Option to get Xenon research

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Combat Wombat
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Option to get Xenon research

Post by Combat Wombat »

Playing 7.00 beta. I wanna be able to refit my captured xenon ships but I didn't know about the option to research the ability to with the drop from the H before I wiped the Xenon out. I have an H captured if I blow that up will it drop and then after the research I can build more Hs? Or am I basically hosed?
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Re: Option to get Xenon research

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You can't Build Xenon H by any way new, so do not do it.
If you need to unlock X research, you just need to kill a Xenon H, it can't get by only 1 Marine anymore.
You just need a reconnaissance aircraft with 50 tracking explosive mines, use Pause to drop them on same time. If you drop tracking mines in 1-3 s distance, Like 4000m in 2000m/s, you can kill any capital ship by one shoot.(without Xenon I )
Just get the item and TP to come back HQ.

If your save have not Xenon any more... Destory your own H will also drop the item to unlock research, but it's not include Xenon ship's blueprint. You can only get them in custom opening now (7.0Beta without Timeline).
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Re: Option to get Xenon research

Post by burger1 »

If you have gate camps + ships picking up wares they might have a shard. The research is unlocked only when the shard is in the players inventory. So not in a pilots inventory or the hq's inventory.

You could save then blow up the ship then see if a shard drops? Reload if there is no drop. Not sure if it's a 100% thing.

Look in Xenon shipyard sectors for H?
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Re: Option to get Xenon research

Post by Arkanus »

I had the same problem

Get timelines. The new sectors added to your sandbox might have "h"s :wink:

Just be fast. The terrans are at large :mrgreen:
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Re: Option to get Xenon research

Post by Kawasaki ZedHed »

Ooooooh wait, so this research ONLY gives the equipment to outfit he ships?

My Xenon H got destroyed and I couldn't save it, the autosave was literally 15 seconds before destruction, nothing I could do to save it.

So we can only capture Xenon ships, we cannot build them?
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Re: Option to get Xenon research

Post by MajorMagers »

This sounds like it would be good to give during a Yaki quest where you get the Yaki a shipyard and researchers and turn them into a real non-pirate power. Have the Yaki researchers team up with Boso and Terans who also know about how old Xenon stuff works and reverse engineer the ships and components to be build-able with maybe a mix of TER and UNI materials, or just make new XEN materials.
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Re: Option to get Xenon research

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Ketraar has mentioned that for those of us who have no Xenon in the game, and any Timelines new sectors with H roaming around which have already been hosed by other factions, that he will consider adding a findable lockbox with a Quantum Data Shard in it. Dont know when ..
Ketraar wrote: Tue, 2. Jul 24, 15:30 Those are normal ships they should drop things just like any other and the H has a 100% drop chance for the Quantum Data Shard.

Might place a findable lockbox somewhere but needs some consideration, don't want to make it too easy to get otherwise could just have gifted it.

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