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IBL Woes

Post by SIMON POPPLEWELL » Thu, 26. Mar 09, 22:41

What do I have to do to get my hands on some IBLs. Apart from my first Carrack which had 8 onboard, I've never salvaged anymore since then. I've capped Brigs, Zeus, Carracks and Akumas and nothing. The last Akuma I know had some onboard, so when I captured it checked it's cargo bay, nothing but my 10 marines and the cargobay lifesupport. :headbang: Is this just bad luck or am I just cursed.

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Re: IBL Woes

Post by Mightysword » Thu, 26. Mar 09, 22:44

SIMON POPPLEWELL wrote:Is this just bad luck or am I just cursed.

Probably both.

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Post by Goodfeller » Thu, 26. Mar 09, 22:45

Try a commonwealth M2 instead.

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Post by MegaJohnny » Thu, 26. Mar 09, 23:14

If you don't mind being a bit naughty you can do a little trick to clone things.

1. find a sector with a shipyard and an EQ dock
2. sell as many IBLs to the EQ dock as it'll take
3. at the shipyard, buy lots of Mercuries (or any cheap freighter)
4. When you get to the 'initial loadout' page buy up all the IBLs

Hooray, each freighter will have the IBLs on board.

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Post by shanrak » Thu, 26. Mar 09, 23:21

try capping odysseuses, I've gotten 5 and 3 of them came with a boat load of IBLs(I think one came with 32!)

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Post by shanrak » Thu, 26. Mar 09, 23:22

MegaJohnny wrote:If you don't mind being a bit naughty you can do a little trick to clone things.

1. find a sector with a shipyard and an EQ dock
2. sell as many IBLs to the EQ dock as it'll take
3. at the shipyard, buy lots of Mercuries (or any cheap freighter)
4. When you get to the 'initial loadout' page buy up all the IBLs

Hooray, each freighter will have the IBLs on board.
That won't work, IBLs aren't normally stocked at EQ docks so when you do that they'll disappear.

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Post by Goodfeller » Thu, 26. Mar 09, 23:24

I didn't know that. I thought they disappeared forever if you sold them to an EQ dock ?

EDIT: Ah, late post again !
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Post by Deadbeat_Spinn » Thu, 26. Mar 09, 23:25

MegaJohnny wrote:If you don't mind being a bit naughty you can do a little trick to clone things.

1. find a sector with a shipyard and an EQ dock
2. sell as many IBLs to the EQ dock as it'll take
3. at the shipyard, buy lots of Mercuries (or any cheap freighter)
4. When you get to the 'initial loadout' page buy up all the IBLs

Hooray, each freighter will have the IBLs on board.

I've never seen an EQ that has IBL's that the player can buy/clone in vanilla.

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Post by Goodfeller » Thu, 26. Mar 09, 23:40

shanrak wrote:try capping odysseuses, I've gotten 5 and 3 of them came with a boat load of IBLs(I think one came with 32!)
That is absolutely spot on.

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Post by SIMON POPPLEWELL » Fri, 27. Mar 09, 00:04

shanrak wrote:try capping odysseuses, I've gotten 5 and 3 of them came with a boat load of IBLs(I think one came with 32!)
Maybe I should try one of those. I've only capped Pirates M2s, figuring that they make the damned weapons they should have tons of them. :roll:

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Post by dminor » Fri, 27. Mar 09, 00:16

Befriend the Yaki and feed their IBL forges
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Post by Nyax » Fri, 27. Mar 09, 00:56

Or as in my case if they havn't got any anymore use the cheat codes to-

a) script in as many as you want.
b) Subtract their value plus around 50% from your account.
c) Pretend you did that by placing a bulk order with a supplier. (A feature i've long wished the games had.)
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Post by NeverSnake » Fri, 27. Mar 09, 15:14

Alternatively, you could just use ships that don't require IBLs.
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Post by 1muvwndr » Fri, 27. Mar 09, 15:16

Just take a look at my sig and you'll see which ship is the best in TC. Who needs IBL anyway. :lol:

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Post by Andy Barrett » Fri, 27. Mar 09, 15:54

If you save your game just before the marines capture you can reload a few times until you get some. Last night I did this with a Brigantine and went from 11 Energy Bolt Chainguns to 22 CIGS then 26 IBL's!! :wink:

It even had a jumpdrive :D

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Post by uxnhoj123 » Fri, 27. Mar 09, 15:57

Andy Barrett wrote:If you save your game just before the marines capture you can reload a few times until you get some. Last night I did this with a Brigantine and went from 11 Energy Bolt Chainguns to 22 CIGS then 26 IBL's!! :wink:

Andy.
Hehe, that's exactly what I do - I hate that modified tag but I'm still not willing to let the game screw me with the rarity of certain items. It's always exactly 26 IBL's from the Brigantine, every single time I do it.

My other strategy was to use the hub to connect a pirate sector with a pirate station to weaver's tempest and made all the yaki stations friendly.

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Post by pjknibbs » Fri, 27. Mar 09, 17:09

What modified tag? You don't get a modified tag for saving and loading the game, or else everyone would have one!

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Post by Carlo the Curious » Fri, 27. Mar 09, 17:54

pjknibbs wrote:What modified tag? You don't get a modified tag for saving and loading the game, or else everyone would have one!
I believe that's what he meant (as opposed to using a script to spawn rare items, which obviously would tag your game as modified).

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Post by dtrowle » Fri, 27. Mar 09, 18:13

I think the Ray or Oddy has a good chance of having them. I capped a Ray the other day with 31 on board and haven't ran out of those yet.

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Post by SIMON POPPLEWELL » Fri, 27. Mar 09, 20:07

Well, from all the posts I guess its either try capping a Commonwealth M2 or trying to improve my rep with the Yaki. I haven't managed to find an Oddy without a small battle group in tow and I don't know where to begin in trying to get the Yaki to like me. :roll: Its probably the 4 Ryu and 2 Akuma's that I seemed to have aquired. :)

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