I'm confused, whats the issue here? My retail bought copy installed Tages as well...

It figures, I finally get around to buying X3:TC and a week later Steam puts it on sale for half the price.

If you want to kill pirates but still want to dock at their bases just check the ships homebase before you attack. If its homebase is set to a base in that sector don't attack. Otherwise go all out. From what i've seen they only go red if you attack ships belonging to that sectors base in-sector. Th...

Its obvious that you're searching in the wrong area. The Argon One must have gone to Earth, so find Earth and you'll find it.

I give all my ships and stations unique names, doesn't feel right otherwise. I have several _ of Chaos ships, like Lord, Knight, Hand, and so on for my personal combat ships. My personal trading vessel is called the Chaos Leviathan. For my UTs and supply ships I name them like normal ships would be ...

Find a pirate base and upgrade your ship with the Fusion Engine Tuning(not exact name). It'll bump the Barracuda up to 404 speed when activated, only lasts 80 seconds though. You might be able to strip the ships shields with ions and then bombard it with hornets in that time. Won't help your current...

This would be great to have, i've wanted a place to store satellites and so forth till I expand. Or if I find something at a cheap price. Plus, it'd be nice to be able to dock the larger ships at a station of your own for a change. Maybe they could make it just an HQ Station, add features to more ea...

Don't stop playing, they need more beta testers to fix the game before the EU version. But seriously, i've mostly stopped as well. Its fun, but the bugs just start to bother me too much. That, and since a major part of the game is still hidden has made me stop for now.

Vincent, the Paranid Perseues can mount 3 Beta PSGs. And yeah, Ion Disruptors are a good way of capturing ships. I build up 2mil capturing ships using a Pirate Bayamon outfitted with 2 Ion Disruptors, and 4 Beta PACs. I would drop their shields with the Ion Disruptors, then switch to the PACs. They ...

Keep reloading the autosave of when you dock at the station. It might take a few loads, but it should work. Remember though, it needs to be an autosave, not a regular save.

Nice tip on the cargo pods as dumb flares. I gotta try that sometime.

Ion Disruptors wipe out missiles too, i'd say they're as good as PSGs in that area.

Yes, X2 runs like crap for me too. Sadly I think I could manage the graphics fine(benchmark puts me at 60-70 average, 28 lowest). But its all the tracking of prices/ships/etc... the CPU has to do. I'm only in the early part of a game, don't want to imagine slowdown when Khaak hordes come. My system ...

The problem is that all that cargo is practically a waste, since you can't dock with stations. The only other thing to do with it is use as a personal transport vessel, using its cargo to hold energy cells. I mean, an M3 is stronger then the current Hydra. It can outmanuever it, and it has more weap...

Hmm, I don't like the look of the Nemesis though. Or the dragon either, and the Centaurs a flying brick. The only good looking Corvette has horrible stats(Boron Hydra).

Freelancer sadly has X2 beat on atmosphere. In X2 there are only station/goverment owned ships hopping around. No "Freelance" traders like you, no large companies controlling their own stations. Hell, there isn't even mercs guarding freight, or able to be hired to guard freight. I just don't underst...

Speeds important when avoiding missiles, and avoiding enemy fire. I'll drop in slow behind an enemy for my intial volley of shots, then hit boost and speed past him when his fire heads at me. Get 1 to 2km away, then flip around and go by for another pass. But I guess your style of fighting would dec...

I'm enjoying myself. My goal has been to purge the Universe since I saw the previews anyway. Though i'm dissapointed by no freelance pilots, having only mindless drones with me is a bit dull. Combat isn't just ramming, though you can do that if you want. I worked hard with an M4 capturing pirate shi...

Simple, the Xenon contain the piloting/combat AI inside a robotic shell. This allows the ship itself to be worked on without worrying about AI, and it allows the robot to be easily moved to another ship if that is damaged. Of course, these AI are hard to produce so they are occasionally ordered to t...

I saw a mission early on where a guy wanted someone to go out and rescue his kidnapped partener. Was using a Manta at the time, so no chance for me to try it(had to kill a specific guy for it.)