X3: Terran Conflict UPLINK Competition #2 - Results now in

[Xenon_Slayer]

View the results here

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Welcome to the second instalment of the X3TC Uplink competition!

As with last time, this competition will set a specific goal for you to achieve in X3TC. The winner is the person to achieve the goal in the quickest amount of time.

Round Two of the competition has the following challenge:

Gamestart: Bankrupt Assassin
Goal: Gain 5,000,000 Credits in your player account. The quickest time wins. This does not include station accounts or asset value.
Deadline: 06/07/2009 - 23:59 BST
Extra Conditions

• The savegame used must have been started in 2.1.

Prize: A copy of X3: Gold Edition signed by the EGOSOFT team.

You can join in the competition fun by following the instructions below and uploading your new game's progress by using this special competition UPLINK area.

By submitting your stats to this dedicated UPLINK area you will not overwrite your normal X3TC UPLINK stats, if you have already uploaded them.

Important note: members of EGOSOFT staff will not be permitted to enter this competition and entries with the **MODIFIED** tag will not be permitted to enter (or if entered, will not be judged).

The winner and runners up of each round of this competition will be announced just a few days after the stated deadline and before the next round of the competition starts.

We wish you the best of luck in this competition. May the best UPLINK win!

Here is a link to the first competition

[Vitez]

Egosoft, you always amaze me!
Good luck to the competitors!

[eladan]

Yes, good luck everyone. It will be interesting to see the strategies people use for this one.

[(/\)arped]

Well, whoever gets a freight scanner and finds a ship heaving about PPCs first may well win this one

[amtct]

Damn bounty hunters

I sold HPT and bought IRE.Now I must try and find that

Spoiler

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Buster Sentinel in Akeelas Beacon.

Sell both ships and I should have 5,000,000cr.

If I can get rid of those bounty hunters I will give up

{Spoilerised the free ship info. - eladan.}

I forgot to add spoiler

[X2-Eliah]

Out of curiosity, is it the quickest in-game time, or the quickest real-time?

If it is real-time, then that would not be fair to all folks..

If it is in-game time, then folks could just reload after their first fight, and do it over and over until they get a ship to bail, sell it, etc. etc.

[AleksMain]

Out of curiosity, is it the quickest in-game time, or the quickest real-time?

If it is real-time, then that would not be fair to all folks..

If it is in-game time, then folks could just reload after their first fight, and do it over and over until they get a ship to bail, sell it, etc. etc.

It is the quickest in-game time, so you can reload as many times as you want. Nobody can detect, that you had reloaded your game.

P.S.
I saw similar answer of moderator of this forum on same question.

In the real time you just limited by "Deadline: 06/07/2009 - 23:59 BST".

[Kapakio]

...

If it is in-game time, then folks could just reload after their first fight, and do it over and over until they get a ship to bail, sell it, etc. etc.

Considering everyone can do it, it's still a fair competition, isn't it?

[Flector]

Thumbs up to you, Egosoft! Good to see that there is another round.

The ability to save and load games makes game knowledge and strategy more important and reduces the importance of luck (although you will probably still need some luck to win the competition).

I'd say that is a good thing for a competition like this.

[gandy|UKCS|]

goes to back up game saves and enter the fun


edit, this is fun but not easy... around 4.5 hours to make 5 million

[Aro]

Another contest eh? Interesting again, but why not have an X3:R one?

[LTerSlash]

mmm question... this is for everyone? or is only for US and Europe ppl?

[eladan]

The only conditions of entry are the ones contained in the OP. If you don't see any restrictions based on geography, then you can assume that where you live doesn't matter.

In short, it's for anyone.

but why not have an X3:R one?

From a business perspective, having a comp for a recent release can generate interest in that release, and boost sales. That's not likely to happen for an older release such as Reunion - at this stage, most of the people who are likely to buy it already have.

That's not to say that there won't ever be a Reunion comp - Egosoft don't always go the pure business route - but it might explain why it's not a priority right at this moment.

[Szakalot]

seems like capping some precious cargo is the fastest way to do that.

[Gswine]

These comps are a great idea. As a player that ends up playing the same start for ages, it was refreashing just to startover and set a quick goal. Very good idea. Give me a chance to figure some personal DID rules.

Also I am using the save game manager (havent asked for permission to add thread, search xuniverse forum easy found)
Hugh ThanKYOU to Mr badger!
This is a must, highly recommend it. A very good program thats gonna become invaluble to me now.

[Wip3out (Bru)]

Done and done. Took 8 game hours, no boarding or anything. Purely missions. Saw this today actually, would have been faster if I knew. Good luck to the rest of the peeps!

[LTerSlash]

Well this will be someting intereseting to do this weekend...

[gandy|UKCS|]

well did my best time so far and its uploaded

[IceFire909]

was about to upload but then i realised...Terran Defender aint Bankrupt Assassin

[gandy|UKCS|]

why oh why is it so hard to make 500,000 credits in a very short time