So without SETA how do you not get utterly fed up building a trading empire?

[A5PECT]

[ahddib]

I personally enjoy the trade empire aspect of x3. I wish it could be activated within my HQ so that I can go AFK much safer than if I were in my Hyperion.

I believe that leaving the system running with your empire rolling on is awesome, however I believe they can achieve this same effect by having a persistent universe. Have everything occur even when you're offline. This can be accomplished via GoD and use of a reliable system for tracking exactly how much time has passed (not system time)

I enjoy setting things into motion then watching them bloom. SETA allows me to do this without spending all my time looking at my computer screen when I should be having a RL.

Either keep seta or fix it to where i don't need it to not bleed from my eyes.

[Virtualaughing]

Lets play Microsoft Flight Simulator X
Lets plan a flightpath including a transfer airport from EU to Hawaii
Lets say i would like to do this in a weekly basics with the actual weather conditions you can download from internet

In X world you can set multiple ships to do multiple things but you can't transfer yourself from one sector to another. I mean you have to actually fly there to change ships whenever they require your assistance.

Jane's IAF F -16 simulator (with other fighters ofc)
You have a maximum ammount of 8 fighters in the air. Tehy flying in pairs of leader and wingman
You can give simple commands to your wingmans.
You can choose and sit in any of formation leader's chair to take control of the fighter. Back and forward like the Transporter Device in X.
You can change the waypoints, move, or chosse another one in order to avoid hostile territory for your un -man -d(?) (autopilot) fighters
You can bring back your entire fleet if you quick n fast enough
If the formation leader is killed you can sit in the wingman chair only !

But most of all they jump back to regular duty as soon as you left the seat.
Which option is completely missing from X games.... all of the őpreviously mentioned games have the ability to compress time. In my eyes the multitasking feature is a bad argument. OFC you have to fight sometimes in order to save your factories and ships but what if i only wanna build my empire.

I hope our starting founds will be increased to a lvl when we can choose our way of moneymaking at the very start of the game. A small upgrade to the ships and/or few bucks for to fill our cargospace with the cheapest goods or/and to buy some weapons to play it rough... ;p

In Hungary I have to work 3 days just to pay my electricity bills. Most of us have to work at least 2 days. With 8 hour of PC's time. Around 10 € / day.

SETA is an enviroment and backpocket friendly option to save on electircity bills and save Planet Earth!

[Hektos]

Obviously I haven't played the game so this is purely speculation...

What took you 30 minutes to do in X3 (using SETA) will STILL take 30 minutes, you just won't be using SETA anymore.

The times/costs/distances will all be tweaked so that the loss of 6x(or 10x, if you were feeling brave) time speed won't matter.

[Typee]

[A5PECT]

[Typee]

Well, what are the alternatives? Have a 7 trillion killometers long highway with things all along?
Or are the solar systems going to be unreallistically small, Freelancer style?

[Chris0132]

You can have the highway go a billion km/s through the boring bits, and a hundred thousand km/s through the interesting bits, so effectively you could have a 7 trillion km long highway with stuff all along if you wanted, at least, if you measure distances in time taken to travel, rather than amount of ground covered at a constant speed like you normally do.

[Jumee]

aren't you guys optimistic

[ezra-r]

[ZSedlacek]

[Chris0132]

The only difference between a centimeter and a kilometer in a computer is where you choose to put the decimal point.

[Mountain_Puncher]

Maybe I'm not the average X3: TC AP/ whatever player, it's hard to tell since none of my friends like or have played this game, but seta didn't build my trading empire. I did fighting missions all the time, I'm not sure why anyone wouldn't since the goal i suppose is to get a bunch of money to buy that capship that can kill everything. Some of the beginning missions in TC, you could make 1 million credits easy.

In AP, I started finding these return ship missions profitable. Normally every 10 min of jumping around collecting good kill a guy missions, I'd find a mission to return an abandoned kraken or other m7m. Since I was unaware how to dock those at stations I just accepted mission, got ship, parked it at shipyard, cancelled mission then sold it for around 12mill.

Anyway what I'm getting at is that I acquired a lot of money actually playing the game then used that to buy ppc forges and the supporting infrastructure. Once I got around 50ppc forges in presidents end, with the xl solar power plants, crystal fabs ect, I was printing free money basically while still doing those missions. Well at that point I started capping terran ships with a minotaur which was good money making.

I think I used seta only to speed up jump time.

I guess the seta way would have filled the ppc inventory up overnight or something, then I'd go buy a boreas or 10 and realize I only need one then realize I didn't actually need one.

[Typee]

[THE_TrashMan]

Areas of interest always exist. Especially in sapce. Since space in mostly empty.

I don't know what you were expecting from a space game...