Last night I couldn't sleep so I made up some fake achievements

[fireanddream]

As a man child who likes to mess around I always have thing for those secret-y achievements. Last night I couldn't sleep so I decided to brainstorm a bunch of achievements that may or may not be fun to you. A lot of those are pop references.

Who knows, perhaps someday I'll make an actual mod out of this.

So, bored at work? Let's see how many you can get.

1. Very Funny

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Change pilot name to "changed later".

2. Backseat Driver

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Enslave your passenger or eject him/her in a Xenon sector after he/she complains about you taking too much time.

3. Hello World

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Comm a Xenon ship.

4. The Table Has Turned

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Destroy a huge ship by bumping it with an M5.

5. Strong Independent Astronaut

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Self destruct your starting ship.

6. First Day at the Job

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Accept an escort mission then follow the freighter with a non combat ship or an M1/M2.

7. Highfive

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Bump an astronaut in your space suit.

8. Painless

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Die from running out of oxygen.

9. Highway Robbery

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Buy e-cells at 20cr per while your ship doesn't contain enough for one jump.

10. Serve the Servant

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Use one of the supply commands on a ship equipped with Supply Command Software.

11. No One can Hear You Scream

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Visit a Xenon sector during a "a tour of a life time" mission.

12. A Song of Ice and Fire

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Hit a crate of ice with PBG.

13. Doctor without Borders

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Hit a Xenon ship with your repair laser.

14. Not the Sharpest Tool

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Ask for direction to a shipyard/EQ dock while docking at it.

15. Fly Me to the Moon

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Command autopilot to fly to sector the Moon,

16. Robbed Blind

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Sell a capital ship in Yaki shipyard.

17. Space Party

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Have space weed, space fuel, and at least two passengers in a TP ship.

18. Cleansed

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Enter sector Heaven's Assertion with a negative Paranid rep.

19. Shock Treatment

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Hit an astronaut with IonD.

20. I Have Detailed Files

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Discover all unknown sectors.

21. Transgender

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Receive a message that says your female marine has finished training, in which it refers to the marine as "he".

22. Not What I Wanted for Christmas

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Have a pilot bail, then destroy the ship anyway.

23. Vomit on His Sweaters

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Hold down Q or E for more than 10 seconds.

24. Coming Home

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Dives into Earth.

25. Canadian

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Apologize to a friendly ship.

26. Friendly Neighborhood

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Put your HQ in a Xenon Sector.

27. By the Book

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Return an M7 in a return ship mission.

28. Moonwalk

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Enter a jump gate from the other side. Because you are just that cool.

29. Antihero

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Attempt to destroy the north jump gate in Heretic's End or the south jump gate in Asteroid Belt.

30. Creep

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Display an AI piloted ship in both monitors.

[RainerPrem]

Visit a Xenon sector during a "a tour of a life time" mission.

Hi,

Don't you know that X3AP has a "X-treme tour of a life time" which leads through ALL Xenon sectors?

It's not really dangerous, if you use a fast TP with turbo installed.

OTOH the mission is flawed, since it gives a negative reward.

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Rainer

[Timsup2nothin]

For the "moonwalk" on number 28, to be really cool use an M5 and not only hit the gate from the back side, but do it while sliding backwards after a high speed 180 degree turn.

I actually practice that.

[lyonhaert]

5. I can't! I don't know which of my Mercuries it is anymore.
8. Done it. Repairing an M7M with a coffee cup on the boresight fire key while watching a movie with my fiance.
9. Done it.
16. Oh yeah. About to do it again.
23. Bonus: rig a controller or joystick so you can roll and yaw at the same time.
27. HAHAHAHAHA! Maybe I'll do it once.
28. Or because that was the side I was facing because I was using it as cover from Xenon.

I did try to pick up an astronaut without realizing my hold was full. That could be a good one.

For the "moonwalk" on number 28, to be really cool use an M5 and not only hit the gate from the back side, but do it while sliding backwards after a high speed 180 degree turn.

I actually practice that.

I do like the "speedboat" feel of the Kestrel. I like to approach at an angle and then whip around so I'm going through sideways.

[jlehtone]

I did try to pick up an astronaut without realizing my hold was full. That could be a good one.

I did that with a marine after successful boarding. The personnel tab of properties has shown "Marines in space" as 1, yet an empty list, ever since.


28. That is what I always do. Every time.

[Timsup2nothin]

For the "moonwalk" on number 28, to be really cool use an M5 and not only hit the gate from the back side, but do it while sliding backwards after a high speed 180 degree turn.

I actually practice that.

I do like the "speedboat" feel of the Kestrel. I like to approach at an angle and then whip around so I'm going through sideways.

You've hit the heart of why I don't fly Kestrals very much. That "speedboat effect" is limited by their poor maneuverability. The Kestral slides sideways nice enough, but I can spin my Disco all the way around on its axis and slide into the gate backwards. I'm working on killing the throttle as I spin so I can do that high-speed-180-shoot-at-the-pursuit-while-going-backwards maneuver you see in action movie car chases.

[lyonhaert]

You've hit the heart of why I don't fly Kestrals very much. That "speedboat effect" is limited by their poor maneuverability. The Kestral slides sideways nice enough, but I can spin my Disco all the way around on its axis and slide into the gate backwards. I'm working on killing the throttle as I spin so I can do that high-speed-180-shoot-at-the-pursuit-while-going-backwards maneuver you see in action movie car chases.

Aye, Kestrels are much better in a straight line. On that note, now that I've finished exploring the last few sectors I needed to I have less use for it other than going fast without Turbo (e.g. the one-person, urgent transport missions that don't require a TP).

I'm going to do some comparisons later between the likes of Kestrel, Jaguar Raider, etc. to see how much acceleration plays into maneuverability.

Regarding the high-speed-180-shoot-at-the-pursuit-while-going-backwards maneuver, are you looking forward to the Flight Assist toggle they talked about for X4:Foundations? Turning it off means flight physics more like Newtonian (get up to speed, turn it off, turn 180 and fire backwards at speed).

[zazie]

I could contribute another madness - and I have done it

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Repair an Aran only with your Repair Laser

What is puzzling me since: I did not die during this 'operation'. I had stuck the "repair"-key with a wooden letter-opener and let the PC work all night long. I have no clue why 'me' had enough oxygen.

[Triaxx2]

Hmm... yup, done all of those. Commed an entire Xenon Fleet once because I was really, really bored.

[lyonhaert]

What is puzzling me since: I did not die during this 'operation'. I had stuck the "repair"-key with a wooden letter-opener and let the PC work all night long. I have no clue why 'me' had enough oxygen.

Do you have any mods installed that might remove the oxygen limit? I'd eject from ship and wait a while, then check to see if oxygen level even goes down.

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Also, I'm surprised you didn't use the SETA repair trick.

[zazie]

No, that was an "All-Vanilla-Game", even without Bonus Pack.
And the SEAT-trick would not work in my games as I get constantly messages from my free ships (doing single trading jobs or being attacked somwhere in the Universe)). That breaks SETA.