Okay.. X2 without the Plot

[IvanT]

So... you want to play X2 (modded or unmodded) but without any of the plot, but all Khaak sectors immediately available. (Secret ones remain hidden until you find them still).

If you were hoping I'd give you a way to do it., I'm still not sure myself.. so I'm putting this out to the floor..

I know LV was looking at trying to figure this one out. Anyone else..?

[Storm_Front]

I've linked the secret Khaak sectors to the main map grid via additional sectors and jumpgates. I think it's a start.

[the_conquerer_cgi]

Since this is close to an issue I have with non-story as I can get, I'll post this here...

I played for 1 day game-time on a no-story campaign, cheated to set up about 5 spp's in argon prime, and bought a titan and loaded it. And you know what? The khaak didn't trigger (which I was trying to do). Is this confirmed that the khaak "invasion" is a strictly storyline thing? It's about the only thing that makes the game even remotely challenging.

[DrCBVI]

I would presume it is a story thing, since Ban Danna is the guy to message you, triggering the Khaak invasion.

[IvanT]

If we can get the Khaak ingame without having the story kick in., thats what I'm looking for..

[Miths123]

Since this is close to an issue I have with non-story as I can get, I'll post this here...

I played for 1 day game-time on a no-story campaign, cheated to set up about 5 spp's in argon prime, and bought a titan and loaded it. And you know what? The khaak didn't trigger (which I was trying to do). Is this confirmed that the khaak "invasion" is a strictly storyline thing? It's about the only thing that makes the game even remotely challenging.

I asked the same question a couple of days ago (never got an answer though, so I guess not many have tested it yet), but I guess it would make most sense to asume that the invasion is triggered by the story - hence no khaak in a custom universe (x2 map - no-story).

Reading through some of the other posts in this forum it seems that some people have come up with great ways to add challenges though. Personally I think I will take the hints about giving the khaak ownership of some sectors (and more to the xenon and/or pirates perhaps), and strategically place khaak and xenon shipyards (and pirate bases) in places that will require ships to travel quite some way through the sectors of other races after respawning.

[The_Rock]

If we can get the Khaak ingame without having the story kick in., thats what I'm looking for..

Well i'm manually spawning Khaak ships in Argon Prime to p*ss off the natives...

[Storm_Front]

If we can get the Khaak ingame without having the story kick in., thats what I'm looking for..

Trilon was able to script in random appearing pirate corvettes, maybe someone could script in randomly appearing Khaak clusters, deja vu.
Or, perhaps by linking their sectors via jumpgates we can coax them into visiting us.

[NeverSnake]

Or maybe just call the script that triggers the khaak invasion in the storyline...

[Storm_Front]

If using the Galaxy Editor we create Khaak ships in a sector,like Argon Prime, when those ships are destroyed will the distant Khaak shipyards produce replacements and send them to Argon Prome?

[_LordAnubis_]

Has anybody tried creating a BBS mission that, when taken, spawns Khaak ships around the galaxy? I cant do this kind of stuff, but it's an idea to try to get Khaak into the game without the storyline.

[MrDigital]

After 15+ hours now into a Custom Modified game (non story) I have had to deal with about a dozen encounters with the Khaak. They tend to take out my advanced satilites which pisses me off so I have to jump in and kill them.

So the Khaak are not completely out of the game. They just don't come in and wipe out whole sectors anymore, but I have dealt with them as far as Kingdom's End and Ore Belt among others.