[TC] Dead is Dead - Wasting my time!?

[Sathayorn]

Inspired by someone else and their DiD, I decided to try my own, I only have something like 800 hours logged I think, highest combat ranking achieved is only assassin, and the last 20 or so DiD games have ended in embarrassing failure... (The most annoying of which was when I exploded for no reason )

That being said, I'm going to live by a few rules still...

All ships must be rewarded, captured, built or purchased used for resale purposes. - Exception - I can buy a single used ship for myself (I really want a falcon sentinel)

Either way, I posted this about 7 and a half game hours in, this is my last attempt at getting the Die Hard achievement.

Assets:

Fujin - Personal Ship
Dolphin Tanker
Demeter Miner
693915 Credits

Edited - hours not days

[StarSword]

I'm not actually that good of a pilot, so even with over a game-month logged (about five months real time), I end up getting killed at least twice a week. If I tried a Dead is Dead game, I'd probably ragequit in about, oh, six hours.

[BDK]

Well your save will stop working randomly and then you're screwed. Mine is already lost in space.

[nponoBegHuk]

Well your save will stop working randomly and then you're screwed. Mine is already lost in space.

This

EDIT: Unless you're not talking about Steam Dead-is-Dead function. In which case you can aim easily for 4-5 plots, and with some dedication maybe you'll get them all. Just need a LOT of patience

[Triaxx2]

Steam DiD is possibly the worst implemented feature I've seen in a while. Sadly.

Regular DiD is perfectly fine.

[Sathayorn]

Actually I'm using Steam DiD - So I fully expect that there is a small chance it will mess up before I do

[Gold Dragon]

Not patient enough for any true DiD game. Kudos to those who do, however!

[Sathayorn]

One and a half game time days in - And still in one piece!

Advice to those prone to making silly mistakes, when jumping into Kha'ak sectors, make sure you have enough energy cells to jump back out - using my Dolphin Hauler to buy energy cells and jump to Kha'ak sector to dump some and retreat is not fun, especially with those guys spawning in as I head for the energy cells - Luckily I was in one of the best M3's, (In my opinion, based on shielding alone) the Falcon Sentinel!

O:FF - Started (obviously)
TC: Halfway done!
Split and Paranid don't want to kill me!

Assets:

Falcon Sentinel - Aegis - My personal ship
Dolphin Hauler - Manual Trader
Vulture Tanker - CAG
Demeter Miner - Mining ship!
Fujin - Maybe exploration?
Advanced Discoverer - Credits perhaps?
One factory (not going to go into details with factories)
2091367 Credits

To do:
Get 5 more EBCG's for Aegis
Equip TS's with Shields
Equip Demeter Miner with Laser

[brucewarren]

Good luck. I'm not brave enough to try DID myself.

Avoid the 'roid.

Especially the ones that due to sector lighting (or lack thereof in some
cases) are black and hence invisible until you smack into them.

Not sure which sectors those are in.

[VincentTH]

Good luck. I'm not brave enough to try DID myself.

Avoid the 'roid.

Especially the ones that due to sector lighting (or lack thereof in some
cases) are black and hence invisible until you smack into them.

Not sure which sectors those are in.

After some 40 or so tries, and thousand of play time logged, I finally got the Never Say Die achievement (No not Die Hard yet After dieing countless times, you will finally learn from your mistakes.

Beware: If you have Steam DLC, forget it, Steam would drop your save games. Only non-DLC accounts work for me.

[Sathayorn]

Minor update - Near the point of rage quitting... Blowing up a lot of trade ships, must have been 20 or more, still not getting a pilot to bail, TC is becoming a difficult story for me, split hate me now, will get back to this once I'm a little less irritated (going to take hours to get the split to not want me dead anymore)

[nponoBegHuk]

Minor update - Near the point of rage quitting... Blowing up a lot of trade ships, must have been 20 or more, still not getting a pilot to bail, TC is becoming a difficult story for me, split hate me now, will get back to this once I'm a little less irritated (going to take hours to get the split to not want me dead anymore)

If you want to make money by selling capped ships, you don't need to blow them up. The bail check happens few hits after the target ship hull goes below 87.5%. Which means all you have to do is attack the ship until its hull is somewhere below 80%. If it hadn't bailed just let it go (try apologizing) and find a new one. This way you don't suffer a huge rep loss which you get upon destroying the ship.

I had a full disassembly of bail mechanism somewhere, let me check... found it!. It's enclosed in spoiler tags for a reason though, read at your own risk

[Sathayorn]

Actually I wasn't trying to cap ships to sell, I was trying to complete a mission objective - which I completed, silly me forgot i had to scan the ship... Though since I'm not allowed to buy ships, I might have to take a look at that link.

[Triaxx2]

Don't do those unless you've got the NPC Bailing Add-On mod from S&M. They're just impossible until they're boarding targets rather than bailing ships.

[Sathayorn]

Happy Update 1 of (hopefully) 9!

Yaaay, the Terrans didn't kill me for going to Earth!
Unfortunately I used the X3 screenshot button instead of the steam one for taking the 1/3 completion on Survivor... So if anyone would be so kind as to tell me how to find the screenshot, if it even worked - I would greatly appreciate it!

Another annoying thing about Terran space - taking 3% shield damage on 2 200mj shields for colliding with... Space? I've lost a DiD game because of this while I was in a Rapier... Does anyone know why you sometimes take a collision in Space with nothing around to hit?

Either way! Assets include... Spoiler tagged for people who don't want to know about rewards...

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Aegis - Still my personal ship
Vidar - Needs Armaments
2 Scabbard - Marine holding cells
Claymore - I think this is getting scrapped, too much hassle getting the Missiles...
Fujin - Just can't bring myself to sell this hunk of scrap...
Enhanced Jaguar - Possibly the new scout ship, once I can get it tuned up
Advanced Discoverer - Scrap!
Vulture Tanker - CAG
Demeter Miner - Mining Ship!
Dolphin Hauler - Manual Trader
1954646 credits

I guess this means I have to end the poll...

[VincentTH]

Don't do those unless you've got the NPC Bailing Add-On mod from S&M. They're just impossible until they're boarding targets rather than bailing ships.

He is playing DiD, S&M is out of the picture.

[Mightysword]

Honestly, it might be a cool idea if X3 is the perfect game with everything work as intended. As it stands however there are many random way to die that you're more or less have no control of so DiD to me is the samething as waking up one day and find out your save game is corrupted

[Sathayorn]

Found the Screenshots!

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That is all...

[Lyth]

Steam DiD is the best thing since sliced bread in my honest opinion. It's a completely random universe everytime and you are just as likely to be mowed down by a drunk M2 pilot coming through a gate as you are being jumped by pirates at the worst possible moment. I love it. Real DiD is something you can either do or cannot do. I console myself by saying I haven't completed all the plots yet in DiD.

(Comp crashes and unstable systems are what make it unenjoyable and that's neither egosoft nor steams fault. Lost 2 games due to some RAM on the way oput last year which was very frustrating.)

[Sathayorn]

Well... I blame the Split for this one...

Death by Turbo Booster... Pressed H when I meant to press J

Either way, I had a blast with my Vidar! I felt Invincible! Alas... The military base proved me otherwise...

But hah! Majority vote was wrong!