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@ microtheraver420

Just out of interest,which start point do you use?Each start point gives you different relationships with various races.
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Oh well have you read NS stories. He is living longer now days. He has barely escaped death by "exit spacesuit stage left." So learn how to eject and disable the safety on the eject. It will save you. SHIFT+E learn it.

I have a carrier snd a bunch of fighters so I'll fight with one fighter as long as I can and swith fighters when they are being burned down by ejecting. I put transporter devices in my fighters so i can do this.
The skunk really is a bare bones model. It doesn't even have a GPS to highlight the way. Or targeting software MK 2 to allow target selection and painting from the sector map. It lacks a Trading System Extention to show prices in the sector you are in. The lack of satellites in rebirth is also annoying to the trader/pirate looking for a mark.
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Humble merchant one
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@microtheraver420 - Like TTD says, you need to do missions for pirates. If the pirate base in Brennan's Triumph is still there in your game, that's my favourite place to do pirate missions - around that area anyway. If you haven't got a cargo lifesupport system you can get one at the pirate base. I advise doing any combat missions for pirates (especially if the target is a pirate) if you want to improve your standing with them.

Just because a pirate is "red" it doesn't mean they're an enemy. If you have a freight scanner (and your rep is high enough with pirates) you can turn them "blue" (check you friend/foe settings first) by simply scanning them - you have to find the leader of the pack for it to work though. Hope that helps.
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I never did any missions for the pirates and got them to turn blue by killing boron shipping in their sectors. All pirates are blue to me. Except dukes. I rob the duke. His ships are worth many million credits.
The skunk really is a bare bones model. It doesn't even have a GPS to highlight the way. Or targeting software MK 2 to allow target selection and painting from the sector map. It lacks a Trading System Extention to show prices in the sector you are in. The lack of satellites in rebirth is also annoying to the trader/pirate looking for a mark.
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Oi 'ave bin tinkin' over ta situation and Oi need a TL.
Oi culd goo back ta Legends Home but there are some unexplored regions out here,so Oi recon Oi moit just explore my way back to Kingdom End.Oi'lzee if Oi can't get sumtin' worth 'avin on the way though.

Now p'rusin' me uncle's maps Oi think Oi goe west,then north then west,but Oi don't mind if Oi be side tracked into business alongs ta way.

Well Oi thought maybe the Teladi would be a bit more reasonable.
After all...they are benefiting from my complex.
"A bit " was just it. No Albatross for me,but They would allow me something quite small.

"Sorry guv," oi zed,"but oi 'ave a few of them thar flies at home awaitin repair.How about swapping my..."

Oi broke off.The fixed stare of disbelief on the Teladi's face was a sight to be seen. :D
Oi left with a big grin on my face."there's no PROFITSSS in swap!" he yelled as Oi disappeared into the corridor.

Oi went off to pay moi respects to Queen Atreus.Moi apparent devotion to her seems to have paid off.Coming through the east gate of Kingdom End,Oi did not swerve quick enough to avoid collision and rather than be demoted,which usually 'appens,Oi am noo ah Graduate :!:

And Oi 'ave got me an Orca,so Oi need ta do ah bit o' study now,woil Oi get 'er outfitted.
Oi'l 'ave ta get in touch wid a few people an' voind out where Oi kin git ta best stations at the roight prices.

Now Oi 'ave bin t'inkin' that if Oi don't want ta draw too much attention from the Teladi Oi should na be tradin' in owt major ,zo Oi just be a factory trader in secondary goods.Teladi says not much profitss thar so Oi won't be a gittin in their way.
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STATION BUILD MISSIONS---with Help from Xadrian's Complex Calculator
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But first I need to get some favour so I get in my newly equipped Orca,jump to Family Pride and find they want a Paranid PAC Factory.
Check the purchase stock agency(Xadrian's) and they tell me I can get the nearest supply in Third Redemption.
Thanks Master Xadrian.A great help.

Talking idle chat to people at the bars can turn up some very useful information sometimes.

I have over 5 mill and the station costs over 4 mill.

Take the station back to Split space and place it on the beacon.
I get promoted to Friend and my balance is now over 12 million
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your sooooo honest. Makes me think back to the days before i discovered that being not so honest was a good way to make a living.[/list]
The skunk really is a bare bones model. It doesn't even have a GPS to highlight the way. Or targeting software MK 2 to allow target selection and painting from the sector map. It lacks a Trading System Extention to show prices in the sector you are in. The lack of satellites in rebirth is also annoying to the trader/pirate looking for a mark.
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Honest?

Sometimes a little conservative with the truth.

"What the eyes can't see,the heart can't grieve" ,as they say.

But I was always told "Honesty is the best policy",but if no-one sees down here,there is always someone "upstairs" who sees everything.
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Well it was proven to me that the god of the X-universe HATES ME I mean REALLY HATES me. God has been trying to kill me since day one. And he keeps cheating. So yes god does see everything and does pass judgement that in order to balence the universe Mr. Reeves the heartless pirate must die.

