[TC] IBL's - Possibly Restart my game?

Mouseco · Post by **Mouseco** » Thu, 29. Jan 09, 18:20

Can anyone answer if IBL factories respawn?
I've checked the locations where they should be, but they've long since been blown up (paranid fleet got a smack for that), and other sectors are dead too.

I also only have 1 Plasma Burst Gen forge left, so thats a dieing breed too ...

Do these places respawn... or should I look into restarting my game and getting these places protected as soon as possible (will be alot harder in 1.4 - due to money not being easy)....

Also, how often do people find these weapons drop / survive boarding ops?

Thanks in Advance -

Mouse

WildAce · Post by **WildAce** » Thu, 29. Jan 09, 18:25

you could just use the Marauder Shipyard script, and then just build your own factorys... would save you from having to restart and lose all your progress. for something as little as a factory not bieng in your game.

fullmetal66 · Post by **fullmetal66** » Thu, 29. Jan 09, 18:26

Bad News. They haven't on my game ( I got a bit carried away with the Yaki).
Good News. IBL's can be found on alot of capital ships. So a solution would be to capture some of tthose ships.
An example would be the Boreas

If you use a fully trained Marine team with atleast 2-3 in fighting you should be able to board a Boreas using a M7M like the Cobra.

Mouseco · Post by **Mouseco** » Thu, 29. Jan 09, 18:26

True, but I like to stay true to the game, and dont realy use scripts.
Anyway having to restart would be more a good mission .... damn rush for sure.

MillitantOne · Post by **MillitantOne** » Thu, 29. Jan 09, 20:12

Also, how often do people find these weapons drop / survive boarding ops?

Mouse

From my own experience, not very often. I captured a few Agamemnon M7's, and only once out of maby 6 or so, did it have any IBL's left on it - however I did get a full comp of twelve out of it.

WildAce has a point tho, adding scripts is a good way to just add content that should be in there anyway - you still have to earn the rep + credits for the stuff, and it just removes the frustration from the game of always worrying about them being blown up.

Geggo · Post by **Geggo** » Thu, 29. Jan 09, 22:09

Capturing ship with weapons onboard....really rare but you can always blow up couple dosen pirate caracks which should net you some of those when they die. (or any other ship that happends to carry them like the Yaki TL for example)

Although you could always get Tresher that can mount IBL's and PPC's up front which would solve the issue. (unless you really want some other ship that is)

Aydan · Post by **Aydan** » Thu, 29. Jan 09, 22:51

Try boarding Yakis

They have more eastereggs than the normal player may think.

First, Yakis are never in short supply. There are always plenty caps on their way. The easiest are the Ryu, unfortunately you need boarding pods, but Ryus have only 4 fighters for their escort job. Very easy done in a M6 or M3. After that switch to your M7M, take down the shields and fire just one boarding pod (5 5* marines) and the ship is yours. There's always a chance that you get 8-10 IBLs. If not you have just acquired 14 million credits

If you like to keep it, it's a decent TL with the qualities of a M7 and quite a decent hangar. Better than the elephant in my opinion.

Also, if you have 5 5* marines and you can get an Akuma in firing range, that's the jackpot. It's not uncommon that they have a dozen IBLs or more on board. Take out the escort with flails (not very hard on max range... use adv navsats) and take down the shields, fire your boarding pod and some flails to protect it / keeping the shields down, and wait for your marines to finish their job. If the Akuma just has PPCs on board, wait 10 minutes and the next one spawns.... to re-ing an Akuma at the PHQ takes 4 days, that should give a hint how much it is worth when you sell it

Who needs the old Xenon patrols when he has 5 5*marines and a never ending stream of Yakis

IBL's will be your last problem... the main problem is where to store all the credits

Some nice side effects:
- blue Dukes Haven and their ships -> SCS
- 99.9% of all pirates will simply LOVE you
- Paranids consider a new pontifex maximus

Mouseco · Post by **Mouseco** » Fri, 30. Jan 09, 16:56

All well and good

I just wanted the blumming guns for some of the non PPC M7's and to mount on my Agamemnon spam fleet thats growing

Would be nice if the Yaki and pirate at least made an effort to rebuild these .... like the PBG forges!

