Has ground warfare been supped up

[Frank Johnson]

Will I be able to Cap stations?
Will I be able to cap Planets?
Will I be able to buy gear upgrades for ground forces(marines)?
Will I be able to cap sectors?

[the-danzorz]

None of this has been confirmed, all i know is that you can sabotage stations by going inside them with drones.

[stabile007]

it would be cool to be able to capture entire sectors and effectively starting your own legitimate space empire. I hope its something they add. As for planets to me the planets seem to be simply a back drop (I am still a n00b so I can be completely wrong) so that excites me a little less but I want to totall ybe able to capture sectors.

[StarSword]

it would be cool to be able to capture entire sectors and effectively starting your own legitimate space empire. I hope its something they add. As for planets to me the planets seem to be simply a back drop (I am still a n00b so I can be completely wrong) so that excites me a little less but I want to totall ybe able to capture sectors.

Believe it or not, they're not a backdrop, but actual physical objects.

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The obvious example is Aldrin. That overgrown asteroid is actually in the geographical center of its sector.

The other well-known example is the planet in Split Fire. Sometimes players will lose satellites (or rarely, ships) to accidental reentry.

[StarTroll]

it would be cool to be able to capture entire sectors and effectively starting your own legitimate space empire. I hope its something they add. As for planets to me the planets seem to be simply a back drop (I am still a n00b so I can be completely wrong) so that excites me a little less but I want to totall ybe able to capture sectors.

Believe it or not, they're not a backdrop, but actual physical objects.

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The obvious example is Aldrin. That overgrown asteroid is actually in the geographical center of its sector.

The other well-known example is the planet in Split Fire. Sometimes players will lose satellites (or rarely, ships) to accidental reentry.

Apart from the Aldrin roid, I'm pretty sure that all planets are just images you can get close to, and burn to death. Well at least I think they are not 3D models.

[Skeeter]

They are 3d models tho i think they are half spheres as they probs reckon no one would go around them unless im mistaken and they were full. Pretty sure someone said it was half spheres tho unless thats just early x games.

I had high hopes they had more than just space stuff tho in this new reboot of the x games more involvment in planets like trade based on a station that deals with a planet it orbits for land goods you only trade in them stations. Comm planets and talk to them perhaps for contacts and deals and race specific things. Political system like in 4x games would be nice too for alliances, trade deals, etc. But i doubt they will do it as x games dont like too much change although rebirth is a bit different it is just redoing what it did before really so keeping station building, buying ships and trading and thats about it.

[Dantrithor]

Some are full spheres, others are half spheres (some in X3TC). But most of them are 3D objects placed usually very far away from the sector populated area.