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Setting up turrets to fire automaticly on enemies?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------esd wrote:Buy the combat software from an Equipment Dock. Then go to the command menu of the ship with turrets. Below Navigation/Trade/Special/Whatever you'll see "Command all turrets" and then each turret listed individually. Assign commands there, such as "Attack my target", "Fire on all enemies", "Defend ship" and "Missile Defense"
Best Buy and Best Sell Commands
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Creston wrote:The Best Buy and Best Sell COMMANDS only work if a ship is assigned a homebase. Go into the ship's command console, look for the Homebase setting, and assign it to a homebase.
Repair the Hulls of damaged ships
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Creston wrote:Repairing a hull can be done at a Wharf or a Shipyard. Go into the trade screen, and all the way at the top will be an option to repair, it looks exactly the same as the Sell Ship section does (although the amount of credits involved is a lot less).
Spacefly catching upgrade
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------pjknibbs wrote: Hunting Space Flies is an exercise in frustration. They don't stay stunned very long, so you can't stun them and then use the Special command software to pick 'em all up like you can with asteroid fragments--you have to pick EVERY RUDDY ONE up manually, then zap the rest again to make sure they stay asleep.
Captureing spacesuits/slaves?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------james_2k wrote: you can capture spacesuits, i think that you need the life support system, but once you have captured any ejected pilots, you can sell them as slaves!
Taking over pirating ships
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Rapier wrote: You do this in exactly the same way you would go about blowing up a ship. Sometime the pilot decides his or her ship is not worth dying for and makes a quick exit, leaving the ship under your control.
How to sell your ships?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------CBJ wrote:Choose Trade with Station. Your ship will appear in green at the top. You can't sell the ship you are sitting in
How to transfer cargo between ships?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Rapier wrote: You have three options to transfer goods.
1) Land both ships on a station and select 'transefer cargo' from the captured ships menu.
2) Order the ship to drop the cargo and collect them in your ship (make sure you're close and no-one else is around to steal them).
3) Get a transporter device installed on your ship and beam them accross.
How do u know which rank u are ?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------CBJ wrote: Just go to your player screen (press P). The ranks for combat, trading, and race notoriety are listed there.
Lotteries
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sir Crashalot wrote:the odds of actually winning one of the lotteries in the game is about as good as winning the lottery in real life.
How the l do you keep captured equipment intact?!?
http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtop ... 887#344887brucebia wrote: The pilots are very well trained and destroy everything they can so it will not fall into enemy hands. After all they really don't like what you have done to them so they get even.
You just have to keep at it. sooner or later you will find a coward pilot who will forget .
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Can you hiring mercs?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sir Crashalot wrote:Not as such, no.
You can hire a TL transporter and get it to follow you with all its fighters but it is slow and you`ll have to pay it a sum of money every time you go through a jumpgate.
Once you own other ships, you can assign them to be your wingmen.
Underattack
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sir Crashalot wrote:I think you can ask them for help if you are in communication range. (8km)
I haven`t tried with ships but I once had to call a factory for help when my mining ship in Elenas Fortune got attacked by pirates and it sent out loads of ships to fight them.
Note : The communication option will only be there if you are under attack, otherwise it`ll only show the request to dock. (on factories anyway)
How to make Factories work
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------stuck ina tree wrote:if you look at your ships information, you'll see it has resources, it needs these resources to make the products. Use a transport ship to go and get the required resources
rd: You also need to give your base some credits in order that the transporters can buy the required resources If you don't, They will just sit in the bay of the station.
How to Picking up loot after killing a ship...?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Darquies wrote:Target the cannister containning the goodies, fly to it when it's around 900m from you open your cargo bay by pressing the o key on your keyboard, then fly into the cannister.
warning: if the cannister is too big, it will hurt your ship. and your shields will be down during this process so be careful
cyderpunk: The other option is to use the Special Command software to pick them up, you can also tell your other ships with this installed to do it (ie a ship with lots of cargo space) with Special -> Collect Wares in Sector.
Where to buy 25MW shield?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------richpb7 wrote:Make friends with the Split (knocking off pirates in their sectors being the best option) as they are the only race to have a steady supply of 25MW shields.
Jumps
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Creston wrote:jumps means the total amount of jumps that ships will go to either buy or sell from the sector your factory is in.
Autopilot/Autodocking
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------pjknibbs wrote:Use C to enter the command console of a remote ship (Shift+C does the same job for the one you're flying)--all the automatic commands are available there.
Remote Trading
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------CBJ wrote:You can trade remotely by installing a Trading System Extension in the ship you are flying. Best Buy and Best Selling Price Locators, also installed ithe ship you are flying, are a great help too.
Entering ships
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NeverSnake wrote:Shift-e when you're within 50m.
or hit I when you're within 50m to bring up the info screen which should have that option.
Factory Purchase
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------rd wrote:Buying stations is covered in the 3rd tutorial. But in short. . .
Find the TL transporter in the sector you wish to buy, comm the captain,
1) I want you to transport something
2) Dock at shipyard
Go to the shipyard, yourself
When the TL gets there, the factories all turn White.
Choose the station(s) you want to buy. And confirm by hitting 'Enter' when the name of the TL shows
3) Follow me
4) Drop my frieght here
Confirm the placement by hitting 'Enter' again
Walla Youre station is built.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Note
Through steps 1 to 4, You have to comm the captain of the TL each time.
Salvage insurance
Want FREE Salvage insurance?Pange wrote:It's in the Goner Temple in Cloudbase South West.
http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtop ... ht=salvage
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Crates inside stations?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NeverSnake wrote:Crates inside stations will appear at random and are almost always accesable with an M5.
Mars Mug: Don't worry too much about crashing into walls, it doesn’t damage the ship. You can bounce around inside the station at full speed, with shields down and cargo bay open like you’re inside a bouncy castle.
You can get stuck in the pipework sometimes, but pressing ‘esc’ usually helps.
S, M, and L ships
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Apoch wrote:S ships have minimal equipment; M have medium-level; L have high-grade shielding and decent weapons.
How to scan for yield?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bowak wrote:Target roid. Hit I. You have to be close tho.(about 20km) You can do this from the sector map faster.
Trade Software MKIII
dcheng7475 wrote:The highest level you can get in 1.3 patch is lvl 10
More info on Trade Software MKIII : http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39998dcheng7475 wrote:To find out what lvl is the ship equiped with a Trade Software MKIII: Make sure your current ship is equipped with best sell locator, then press "R", select the ship equiped with a Trade Software MKIII, press "5" and you will see on the screen of the # of Salvage insurance(the level)
Want FREE Salvage insurance?
http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtop ... ht=salvage
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My TL was colliding with smaller ships during autopilot?
http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtop ... 626#339626
http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31909
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Is it possible to be a smuggler?
http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31804
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A problem with SPEED
http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31832
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Sector Defence
http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31632
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Further more:
What should I do with 1~3,000,000Cr.
Simple, use your money build more fabs, until you reached 30,000,000+Cr. Go read the posts for "What should I do with 3,000,000~30,000,000Cr."
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What should I do with 3,000,000~30,000,000Cr.
http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40088
http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40253
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