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Well I did the "Quick start" option, where you start with a Buster (M4) and a transport ship, and 100k credits. I bought ore from the Ore Belt, and sold it to weapons manufacturers in Argon Prime. When I had exhausted that area I took out some Pirates in the Paranid sectors (Priests Pity was good for this) to get my rep up so I could dock in their stations, and sold some more ore to the Paranid sectors weapons manufacturers. Then I went up to Menelaus's Frontier and collected the free ship there, and sold it. By this point I had 800k so I turned my transporter (which now has fully upgraded storage bay) into a sector trader, and it's currently trading in Home of Light. 8 hours gametime.

This game looks interesting. I like.

Mugen wrote:

Sisco10 wrote:

Mugen wrote:

drop an advanced sattellite in the sector and press 'k' when you're looking at the sector map. when you zoom in, the actual models can be seen on the map rather than some symbols.

Somehow this doesn´t work for me. What´s the Command called in the options?

That command cannot be found in the options; already asked on the ES forums. It still works though:

default sector map view:
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/8962/x … 008.th.jpg

after pressing 'k':
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/8754/x … 009.th.jpg


you can even see your own ship on the sector map with max zoom (25600%):
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/4180 … 007.th.jpg

Did you install anything else? Your game looks COMPLETELY different than mine
Anyways, I still can´t get it to work. If I hit 'k' (wether with shift or not) nothing happens. Meh. I´m still able to build half decent complexes though.

farmerfez wrote:

Finray wrote:

Well I did the "Quick start" option, where you start with a Buster (M4) and a transport ship, and 100k credits. I bought ore from the Ore Belt, and sold it to weapons manufacturers in Argon Prime. When I had exhausted that area I took out some Pirates in the Paranid sectors (Priests Pity was good for this) to get my rep up so I could dock in their stations, and sold some more ore to the Paranid sectors weapons manufacturers. Then I went up to Menelaus's Frontier and collected the free ship there, and sold it. By this point I had 800k so I turned my transporter (which now has fully upgraded storage bay) into a sector trader, and it's currently trading in Home of Light. 8 hours gametime.

yeah see i have no clue how to do any of that.....

I started as a terran defender and im at the point where i got a second ship.
Do i just keep doing the missions?

You´re playing Terran Conflict then?
Basically it´s like finny said. If you do the missions, it´s a good way to get into the basics of the game. To make real money, you´ll need to explore on your own though. At some point you´ll need better equipment and bigger ships to follow the story.
Try to get a hand on the trading computer and the ones who show you the best price for selling/buying in the sector. Makes live a whole lot easier.
Buy energycells at a maximum of 14. There should be enough plants in the starting sectors to get them constantly for 12 Credits. Sell them for at least 16. Buy them in "the Wall" and sell them in Argon Prime. Once you got yourself some Credits and a TS Transport, start buying Ore and Silicon in "Ore Belt" and sell the ore in "Cloudbase SE" and the Silicon in "Home of Light" "Cloudbase SW" or any other sector nearby. Be aware that the silicon market is saturated pretty quickly.
Mineral trading works good in "Emperor Mines" for buying and "Paranid Prime" for selling too. Quite some good profits in there.

My first factory was a Argon Farm in "Herrons Nebula" and after that a Silicon Mine in "Ore Belt". Racked up the Cr for building my first complex (now counting 12 Units) within three days.

Sisco10 wrote:

Mugen wrote:

Sisco10 wrote:

Somehow this doesn´t work for me. What´s the Command called in the options?

That command cannot be found in the options; already asked on the ES forums. It still works though:

default sector map view:
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/8962/x … 008.th.jpg

after pressing 'k':
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/8754/x … 009.th.jpg


you can even see your own ship on the sector map with max zoom (25600%):
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/4180 … 007.th.jpg

Did you install anything else? Your game looks COMPLETELY different than mine
Anyways, I still can´t get it to work. If I hit 'k' (wether with shift or not) nothing happens. Meh. I´m still able to build half decent complexes though.

farmerfez wrote:

Finray wrote:

Well I did the "Quick start" option, where you start with a Buster (M4) and a transport ship, and 100k credits. I bought ore from the Ore Belt, and sold it to weapons manufacturers in Argon Prime. When I had exhausted that area I took out some Pirates in the Paranid sectors (Priests Pity was good for this) to get my rep up so I could dock in their stations, and sold some more ore to the Paranid sectors weapons manufacturers. Then I went up to Menelaus's Frontier and collected the free ship there, and sold it. By this point I had 800k so I turned my transporter (which now has fully upgraded storage bay) into a sector trader, and it's currently trading in Home of Light. 8 hours gametime.

yeah see i have no clue how to do any of that.....

