I need some "general" support, starting with where to get Advanced Satellites. Thanks

[outragedsnail]

Id ramble about my own stupidy for a while, but i am sure you dont enjoy me wasting your time. Anyway, i seem to draw a blank on where to buy advanced satellites, or life support for that matter. I am doing the 6th mission right now (for the Terran...i think. Need to go to some famlies), and after being stuck a while, i finally figured i needed those 2 items. Thank You in advance for taking the time to answer the questions.

I am currently flying a Nova. With some 20 support novas and a handful of other ships (also about 20) i managed to "acqiure". (just in case my ship cant buy those upgrades or something)

Thank You.

[dminor]

Press "p" advanced/encyclopedia/ wares Should give you a list of stations that sell and buy that you have found.

[outragedsnail]

Wow, that was easier then i had expected. THanks, i managed to get both the items ASAP as a result.

Another Question: Is it possible to "buy" reputation? I heard about reputation through trading, but i am not sure how that works.

[Deadbeat_Spinn]

1. Advanced satellites: Found at Advanced Sat Facs, Trading Stations, Military Outposts, and Corp. HQ's.

2. Cargo Lifesupport System: Found at Pirate Bases, Anarchy Ports, Earth Torus, some Trading Stations, Duke's HQ, Strong Arms HQ, Military Bases, Boron Research Station, and Unknown Aldrin Bases.

Another Question: Is it possible to "buy" reputation? I heard about reputation through trading, but i am not sure how that works.

Not per say, though in R you could gain rep by donating vast sums of money. In trading if you sell/buy resources/products to/from a given race your trade rank should increase (for some reason though buying stations don't count, I bought over 600mil worth of stations for a complex and if my trade rank did go up, then it wasn't even a 1% increase).

[outragedsnail]

WEll, i got the 2 items i need. Turns out i had the cargo live support thing. And, the advanced satellite wasnt a big problem wonce i used that encylopida. Now what is R? I am afraid i have yet to acquire suffiecent insight to the game to use short cuts such as this.
If it is possible to "buy" reputation by "donating", where do i donate?
And, is it just me or does it take a lot longer to go from stock holder to majority stock holder, then it did to get to stock holder in the first place?

Thank you for your time.

[Deadbeat_Spinn]

Sorry, by R I meant X3:Reunion which had a BBS system (on board the stations) that gave missions, news, blackjack, donations and a few other things (most of which isn't in TC). As a rank (fight/trade/race) gains levels the longer it takes to reach the next rank of that given rep ladder.

[outragedsnail]

Is it normal for me to loss some 40+ ships in a single sector. I was just following the green arrows. And, my whole fleet of ships was simply destroyed (we really got our buts handed to us). Should i have avoided that system?
Or is that part of the difficulty of that mission?

[outragedsnail]

ALmost sounds as if reunion was better?
But is there no equivelent in this game (to the donations). Or perhaps an easy way to get reputation, missions take too long, fighting pirites stopped being an option after i destroyed about 3 pirate bases.... ANd the main campaign or plot has done very little to help me.

[Deadbeat_Spinn]

Is it normal for me to loss some 40+ ships in a single sector. I was just following the green arrows. And, my whole fleet of ships was simply destroyed (we really got our buts handed to us). Should i have avoided that system?
Or is that part of the difficulty of that mission?

That depends on what ships you have, what system it is (esp. if it's a Kha'ak/Xenon sector), and what mission it is, some can be far harder than others.

ALmost sounds as if reunion was better?
But is there no equivelent in this game (to the donations). Or perhaps an easy way to get reputation, missions take too long, fighting pirites stopped being an option after i destroyed about 3 pirate bases.... ANd the main campaign or plot has done very little to help me.

Reunion was different. R was more fighter based while TC is more capital based, gaining rep/ranks and money took a lot longer (and I mean a lot esp. rep/ranks). Quick ways to gain rep probably would be ship delivery missions, passenger transportation missions, build missions, do combat missions will a fully loaded M7M, etc. As you get further into the plots you will be rewarded with toys like ships and a few other goodies, some of which are unique and can't be aquired anywhere else.

[Thelic]

Get a Kestrel, put some CLS in it, and do fast taxi missions, not the ones that require a TP. Easy rep and can put some change in your pocket.

[outragedsnail]

Well, mission 6 is just way too difficult after dieing, what is it now 5 times, its just not worth trying again for a while. Now, as for the taxi missions, what kind of ship aa krestel? (which i can get at which shipyard). And, what are CSLs?

Thank you for your time.

[outragedsnail]

Where and how do i get a jump drive?

[dminor]

A Kestral is a misssle with a seat attached, they don't bother with a windscreen. It can be found at cetain Teledi Shipyards.

Jumpdrive can be found at the Terra Corp HQ

[5c0rch!]

Jumpdrive can be found at the Terra Corp HQ

Also at OTAS HQ, Atreus HQ, and the Earth Torus.

[nobby375]

although i havent played X3 TC (think thats what your talking about) i havent heard u mention trading as a viable rrep gainer.

do you have any sector/universal traders working for you? They seem to help with trade rep and after the initial cash outlay they are pretty low maintanance.

I play X3R tho...

[mrbadger]

It's easy to gain rep through trade in X3:TC. reputation, be it race, trade or fight.

You can pick your own method. In my first game I went the fighting route, taking station defence and patrol missions. In my new game (running alongside my 'proper' game, which still has a lot of room for fun), I'm going the trade route.

I've personally never bothered with station building or taxi missions, or ship return missions for that matter.