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Dowly · 12-22-09, 12:01 AM

X3: Terran Conflict

I was looking for my last run with my freighter before I was to give it to my first employee. I checked the best buy locator and saw that a drone factory was selling their Fighter Drone Mk.II's at almost 6k below the average price. Of course, being the awesome merchant, I went in and bought them. Only after that I realised that there's only one place in the universe that buys them and it was a) kazillionbilliontrillion lightyears away and b) it only could hold like 10 drones, I bought 16.

At this point, I basically lost all my money (I was left with roughly 30k from the 500k I had), my first though was "****", but then I realised that I might turn this into profit afterall by attacking pirate ships and hope they'll bail and I get the ship, I mean, surely 16 Mk.II's should be more than enough for that.

Anyhow, I plotted course to the border worlds to see if I could find something to kill and ofcourse, being the egomaniac, I deployed all the drones to fly around my ship (looked nice). Come first jumpgate I hear a tremendous *KABOOOOOOM*, check my radar and ALL 16 DRONES FLEW RIGHT INTO THE GATE'S SUPERSTRUCTURES!!

12-22-09, 12:01 AM	#104
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,054 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	X3: Terran Conflict I was looking for my last run with my freighter before I was to give it to my first employee. I checked the best buy locator and saw that a drone factory was selling their Fighter Drone Mk.II's at almost 6k below the average price. Of course, being the awesome merchant, I went in and bought them. Only after that I realised that there's only one place in the universe that buys them and it was a) kazillionbilliontrillion lightyears away and b) it only could hold like 10 drones, I bought 16. At this point, I basically lost all my money (I was left with roughly 30k from the 500k I had), my first though was "***", but then I realised that I might turn this into profit afterall by attacking pirate ships and hope they'll bail and I get the ship, I mean, surely 16 Mk.II's should be more than enough for that. Anyhow, I plotted course to the border worlds to see if I could find something to kill and ofcourse, being the egomaniac, I deployed all the drones to fly around my ship (looked nice). Come first jumpgate I hear a tremendous KABOOOOOOM*, check my radar and ALL 16 DRONES FLEW RIGHT INTO THE GATE'S SUPERSTRUCTURES!!