Teebor · Post by **Teebor** » Fri, 30. Jan 09, 17:11

Capture Pirate Brigantines

The last one I captured had 26 IBL's on board it

However that was the third one that I capped

harblade · Post by **harblade** » Sat, 7. Mar 09, 12:01

Aydan wrote:Paranids consider a new pontifex maximus

LOL!

fullmetal66 · Post by **fullmetal66** » Sat, 7. Mar 09, 12:37

I blew-up the IBL factories in my game (moment of madness). I was thinking of restarting, until I captured a ship with some on. Since then I haven't looked back. I now have over 250 IBL's from captured ships.
The best ship I found for IBL's is the Boreas that spawns in Aladna Hill. IF you capture that you sometimes get quite a few IBL's .

UKDUTYPAID · Post by **UKDUTYPAID** » Sat, 7. Mar 09, 13:22

There's one in

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Weaver's Tempest

in my game. But i just went around capping ryus and reloading mid boarding until i had enough to satisfy me. Then i just made friends with the yaki using the hub. The still won't sell them to me yet, but as soon as i need them. I'll do missions until they sell them to me. then it should be pretty simple.[/spoiler]

UKDUTYPAID · Post by **UKDUTYPAID** » Sat, 7. Mar 09, 13:26

There's one in Weaver's Tempest in my game. But i just went around capping ryus and reloading mid boarding until i had enough to satisfy me. Then i just made friends with the yaki using the hub. The still won't sell them to me yet, but as soon as i need them. I'll do missions until they sell them to me. then it should be pretty simple. oh and it's much easier to do the boarding in Ocrakotes Storm if you don't have much fire power. you don't get any Yaki capital ships going that far. At least not in my game anyway.

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Sat, 7. Mar 09, 17:33

IBLs aren't even that good, in my opinion. Not worth restarting for.

maphys · Post by **maphys** » Sat, 7. Mar 09, 17:41

EmperorJon wrote:IBLs aren't even that good, in my opinion. Not worth restarting for.

They make the Panther and the Tiger into mini-M1/2s. That alone is worth getting them for. ISRs, CIGs amd so on just don't do the damage at range. 4-6 IBLs and you are laughing at any ship in the game and still moving at a bearable speed!

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pjknibbs · Post by **pjknibbs** » Sat, 7. Mar 09, 19:07

EmperorJon wrote:IBLs aren't even that good, in my opinion. Not worth restarting for.

You can think of a better anti-cap-ship weapon to put on an M7, then? (Ignoring the Thresher and the Shrike, obviously).

gandy|UKCS| · Post by **gandy|UKCS|** » Sat, 7. Mar 09, 19:46

I just picked up 5 IBL's for free

you can read about it here

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=238899

and i didn't even use the trusted old age act of piracy

insolent1 · Post by **insolent1** » Sun, 8. Mar 09, 01:46

IIRC every game start has 3 IBL forges, 2 in weavers and 1 in LL. I have had the 1 in LL destroyed but it was replaced after awhile, I even bumped into teh TL that was on the GOD given mission. Aside from the fabs the best source of IBL's in all my gamesis the Boreas's in aldna hill, also once you have a decent combat rank nearly every capital ship you destroy will drop some.

GCU Grey Area · Post by **GCU Grey Area** » Sun, 8. Mar 09, 02:53

insolent1 wrote:IIRC every game start has 3 IBL forges, 2 in weavers and 1 in LL. I have had the 1 in LL destroyed but it was replaced after awhile, I even bumped into teh TL that was on the GOD given mission.

Now that's interesting - what sort of TL was it? (i.e. who's supplying the pirates with IBL factories?). Have to keep an eye out for TLs heading that way in my game - maybe I could steal it & have an IBL factory of my own...

insolent1 · Post by **insolent1** » Sun, 8. Mar 09, 03:37

Teladi Alba, I have seen them replace PBG forges in danna chance aswell.
Damn I never thought about robbing the TL

But since its on a GOD mission it would be buggy to say the least

Another weird thing is the one that was replacing the IBL fab in LL came from IZ but it went IZ-HoP-AR-SG-LL rather than the quicker way IZ-NI-CD-LL.

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