and back again :)

[rbettele]

Hi there,

I've played all the x games..... to death... eventually got bored of Albion after far too many hours and too many rows with the mrs over my time on the pc etc... I know I'm not the only one!

Anyway... fancy playing it again Missing it!
The rebirth sounds... well thats for another forum... but I really miss Albion and my fleet of battleships..
Problem is new PC, still got game but lost all the scripts I'd downloaded and spent years getting nicely configured and working together...

I can go through the sticky list and pick n choose but would someone kindly point out to me the best few total conversion/rebalance mods that I should get started with. Then any more recommendations if you like.

Very much appreciated. Thx

[UniTrader]

i think this topic is about Albion Prelude, correct? (if yes please dont open a new topic, i will move it to the correct forum in that case )

[rbettele]

Albion yes, didn't I mention that a few times
I posted it in the Albion scripts/mod forum
Edit: Any chance of moving it back there pls

[UniTrader]

***moved***

[rbettele]

thank you sir

[Raaaak]

If you want a good full conversion mod check out Litcube's Universe. I've also heard good things about XRM (X Rebalanced Mod) but my computer is too weak to handle it.

[Fiesgesicht]

Those two are the ones I would suggest, too.

Haven't tried LU myself yet, but Feedback seems very positive on his work.

Only thing that has me shy away from it is the (likely) incompatibility with many other scripts. But it seems LU takes care of many of those issues by adressing most issues through LU itself.

XRM may not seem quite as flashy compared to LU, but comes with rather high compatibility towards other scripts.

Currently playing a heavily modded XRM and planning to try out LU sometime in the future.

[rbettele]

thank you

[zanzal]

I think the best main choices are going to be:

1. Litcube's Universe - No plots, great performance, completely balanced economy and ships. Combat pace is a little slow compared to Vanilla. Unlike other choices, LU can be lost, since there is an enemy in the game that slowly expands and conquers. Easier to setup than XRM imo.

2. XRM - Many plots, lots of ships, a complete reorganizing of ship capabilities, lots of cool additions that fit great on top of the original gameplay. Things like boarding with Marines via teleporter are all integrated in the base mod.

3. Battlestar Galactica Total Conversion - I've never done this one as BSG was never my thing.

I think I realized a few months back that I had never really completed most of the plots for TC or AP, so I am doing a plot focused game and for that its just IEX + TC plots for AP + Cadius' Xtra ship/station pack. If you've never done plot focused gameplay it might be worth considering.

[Valtarien]

I am curious as to why no one recommended X-Tended for TC/AP. I would really like to know, as I was considering this one as well for a total conversion for my return playthrough.

[X2-Illuminatus]

I am curious as to why no one recommended X-Tended for TC/AP.

Only a guess, but the OP asked specifically for X3AP mods, the XTC is however commonly known as compatible to X3TC. While there is a prototype version available for X3AP too, that might not be as stable as the X3TC version.