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I loves me some X games. I easily played hundreds of hours of X3. Rebirth was a huge disappointment though. I am definitely looking forward to this one. One thing that I will add though, is that egosoft games always come out as buggy messes on release. They do put in the time and effort to fix them, but it takes a while. Even if X4 is coming out this year, don't expect it to be really finished until they come out with a 2.0 version a year later. Filthy Monkey fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Oct 1, 2018 |
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Yeah, in X3, you tended to have your own luxury yacht type ship that you personally flew while you ran your empire. That ship was usually something like a Hyperion vanguard or a springblossom. The nicer M6 class ships tended to have a good balance between power and mobility. I personally often did personnel transport missions in something like the claimable iguana vanguard, while working to earn enough for a small fleet of automated trader mistrals. After that came my own TL ship, and then the station building began. I usually started with 1 MJ shields for easy money. I will say that streamlining station building in X4 looks really nice. Modless complexes in X3 were a horrible mess of pipes and slowdowns. Eventually you get your own big missile complex going and go on rampages wiping out anybody who opposes you.
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Oct 2, 2018 02:00
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Glare Seethe posted:I hope they hired the same voice actress for the ship computer because the way she enunciated some of those sector names will forever be burned into my brain. THE. VAULT.
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Oct 7, 2018 06:33
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I always found the space-empire part of X3 to be my favorite part. I think I am a Teladi at heart, but I always found myself getting Argon rep for those sweet OTAS ships. Mainly the mistral, which was my automated trader of choice. The Boreas always had a special place in my hanger too, even after the nerf. Complex building in X3 was a giant pain in the butt without mods though. I once built a giant modless complex in Antigone Memorial, and the mess of tubes made being in the sector terrible. Just glancing at it slowed the game down to a crawl. Complex cleaner was one of my favorite mods, at least before LU became popular. Where did everybody like to build in X3? I typically found I would start with something like an an energy-input 1 MJ shield complex in power circle. It is safe in the middle of Argon core space, and has a lot of SPPs for energy cells. 1 MJ shields are easy to move, and have one of the better returns on investment. http://grangegame.co.uk/x3tcocc.html?factories=s1m,Argon,S,5;cb,Argon,L,1;cr,Argon,L,1;om,Argon,L,1,18;om,Argon,L,1,8&wares=ore,111,145,true I would usually build a big energy-input space weed complex in ministry of finance, even though the return isn't quite as good at 1 MJ shields. I feel like I need to give in to my teladi nature though. Ministry of finance also has a few nice SPPs to help fuel a complex. Once I had enough money to consider building closed loop complexes (SPPs are expensive!), I usually ended up in Antigone Memorial. I also had a fondness for being friendly to the Yaki, and setting up around Savage Spur.
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Oct 8, 2018 22:06
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Expansion huh? That sounds like the time when I may finally give this game an honest shot. Maybe after the first post-expansion bugfix patch. I played at least a thousand hours of X3, and was burned by rebirth. I am always hankering for more X, but I know how much extra time it takes for their games to really mature.
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Jul 13, 2019 23:11
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Nice. I played a ton of X3, but had been holding off on really digging into X4 until it got a bit more mature. I think it may finally be time for me to give the game an honest shot. It also helps that I pretty much have all the time in the world at the moment.
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Mar 31, 2020 15:39
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Just really started playing the game. I bought a miner in argon prime and set its behavior to mine silicon. It mined up a full cargo hold, but now it is sitting at "calculating parameters" forever. Is there something I need to do in order to boot it in the thrusters?
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Apr 2, 2020 05:27
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I think I have my automated miner mostly straightened out. He is earning some money now. Right now I feel like my biggest hurdle is just exploration. Some of the stations are out in the middle of nowhere, and flying to everything seems tedious. In X3 I would have sent a scout or two out with the explore command to drop satellites in the center of each sector. What is the best way to explore here?
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Playing X3 with a gamepad sounds awful. There are a lot of fiddly menus. If you use a keyboard and mouse you'll learn a lot of the shortcuts though, which speed things up. If I remember correctly, the shortcut for entering a ship is shift-e.
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