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Mods are only needed if you need further gameplay or to add some in-game tweaks you like. While Egosoft do release buggy games, X3AP is a solid vanilla game on it's own today. Also, most of the veterans and modders have already moved on or inactive, so you'll most likely get replies from current players of which some may be frustrated as you. You have to understand that X3AP is an old game so most of the answers are probably in threads already, it's just a matter of hitting the right ones. I'm sorry you felt let down and I do understand your frustration since the Egosoft forum is one hard beast to navigate. You will spend just as much time trying to find any info as you will playing the game. Originally posted by General Mayhem:The problem I have with these mods is the lack of useful information. I've asked questions and been told to go read the mod page, which currently consist of over 400 pages of comments and people making jokes or talking about other garbage. The modders while talented come across as being very sensitive about their mods and don't really want to provide any type of guides or walkthroughs or anything. The game seems to have been intentionally left undone so that modders could come in and fix it. I have spent way more time trying to find useful information than I have playing. Then someone else will tell you that that topic belongs in the old thread. Someone might tell you you shouldn't post in old posts, you should start a new thread. You want to find out about a mod? Ask a question. They have some weird rules about where you are supposed to post your questions which you will never get right. You will spend just as much time trying to find any info as you will playing the game.Īnother thing that really bothers me is the attitude you get for asking questions over at the egosoft forums. There are also tons of mods for these games, very big ones like Litcube's Universe which are basically new games.The problem I have with these mods is the lack of useful information. In the end they're sandboxes, I'd say that there is no other space game to compare it to, the closest is if EVE Online were a singleplayer game.

As such, the X games tend to play out like strategy games but in a different perspective. How you play is up to you, if you build a corporate empire, you'd need to defend your assets across space, so it means you need to fund a fleet that you'd have patrolling sectors with your assets in, as well as building our own factories to produce the equipment to outfit your fleet - it would not be good if there's a shortage of capital weapons in the market and you've lost 2-3 of your capital ships.

In X3 there were hundreds of ships you could fly/own personally or in your fleet(s).

The game has many ship classes from small fighters, military transport vessels (for marines, useful for commandeering or attack capitals), trading/freight ships, to long-range missile ships, anti-missile ships, to massive capital ships. The games have had more complex economies than most, meaning that factories in systems, and ones you own, only produce goods if they are supplied with intermediaries, if there is a shortage of the supply, the final products are short of supply as well (products include things like ship equipment), whether that is the result of pirates blowing up trading NPCs on a path to a factory, or intermediary factories being destroyed, etc - this allows the game to have a more realistic supply-demand system, although it wasn't perfect, they've said that X4 has vastly improved on the economy. The games have its own empires and their relations, but also other threats like the Kh'aak and Xenon. You can try reading the sections on wikipedia or my summary.Īs a general summary of the series, they are games that allow you to play from a smaller scale of flying small single ships, to building factories producing goods for the economy, trading, to amassing large fleets that you are in command of. It's really difficult to explain the game because it's kind of like trying to explain Dwarf Fortress or EVE Online. However with X4, it's a game that is seemingly the return of what made X3 great, and what most people find as the quintessential aspects of the X series. Rebirth that was released a few years ago was a disappointment as most people wanted a sequel to X3: Terran Conflict and Albion Prelude in terms of game design, and not a game akin to the design of the first, since most fans found that the series had its best features and design in X3, so Rebirth taking you back to owning only a single ship, with limited fleet and corporate/organisation building mechanics was a big departure. They're niche space games since they've generally had a steep learning curve relative to other space games and games in general. I am a big fan of the X series and been playing them since the first entry in 1999, X: Beyond the Frontier.

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