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Spiffor
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CPA - Evil Clone brigade
Nov 2001
time: 06:34
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X2 is the game I'm playing right now. I enjoy it very much, because it is a beautiful game with many different ships and an excellent economic system (dynamic economic system baby!) 
Also, you can own your own stations, you can own a fleet of ships scattered across the universe, and in short you can become an interstellar mogul 
Besides, you can upgrade your ships with a variety of upgrades that make ship-tuning much more interesting than in previous Space games.
Lastly, the game is beautiful, and sends Elite2 back to stone age in this regard
There are a few shortcomings that make the experience different to Elite2 though:
1. The scale. Elite2 used realistic scales, and space was really fricking huge in that game. In X2, star systems are squares of about 100 km per side. Sure, you can go beyond the 100 km (actually, systems are infinitely big, there is just nothing save a few hidden bonuses past the boundaries).
Within this little square, scales are consistent. Stars and planets belong to the background, unlike Freelancer, so you won't navigate around tiny planets / stars that are 10 km wide.
2. No landable planets. Planets belong to the background texture. This is sad because scenario intermissions do happen on planets, and they are nicely rendered. Very frustrating 
Aside from that, the game has serious control issues if you don't have a joystick, and it can be frsutrating for the non-fan to have to trade for many hours before getting a factory that belongs to you, or a real nice fighter ship: the average profit with the trade ship you get after Mission3 is 5,000. The cheapest factory is 150,000. A really good fighter ship is 890,000 
There is another very serious issue for ATI users: their ATI will have trouble running the game as smoothly as it should. Nvidia cards are much less troubled: my GeForce4 64 Megs runs the game smoothly in 800*600 with all fluff removed (it would work in 1024*768, it's just that I never bothered to try).
Finally, there seems to be bugs, according to X2's forums (corrupted saves). However, I play on version 1.00, and I have no problem at all in this regard - apparently, the bug has to do with long player's and ships' names.
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Spiffor
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CPA - Evil Clone brigade
Nov 2001
time: 06:34
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Originally posted by Osweld
I completed the first couple of story-line missions and got an argon mercury, so I set out at a snails pace to do some trading while working my way to an equipment dock so that I could upgrade my engines. During that long, slow, flight I got to thinking about my old ship that I left behind - might aswell send it out to do some errands while I'm hauling stuff around, right? So I access it's command console remotely and tell it to dock to another station... a couple seconds later, it's destroyed. By the Teracorp HQ. Why?
Thinking back on it, I guess it may of been because it didn't have a docking computer, so maybe it nicked part of the exterior as it left, or something, and the HQ opened fire on it for 'attacking' - or maybe it just rammed itself against the interior untill it blew up  But I don't really know why it happened. |
This is a problem I didn't suffer from myself, but I read on X2's forums that it happens. Your ships may collide stupidly with stations or asteroids. It is a bad idea, because these stations will actually declare war on you.
I strongly suggest you to take a previous save back, because this previous ship will be useful, and you don't want to waste 80,000 into buying another.
Aside from that, you can buy the important upgrades (speed, rudder and cargo, as well as softare) at Terracorp. I trade almost only in Home Of Light, so it's very convenient
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General Ludd
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Minion of the Dominion
Aug 2001
time: 05:34
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quote:
Originally posted by Spiffor
I strongly suggest you to take a previous save back, because this previous ship will be useful, and you don't want to waste 80,000 into buying another.
Aside from that, you can buy the important upgrades (speed, rudder and cargo, as well as softare) at Terracorp. I trade almost only in Home Of Light, so it's very convenient |
I was relying on autosaves at the time, and it was too late to reload by the time I figured out why my ship had disapeared from the roster, so I just restarted - I hadn't done much, and I'd made alot of other big screw ups anyways. Like leaving some fairly valuable cargo on the loaned express ship and forgeting to sell it before returning it to Teracorp.  And yeah, I kicked myself when i realised that I could've upgraded that mercury at Teracorp HQ - after I had already lugged to a couple of station and through a jumpgate.
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