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09Aug

X3AP Humble merchant: My first trade runs

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After selling my discovery I’m left with about 45K and the Mercury. At this point I do some upgrading to my ship; Duplex scanner, some engine tuning, trading system extension. I leave myself with about 36K, you could probably buy more upgrades right away and trade other stuff, but I want to be able to buy a full load of energy cells. Note: In TC you have to go to the equipment docks for these upgrades.

Since I now have the Trading system extension I can quickly check prices without docking at a station. This will help a lot.

I see nothing is produced in argon Prime, so I decide to head towards Power Circle.

In Herron’s Nebula I find Ore for 50 and decide to go with that instead: I can sell it in the same sector for more than double the price. I keep distributing ore and energy to this and the surrrounding sectors for quite some time, and quickly get up to 100K.

Now it’s time for some more upgrades, I get the rest of the engine tuning and rudder optimization and head off to Home of light for the Best buys and best selling locators. These will speed up trading even more.

While in Home of light I buy some Cohonas, but not sure this was worth it. I made a good profit buy had to travel around to get rid of them. So, more or trading.

My goal now is to get to about half a milion before I decide what to do next.

06Aug

X3AP Humble merchant: Finding things to trade

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When the game starts, you find yourself in space in your Mercury freighter. The first thing we want to do is to get into our discoverer. We can do this in space, but I decided to dock to change ship.

We also order our Discoverer to go to the same place.

Once we get there we switch ship

Our universe map doesn’t look like much yet, time to do some scouting.

I start journey going through the south gate, since I know there’s a shipyard in Argon Prime From playing TC. Once I’ve found the shipyard I order my Mercury there to wait for me to finish scouting. I proceed to scout out the surrounding sectors with my Discoverer. Takes some time, but will save time later.

After scouting for a while, I realized I should’ve upgraded my scanner, A duplex scanner would’ve helped.

When done scouting my universe map looks like this.

I figured this will do for a while.

Now we move to the shipyard And sell our Discoverer.

We now have 45K. I decided to spend some of it on upgrades and save most of it for trading.

I spend about 9K on trading system extension, a better scanner and engine and rudder upgrades.

It’s now time to start trading.

05Aug

X3AP Humble merchant: Introduction

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I’ve been playing x3: Terran conflict for a few weeks now as a trader. Even though I really like the game. I want to have some of the new features available in Albion prelude. I checked some forum posts when I started playing the game, and most people recommended starting with TC until you know more about the game. Other reasons to play TC is that AP doesn’t have as many plots as TC does. Despite all of this, I want to give this a try, using the same start and see where I end up.

The humble merchant scenario.

I feel that this is the easiest start, and I think I can take whatever route I want further into the game.

This series will contain quick updates on how I progress in my game, it may contain spoilers later on but for now, it can serve as a guide on how to get started in X3: Albion prelude as well as X3: Terran conflict (This starting scenario is pretty simular in both games).

Let’s get started.

I start the game with 2 ships, a Mercury (Argon freighter) and a discoverer (Argon scout ship). First I jump into my discoverer to scout the nearby sectors. My plan is, to find some good things to trade using the discoverer, then sell the ship and use the mercery until I get enough money to get more ships.