There is a mod to capture and fly Khaak M1s and M2s - hunt around

...... X3? It is clear it started out with waaay tooo many problems, and it seems that many have been sorted, but I do not approve of companies releasing defective products....... You must not have bought X2 when it first came out. The uproar about X2 version 1.0 was no less vociferous than that of...

I,m a frontier/elite/privateer fan too (or I was long, long ago) but things have moved on. if Braben comes out with Elite 4 in 2 yrs time then I will want to buy it. I have XGold and X2, and if you had stopped the above (Eve-online, I have never played so I cannot say) then I suggest that you buy XG...

Someone might dig out some pics from X Beyond the Frontier and XTension, the original X games. I really like the com pics in thoses games, and the way the races talked in the English version. Actually, I now find myself wondering what they would sound like in the German version - surely they cannot ...

Try: if you pay for a car then you expect the car to take you from a to b without your having to stand on your head with your scr...tum sewn into your mouth. Enthusiasm is one thing, but in a competitive market you have to make the technical grade. If you do then the whole market opens up. Under a d...

Sorry guys, whatever else, this will stay on the back-burner as the hard copy of the following 20 chapters was stolen.

Sounds like X2? Wait till you get an Osprey. I feel that the whole idea of the corvette is to take out the smaller fighters, and so for me the only viable ones are those that have at least 2 turrets in a given direction. With my faithful Os I have taken out Xenon M1s with ease, and done some serious...

Me, I like to build up to buying and selling silicon, and expand my ship's capacity at the same time, so that I get to the point where I have a jump drive and can lift the max in my ship's hold, all bought at the lowest price, and using my sat network sell at over 600, but pref at the max immediatel...

I wish that you had not mentioned no strafe function. That is essential in the Xseries. Gamedeath.

No. If one of your ships is hit, it will flash red to indicate that it is under attack. This will last for a while. Does that include the ship your flying? If it does then I guess I must get hit almost every single time I attack and capture pirate ships. Anyway, apart from that I think you do get c...

Thanks to you too - the more the merrier!

Thanks jlehtone, I read your thread on asteroid production - very interesting, to the point, and scholarly. And I will check things out, as I said, when I can get to the computer I have the game on. I have been meaning to set up this thread for weeks now (keep running out of time before I get to it)...

Compare the cost of 2 Hercs to 1 Orca or Mammoth. The Herc is fast enough (just over 200), comparatively manoeuverable (I hate wasting time while the things lumber into position) and cost-efective. If you are into capping, mining or longdistance trading then the Herc's Ship carrying capacity is exce...

Well, I will have to check this, thanks. The thread was started in a hurry, as I had a deadline to meet, but the thing that started me off was this: When I placed an Argon silicone mine on the biggest asteroid in Blue Snout (the one next to Ocean of Fantasy, and the Argon mines are cheaper) it start...

In theory I always thought the game allows you to get a better speed of power cell production if you find the right spot tp place the plant, and I have read so many threads that claimed your mines produce faster if you place them on the asteroids with the highest mineral content. Yet all my solar pl...

Got to agree about the tedious point. If this is about easy money from capping then an Osprey with 3 shields, a beta and an alpn PSG at both front and back, and BHEPT in the top and bottom turrets does it every time with a cluster. Just rush in, bag away a bit and run as soon as one turns green = ab...

If you go south past the first sector mentioned in your spoiler, and straight through the boron sectors and the next race, you will come to a couple of pirate sectors (one has a very big and nasty pirate base) but after that there is an asteroid-rich pirate sector, then a group of paranid sectors th...

What you are talkin about might be either the 'Unknown Sectors' or pirate sectors. The Unknown Sectors are totally empty of stations, though one is a through passage to another Unknown Sector, and the rest have broken gates like the one in Brennan's Triumph. To 'own' a sector I expect you would want...

The way around the swatted hitch is to max a ship that is faster than the Xenon ships - this could be a scout craft, or you could equip a jump-capable trader even, provided it can outrun the opposition. And bung in some o that slick-slidin manoeuverin gear too! Once you have a couple of nav-sats in ...

Is this X2 or X3, because in X2 I have not yet seen Flight Command 2 and yet have a dozen UTs bonging happily about the place. Mind you I do buy the Trading upgrades 1,2 and 3 for them. (And I always buy the fight upgrades and only put a gun in rear turrets set to missile defense - so far they have ...