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Real Space Pilots ...... and Other Bragging

Posted: Wed, 29. Mar 06, 02:17
by apricotslice
I cant help it, I am sorry before I begin,

But.....

Fud and I started it in the thread about what ship to extend yourself in.

And ended up with a Disco with no shields or guns for taking on the Xenon single handed (or something).

Someone else in a thread I just read had a good insult/brag.

And I just had to start a thread where all the bragging thats ever been done can be posted or reposted here so we can all have a good laugh.

Warning though : If the thread is any good, it will go into the X3 Handbook, so posting here is giving your permission to use it.

Please keep it X universe related, but really funny ones are welcome anyway. We all need a good laugh periodically.

Posted: Wed, 29. Mar 06, 02:18
by apricotslice
Andaius wrote:Giskard, your getting old...throwing rocks like a girl? The real men use grapleing hooks and rip the offending pilots out of there seats after punching a hole in there ship with there bare hands. :D

Posted: Wed, 29. Mar 06, 02:32
by Metasynaptic
During the first gulf war, a British Tornado was credited with a 'maneuver kill' of an Iraqi Mig 29. The tornado dodged, and the Mig 29 crashed into the ground.

That sort of thing?

Posted: Wed, 29. Mar 06, 02:39
by apricotslice
In X3 terms, yes, thats fine. There have been some "I hid behind a roid and the enemy crashed into it" boasts. :)

Posted: Wed, 29. Mar 06, 02:40
by Metasynaptic
Well, I regularly do assassination missions where I fly so close to the TL, that the TL's escorts end up doing more damage to their employer than to me.

I could probably fly around with no guns and still probably destroy the target.

Posted: Wed, 29. Mar 06, 02:46
by fud
I found out, no less than an hour ago, that you can kill a K with nothing more than a M5.



Procedure:

1. Fly, fast, between a J and a K.
2. Dodge snowballs.
3. Watch snowballs pound the piss out of the K.
4. Repeat.


I actually think I didn't fire a single shot. I got out of there, got a slightly beefier ship with more cargo and scooped up the 6 GPPCs in a crate.


In the back of my mind, all I could think of, was the K getting pissed off at the J, and they'd just start shooting each other intentionally. If only....


For modding fun, sometimes I'll take a Falcon with some extra shielding on it, and just ram harriers and busters. Just puts a big smile on my face.

Posted: Wed, 29. Mar 06, 03:27
by softweir
I was taking on a medium Kha'ak cluster in Rhonkar's Clouds, in a Split Mamba Raider. I fired my one and only mosquito missile at the Fighter and ran for it, taking care to fly v. close to the laser tower guarding the Trading Port on my way. I was very pleased that the LT took on and destroyed the fighter, which caused the scouts to forget me and turn on the laser tower, which enabled me to turn around and pick them off more-or-less at my leisure.

OK, I can take on a cluster of that size in my Mamba without any help, but it's more *FUN* luring them to an enemy!

Posted: Wed, 29. Mar 06, 03:49
by beach07
anyone can kill a pirate without firing a shot...

if they're after you, try hiding inside structures, such as behind the docking port in an argon trading station... or inside the loops of a cahoona bakery...

then watch the pirates ram themselves to death as they make sweeps and attempt to destroy you

just be careful: some of their lasers go through the buildings :D

Posted: Wed, 29. Mar 06, 04:04
by Freeholder
I'll be impressed when someone documents a kill in X3 while flying a spacesuit :thumb_up:

Surviving the experience wins bonus points :lol:

Posted: Wed, 29. Mar 06, 04:12
by esd
Here's a true story from my early X² gaming (Kill Khaak with Mining Laser!) and I was lucky enough to make the first ever confirmed capture of an M6 in X². Here it is:
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I also used to capture in X² in a Discoverer with IRE's. I'd do this by luring my prey into a Shield-Eating Nebula... you could capture any capturable craft using that trick!
[/Brag mode] :D

Posted: Wed, 29. Mar 06, 04:19
by apricotslice
Freeholder wrote:I'll be impressed when someone documents a kill in X3 while flying a spacesuit :thumb_up:

Surviving the experience wins bonus points :lol:
There are hand blasters in the game. Should be possible ! :)

Posted: Wed, 29. Mar 06, 05:33
by Andaius
Hehe you liked that Apricot?

