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When in space suit about to capture a ship.. dont... dont bounce with the target ship.. (doh!)

Having set up a few wingmen I left them guarding a sector whilst I went exploring the far side of the universe. I regularly pressed . to call up the universe map. After a while went back home and wondered where everyone had gone - checked the messages and found that all my wingmen had died in some Xenon sector or other.

Moral is:

Don't accidentally press / and get your wingmen to come and protect you when you have a Xenon sector between you and them!

One from the plot, so Spoilers I am afraid (I hope I do this right!)

How about this one: Remember to order your M6 turrets to attack something when you enter a Xenon sector. I forgot that once when playing X2. It took me some time before I could understand why nothing ever happened. All I could do was fly around dodging the Xenon bullets.

But that was probably not the most stupid thing I've done. I think this was: Don't forget to disarm your Nova turret before you approach a Pirate Base to do some trading...

No, wait, I think this is the most stupid thing I've done to date: Don't enter the same sector as a TS set up to collect ore/silicon... especially if you forgot to install decent shields on that TS. My Mercury was doing fine (in Ore Belt) for quite a while before I let it enter my scanner range. This happened *twice*. The first time it didn't have any shields at all... talk about hull eating roids

Sorry if any of these stories have been told before in this thread, but it's five A.M. here and I must go to work soon...

In the early hours of the morning with a low hanging head and eyes on auto pillock it doesn't matter how many times you com the ore mine, or how many times you try to auto dock, or even how many times you press docking comp that station is never going to allow your Elephant to dock with it. Getting into your Mamba R however will make a surprising difference

I was cursing that station for about 5 minutes, its mine why wont you b*****ds let me dock etc.

thinking a mamoth makes a damn good m1 to lead your fleet into battle

Making your Dragon jump into the secotr right after you jumped into it in your Elephant... dumbass Dragon came in straight into the back of the Elephant and continued to ram until it killed itself. 3 hours of RL play wasted :/

X2, but...Don't try to jump through a gate directly after a titan has gone through. Ended up INSIDE the thing. problem is, I didn't have a docking comp. and I couldn't make it turn around so I could go through the gate again. I blew up quite promptly after that.

My 2 main tips (I'm sure I'll come up with more later)

1. Unless you're in combat or about to enter combat, never have missiles loaded. My 1 year old has figured out what key makes his daddy make lots of exciting noises and throw his keyboard around like a monkey.

2. When you're so drunk and recon you've had a great night, achieving lots:
2a: Don't overwrite your primary savegames.
2b: Write yourself a note about what you were doing.

Don't forget to close your cargo bay before engaging the new set of pirates.

Don't zig infront of the hammerhead you just fired...

Never get into yourspace suit without looking around.

I did this and I knew there were no enemys around. Headed for an unclaimed ship in the middle of Home of light, [My ship was about 500m away,] I got half way there before an Argon Destroyer, whilst doing pinpoint manouvers between the ships, decided I'd look good as a new paint job.

Since then I always get within 100m before ejecting or visually confirm NO ships are within 4km!

Don't get too close to the ship you're about to cap. I got about 10m away and the ejector seat promptly splattered me across it's hull.

Never try to shoot down an incoming Hammerhead missile with your M3. It's blast radius is biggert than your weapons range.....

Bugzor wrote:Making your Dragon jump into the secotr right after you jumped into it in your Elephant... dumbass Dragon came in straight into the back of the Elephant and continued to ram until it killed itself. 3 hours of RL play wasted :/

"playing for 3 hours without saving"

Sorry mate, couldn't resist.

Hazara wrote:
2. When you're so drunk and recon you've had a great night, achieving lots:
2a: Don't overwrite your primary savegames.
2b: Write yourself a note about what you were doing.

Been there, done that.

2c: Don't get home at 3:30am after a night on the piss, and fire the game up. Trying to hit the docking bay of an argon trading station in a harrier at 480m/s is fairly futile. Which takes me to:

2d: Don't try to dock your Elephant in a trading station.

Not that I ever did this!
Set up your merc's to Best buy, Best Sell Ware's at your Factory. then notice an hour later your factory is still flashing. and your merc's are 15 sector's away...someone didn't change the default 15 jump's to 2 or 3.

If you ever get the following thought whilst playing

"I wonder what would happen if........"

Just remember to save beforehand!

Also, dont, when very very tired, confuse the boost button with the all stop button.

Yep. Like flying an M5 between 4 J's in close proximity. The sheer volume of snowballs flying around is quite a sight to see (for the 1.2 seconds you're alive to see it).

And, always, always, always, disarm those shockwave generators if entering a friendly system. I hired a mamoth, but accidently hit it with my PSG when attacking pirates.

Now the captain wont talk to me and i cant "un-hire" him, but he wont help me either. So i guess i'll have to kill him!!!

When capping a ship make sure you've remembered to actually eject from the ship you're flying

Once (and only once) tried to capp a Falcon in a system off Split Fire. Don't ask me how I managed it, but I forgot to eject. I clicked on the target and started inching my 'spacesuit' (as I thought) towards the falcon.

50m.... no 'claim' command.

40m.... still no 'claim' command.

30m.... Maybe the game's bugged???

20m.... why can't I claim the bloody thing?!?!?!?

10m.... this is weird. Where is the bloody claim command???

under about 2m: Oh crap!!!! I'm still in my Buster!!!!! Eject damnit!!!

After I ejected, I had to clap myself on the back for sheer stupidity and congratulations. How many people here have managed to fly a Buster to within 1m of a Falcon and eject without splattering yourself across its hull???

Have a cool screenshot too (:

Anything else remarkebly thick??? Besides thinking that my Discoverer with it's 3 1mj shields, 4 BIRE's, and newly upgarded steering, speed, etc, could take on a Pirate Nova, a Falcon, and 2 Harriers, nope.

I did get some handy information about a Nova's rear turret with a HEPT, though: 4 hits = dead Discoverer

You just start the game..going around and exploring, you jump thru a gate and are now in someplace called Ringo Moon. .There's something Red there! hey it's a Pirate! you close in and start blasting away! he's yelling something but your to into the battle to pay attention..all the sudden ship turns Blue and stops? Jeez, this is like shooting fish in a barrel. as you close in and blast it to kingdom come...Betty yelling your ship in ringo moon is under attack..you read your messages to learn YOUR pirate harrier is destroyed!

Never assume that the scale in each sector is the same.

After battling in Xenon sector 597 with multiple M2s and getting the timing for when to warp one of my wingmen out of the sector, I switched to Xenon 472 and guess what? That sector is reeeeal tinyyy.

The xenon has the ball. He shoots. He scores. One of my titans blows up!

But but but .... that Xenon K was at leat a half inch away? How did he????

Scale man ... Don't forget the SCALE !!!