X2 Question

[Yapa]

Hi,

I've read some where that its possible to make ur own ships from various parts in X2. Is this at all possible? or was I dreaming

Also do the players factories produce only raw goods, or can the player also sell ships. If this is possible, then would it also be possible to sell your own ship designs... if the previous question is true?

That would be a pretty amazing thing.... to see ur own ship designs being purchased by NPC's and flown around in battle etc... a design could become a favourite among pirates and u could make millions hehe ok dats probably going a bit far but imagine if it would be possible!


and just a quicky about X-Tension.... does the game randomly generate the ships and NPC ships or are they actually built? Bcos i've read referances to factories building ships, but are these actually really built and purchased by NPC's or are they just fake and the game engine randomly generates NPC's and ships.....???
Thanks,

Yapa

[Apothos]

and just a quicky about X-Tension.... does the game randomly generate the ships and NPC ships or are they actually built? Because i've read references to factories building ships, but are these actually really built and purchased by NPC's or are they just fake and the game engine randomly generates NPC's and ships?

Any ship lost by any NPC factory is "rebuilt" at the local shipyard and sent to the factory that lost it. Pirate Bases act like shipyards in this respect by "rebuilding" lost ships that originated from said Pirate Base.

[Yapa]

is it possible to destroy factories and shipyards? In that way u could stop a pirate base building any more pirates, and therefore ending their domination of the area?

Yapa

[Apothos]

is it possible to destroy factories and shipyards?

Yup.

[Commander Jamieson]

Hi,

I've read some where that its possible to make ur own ships from various parts in X2. Is this at all possible? or was I dreaming
Yapa

I think you might have seen articles about the X Online Universe, which is still in development. There it will be possible to build your ship from modular pieces, similar to a Lego set.

Also do the players factories produce only raw goods, or can the player also sell ships. If this is possible, then would it also be possible to sell your own ship designs... if the previous question is true?

That would be a pretty amazing thing.... to see ur own ship designs being purchased by NPC's and flown around in battle etc... a design could become a favourite among pirates and u could make millions hehe ok dats probably going a bit far but imagine if it would be possible!
Yapa

Your factories produce mainly goods from raw materials, some of the products made are needed to produce other goods. This is what is called a supply chain of factories.

and just a quicky about X-Tension.... does the game randomly generate the ships and NPC ships or are they actually built? Bcos i've read referances to factories building ships, but are these actually really built and purchased by NPC's or are they just fake and the game engine randomly generates NPC's and ships.....???
Thanks,
Yapa

The player can sell ships he has surplus of like captured ships at ship yards.

Shipyards produce ships as they are needed for NPC purposes, as a NPC ship is lost, either through a collision, fight or accident it will be produced at the relevant ship yard building the type of ship. No resources or credits are needed for this by NPCs as this is done on a needed basis. You as player on the other hand have to fork out hard credits to buy a ship. But you can buy as many ships as your wallet can stand, ship yards never run out of ships.

Pirate and Xenon ships will get less and less as they are getting destroyed, if you have not enabled respawn in the game for Xenon battle ships and pirate bases they will disapear over a given time.

As long as the Xenon ship yard remains it will build Xenon ships as needed.

Cheers

[Scarecrow]

And that makes for a very boring universe

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[Yapa]

hmmm thats a bit dissapointing that the NPC's can build ships with no credits, whats the point of them trading etc?

Also its said that you can change the course of the game or _affect_ the universe based on ur trading or pirating..... I thought that it would be possible to stop supply lines to certain stations / bases and in that way with no products to produce ships you could cripple a race / side.

but since they can build without credits theres no real point in doing that, their trading ships are just there for look?

oh well a minor dissapointment...

Yapa

[moggy2]

hmmm thats a bit dissapointing that the NPC's can build ships with no credits, whats the point of them trading etc?

Also its said that you can change the course of the game or _affect_ the universe based on ur trading or pirating..... I thought that it would be possible to stop supply lines to certain stations / bases and in that way with no products to produce ships you could cripple a race / side.

but since they can build without credits theres no real point in doing that, their trading ships are just there for look?

oh well a minor dissapointment...

Yapa

The supply ships are there to supply the factories with the resources required. There is a point to them.

If you destroy the supply ships to a given station it won't get the resources it needs so it's prices go up, and eventually it stops producing if it can't get the needed resources.
However, when the station looses a ship, it gets a new one from the nearest shipyard, just like you would.

I don't think the NPCs actually keep track of their credits, so to speak, so I don't think it's possible to bankrupt a station or a race.