Well I think my best was taking on a P patrol in my Explorer ship (Discoverer) and besting them after about like 2 hours worth of fighting. Man it takes some shooting to strip 3 X 125 mj shields. :D I don't know how I did it, I did however get some help by some passers-by.

Posted: Wed, 29. Mar 06, 06:10
by Hg|Merc
i was in a dogfight in loo's legacy today waaay off into the minefield and lots of the enemy's m5's which do big attack run then run off and turn around kept straying too close to a mine. nothing more than a fluke, but fun.

Posted: Wed, 29. Mar 06, 09:04
by bendyspex
In X2 I just parked my hercules right in front of the docking port on a Pirate base, then when they started coming out after me, they just flew straight into me. All I had to do was sit and watch as lots of little explosions happened at the front of my ship :D

Posted: Wed, 29. Mar 06, 09:18
by jlehtone
Andaius wrote:Well I think my best was taking on a P patrol in my Explorer ship (Discoverer) and besting them after about like 2 hours worth of fighting. Man it takes some shooting to strip 3 X 125 mj shields. :D I don't know how I did it, I did however get some help by some passers-by.
And I thought that taking P patrol with Jaguar Vanguard was tough, even though there were Argon Customs Discos helping me out.

Posted: Wed, 29. Mar 06, 10:32
by teladianium
I keep trying to lure enemy ships into firing on TLs and M6s but even when it works they just take it lying down.

I was in Brennans Triumph and managed to get a pirate trio to chase me and flew around a Mammoth a few times and that TL got sprayed good and proper, I checked in the sector map and its shields were going down but it didn't even fire back.

Before that I got jumped by half a dozen pirates in The Vault so I flew around an Osprey which took loads of fire and it just carried on its merry way at 40 m/s and didn't bat an eyelid.

I think the AI could be a *little* bit better.

b.

Posted: Wed, 29. Mar 06, 13:16
by Phoenix Arisen
fud wrote:For modding fun, sometimes I'll take a Falcon with some extra shielding on it, and just ram harriers and busters. Just puts a big smile on my face.
lol :)

I sort of do the same thing, I normally fly a nova raider, and especially when fighting larger groups of xenons I run out of energy quite fast. Still, often their shields will be gone by the time my energy runs out so I just speed up and ram them to death :) (can be tricky with L's if you have been hit a few times, and I must admit dieing a few times though still it's worked out most of the time :p this was before I had my own missile factories though, now I just fire some missiles to be safe :))

Posted: Wed, 29. Mar 06, 13:40
by withar
pha.....the worst thing is when you order mutable ships to attack one target. I’ve had two squadrons try to attack a pirate m5 only to have both squadrons crash into each other, jammy git :evil:

What I liked about X2 was that some asteroids had holes in them and others had tunnels so depending on the sector you could shake of enemy ships similar to the Millennium Falcon in the Empire Strikes Back 8)

However in xenon sectors you couldn’t stay inside an asteroid too long as the K's would be bound to launch hornets so you had to get out of the roide post haste, good bit of fun though :D

3 xenon with one shot

Posted: Wed, 29. Mar 06, 13:55
by yeebok
There were 3 Xenon close together, one of them an L which launched a missile.

I was laying into them with 2 APSGs so they all had lowered shields, and one idiot fired a rather large missile before they broke away .. which the PSG hit .. and then there were none.

So the entire fight was :
Beep [coming in range]
Xenon L [targeted]
[2 seconds of firing]
Incoming Missile
Bang
Mosquito Missile [debris]

Posted: Wed, 29. Mar 06, 17:52
by fud
Another fun tactic is to get about 4-5 missles on your ass, then do a quick cut/dive manuver over/under their TL. Since the missles are following YOU, the TL won't target them. So, you cut just past the TL, and then all the missles slam into it.

I was in Cho's Defeat last night, two Pirate Falcon Vs and Nova were coming my way. I was waiting for them to get into range then heard the BIG kaboom. All three were instantly vaporised. Apparently the Military Dragon on patrol hit a hammerhead one of the ships launched (found one floating around afterwards, so I was assuming). I was only about 2km away, so I lost 75% of my shields.

I had *just* targetted the Nova when they all went poof, "no aim". It scared the piss out of me.