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Post by Fatdaddy » Sun, 7. Mar 10, 14:43

OK I am playing vanila, the other requirements for the hub plot were tough but manageable, but where in gods name will i get 75,000 micro chips this side of the next millenium. 500 took long enough.

Is it as simple as building 100 chip factories? I only have 4 atm. Or is there some other secret to geting 1billion worth of chips for this quest.



On a side issue is there an easy way to keep the game running while you are alt tabbed out of it. Having a life i sometimes need to do other things and other family members use the PC. Would be good if i could keep the production going in my absence, i have tried all the settings i can see in both windowed and full screen modes. Regardless of what i do the game effectively pauses whle i am out of it.

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Post by EmperorJon » Sun, 7. Mar 10, 15:24

Gameplay -> Run game in background :D

yes, you'll need more factories. Lots more. I have 25 at the moment, I'm going for another 20 odd soon.
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Post by Fatdaddy » Mon, 8. Mar 10, 00:41

EmperorJon wrote:Gameplay -> Run game in background :D

yes, you'll need more factories. Lots more. I have 25 at the moment, I'm going for another 20 odd soon.
Thanks for that, now set to yes :p
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Post by wadedidit » Sun, 14. Mar 10, 11:30

Terran plot finished thanks very much.

Now where to from here?

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Post by EmperorJon » Sun, 14. Mar 10, 11:43

How do you guys do the Crystals!?

I'm down to ~195k now... stealing them from my self sufficient Ore and Chip complexes, and setting up a small complex to just drain money and buy resources to make chips...

But it takes so long... any pointers?
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Post by EDGE N7 LT » Sun, 14. Mar 10, 12:03

Use "o'matic"...
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Post by EmperorJon » Sun, 14. Mar 10, 12:10

?

Ok...
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Post by dillpickle » Sun, 14. Mar 10, 12:24

Personally I don't set up self sufficient complexes. A closed loop for 10 crystal Fab L's will generate enough crystals to complete the plot in around 6 1/4 days. Take away the SPP's and import the energy (there's plenty around), and the same 10 fabs will turn out enough in 3 1/2 days.

I tend to keep the silicon separate as well (hate towing mines!!), then once the crystal stage has finished I can shut down production completely and shunt all the silicon to the hub until completed.

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Post by EDGE N7 LT » Sun, 14. Mar 10, 13:53

To clarify: if you need an awesome game spoiler (almost any game) use "omatic". Simple program. Found it 9-10 years ago. Changes any walue in any program into your desired one. In X3 I made myself 800 typhoons, for defence, like this and seriously considering doing the hub with it too...
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Post by EmperorJon » Sun, 14. Mar 10, 13:57

Erm... I think using the ingame script editor would be easier?

Or for the next level of easyness, Cycrow's Cheat Script?

Or for the final level, Apricotslices mod which makes the Hub requirments really small.

Something like:

2 Computer Components
5 Microchips
Etc...
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Post by EDGE N7 LT » Sun, 14. Mar 10, 15:00

This doesnt count like scripting, therefore you you wont get any "messages" that game is moded.
As for scripts, I don't know. Haven't tried them and omatic is a program that I trust and it works on X3 very fast compraed to some other games. And it can change ANY number.

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Post by Greyhawk1 » Mon, 15. Mar 10, 01:05

Reading this it seems there are FAR too many ways to break the missions if you dont read and memorize the walkthroughs first.

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Post by EBass » Mon, 15. Mar 10, 22:12

Ok, so I dropped my two passengers off at the Orbital defence station and I'm not getting another mission. Do I have to wait or should it come immediatly? I didn't "Beam" them aboard or whatever, ran over them as per usual.

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Post by Carlo the Curious » Mon, 15. Mar 10, 22:14

It takes a while for the next mission.

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Post by Greyhawk1 » Thu, 18. Mar 10, 23:02

Having major issues with the Final Fury mission 3. There's just way too many Khaak!

I'm using a Shrike with a Centaur and a Dragon as escorts - unfortunately the TL is too fast for my Shrike and the two M6's get overwhelmed quickly if I order them to protect the TL.

If I get too close to the TL, the Shrike's own weapons end up destroying it. Too far and the Khaak easily destroy it. I've tried missiles but they are so slow it makes little difference.

If I jump in an M3 I get annihilated very quickly.

Kind of stumped. If I use a capital ship I'll end up killing the guy I'm supposed to protect. If I use an M6 I get killed, an M3 likewise.

Its a shame the mission makes no sense. They have all that hardware in the adjacent sector yet rely on one man to single handedly destroy a sector's worth of Khaak AND protect TL's. Dumb.

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Post by Murija » Wed, 24. Mar 10, 04:00

@ Final Fury Mission 2.

mission where u get data from exterminator + random spawned gun, but...

on far south there is 3 unknown object, when i approached them, they look like 3 frozen parts of some big ship, and act like asteroids, and i cant do anything with them.
any ideas or help?

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Post by Carlo the Curious » Wed, 24. Mar 10, 17:41

They're just scenery, as far as I know.

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Post by wadedidit » Wed, 24. Mar 10, 22:40

I did it in an M7 Cerberus with a modified game using Advanced Jumpdrive.

Other than that, if you think that mission is hard (took me 10 or more goes) wait for the last one...

I also brought and lost 19/20 M3 fighters, one left after that mission...

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Post by Risky » Fri, 26. Mar 10, 19:29

On the Teran Mission 6 I had to add one little thing to make it work - you can't tranfer Pearle unless there is CLS on the Caimen and if you tranfer it from your own ship he dies. I solved it by ordering in an M5 to donate a the CLS first before the transfer.

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Post by Nanook » Fri, 26. Mar 10, 22:32

Greyhawk1 wrote:Having major issues with the Final Fury mission 3. There's just way too many Khaak!

I'm using a Shrike with a Centaur and a Dragon as escorts - unfortunately the TL is too fast for my Shrike and the two M6's get overwhelmed quickly if I order them to protect the TL.

If I get too close to the TL, the Shrike's own weapons end up destroying it. Too far and the Khaak easily destroy it. I've tried missiles but they are so slow it makes little difference.

If I jump in an M3 I get annihilated very quickly.

Kind of stumped. If I use a capital ship I'll end up killing the guy I'm supposed to protect. If I use an M6 I get killed, an M3 likewise.

Its a shame the mission makes no sense. They have all that hardware in the adjacent sector yet rely on one man to single handedly destroy a sector's worth of Khaak AND protect TL's. Dumb.
You say you've tried missiles, but have you tried something like the Cobra, an M7M? I'd think it should be fast enough to keep up with the TL, and with enough Flails and Hammers, you should be able to barrage those Kha'ak into oblivion.
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