As I have seen since loosing the Command and Control Corp Vs The Royal Boron Government God is not neccicerally concerned with fighting fair as long as god wins.
The skunk really is a bare bones model. It doesn't even have a GPS to highlight the way. Or targeting software MK 2 to allow target selection and painting from the sector map. It lacks a Trading System Extention to show prices in the sector you are in. The lack of satellites in rebirth is also annoying to the trader/pirate looking for a mark.
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Really busy ,so will probably get Norman working his magic on Sunday.
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Sunday

Open up Split sectors for UTs.
Open up Teladi sectors for UTs.

Objective = gain notoriety to purchase stations for secondary resources.
At the moment can only buy stations from Argon,Paranid and Boron.
Look for any possible station build missions to boost notoriety etc.

Don't forget to straffe down when undocking manually in an Orca.It has a high tail-fin. :oops: :lol:
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Zo Oi be a openin' up the universe for me Universal Traders,and have at last been allowed to buy just a few factories vrom those strawbags ,the Split.

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Secondary goods trading
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Oi have returned to Rhonkar's Might to examine what I can buy and what secondary goods thay be a wantin'.

Seems they wan' zom Rhimes in two ov thar factories 'ere, zo Oi know where Oi kin get those thar vactories. Argon do sel em.
Oi'l just call up Master Xadrian and zee if he can tell me of the nearest station to get em vrom.

Well Oi zee! Back to Light of Heart for a large Rimes Factory then.

Here's me shoppin' list...

2x Cahoona Bakery L
2x Cattle Ranch L
2x Crystal Fab L
1x Rimes Fact L
1xSilicon Mine L 64 yield
1x Solar Panel Plant L
1x Solar Panel Plant M
1x Wheat Farm L

Total cost with CCKs( complex construction kits) 41,298,152 cr

Oi only have just under 19 Mill cr for now so Oi can't build all at once.
May ave to get some factory traders runnin' for a while ,loik Oi did with the the first complex.

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At this point I have chosen just one item wanted .I could make a complete list and make a bigger complex.
But funds are limited,as you can see,so I'm just going to supply Rimes for now.
Doing a few build missions I have been able to build the complex as above but short of one crystal Fab and the SPP L.
To assist,I have put in station traders to sell the rimes and buy e-cells.
I initially put enough e-cells in to produce 15 Rimes.
Set credits to zero.
First sale netted 4,725 cr.This has enabled the second trader to collect some more e-cells.
The station is set to not trading with other races.
Purely as an experiment to see how it will work.

Some time later and I have had to add more e-cells.
Have the 2nd crystal fab and saving for the SPP.

I am now Teladi Company Trader,which allows me to buy a few of their stations.
Likewise with Split at Comrade.

Upon looking up my property menu ,I can see that my first complex has over 13 million credits now. I transfer this to my account and buy the remaining SPP.
The Rimes complex is starting to make credits now so I stop buying e-cells and now have two station traders selling Rimes for best price within a 7 sector radius.

SPP L installed.
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Checking with Master Xadrian Oi explain O am only zellin' ta roims at best price available.An E assures me that even if Oi was to sell 'em at one below average, Oi'l get me costs back in about eight days.
Well Oi've been doin this for only nine days so far,since Oi started out,zo Oi think it's ok.
Been keppin an eye on those Teladi pilots ov moin.They have foinally gotten round to exploring and not just puttin' sat up where Oi've bin.
Mebbe they not so bad,...well zome ov em.

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Well It's taken most of today to do all that and my new complex has already earned it's first million credits since I zero'd it.
Just two station trading vessels selling Cloth Rimes.
And no npc trading.

It was a challenge set by a reader,and I have enjoyed doing it.

For now I will open up the universe a bit more before any more complexes are put in place.


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Oi zed Oi be openin' up zom more sectors.
Still in me Orca,'opin' ta voind zom more build missions along za way.

Went vrom Trinity Sanctum down south and west to Rhy's Crusade.
Gettin there was no problem.
Then back one sector to head south.

Got half way to the south gate and a red blip on my sreen.Oi'd zeen blips before.Kha'ak Clusters,Pirates and zome ships be a owned by zum Duke.

This was "diverent" tho.This blip looked more like one of those thar rolly-polly toys yer giv' ya kids.
But this was no Rolly-polly.THIS was a Kha'ak Corvette :!:

Well 'ee waz busy wid zum traders and not bothered with me...vamus las' words!
Still zum way to git to the gate an' 'ee turns on me.Now me bein a peaceful chap,unless zum-one gits in me way,Oi only have a single HEPT onboard an' no missiles.Me three Novas are back in Ore belt an' Oi only 'av a couple of ragtags onboard.
So Oi go full throttle an' set SETA on at max.

Oi got through the gate on 0% shields an' 80% Hull Integrty.Waz Oi glad I found a Split Shipyard the other zoid!
Check damage repair costs. Over 4.4 million.Oi moight just undock an do it meself.

