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Cruguey (18)

Posted 10 years ago.

Try increasing the trade range to something like 9 and turn on jumpdrive use. Just make sure to blacklist any nearby pirate sectors if it works. In the third pic it says there is no e-cells for that price (or lower) within 3 jumps.

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Stickguey (8)

Posted 10 years ago.

I will increase trade range once my transport convoy reaches Home of Light to buy jumpdrives and PACs . Blacklist okay, but I'll also have to add to the list all Argon sectors so my transports won't be shot down. Thanks for telling about the 3rd picture, I thought it meant that my transports doesn't have to leave the sector. Silly me

Can you tell me from your experience how to board? Can I use Personell Transport to board or only M6/M7M/M8 ships ?

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Cruguey (18)

Posted 10 years ago.

Thanks for telling about the 3rd picture, I thought it meant that my transports doesn't have to leave the sector. Silly me
- Martinez90

Thinking about it, this might be the case. What is the lowest price in sector for energy cells?

Can you tell me from your experience how to board? Can I use Personell Transport to board or only M6/M7M/M8 ships ?
- Martinez90

Unfortunately there is no way for me to properly explain it. You can use the transports, M6 and M7M to board other ships. The easiest way is using an M7M with boarding pods. But this is only truly necessary for capital ships. This is because boarding pods give an engineering bonus to be able to cut through the hull, making the M7M a requirement for boarding Terrain ships.

For a TP or M6, basically you just keep the shields down under 10% with drones and/or missiles and throw the marines in the path of what you are trying to capture. It is usually more difficult than it sounds. Having to use a bunch of menus to do this doesn't help.

The best I can do is give you this link to a boarding guide on the Egosoft site: http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=270108. Includes a short vid of the spacewalk method.

Once your fight rank is high enough M6s spawn in station protect missions almost every time. This is a good way to get your practice in and train up the marines fight rank for tougher targets, not to mention the money from selling the captured ships (just remember to recover your marines first...).

In AP there have been reports that is has been made easier because the marines seem to 'home in' better and have a slightly higher range to grab on to the ship.

For M7M boarding it is just a matter of timing. The easiest way I have found is to stay out in front of the ship and make it chase you, keeping range at around 10km - 7km. Then you use flails every so often (this is the timing part) to keep the shields below 10%. Launch the marines in and give them some cover with some flails, this is to distract any anti-missile weapons that might shoot down the pods (you can also cheat here and use SETA for a second while the pods fly, when SETA is active, enemy turrets won't shoot). Once the marines breach the hull you can pull away or just wait around until they are done. If everything went well, transport your marines back and jump out the newly captured ship.

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Stickguey (8)

Posted 10 years ago.

Right now the lowest price for E-cells is 14 credits. At least those 4 kha'ak clusters in Two Grand have been dealt with

There are two nice transports that would suit my fleet, Scabbard 165km/s and Express 155km/s. Thanks for all the info about boarding. I have watched the video and I'll use it to capture my first ship today Smile

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Stickguey (8)

Posted 10 years ago.

Ok I officially stop my fighter career until further notice. In Black Sun there was a sector protect mission. Difficulty Very easy. So I've accepted and guess what. Xenon Q showed up with his pesky little friends !Hhow the heck do I beat that big Q with an M3 and handful of other M3s/M4s and three Magnetars and no help from Argon Military?
Sinxar do you know some good/great spots for profitable complexes ? Smile

Also those jumpdrives for station transports are great. Thanks for great tip but I had to black list Terran, Solar System Venus, The Moon and Earth sectors as well.

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Cruguey (18)

Posted 10 years ago.

do you know some good/great spots for profitable complexes ?
- Martinez90

Here is the best resource I have ever found on this: [TC] T.M.I. Complex Suggestions - by deca.death

Here is the sticky with all the good guides listed on the Egosoft forum too: The Ultimate X resource and guides list

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Stickguey (8)

Posted 10 years ago.

Thank you for the links Smile

I'll use them now in the game Smile

EDIT: Queens Space is perfect location (discovered it without guides) for Plankton&Wheat complex. Apparently there is huge demand for wheat by Boron, Teladi and some other race and plankton by Boron. Although there are 6v6 stations working as complex, they cannot produce the stuff fast enough to meet the demand. It looks like it's a gold mine spot Big grin

Try it in your game guys.

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Stickguey (8)

Posted 10 years ago.

I've bought recently an TL class ship in Argon docks. It's main roles are simple, transport, station construction, fighter escort deployment, rangeed battle support until I can afford appropriate ship for the job, im good tactician though. 5k of freight space has been sacrificed for e-cells, missiles and other stuff.
Turrets : Front- 2xCIG, Left&Right - 1xFAA+1xHEPT (quite effective combo), Back - 2xPRG and MDM stuff. Now here are the matters I have no idea about with this ship:

Can bigger ships like TM, TS or M6 class ships dock into Mammy? I've already discovered that all m3/m4/m5 and tp class ships can dock without problems.

Another thing is that I've bought 19 Freight Drones so there wouldn't be any resupply issues. Once I tried to use those drones to transfer E-cells from L SPP in the Wall, nothing happened. I've hearded a notifcation 'autopilot engaged' and nothing happens.

Last thing I'm not sure of what escort ships would be good to dock into the Mammoth? M4 fast >200m/s interceptors or heavy duty M3's

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Cruguey (18)

Posted 10 years ago.

No, TM, TS, M8 and M6 cannot dock with TLs.

I'm not quite sure on how freight drones work. I think they are for ship to ship transfers but somebody who has used them will have to answer that one.

The Argon Solano is considered one of the best fighters for carrier usage. They are fast, carry good weapons and a decent amount of shielding. Because they shoot and crash into each other and you a lot the extra shielding helps a lot. The main thing about using AI controlled fighters is they are super stupid. They tend to charge at enemies head on and you can guess how that usually ends for them.

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Stickguey (8)

Posted 10 years ago.

It's good to be sure about dockables for TL. Drones are supposed to be for ship to ship and ship to station transfers but for now it's more complicated than it should be

I may post about those drones lateron egosoft forum.
Solano looks good I'll get 4 of them Big grin

I don't like its vusials. It looks like a zeppelin.
Well AI is super stupid sometimes (like doing 20 rolls in front of the gate to fly through it in the end). I've found a way to control fighters, simply use follow me command and when enemies are at range u press c-2-2 and the fun begins Big grin

Next week I'm buying a Cerberus and Thresher. Do you know some good weapon loadouts for them? I know what to equip as main cannons though Smile

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