OK all. Much has happened to this old farts life since i was last here. Many of you will probably be more advanced at the tactics of the game by this time so I will not presume to debate you. As of this time I am redoing all of my old saves and re-integrating them into Win 10. this will take time, as I study the upgrade packs and advancements made in the engine.

I am serious about my Gaming as many of you who knew me from 2012 will attest to. Any advices of guidance the hardcores of this group can lend is very much appreciated as I come up to speed.

I am way late to this party, but like TritonTitan, also looking to add a few friends to list that love the X series.

Hey looking to get a few more fans of the x series on my friends list also anyone that may be starting Citizen Elite

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So has anyone seen the Rebirth Trailer yet? if not get it watched!!!!!

Just started again-couldn't keep away from 3.0 :p

Starting from scrach again!

Just starting up again. I have been away for about 2 years. Should be interesting learning all over again!

been playin since x just wanted to say hi.

With the new Stock Exchange, the game can be too easy, you just monopolis on something, get the demand down and buy all the stocks cheap, then move everything out of that stock system and sell stocks for alot of cash... I can get about 1000 millions now whenever i want, just moving one ship through a jumpgate, back and forth.

Hi everyone. I just joined the group. I've been playing since XBF too. Right now I am playing Albion. Gotta love the new Stock Exchange. I made 200 million creditsss buying and selling shares within the first 24 hours that I've been playing. Heck I don't even have a single factory built yet.

Hi all freetraders, just a quick hello from the UK, I've been playing since XBF came out, played every release since then, hope to be sharing as much exerience(s) with you all in the not to distant future..... I'll be glad when Egosoft make an online X-Universe, happy hunting.

Hello Just wanted to say Hi I just joined your group. I started playing X3 again. I love this game.
I have been playing since reunion, played some of TC but now im into AP but I cant wait to see what REBIRTH will be like. Anyway I hope to chat with you all about your experiences with X3 and your style of play. TTYL

Thanks for pointing the way Adam.
As a first complex I always start off with spaceweed. A single L sized Bliss Place+A single L sized Dream Farm costs approx. 4.5million cr. (add a little extra for a trader to buy cells + 1/2mill. to start the factory off). Buying e-cells at 12cr will earn you roughly 134000cr per hour. I usually place mine in Avarice where there is usually a SPP XL that sells nice and cheap cells. However that can soon sell out as all the npc traders rush for a bargain. So it's best to give your plex a jump radius of about 7.
It's best to leave it as an open loop at this stage, but once the money starts flooding in you may wish to increase the number of factories before making it into a closed, self-sufficient loop.
Thee are other factories that sell well: 1MJ shields, microchips and food/bio all sell well.
Hope this helps. :)

This is a good spot to answer, since everyone gets to see it

Whoops! Not a good start. Sorry WhoThat for getting your name wrong! These darn specs. (Gotta bame it on something!).

Hi ,y'all. I'm new to this forum although I have been a member of Egosoft forum for a couple of years (I go by the name of Coreblimey on that forum). I am not by any stretch of the imagination, an expert.
I would like to help people with difficulties learning the different aspects of the game as best I can. For instance, WhoWhat in the post below asks for advice on starting out with a station. Is this the place to help or is there somewhere else for me to post an answer.?

So, I playd the stocks for some hour or two last nigth and made a nice fortune of about 22 million. I want to build a station, but do not know what type. I already have 4 merchants with Trade MK3 going about doing thier thing. Should I invest in a solar plant XL? I dont know, nor do I know where to put it =[

Hey, Ya'll! I am excited to learn waht i can about the iner workings of this game from everyone. Right now i have two ST running around and flying aorund with my scout to figure out wher ei can start building factories. Any advice would be great!

Hello everyone! Thought I would join up with fellow English X3AP players :D!
Valkorai did you get the game figured out?

right Im now over the 200 hours mark! ;) I have started building my fleet to take on the X Universe. Only issule is it takes upto two days game time to build the big super carriers which in 10X seta is around 15 hours real time so it's gunna take a while to be ready plus i need to fill these carriers with fighters, (60 per ship) so maybe... in a few weeks I will be ready to fight! :)

brand new to x series but heard great things about it, have 0 friends playing this game and have 0% knowledgebase to help me accomplish any form of success playing it, if anyone would like to lend me some perals of wisdom i'd be very grateful

Rather hot in this 300% solar sector

Word Space ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ where all the galactic slags at . :P So hows the weather in space where you are, bloody cold here. Nuttin a bit a terran or argon bashin wont solve

vayne! how is that new ship?

2nd valhalla, 2nd kyoto. count is 12 osakas, 2 odins, and 6 tokyos plus the makkana or whatever itis. almost finished with the fleet.

Have discovered that there are a select few places the valhalla is allowed to jump... irritating.

did you know we can dock corvettes on a valhalla? AND a kyoto? transports too! holy crap!

Valhalla Captured.

Captured Kyoto and 8 osakas, 1 tyr and 1 odin. getting quite a collection... a shame im getting them without some weapons...

Im officially a terran terrorist LOL!

well i really honked the terrans off good... took one of their osakas... with 29 PSPs.

boy were they right about the yaki...

o...m...g... I CAPPED ME AN ODIN!!!

YAY!!!

We are pleased to announce that X3: Albion Prelude 2.0 is now available! The latest update includes two new mini-plots and a number of additional features and bugfixes.

One of the new mini-plots draws the Boron deeper into the war than ever before and provides the player with access to the mysterious Xenon HUB. The second re-introduces the secret Unfocussed Jumpdrive and the mighty Player Headquarters, the latter providing a new function to easily equip newly built or bought ships – a function that all fleet commanders will no doubt appreciate.

Steam has released an update folks, lets see if the gave us a PHQ!

ok folks, ive found a persistant bug and need some of you if possible to verify this. on more than one occasion when ive entered family njy all of my caimans simultaneously undocked and began wondering around. a spuriour error in scripting i suspect. if you have TS's in the area, have them dock somewhere in NJY and share what you discover please.

i am presented with a problem now and thats where im going to store all these capitols. damn... wish they had a PHQ in vanilla AP...

today was a banner day! 5 galleons and 3 brigs!

Been flying the Gannet M7M for a while now. 6G shields and a decent layout. not as fast as cobras, krakens, or others but ive found at close quarters with an akuma that wants you dead, very useful.

In the past 24 hours ive managed to cap 8 captiol ships plus with it, lost 8 marines, and had to repair it only once. Excellent return on investment.

sitting here contemplating what cap to do next....

welcome to the group dudley!

Hey guys and gals(if any ;) ) just wanna say and all that jazz!

found the best way for me to upgrade my fleet. a challenge, but worth pissing the yaki off. like the shuri's speed and ship hangar and it appears to launch and retrieve almost as good as a shark!

found an interesting bug in family njy.... all my caimans automatically undock when i jump insystem and i have nothing enabled for them to do this...

interesting...after rolling the vectors on both brigantine and akuma i've found them to be almost identical. lets test that!

another brigantine down. roll up a few more then it's time for some serious invasions....

so far i have found the heavy hydra to be the most useless ship in the game LOL!!!!

wow...what a battle i just got thru! 2 xenon warships destroyed and about 40 mil in hardware recovered. time to give my captured warships some real teeth....

Going to post some interesting things about captiol ship captures for those of you who have begun this phase of your adventures.... have to post as an announcement so bear with me guys...

correct! still very useful!