At those prices ,Oi culd make zum credits if Oi were allowed to zet up a repair ship business :!:
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repair ship buisiness. hmm. maybe get a mod. maybe. I dunno if they have a repair ship fac...shipyard than you can charge others to repair ships.
The skunk really is a bare bones model. It doesn't even have a GPS to highlight the way. Or targeting software MK 2 to allow target selection and painting from the sector map. It lacks a Trading System Extention to show prices in the sector you are in. The lack of satellites in rebirth is also annoying to the trader/pirate looking for a mark.
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Post by microtheraver420 »

I could see it now TTD's Floating Bodyshop. lol. Thank goodness you got away, i would hate to see the story end there.
Death is the easy way out....
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There is a mod for fitting repair lasers to ships,but I think that is as far as it goes atm.

Hmm...."Floating body shop"....sounds good.

Working through to Xmas eve,so not a lot of time 'til then to do much.
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Working through to Xmas eve,so not a lot of time 'til then to do much.
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Bin thinkin' Oi need to repair me ship,zo Oi will move away vrom the dock and voind somewhere zafe,loik.

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Well it took me awoil to git done,but to a great savin'.
'av expplored all those Split Sectors now.'ave done another build mission for the split and am now a distinguished associate.Which means Oi kin buy that Elephant at last,if Oi want to.

Ready to move further south.

Oi'm informed the Queen has some interests down there.

Oi've done a few build missions for te Queen and now Oi'm awarded a knight hood in honour of her.

An' there Oi was,half the univers away from Argon Prime when I get a message sayn' the yaki has took a ship,an'could Oi 'elp 'em?
Oi got other thin's on moi moind roight noo ,so Oi shan't be helpin' yet.
Where was Argon One? is all Oi zay .
Let the millitary zort there own problems.Oi've got enough of moi own. :!:

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I must admit that if you have been playing a long at roughly the same pace,this would be an ideal point in the game to do the Treasure Hunt Mission , and probably the only time when the reward could be considered worthy.
When it was first introduced into the game,many of us were way past this stage and had done most if not all the then Main missions including the PHQ.Just a pity the Treasure Hunt had not been in at the first realease of TC.

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RIP

To two gallant Teladi traders who assisted me in Advance Satelite deployment.
Unfortunately The Discoverer they were using got blown out of space by a Kha'ak Fighter in Dark Waters.

Next of kin have been informed that no trace of there bodies were ever found.

Meanwhile I have set up another Discoverer to continue in their path.
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Oi have bin a bit busy just mappin' the southern regions an' doin' a few build missions.
Tried to visit the old Duke,since all 'is ships are blue on the scanner.
His station was red so Oi 'ung around a little and picked up zom missiles that 'ad been left layin' around.

Really! Zom poor feller ought to set up a waste collection depot an' go collect all these crates just a left 'angin' in space. :!:

Oi miss them Teladi guys,They did a good job for me....still these new recruits aren't that bad.They aren't too far he'ind me noo.

Oi got as var as the unknown sector,beneath Menalaus' Oasis.Now there's a name that that just rolls off your toungue :!:

So Oi thought I'd just let you volks back home know Oi'm still alive an preparing moi empire build.
Oi managed to get a 2nd 'and Dragon for a little over 1 mill. Bin doin' it up loik.Begiining to look loik a real M6 again.

Arh,talkin' ov M6s Oi 'ad te send moi Hydra up to that virst station complex Oi built.Zeems some pirates wanted to disrupt production.So me Hydra is on constant protect station alert noo.
Think Oi moight do that with te Dragon an' moi other complex too.
Yep Oi did jus' that.

Now oi've explored sw.central southern Paranidia , se Split an Boron areas.And 'ave worked my way up and round to Gaian Star,doing build missions along the way.

I am now in dangerous territory. Loads of red pirate flags everywhere.Kha'ak pop out for a pastime and oi 'ave just had a catastrophic rear-end engagement with a Xenon Q.
So back to my last port of call,(read reload) at the shipyard in Grand Exchange.

Now my problem is how to get out of 'ere alive :?:

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While doing this part of exploration I discovered a neat little trick....

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=3135876#top

More adventures tomorrow.
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I was going to wait until the game registered 14 days of play ,but there has been so much happening that I will do a status update now.
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Captains log: 768-05-11 1913
Flying Time : 10-19-12

Account :
114,966,820 Cr
11,469,718 Cr @ Adv.Sats & 25mj Shields Complex
7,367,506 Cr @ Cloth Rhimes Complex
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133,804,044 Cr
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Location : Grand Exchange

Passport Details
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Mogul : 11%
Veteran : 27%

Federation Overwatch : 83%
Boron Queens Night : 84%
Split Family Protector : 51%
Paranid Emperor's Protectorate : 23%
Teladi Majority Shareholder : 33%

Stats
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Ships bought 130
Ships sold 7
Factories built 73
Missions accepted 22
Missions completed 19
Ships claimed 2
Ships destroyed 19

Stations Owned 30
Ships owned 124
Adv Sats 116
Operational TS 52
TMs used as TS 7

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Considering Ten days of game play previously , I was floating in Space with barely a credit to my name....

Just wish real life was like that :lol:

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