X3TC Walkthrough Video Tutorial Series

General discussions about the games by Egosoft including X-BTF, XT, X², X³: Reunion, X³: Terran Conflict and X³: Albion Prelude.

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Maegfaer
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Post by Maegfaer » Thu, 17. Mar 11, 20:33

Wow, that 3D view of the advanced satellite is amazing advise! I already knew all the other stuff, but not this one! Just awesome!

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Post by ThailandExpress » Thu, 17. Mar 11, 20:47

@Thailand,

Thanks for that great tip!! I just made Video "11a" which I'm uploading as we speak to address Adv Sat assistance in station placement, and also address station orders for automatically depositing profit in the player's account
No problem, and if I could remember where I read it I would give the credit to them. (Might have been in the X3 Handbook compliled by Apricotslice)

Deposits automatically going to player account is something I did not know could happen. Cool beans, keep up the good work!

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Post by paulms1980 » Thu, 17. Mar 11, 21:40

nice 1 dude!

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Post by T-Bone_NL » Fri, 18. Mar 11, 00:39

Awesome tip on station placement!
Been playing my first game now for over 21 game days and my plexes are like mashed spagetti. From now on I will build them the way you showed.
Offcourse thanks to Thailandexpress for providing this usefull info.

Keep up the good work.
Anciously waiting for your boarding guide.
Anciously awaiting: X-Rebirth & Battlefield 3

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Post by daviddowner » Fri, 18. Mar 11, 02:59

Part 11 finished and uploaded (11 and 11a combined). Thanks.

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Post by bubbleman » Fri, 18. Mar 11, 08:40

youve done a great job,easy to understand and overall well done,i learnt a lot seeing how you do things visually rather than scanning the forum keep up the great work daviddowner

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Post by misterg28 » Fri, 18. Mar 11, 17:31

I bought the game Monday March 14 and I found your video wile browsing Youtube I got to say that your videos made me restart and now I have much more fun playing this game. I learned a lot of very useful stuff. I have one question tough not sure if I'm asking in the right place but can this game be played in windowed mode I don't seem to be able to find where I can turn that option on.

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Post by daviddowner » Fri, 18. Mar 11, 17:45

Yes, you can play in windowed mode. When you start the game, the X3 launch panel will come up. Under Graphics Settings, choose windowed instead of full screen.

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Post by misterg28 » Fri, 18. Mar 11, 18:41

daviddowner wrote:Yes, you can play in windowed mode. When you start the game, the X3 launch panel will come up. Under Graphics Settings, choose windowed instead of full screen.
Well damn how did I missed that. Thanks for the info.

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Post by daviddowner » Fri, 18. Mar 11, 19:23

Updated, Part 12. VERY rough draft intro to ship capping. Will remake this weekend plus next vid.

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Post by daviddowner » Fri, 18. Mar 11, 23:16

New Part 12 posted, this one should be a little better.

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Post by kmart101 » Sun, 20. Mar 11, 06:21

An amazing job!!!!! Wish I had these when I first started!!!!!

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Post by daviddowner » Sun, 20. Mar 11, 14:49

Updated, Part 13 - Explorer software

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Post by StarSword » Sun, 20. Mar 11, 17:47

daviddowner wrote:Yes, you can play in windowed mode. When you start the game, the X3 launch panel will come up. Under Graphics Settings, choose windowed instead of full screen.
If you do that, and then turn on Run in Background on the in-game preferences, does that make the game continue to run if you switch to, say, Firefox?
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Post by daviddowner » Sun, 20. Mar 11, 19:12

I run mine in background all the time. I may need to look something up on the web. SETA will even work in background as long as you only hit Alt+Tab (Windows) to switch over. Windowed mode should work the same.

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Post by ThailandExpress » Mon, 21. Mar 11, 16:48

Hi Dave, some feedback for ya from the peanut gallery.

The placement of sats using the explorer software, the ship will continue to place sats all over the universe from what I've read. I thought that part was unclear in your video. Keep up the great work.

from
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=276849
Nanook
....You give it a starting position, and the satellite deployer will place a satellite at those exact coordinates in every possible sector....

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Post by grimlp » Fri, 25. Mar 11, 14:11

Is the series complete? If so make more! lol

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Post by daviddowner » Fri, 25. Mar 11, 14:17

No, I've just been busy with work. I'm also near the limit of my knowlege of the game, so I'm learning the finer points of boarding to include in a video. I was considering Nividium mining, but I think most people would consider a video tutorial for beginners on how to have unlimited income - devious :)

I'll update the satellite/explorer vid this weekend. I'll probably post a new vid using one of my current savegames as an overview of my thoughts while playing a typical session of TC.

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Post by daviddowner » Fri, 25. Mar 11, 21:57

As my time has been restricted lately, I'd like to be efficient and ask you guys what you think so that maybe I can maximize my efforts:

What would you like to see next??

I'm nearing my point of experience in the game. I'm currently working on boarding in my game (haven't been terribly successful.) I thought about making a vid of a typical gaming session of mine while just talking through my thought process (Trade management, factory upkeep, patrols, building/equipping ships) etc. Does that sound beneficial, or is there another few specific targets I could pick that would help more?

Thx.
dave

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Post by dryfus3368 » Fri, 25. Mar 11, 22:30

I'd like to see something on CAG/CLS and how to use them.

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