(X3AP) NPC's selling incomplete sector maps

[synctrance]

In my previous games i always bought sector maps from NPC's, just to reveal stations i haven't mapped or the new ones GOD has placed. However, in X3AP maps i buy never reveal undiscovered stations.


Am i imagining things or was it always been this way?

[Sinxar]

It has been like that for a long time. Since TC at least. No idea why that is a thing but yeah i've noticed that too.

[RAVEN.myst]

I, too, don't remember ever buying a map even remotely "complete". I think the main purpose of these transactions is to give the player jumpdrive access directly into a sector without having to enter it "on foot" first. This can be especially useful if you buy a "map" for a sector of interest to you that happens to be several jumps away - now you can get into it immediately, without exploring out to it first.

[synctrance]

Ill stop buying those maps, but i could have sworn they were still useful even after you mapped entire universe. Man, so much to relearn!

[RainerPrem]

Hi,

it would be a nice addition to the game if those "special" stations would require a purchased map to be found and not just appear on the long range scanner.

Especially if those stations were really special - like the one selling space fly eggs in X2. But basically they are not relevant and not interesting.

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Rainer

[AleksMain]

Since my pilot fly using slow ship often, which move from sector to sector using jump drive, then above maps (even old) are useful to him. I understand, that some cartographers had been in those sectors long ago and had not updated their maps.

[Geek.Verve]

I buy them just for the reputation bump. I typically don't even look at what I'm buying. In fact I was jumping around the universe in a relatively new game just last night and found myself wondering, "How is that sector a valid jump destination, while none of its connecting sectors are?" I must have gotten it from a sector map purchase.