{"id":1561,"date":"2007-07-20T20:39:16","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T23:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2007-10-06T07:15:45","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T10:15:45","slug":"back-to-x3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1561","title":{"rendered":"Back to X3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span>ith <a id=\"p1226\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1226\" title=\"X3 Reunion\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/x3_reunion.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"X3 Reunion\"\/><\/a>the intermittent (or rather lack of) Internet connectivity earlier this week, I decided to copy my savegame data back to the X3 game directory and play a couple of rounds.\n<\/p>\n<p>Fun: it took a while to get used to the controls, but after an hour my trade routes were set-up and running again (2 Mercuries and 2 other medium freighters), safely [I hope] guarded by a fleet of small to medium fighters. I ended up going after the Nova in the 2nd Unknown Territory: apparently one of my savegames was geared to get that one. I had given up, I guess. The only way to get there unharmed is to get a fast fighter (Discoverer or the Boron M5 class ship I forget the name of) with a jump device, go in, change ships (while exchanging freight) and jump out in the Nova to Grand Exchange. The Discoverer I considered &#8216;scrap&#8217;, but apparently made it out unscathed too.\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if EgoSoft (the maker of X3) is planning to create a succesor to the game: it doesn&#8217;t look like it. Their website only lists 2 extra bonus packs (including XTM, which I might try) and for the rest, the forums seem to be geared to modding only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the intermittent (or rather lack of) Internet connectivity earlier this week, I decided to copy my savegame data back to the X3 game directory and play a couple of rounds. Fun: it took a while to get used to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1561\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}