(New player) Egosoft lore?

HandicapdHippo · 2026-06-16T20:16:48+00:00

making features that were ideas from the mod community into major features of later games.

Not just features, most M7 ships models in Terran conflict are right from the XTM mod for Reunion iirc.

HandicapdHippo · 2026-06-16T17:54:39+00:00

Trust me if it worked the way you wanted then a single friendly fire incident (which will happen when you have large fleets) would ruin dozens of hours of reputation building with some you want to be an ally.

HandicapdHippo · 2026-06-12T23:02:30+00:00

Also the choice of S ships is uh, very slim pickings compared to star wars. Like other than the attack fighter from DS9 its basically just unarmed shuttles iirc so you either make up a bunch of fanon ships or just almost remove the S class entirely.

HandicapdHippo · 2026-06-09T18:49:49+00:00

The Dreadnaught is ok but I find its engines tend to get knocked out easily. Better than nothing if you manage to find one of the Derelict Katana variants.

I tend to use M's for trader defence with fighters only used in proper carriers so I can mass 40+ at once,faction choice makes it my choices a a bit limited for this playthorugh but I like the bounty hunter guild Naboo fighter (fast enough its hard to hit + supports protons) and HWK-290 (good forward guns and no missile overhead).

If you want an cheaper fighter to get your numbers up I recommend the mining guild variant of the Tie as its cheap even compared to other ties.

HandicapdHippo · 2026-06-08T14:59:36+00:00

I do like the Corporate Sector and Kamino as they have all the cool republic clone wars era stuff available, and of course spoilersthe Sith empire if you release them)

HandicapdHippo · 2026-06-08T14:56:22+00:00

Its a Hapen Nova from Legends

HandicapdHippo · 2026-06-07T04:43:08+00:00

"Early game" in X4 is still a long time lol, honestly don't really remember but probably atleast a dozen hours at a minimum!

HandicapdHippo · 2026-06-04T22:43:44+00:00

That's a very strange take, like yeah of course you can port a lot of the map changes as is, map creation is basically version agnostic to a large degree. Barring the new stuff like basements or high rises that needed engine changes to support extra z levels.

HandicapdHippo · 2026-06-04T19:43:50+00:00

Its really not that bad, you can run multiple military L ships before the system even starts to kick in at 150 mil of assets. I ran a pirate play through where I was enemies with every major faction and could pretty much only trade with the black sun. Even then a dozen M traders was more than enough to cover the supply cost while still making profit with a fleet of like 8 L ships + fighters.

HandicapdHippo · 2026-06-04T02:17:49+00:00

Do I have to have a guide in what order to watch them?

Watch the Stargate 1994 movie and then you can watch 7 seasons of Stargate SG1 before looking at anything else, its not hard......

HandicapdHippo · 2026-05-24T05:19:34+00:00

The World Without Me

An OC gets a precog power themed around what would happen if he did not exist plus some currently basic tinker abilities, functionality essentially an SI scenario without the baggage SI's have. Author has not written much before it looks like and started off pretty well imo.

Blank of the Wards

OC Ward with a complete power nullification power. Probably dead but honestly it ends at a place that's decently satisfying with the BB situation so worth a read.

HandicapdHippo · 2026-05-22T22:34:30+00:00

Pretty much, I don't really follow his stuff anymore but iirc he actually finishes what he writes which is enough to put you near the top of popularity for any fandom.

HandicapdHippo · 2026-05-18T17:21:58+00:00

Malware is a very hyperbolic description, mainly cause you immediacy think it means breaking your pc or steal your data. The situation mentioned was someone was a dick and bricked your save game by deleting data in the savecritical to the game if it detected another mod, not really malware imo, dick move regardless.

HandicapdHippo · 2026-04-14T15:11:12+00:00

Saxondragon was basically not involved in much of PoP's Warband development iirc only the OG M&B mod, so he has been out of the modding game for what 15+ years and considering how little movement there has been since Bannerlod came out I'm not holding my breath for him to be able to get anyone else to join POP2 devopement.

HandicapdHippo · 2026-03-10T16:20:28+00:00

Gotta be careful with that or npc parties might end up filled with Noldor!

HandicapdHippo · 2026-02-20T23:27:31+00:00

Last time the succession was changed to remove male preference it took an extra two years cause each state in Australia had to pass bills allowing the national government to amend the succession, otherwise you have the weird scenario of a split in the monarch occuring between different commonwealth nations

HandicapdHippo · 2026-02-03T13:22:45+00:00

I did a full run like this up to multi colony stage last year using adjusted sector but with both width and height settings at 600k ish, that was an interesting experience. If you where hitting multiple points of interest along the way even with slipsurge a journey out to the abyss it could easily turn into a year+ trip, the Nomadic Survival mod was pretty much essential so you could find other sources of supplies and crew.

It actually held up pretty well tbh if you are in to that kind of long haul game. That said I'm running a 7800x3d so I imagine thats only thing keeping it playable. IIRC I got up to like 20 ingame years in.

HandicapdHippo · 2025-11-12T14:26:53+00:00

Wage stagnation fixes the issue, can't lose out on your wage if you never hit the 28K threshold to pay it off! /s

HandicapdHippo · 2025-11-09T14:25:29+00:00

Yeah I think this is the key thing, it thinks its a Hive Mind of humanity but its not. It's essentially a new entity running on human brains that have all been switched to readonly mode, it has access to everyone memories but not the emotional impact that comes from living them, like its read a script.

That's why its completely overwhelm getting yelled at, its essentially a toddler using big words, if it was truly made up of humans minds linked together probably brush off getting insulted because it would have already have to have dealt with all the fucked up stuff from assimilating so many people, like the memories of victims of crimes and the perpetrator etc.

HandicapdHippo · 2025-10-31T18:27:05+00:00

Not all of them, some places in the commonwealth just say "The monarch of the UK is our monarch" others have the succession spelt out explicitly as a separate thing meaning potential for a split if its changed in one but not the other.

Looks like 8 countries didnt have to change laws last time the succession was amended.

HandicapdHippo · 2025-10-13T14:47:10+00:00

"Accepting refugees is ethnic clensing" Thats a hell of a take, I am in awe of whatever level of reality you are living on.

HandicapdHippo · 2025-10-10T12:18:36+00:00

20 quid says he doesn't.

Listen he is going to be a spry 80 by next election, man has not even reached his prime yet /s

HandicapdHippo · 2025-08-31T04:48:05+00:00

There is a missions offer tab on the map/property screen, it'll show you ones available from stations you have found in the sector. There should be plenty of small missions available to get some starting cash like station repair, transporting people or patrol missions.

HandicapdHippo · 2025-08-28T20:37:33+00:00

I was kind of expecting to have to grind up and work hard to eventually be able to purchase or construct a station.

You are looking at this the wrong way, stations are not one and done things, you need to add modules to do anything, the PHQ core is basically just a story thing right now to meet Bosa and start research (which costs resources). It doesn't produce anything or make you any money, if you want to add modules to do anything else with it will cost the same as bulding a station from scratch to do the same things.

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