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Space Flies

Post by Darklight86 » Sat, 26. Nov 05, 12:52

In Farnhams Legend I managed to kill two pirates attacking a station of some kind
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This was just before trying to get back the crystal the capship stole from mission 2.
Anyhow, I'm just wondering where to sell off the spaceflies i found after the conflict. I don't want to hang on to them for too long for obvious reasons, but want to sell them for as much as I can since I don't have much money yet. Any suggestions?

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Post by Deleted User » Sat, 26. Nov 05, 12:58

There are some pirate bases that pay a lot for these... some pay a bit less but still good money in the beginning...

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Post by khawk » Sat, 26. Nov 05, 13:06

Except when you pick it up from a pirate, are these spaceflies actually in the game on the moment. I have scanned a lot of Asteroids and killed a lot of pirates, but I have never seen them, yet.

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Post by Praefectus classis » Sat, 26. Nov 05, 13:30

I have seen the odd spacefly flying around. They are quite rare now.

You can sell spaceflies at pirate bases and some Split factories. I think the pirate bases pay more for them. It used to be the other way around in X2.
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Post by esd » Sat, 26. Nov 05, 13:46

I have yet to see a spacefly in X³ outside of a cargo container.
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Post by Cycrow » Sat, 26. Nov 05, 13:51

i've only found 1 spawm of space flies flying about

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Post by Praefectus classis » Sat, 26. Nov 05, 13:55

esd wrote:I have yet to see a spacefly in X³ outside of a cargo container.
I have only seen about 3 over nearly 100 hours of gameplay.
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Post by wiggertr » Sat, 26. Nov 05, 14:14

I was just thinking last night "Hmmm...I haven't seen no spaceflys yet!" In X2 I could make a small fortune just spacefly collecting with the ion D, but I haven't seen one in X3 yet.

I kinda miss the things, if nothing more it's nice to hear em splat against your bow! :lol:

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Post by khawk » Sat, 26. Nov 05, 14:36

I see that they are about as rare as Nividium, I think. And the good thing with Nividium is that it is in an Asteroid which cant move away.
A lot more spaceflies should come back in one of the following patches. We bought X3 to upgrade, not to downgrade!

No Mobile Mining
Not enough Spaceflies
No Cockpits

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Post by szuur » Sat, 26. Nov 05, 14:48

Dunno if u know why the marcus-space fly is so expensive...

the split has used them in the past to power there engines and there driven to the point of extinction so its protected .. and so its illegeal to capture them, anyway there at the point to extinction thats why there feaking rare.

anyone tried releasing em and watch if they multiply? :gruebel:

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Post by simonnance » Sat, 26. Nov 05, 15:08

khawk wrote: No Mobile Mining
should be fixed in 1.3
khawk wrote:Not enough Spaceflies
:lol: talk about splitting hairs.....
khawk wrote:No Cockpits

:roll: not THAT argument again....... Check out http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=104846 if you are REALY that bothered.

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Post by Da_Imp » Sat, 26. Nov 05, 15:09

esd wrote:I have yet to see a spacefly in X³ outside of a cargo container.
Spacefly!

Was in Ore Belt if I recall correctly.
should be fixed in 1.3
Just wondering where you read that? Afaik, they said some missing features will be added, but if this includes mobile mining... No official word on that yet...

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Post by Doozer » Sat, 26. Nov 05, 15:14

I have seen a few swarms of them, they make a very amusing thud/squelch when they hit the ship. The biggest swarm I have seen yet must have contained about 15 of them and was in Brennan's Triumph.

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Post by Praefectus classis » Sat, 26. Nov 05, 15:25

They also make a different sound to the spaceflies in X2. It reminded me of what opening a bottle of lemonade sounds like.

I wonder if they make a good curry. :wink:
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Post by Jesse Bennett » Tue, 3. Jan 06, 10:25

I just saw a huge swarm of them in X3. I was blowing up asteroids with the mobile drilling system, and boom, there they were, all over me. A couple splatted against my ship. *Sighs as he puts on his space suit to go do some scrubbing*
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Post by Dread » Tue, 3. Jan 06, 10:32

Same as DaImp - I have only seen them once and at was in Ore Belt. Very rare now it would seem!

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Post by crawlerw » Tue, 3. Jan 06, 10:33

i have seen 1 in ore belt i only noticed it because my ship targeted when i tried to lock the gate, it got away its way to fast for a buster

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Post by DrunkenPirate » Tue, 3. Jan 06, 14:36

It would be nice if there were more :(
Or at least the BBS messages that report "sppacefly swarm" were at least half true.

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Post by Shada » Tue, 3. Jan 06, 14:40

Spaceflies look really odd in a closeup

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Post by Dgn Master » Tue, 3. Jan 06, 14:41

I could swear i got the familier buzzing and seen a pack (bout 10+) fly by my ship while sitting examining my empire in 1.3. Not sure of the sector though it could have been ore belt, but i rarely go there.
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