Concerning UFOs...

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Concerning UFOs...

Post by Guiden » Fri, 24. Sep 04, 09:57

Has anyone ever determined the max speed of a UFO?
And perhaps a qualified guess as to their shielding... (Needless to say I want to kill one... :twisted: )
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Post by wellard » Fri, 24. Sep 04, 10:02

I don't think they have any shields, as for speed I believe only the Pegaus can keep up with them so better than 600 m/s

Of the tuning kit should mean other ships can catch them now (until oyu run out of space flies.

BTW I believe there is only one so once it's gone it's gone :cry:

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Post by Deathsheep » Fri, 24. Sep 04, 10:21

Where is it :?:
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Post by Thalass » Fri, 24. Sep 04, 10:49

All over the place. You just hafta be in the right sector at the right time.
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Post by Some Strange Man » Fri, 24. Sep 04, 10:56

Don't bother blowing it up.

It does absolutely nothing other than wander round all the sectors. (Useful for mapping though.)
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Its a GONER ship
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Post by ukdj78 » Fri, 24. Sep 04, 11:08

wellard wrote:BTW I believe there is only one so once it's gone it's gone :cry:
It may, or may not be true that there is only one as I've never seen two at the same time.

However if there is only one and you destroy it, it will respawn because I have destroyed one and seen one on three separate occasions since! :P
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They don't have sheilds and as the previous spolier in this thread pointed out, they are goners so if you destroy one it will affect your goner rank
Edit: It appears that they do re-spawn.
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Post by attep » Fri, 24. Sep 04, 11:15

Fastest i've seen is 450.
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Post by Ronin677 » Fri, 24. Sep 04, 11:21

i have never seen a UFO but i have seen a metallic sphere travelling at approx 1000m/s. i was only in a dicso at the time so couldn't keep up with it (never seen one since)
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Post by Some Strange Man » Fri, 24. Sep 04, 11:32

Ronin, that would be the UFO....
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Post by Scoobie » Fri, 24. Sep 04, 12:55

To Be Honest I see the UFO regularly, I have aproximatly 20 screenshots of different occations I have encountered it (then got bored of screenshooting it every time we meet :D ) and I am only just past the second mission in this game :O

Every time I have seen it it is traveling at 450m/s - never anything else? so most of the M5's in the game will keep up with it if you are flying it yourself but if you set another ship to follow it, it needs to be able to catch up after each jumpgate the pair pass so the only ship that can keep up is the Pegasus.

seeing however that some ships cruse at half speed untill attacked when they open up to full tilt, the UFO may possibly be able to go 900m/s when under threat :? (I have never attacked one so I dont know)
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Post by xen7ric » Fri, 24. Sep 04, 12:57

The UFO usually cruises around at 450 (I don't know if that's full speed though, ships Idle at 50% so it could be 900 max speed).

UFO's have 0 shielding.

I sent a Peggy after one which mapped out a fair amount of the Galaxy for me until it died in a Xenon sector.

Attacking it won't do anything since they respawn and can't be capped. Could damage your Goner rating though.

EDIT - :cry: Beaten to it every time... :lol:
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Post by Ronin677 » Fri, 24. Sep 04, 13:24

i thought UFO's were disk shaped, not spheres. Can anyone confirm???????????????????
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Post by Scoobie » Fri, 24. Sep 04, 13:27

Ronin677 wrote:i thought UFO's were disk shaped, not spheres. Can anyone confirm???????????????????
They are typical 1950's UFO's (of a disk shape yes)

If what you saw was traveling at 1000m/s it wasnt the UFO (apart from the shape discrepency the speed gives it away)
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Post by Mordenkainen » Fri, 24. Sep 04, 14:35

The UFO in my game seems to have stopped it's wandering and is now going back and forth between Kingdoms End and the sector to it's east, along with quite a few other ships.

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Post by Bishop149 » Fri, 24. Sep 04, 15:30

I think the speed of them is pretty random, they're just generally fast enough to make it through Xenon sectors unharmed (you have to go around 400-600 to get through safely on autopilot - unkess you get unlucky!).
I've seen one wandering through the universe on about 3% hull too! Don't bother killing them you get nothing for it but a drop in Gonor race rank.
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Post by ukdj78 » Sat, 29. Oct 05, 14:19

OK sorry for "bump"ing a really old post (not a proper bump anyway cos it wasn't one of mine to begin with!), but has anyone seen one of these babies in X3 yet?

I haven't myself, but I'm wondering if they're still around :?:
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