TC. Lower budget, but more recently release...

1. Avoid weapons and shields but apart from that you'll generally have no problem selling anything from your first dozen factories. The biggest markets seem to be those things that appear at trading stations and pirate bases - microchips, quantum tubes, spaceweeds etc. but things like food and secon...

It's Steam only. I thought the several hundred pages of discussion had made that clear... I haven't been reading discussion for the reason given above. I'd rather not know anything about the game until I know it's not using steam. I couldn't see anything in this news announcement or on the info pag...

Can we have an announcement on DRM? I got burned with the unfortunately ambiguous announcement for AP and I'm not even going to look at the rebirth video until I know that it will be available with something that confines itself to the game and doesn't try to show adverts, install rival storefronts ...

@ Neversnake: You had this same argument with the team over XUFQ Round 15 in April 2012 and you unfortunately missed out on points maybe then and maybe now. So you did know the situation and nothing has changed in our stance over this issue since. Ah but Watson, surely you have missed the clue wher...

Ketraar wrote:Again we made it explicit.

If you had, you would have got answers that were all guessing a specific station with nobody querying whether mass driver forge was acceptable after you'd announced that wasn't it.

This was noted at the very start of the Quest. Also given the sandbox nature of X its the only common state and thus should be rather obvious, given you too can remove stations from the universe. Hence why it makes far more sense to use the other perfectly reasonable interpretation of the question ...

Earth ultimatum IV. wrote:Really? OMG

Although it's better to send in a wrong answer for a question that's too tedious - you don't lose any points and there's a chance it'll be right.

That's wrong and you know it. Yes, Yaki are pirates but ALL their sectors and stations are in Commonwealth space... Yaki sectors are labelled as yaki-owned. That's irrelevant though, the question is about races. You can either take that as governments in which case 32 is correct or species in which...

Lwerewolf wrote:Mistook the 4th ship for an LX... @€&*#%£ :/

Yeah, I got a Valkyrie instead of a Thor. As they're not all at a fixed angle it was next to impossible to tell sometimes if a feature was missing or just rotated out of sight. It's remarkable I didn't make any other mistakes.

I suspect this is not one you want to miss the submission date on after you've worked it out, so here's a reminder.

This suggestion may not be a bit late, but why don't you make the picture a password to a password protected website with the high res image?

Answer 1 could be found from the contents of the sector alone: the two Solar Power Plant Ls shown are very rare and narrowed that down to two possibilities, one of which only had one asteroid. Answer 2 I didn't get, I thought we'd had the hyperion already? Answer 3 could be narrowed down from the nu...

Oooh #3 looks interesting... http://s017.radikal.ru/i410/1211/4d/7ecde8db5f84.gif Piece of cake... All three questions... I don't usually bother with the sectors and merely pick the first one of the right colour but with that screenshot I nailed it in 30 seconds. Number 3 I also got quickly and eve...

Doesn't the Aran have 31 docking slots? 30 internal hangers and the big external M1/M2 capable one?

The texture was clearly from an X2 object because the X3 metal textures are completely different and it was apparently something big because things like the fighter drone were much lower detail. I did check a khaak clusters but I hadn't realised how much the texture on the capitals differed. The Fal...