I am a little bit confused about ships. I think some of my confusion comes from wiki's that don't necessarily say if they are X3R, X3TC, X3AP, or all or some, etc.
Captured ships are easy. I look at their details and see what can be upgraded and how far. Then I can decide to keep it or not.
Purchased ships are not so easy. My example is the Argon Mercury. At the shipyard in Argon Prime, the two available for sale are "Mercury" and "Mercury Tanker". When I look at this wiki ( http://www.x3wiki.com/index.php/Mercury_%28ship%29 ) it shows many more variants.
Questions:
1. Are those other variants not in X3R?
2. I purchased a Mercury Tanker, but I am able to buy cargo expansions upto 7600. How is that possible? I thought I didn't/couldn't buy a Mercury XL?
3. If I did just buy a Mercury Tanker, but I can expand the cargo beyond what's listed in wiki, why can't I expand the speed beyond what's listed in the wiki??
4. Did I buy a Mercury Tanker (non XL) and mess up something after the initial purchase screen that made it an XL?? I recall there being some options after buying the Tanker and before I exited the purchase...maybe I screwed something up there?
What I basically don't understand is for ships that you can buy, how can you tell how much you can upgrade cargo/speed/etc without actually buying the ship?
Thanks,
Eagle
(X3R) Ship Confusion
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That wiki does say "Terran Conflict" on the left side.
Try this one.
As for your question: press I or U when scrolling through the list at the shipyard. Can't remember if Reunion had a encyclopedia.
Try this one.
As for your question: press I or U when scrolling through the list at the shipyard. Can't remember if Reunion had a encyclopedia.
Last edited by Graaf on Sat, 5. Jul 14, 17:15, edited 1 time in total.
(X3R) Different shipyards have different variants of the ships.
On the 'Trade' menu in a shipyard. select with up/down the ship you are interested in and press i to get the info on that ship.
Usually a larger than normal cargobay is combined with less speed and/or less shields etc.
[Edit] After buying a ship you are connected to the local Equipment Dock (if there is one) for fitting and upgrading etc
The XL refers to the cargo container size it can carry not the ship itself.
On the 'Trade' menu in a shipyard. select with up/down the ship you are interested in and press i to get the info on that ship.
Usually a larger than normal cargobay is combined with less speed and/or less shields etc.
[Edit] After buying a ship you are connected to the local Equipment Dock (if there is one) for fitting and upgrading etc
The XL refers to the cargo container size it can carry not the ship itself.
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Thx Tcy. I was writing my last post before I saw yours. I will use the "i" next time I'm at dock.TycHouse wrote:(X3R) Different shipyards have different variants of the ships.
On the 'Trade' menu in a shipyard. select with up/down the ship you are interested in and press i to get the info on that ship.
Usually a larger than normal cargobay is combined with less speed and/or less shields etc.
[Edit] After buying a ship you are connected to the local Equipment Dock (if there is one) for fitting and upgrading etc
The XL refers to the cargo container size it can carry not the ship itself.
*edit: I also now see that each race has more than one shipyard. It actually looks like two per based on the active map.