Spacefly eggs?

floris · Post by **floris** » Mon, 8. Dec 03, 12:04

Hai,
I found a cargocontainer inside a station full of spacefly eggs. 40 orso..
But I flew through half the map trying to find a place to sell them but I couldnt find anything apart from some very interesting sectors.

Where can I sell them and/or what are they worth?

Thanx in advance.

Flashfire · Post by **Flashfire** » Mon, 8. Dec 03, 13:04

I wanna know that to... last time I asked that I heard no replies.

Moridin · Post by **Moridin** » Mon, 8. Dec 03, 13:13

someone said they are tied to a subquest in relation to the BBS message about a Boron Spacefly Station being raided.

neolux7 · Post by **neolux7** » Tue, 9. Dec 03, 19:07

not sure about the subquest but i have nearly 700 units of them.

might have to make the omelete in x2's history

any info on where to flog them will be cool

BradThorn · Post by **BradThorn** » Tue, 9. Dec 03, 22:20

Dammnit, was hoping there'd been an answer... I wanna sell them too

pjknibbs · Post by **pjknibbs** » Tue, 9. Dec 03, 23:11

I think CJ implied that you had to get them to hatch into adult spaceflies to sell them, but (a) he didn't make it clear how you did this and (b) he's an incorrigible joker, so might not have been serious...

semyaz · Post by **semyaz** » Wed, 10. Dec 03, 05:07

someone says u can sell the spaceflies at split trading stn Chelts Aquarium or pirate base in Brenan Triumph, so I think u could do too with spacefly eggs.
any other place is illegal.

Smartislarti[D6a] · Post by **Smartislarti[D6a]** » Wed, 10. Dec 03, 07:57

Anyway...if you can't sell them, maybe you'll have them for breakfast with some ham and a slice of bread.

Stormsong · Post by **Stormsong** » Wed, 10. Dec 03, 10:31

Spacefly eggs cannot be sold under normal circumstances, but there is a BBS mission where you have to transport some eggs from A to B(from a Pirate Base, I think. But I may be wrong).

Cheers,

neolux7 · Post by **neolux7** » Thu, 11. Dec 03, 18:37

i hope they want a big order of eggs as i have just picked up another 300+ of them

Al · Post by Al » Thu, 11. Dec 03, 19:24

I ditched mine in the end and watch the sector police shoot them. CAnt see the point in having them in the game if you cant sell them under normal circumstances.

Al

Anth · Post by **Anth** » Thu, 11. Dec 03, 19:51

Space Fly Eggs definitely shouldnt have been in one of those containers. They cant be sold anywhere Im sorry to say.

-Dredge

ElectricMonk · Post by **ElectricMonk** » Thu, 11. Dec 03, 20:51

Could someone tell me more about this BBS mission please? I submitted the "Boron spacefly sanctuary raided" story to the BBS news team when the game was in development and I would be over the moon to see if my story inspired an actual subquest in the game.

2501 · Post by **2501** » Thu, 11. Dec 03, 22:17

Well the space fly sanctuary thing is a news flash, dont know if there is an associated mission (good work BTW). I found space fly eggs very early on, (if you do a search on this forum) the reposnce i got was that the eggs could be hatched in a asteroid (such as the ones with caves) and this came from CJ, he then went on to say that they may be used in a mission but was not specific about said mission... I have not since found this mission nor have i tried to hatch eggs.

BTW the eggs CAN NOT be hatched in a mine to create your own space fly menagerie as you can't eject cargo in a station.

Commander Jamieson · Post by **Commander Jamieson** » Thu, 11. Dec 03, 22:30

pjknibbs wrote:I think CJ implied that you had to get them to hatch into adult spaceflies to sell them, but (a) he didn't make it clear how you did this and (b) he's an incorrigible joker, so might not have been serious...

Everyone knows, spaceflies hatch in crevices on asteroids, right? It stands to reason, if one places such eggs on or in an asteroid (don't ask me how) they should eventually hatch.

The official description of them:

Spacefly Eggs:

The eggs of the Markus Spacefly are very rarely found. It is believed that they lay their eggs in hollow asteroids when conditions are correct. Unfortunately it has become popular to collect unhatched eggs as they are very decorative with colourful patterns.

And of Space Flies:

This creature is a small unintelligent space fly that lives in the vast emptiness of deep space. They are the size of a small bird and seem to be made out of delicate shinning gossamer that reacts to light and shimmers and shines in a multitude of colours.

Now you know

Cheers

ElectricMonk · Post by **ElectricMonk** » Thu, 11. Dec 03, 22:52

2501 wrote:Well the space fly sanctuary thing is a news flash, dont know if there is an associated mission (good work BTW). I found space fly eggs very early on, (if you do a search on this forum) the reposnce i got was that the eggs could be hatched in a asteroid (such as the ones with caves) and this came from CJ, he then went on to say that they may be used in a mission but was not specific about said mission... I have not since found this mission nor have i tried to hatch eggs.

BTW the eggs CAN NOT be hatched in a mine to create your own space fly menagerie as you can't eject cargo in a station.

Thanks! Seems I'm not entirely useless after all

Burticus · Post by **Burticus** » Thu, 9. Dec 04, 20:47

ha ha it would seem that i alone am best!

There is a place, a secret place that you can sell them....

Spoiler

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go to sector Family T'kr and look for some ships headed towards some asteroids in the south west. they are headed to 2 super secret massom mills that are infact an illegal spacefly breeding station! they will gladly take your eggs off your hands!

but agreed they are great with

frymaster · Post by **frymaster** » Thu, 9. Dec 04, 21:15

burticus, just because you happen to have discovered one of the little secrets that are in this game (and you weren't the first to discover it, I might add) do you think that's a good reason to bump EVERY SINGLE GODDAMMED THREAD that talks about spacefly eggs in the past year? Your self-serving juvenile gloating ("I alone am best") fails to take into account that at the time those threads were written, those factories did not appear in the game. If this was a recent conversation maybe that would be excuseable but if you can use the search function to find spacefly egg threads couldn't you have used it to find where we* all figured this out a while back?

-Bumping old threads for no good reason is not cool (one of them, or a new one - "hey look what I found" - would have done)

-Gloating / assuming superiority is not cool

-Spamming is not cool

Especially when your basic premise (I've found something noone else has) is wrong

*when I say we, I mean the brave souls who, despite immense (and possibly justified) sceptisism, went contrary to the accepted wisdom of the forum and proved their introduction in the patrol script

therjw · Post by **therjw** » Thu, 9. Dec 04, 21:26

burticus it was found ages ago by GarryF and here the verrry long post about it
http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtop ... highlight=

Rapier · Post by **Rapier** » Thu, 9. Dec 04, 21:40

If you're nice to us, we're nice back. Wind us up and you get a response like this.

Everyone is entitled to the occasional social 'faux pas'. Learn from it and we'll say no more about it.