Lasertowers useless? Not so fast...

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Post by akeelah »

This is more addictive than Spaceweed. Somebody stop me! :P

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I'm watching the show when my enemy proximity alarm beeps and all the lasertowers slowly start turning towards me. :o

Some enemy ship or another had popped through the gate behind me. There was a brief flash of light, and it was gone before I could identify it. And I wasn't quick enough to get screen capture.

OK. I'll give it a rest now. As you were.
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Post by Cyricist »

Hm. I just thought of something. What if you were to use this ummm.. strategy in every Xenon sector at every portal..

I feel a great Xenon Migration Containment Experiment coming on in the near future! :lol:
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Post by XanII »

It takes a lot of time to produce 350 laser towers.
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Post by Flozem »

Heh - at last - I knew there had to some use for my self-sufficient LT complex... :P

Gonna try this soonish... :twisted:
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Post by jonbuttle »

Flozem wrote:Heh - at last - I knew there had to some use for my self-sufficient LT complex... :P

Gonna try this soonish... :twisted:

You know thats exactly what i thought!! :lol: I think ill try it too!
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Post by Gruber1232002 »

Now that's entertainment. Nicely done sir.
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Post by capirex »

Hmm...might try this in Ocean of Fantasy :twisted:
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Post by Nanook »

akeelah, you should probably submit some of these screenies for Screenshot of the Week. They're very impressive, and show off a very cool part of the game. :D
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Nanook wrote:akeelah, you should probably submit some of these screenies for Screenshot of the Week. They're very impressive, and show off a very cool part of the game. :D
OK. Thanks.

Is there s special procedure, or do I just post them in that thread like I did in this one?
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Post by Nanook »

Check the screenshot thread. You need to email them to the moderator of that thread.
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Post by PowerPC603 »

Cool, I have to try that also.

I was rampaging the Xenon sectors anyways to get some loot.

I already have a lasertower-complex (5 factories), but I sold all LT's. :(
I'll set prices to maximum, so the seller-ship just collects them and never sells them.

Gotta try 1000 LT's :)
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Post by mrbadger »

In my game I only have one LT fab that I'm aware of. I have a ship permenently parked there buying them when they are available (and I notice that they are). Thus far I have 14, and that's in three months of playing, although not every night, I'm rather busy.

At this rate it would take me a year to do the things shown in this thread. I'm jealous...
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Post by PowerPC603 »

Just build your own complex to make lasertowers.
I had 80 in stock, but sold them all.
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Post by akeelah »

But can they handle an full-grown adult capital ship?

Oh, yeah.


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Post by Userfaulty »

In your K screenshot some of your lasertowers are being hit by the ones behind them. Like the one in the lower right hand side.
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Post by XanII »

I doubt he cares. :)

Those screenshots are just mad. pwn! ...and yes they make excellent screenshots of the week material.
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Post by GaianKnight »

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If I can manage it, on X347, X472, and X608, I may try something like this. It may (for awhile,) help open up the trading lanes the Xenon bottle up. (The only worry is friendly fire incidents. Probably more than one would care for.) But couple this with Ring of Fire mod (as shown above,) and a good M2 patrol fleet (I use the Apricot mod,) this could really bottle down the Xenon heavily, at least for the short to mid range term. Wonder how long, long term, all those towers would last though. :idea: (But since this game is shaped to be a long term auspice to play, hehe...

Might be a reason for me to plop down a couple of LT complexes now. 8)

I applaud your accidental genius good sir (or ma`am. Been burned before with that,) for your discovery. :twisted:

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Post by TaGert »

In X3 reunion I had a fully proped mamut with lasertowers on standby if i needed a hand. But "back then" there was a lasertower collect script!
Collecting them all now takes to much time. So now there are capital ships on standby instead.
Does anybody know if this script is avalible for X3TC?
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Post by dragondream »

With the RoF script this should be excellent! Just pop one of these (which equals to about 360 lasertowers) at each gate and viola! Adios enemy infestation... :twisted:
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