I've looked & looked but no UFO Bases. Anyone?

paulatwork6 · Post by **paulatwork6** » Fri, 10. Jun 05, 12:26

I've been round the planet in Black Hole Sun, NOTHING!

Been to co-ordinates in Ore Belt, NOTHING!

Been to Cloudbase South West to Gonar, NOTHING!

If anyone can give co-ords and system of either Special Containers or UFO bases I would be happy.

esd · Post by **esd** » Fri, 10. Jun 05, 12:33

Spoiler

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It's behind the planet in XS492

I'm talking cobblers...

paulatwork6 · Post by **paulatwork6** » Fri, 10. Jun 05, 12:35

Round another planet!!

I think Not, It took ages.

Post by **euclid** » Fri, 10. Jun 05, 12:38

esd wrote:
Spoiler
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It's behind the planet in XS492
I'm talking cobblers...

Cheers Euclid

paulatwork6 · Post by **paulatwork6** » Fri, 10. Jun 05, 12:40

What about these special containers, are they anything of interest?

Ive done most bits of the game and want more from it.

Post by **euclid** » Fri, 10. Jun 05, 12:54

paulatwork6 wrote:What about these special containers, are they anything of interest?

Ive done most bits of the game and want more from it.

I'm not sure what you mean by '..most bits of the game..' because it's endless.

Anyway, the containers floating in stations can be scooped and the wares sold. Good money if you are in an early stage of the game and short of cash. Also a challenge to scoop them. Sometimes they're close to the ceiling or corner (make a spacewalk and push them carefully).

Cheers Euclid

Some Strange Man · Post by **Some Strange Man** » Fri, 10. Jun 05, 12:56

The UFO base is an item that only appears in the special objects. It wasn't put into the final game.

It may or may not be in a large number of mods.

paulatwork6 · Post by **paulatwork6** » Fri, 10. Jun 05, 12:59

Cheers for that, Now to hunt for the containers. Any idea where they are?

Antilogic · Post by **Antilogic** » Fri, 10. Jun 05, 12:59

Some Strange Man wrote:The UFO base is an item that only appears in the special objects. It wasn't put into the final game.

It may or may not be in a large number of mods.

Ufo base? never heard of it before. what do it do?

Tsar_of_Cows · Post by **Tsar_of_Cows** » Fri, 10. Jun 05, 13:12

TitanX3 wrote:
Some Strange Man wrote:The UFO base is an item that only appears in the special objects. It wasn't put into the final game.

It may or may not be in a large number of mods.
Ufo base? never heard of it before. what do it do?

Nothing.

However there is an object that "looks" like a UFO base that appears to mark the centre point of all(?) stations.

There was a topic about it a while ago.

Post by **euclid** » Fri, 10. Jun 05, 16:32

There's another thing that has been reported some time ago including pics for evidence (can't find the thread).

Apparently it's this mobile Goner research centre you can read about in the BBS of the Goner Temple. Someone has posted a screenshot of a huge roid with a docking facility. He claimed to have observed a Goner ship flying into the roid. But since it's mobile it did vanish after a while.

I guess one of these stories, you know. But the pic was quite a surprise.

Cheers Euclid

ceogreen · Post by **ceogreen** » Fri, 10. Jun 05, 16:49

This the topic you're on about euclid?
http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtop ... sc&start=0

Quite a long "discussion" in there.....

Post by **euclid** » Fri, 10. Jun 05, 18:42

Yup, that's the one. Thanks for digging it up, ceogreen. Luckily it's locked

Cheers Euclid

DickusMaximus · Post by **DickusMaximus** » Sat, 11. Jun 05, 21:01

You need to steal the cloaking device off the UFO base then you'll be able to see it.

Deleted User · Post by **Deleted User** » Sat, 11. Jun 05, 21:17

DickusMaximus wrote:You need to steal the cloaking device off the UFO base then you'll be able to see it.

but you can only do that once you've killed the space fly queen using the argon one.

Drainy · Post by **Drainy** » Sat, 11. Jun 05, 21:38

after capturing the argon one by bumping an asteroid into it to cause the AI to bail

Jon Tetrino · Post by **Jon Tetrino** » Sat, 11. Jun 05, 21:43

we all know that the true UFO base is actually found inside the Xenon MO that is situated 10 million km away from the center of Xenon Sector 596 and speeding away from said center towards unknown deep space at over 9km/s. The location that the M0 is heading to is unknwn but it is expected to pass through 472 on its way.

of course this is just the ramblings of a mad git who hasn't seen his girl friend in a week and is playing X2 to compensate

Atkara · Post by **Atkara** » Sun, 12. Jun 05, 02:00

I don't know if there's a UFO base or not, but... these UFOs have to be Goner Ships of some kind. This can be easily concluded if you check a UFO's and a normal Goner Ship's ID and faction mark.

Some hours ago, I came across and followed (with a fully maxed Pegasus) a UFO all around it's route in the X-Universe and it didn't land anywere. I had enough time to look closer on it's ID in the sector map: GGOVI-42. You might have noticed (if not allready) that all Goner Ships share an ID of GGOVI-nn (nn=serial No).

Other races ships are marked the same way, race-respectively (e.g. BM3LJ-15 where B=Boron, M3=Class M3, LJ=Homebase ID, 15=ship's Serial No). I also took notice that my UFO beared the Goners faction mark too.

Player ships are marked as YM2 (Your M2) YTP (your TransPorter) etc.

After about 3 hours of endless flying, I decided to leave that UFO in peace and head to the Goners Temple and see if I could get any answers there. Here's a possible hint in Goner Temple's BBS: Goners are actually considering to change the way their ships look and radar signature because too many pilots (player or NPCs) are trying to shoot them down, or capture them (hehe).

This could be an experimental Goner ship that leaves no hints of it's identity, untill you decide to look closer. It's far different than the original ship design, yet it looks like it's copied from early UFO photos, token at "ancient" times on Earth (the RL ones)...