Tips-n-Tricks UPDATED Dec 22

GoateeCat · Post by **GoateeCat** » Fri, 12. Dec 03, 01:02

reev wrote:There is no way on holy heck I could ever afford to buy one of those Mamoth Class suckers to do that. I am just not as savey as some of you I guess.

No no, HIRE a mammoth, not BUY. When you hire a mammoth, they will follow you anywhere but only charge when you cross a gate. Just get them to follow you to you station and order them to cut engines. They won't move unless you tell them too.

WildKarrde · Post by **WildKarrde** » Fri, 12. Dec 03, 01:56

GoateeCat wrote:
reev wrote:There is no way on holy heck I could ever afford to buy one of those Mamoth Class suckers to do that. I am just not as savey as some of you I guess.
No no, HIRE a mammoth, not BUY.

I could be wrong, but I think he was referring to buying a TL to push an asteroid into a competitor's station.

Reev · Post by **Reev** » Fri, 12. Dec 03, 04:00

WildKarrde wrote:
GoateeCat wrote:
reev wrote:There is no way on holy heck I could ever afford to buy one of those Mamoth Class suckers to do that. I am just not as savey as some of you I guess.
No no, HIRE a mammoth, not BUY.
I could be wrong, but I think he was referring to buying a TL to push an asteroid into a competitor's station.

Yeah I meant to push the rock into the station. It does not seem possible to get them to crash into it. I tried for an hour.

WetWarev7 · Post by **WetWarev7** » Fri, 12. Dec 03, 15:22

Updated this morning (US East coast)

Removed the bit about having a TL follow you to run into a station, seems that was a fluke.....sorry...

Added Sinclair4217's and GoateeCat's tips. Sorry GoateeCat, I didn't put your link up, 'cause it asked me to login....

WetWarev7 · Post by **WetWarev7** » Fri, 12. Dec 03, 15:36

Thanks to Steel for making this a sticky!

Gandalf The White · Post by **Gandalf The White** » Fri, 12. Dec 03, 15:47

Yeah, it's a good thread.

travisfinch · Post by **travisfinch** » Fri, 12. Dec 03, 18:20

Add This:

http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15873

WetWarev7 · Post by **WetWarev7** » Fri, 12. Dec 03, 18:22

I've never been able to get that to work. Have you?

Burrito · Post by **Burrito** » Fri, 12. Dec 03, 19:34

Something that I have been doing that I find helpful.

I enjoy spending my evenings (days too...) running around killing pirates and trying to steal their ships. During the process of this I also aquire a lot of junk that can be sold for who knows how much. Instead of flying all around trying to find a place to sell the junk, you can just transfer it to the cargo bay of the pirate ships you are going to sell. The shipyards will purchase anything from you this way.

Lothmorg · Post by **Lothmorg** » Fri, 12. Dec 03, 20:02

Burrito wrote:The shipyards will purchase anything from you this way.

I wonder what they are paying for space eggs? Anyone want to give it a go?

VincentTH · Post by **VincentTH** » Fri, 12. Dec 03, 22:26

Sinclair4217 wrote: Buy a Split Scorpian (fastest and cheapest ship that can hold a Jump Drive). Max out it's speed, 5mw shield as well (if your feeling paranoid).

For fast ships, I prefer the Iguana over the Scorpion, the cost difference is not much, cuz you get 300+ speed vs 200+ of the Scorpion. It can also carry 25MW shield and a lot more EC than the Scorpion does, but Sinclair's tip is a good one.

WetWarev7 · Post by **WetWarev7** » Sat, 13. Dec 03, 01:52

Burrito wrote:Something that I have been doing that I find helpful.

I enjoy spending my evenings (days too...) running around killing pirates and trying to steal their ships. During the process of this I also aquire a lot of junk that can be sold for who knows how much. Instead of flying all around trying to find a place to sell the junk, you can just transfer it to the cargo bay of the pirate ships you are going to sell. The shipyards will purchase anything from you this way.

Cool, if I can figure out how well they pay for stuff, and they are paying fair prices, I'll put it up on Monday.

Azzkicka · Post by **Azzkicka** » Sat, 13. Dec 03, 02:23

You get less if you sell equipment with the ships then if you removed it and sold it at the equipment docks.

Sinclair4217 · Post by **Sinclair4217** » Sat, 13. Dec 03, 04:07

VincentTH wrote:
Sinclair4217 wrote: Buy a Split Scorpian (fastest and cheapest ship that can hold a Jump Drive). Max out it's speed, 5mw shield as well (if your feeling paranoid).
For fast ships, I prefer the Iguana over the Scorpion, the cost difference is not much, cuz you get 300+ speed vs 200+ of the Scorpion. It can also carry 25MW shield and a lot more EC than the Scorpion does, but Sinclair's tip is a good one.

Scorpian is max speed 329, the Iguana 308.

Belgarath · Post by **Belgarath** » Sat, 13. Dec 03, 05:08

Here's the only tip I have at the moment....

Don't play X² on a PIII-600MHz machine with 256MB of RAM and an NVidia GForce2 GTS. It just doesn't work very well.

I've got to get a new computer.

PlanetSide · Post by **PlanetSide** » Sat, 13. Dec 03, 08:31

lol u could even recommend do not play the game on a p4 3.2 512 mb and radeon 9800 pro..even at the start i get framerates in the teens when i have monitors on in the boron sector. Ie doing the second mish, when u get attacked by pirates, i had the external view up on my monitor so i could dodge incoming fire, and a turret view..didnt check framerate but it was quite jerky..

CanadianBrit · Post by **CanadianBrit** » Sat, 13. Dec 03, 15:03

Spitfire79 wrote:
Shifty wrote:1 word..... Jumpdrive

get everywhere from anywhere in no time at all although costs a lill
Hmm... within a sector? You didn't read my post.

No No Shifty, Spitfire79 is spot on. Whilst yours may work out quicker, if you have e-cells on board and a jumpdrive you can jump within the sector. All you do is active the drive selct the sector your in and then the nearest gate to where you want to be and your there! (after drive count down obviously)

klingens · Post by **klingens** » Sat, 13. Dec 03, 17:45

If you want a fast charging jumpdrive, just go into SETAagain as soon as the computer voice starts the countdown. that way it only gets the "10percent, 20" then immedetiately jumps. waiting the full 10 seconds is so boring.

Argonaught. · Post by **Argonaught.** » Sun, 14. Dec 03, 01:56

Heres a BIG tip for new folks,

Don't over do the rudder upgrades......I did on my Mako and now on turning manually its a touch over sensitive.
I'm an oldie too, I shoulda known better.
Pity there's noway to undo upgrades.

Looks like I'll be shopping for a new fighter.

All the fun of running a very small enterprise in space

Gotta love X

oolon · Post by **oolon** » Sun, 14. Dec 03, 04:31

Want to see if a sector has bonus gates you missed? Check your universe map for lines which arn't connected.

James