Ketraar wrote:Anyone complaining in TC or AP that they have a cash problem have not played any X prior to those. If they did they'd feel embarrassed to say such thing.
I never actively played one of the older x-games, never really got into them. Even though I have always been intrigued by the genre since Braben's Frontier.
Still I don't feel that not having played the older x-games is a liability to what I can achieve in TC and AP. My preferred start is humble merchant and I have always taken it through the 'normal' route, so ignoring the stock market which can literally earn you millions within an hour (obviously I have tried the feature like anyone else). I prefer trading my way up and Will try to get a second ship as soon as I can and work towards to ST/UT.
Though modest, I have 10 UT's, a plankton complex (6 factories + int. product production, and an SSP), a microchip complex (4 factories, based on the same principle as the above),supply ships and a small squadron of M3's to clean 'my' systems from the occasional pirate scum. Combined credit stack is around 180M.
I have traded bucket loads of ore, ec's and wafers at the beginning of my games. As long as you try to learn from the other goods and their respective values, you'll never run or of work and with that a solid income to fund your little Empire. And I still consider myself a relative newbie at this game, who still makes a lot of simple mistakes a more seasoned player would most likely not do.
I think that with playing X3 comes a trait you need to have in order to go down the trading route and that is patience. Compared to most other games out there and what people most people apparently seem to want nowadays is what the X3 games don't provide and that's a fast and easy road, or even instant access, to succes and wealth.
Just my humble opinion.