I started as a terran defender and im at the point where i got a second ship.
Do i just keep doing the missions?

You´re playing Terran Conflict then?
Basically it´s like finny said. If you do the missions, it´s a good way to get into the basics of the game. To make real money, you´ll need to explore on your own though. At some point you´ll need better equipment and bigger ships to follow the story.
Try to get a hand on the trading computer and the ones who show you the best price for selling/buying in the sector. Makes live a whole lot easier.
Buy energycells at a maximum of 14. There should be enough plants in the starting sectors to get them constantly for 12 Credits. Sell them for at least 16. Buy them in "the Wall" and sell them in Argon Prime. Once you got yourself some Credits and a TS Transport, start buying Ore and Silicon in "Ore Belt" and sell the ore in "Cloudbase SE" and the Silicon in "Home of Light" "Cloudbase SW" or any other sector nearby. Be aware that the silicon market is saturated pretty quickly.
Mineral trading works good in "Emperor Mines" for buying and "Paranid Prime" for selling too. Quite some good profits in there.

My first factory was a Argon Farm in "Herrons Nebula" and after that a Silicon Mine in "Ore Belt". Racked up the Cr for building my first complex (now counting 12 Units) within three days.

yeah i am playing conflict.....
I feel retarded after realizing you guys ARENT playing it and i've been talking about it for this whole thread lol

Mugen wrote:

I did install a couple of scripts/ships and this: http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=228851

Anyway did you drop an advanced satellite beforehand? Try default keyboard mapping or different keys while you're on sector map.

Hm, I just dropped a regular sattelite. That might be the reason. Maybe that´s what all teh talking about the video feed was about then...lol. Gotta try that.

Btw, I found an online complex planer which might come in handy:

http://home.wolfsburg.de/kprohrbeck/x3occ.html


And finn, I thought it might be helpful to update the Op with useful links or tips we collect throught he thread?

Mugen wrote:

Finray wrote:

They're much the same game, which is why I put them all under one thread.

nah, X3TC > X3R, because of the awsm M7M's

oh ok theyre pretty much the same?


thats cool

Only actually played for about an hour now because I had to go uptown for abit.

I have X3: terran conflict. How is this game different from X3:reunion?

Last edited by trex1210 (2009-09-07 02:00:27)

Building up my second Whisky complex in "Atreus' Clouds":



Somewhere there is the control hub...

Foggy system is foggy

Can one of you guys link me to a guide for terran conflict. I seriously don't know how to do fuck all and I don't know where to go. I have on google like crazy but can't really find any guides so if you guys know of some can you please post em. Thanks.

Sisco10 wrote:

trex1210 wrote:

Can one of you guys link me to a guide for terran conflict. I seriously don't know how to do fuck all and I don't know where to go. I have on google like crazy but can't really find any guides so if you guys know of some can you please post em. Thanks.

Gameplay or story? I got lots of guids in german, I might find some of them in english.

~edit~ Try this one for size: http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=227343

~edit2~ Found more: http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=162408

Should give you a good start

thanks man! greatly appreciated.

So yesterday I equipped all my Commercial Agents with Jumpdrives and hoooollly sheiiiit! They increased in performance so much it´s frightening. One of those Agents is enough to supply an entire complex!

Should have done that earlier!

Sisco10 wrote:

My second Boozecomplex is complete so far:

http://static.bf2s.com/files/user/26045 … exII02.jpg

No powerplants, so energy cells need to be bought. Still makes a nice profit. Seems like there´s never enough booze in space
And I dropped an adv sattelite in this system and the view thingy worked (obviously ).

How did you make enough to buy your first factory? I never made enough without scripting.