My friends (cheating) art of SETA exploits

[forsamori]

My friend has discovered the advantages of find a nice quiet area and setting SETA on X1000 for about 6 hours. He had 5 Universe transports.
6 hours later and he had 40,000,000cr!!!!

Incase anyone was struggling to get money then this is a easy way to make money. Just stay off the beaten path and hit SETA and "Kaching!"

THIS IS AN EXPLOIT!
I hate exploits, therefore i am only giving this advice and not taking it myself.

[Deadaim]

How do you get your seta up to 1000x?

[EvilCheeseMan]

I think he meant 10x speed. It shows up as 1000% when you actually go into SETA.

[Nanook]

This has been known, and exploited, since X2. And it's not only an exploit, but a large waster of energy. If 'your friend' is that much in need of cash, tell 'him' to simply script it in and help save the environment.

[Deadaim]

yes..but my seta only goes up to 600

[Lord Kellmar]

It's either x10 or 1000%

This "exploit" is well known, and it's also well known that leaving the game on SETA will kill your trading rank and fighting rank very quickly.

[Mopy]

Waste of electricity Should have used the cheat script instead.

::Edit Nanook Beaten.

Deadaim - you can change seta up or down from x6 in settings.

[Nanook]

yes..but my seta only goes up to 600

That's because you haven't changed it in the Gameplay Options.

[Frostynso]

You will find that if you let those traders do their thing and you go out and try to make money also, that you will make about 10x as much money as you will by leaving your game on SETA for 6 hours.

[Aro]

If it was exploit it would have been fixed long ago.

Seems more of an option for those with less time on their hands to stay vanilla and unmoded. As was stated above there is a price, in-game time and real world cost plus system use.

Good way to learn the game then start a new game with more ideas on where to take your story.

[silenced]

My friend has discovered the advantages of find a nice quiet area and setting SETA on X1000 for about 6 hours. He had 5 Universe transports.
6 hours later and he had 40,000,000cr!!!!

Incase anyone was struggling to get money then this is a easy way to make money. Just stay off the beaten path and hit SETA and "Kaching!"

THIS IS AN EXPLOIT!
I hate exploits, therefore i am only giving this advice and not taking it myself.

6 rl hours seta = 60 hours ingame ...

in this time you could have made about 500 million cr. easily ... VERY easily, that "seta exploit" is just wasted time, really

[perkint]

If it was exploit it would have been fixed long ago.

No - it's exploiting a game feature. The only exploits that get "fixed" are where it's an exploit of a bug and the bug gets fixed.

Tim

[Kor'ah]

40M credits? I score that in about an hour of missions in lazy-mode.

[delray]

40 is easy, just cap an M7 with guns and sell. 10 minutes of work for Kraken.

[Kor'ah]

But at that point money becomes a different problem. You're building stations for the sole reason of haveing anothr place to stuff $2B cash in, or buying m2s to suicide in Xenon sectors.

[mcflurey667]

another SETA exploit is if your ship is almost out of sheilds and your last save was ages ago or you have just found something realy cool IBL etc or u have almost finished a patrol and can be assed to do it again, is turn away from your enemy put on full speed and activate SETA, enemy weapons will not damage you as you put some distance between you this has worked for me since reunion.

[sazanami]

another SETA exploit is if your ship is almost out of sheilds and your last save was ages ago or you have just found something realy cool IBL etc or u have almost finished a patrol and can be assed to do it again, is turn away from your enemy put on full speed and activate SETA, enemy weapons will not damage you as you put some distance between you this has worked for me since reunion.

Doesn't always work, but has saved my arse several times when I was still in small ships. If weapons hit you seta is cancelled, but you can still try again.

[frymaster]

note that ranks start to drain down after a certain amount of in-game time with no input; I'm not sure if _all_ ranks go down or just trading/fighting ones, but it happens.

iirc legend has it this starts to happen after an hour (or 6 minutes on SETA x10!) - ranks fall faster the higher they are, and they won't drop below a certain level - your seta'd traders will keep your trading rank going somewhat but your fighting rank will plummet... and that means you'll get rubbish rewards from missions

[pjknibbs]

I reckon I could make 40 million credits in a couple of hours if I got the right missions, and I wouldn't have to cripple my fight and trade rank in order to do it...probably have a lot more fun, too!

[OdinValhik]

This sounds really boring, making such cash without doing anything, I guess, if I had the time as 6 hours, in the current game, I could easly make "legally" 400 million, without any problem, and still having *fun* But now, cash isn't everything counting in this game, well is it?