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XPiratez / Re: A thread for little questions

« on: October 12, 2017, 02:37:45 am »

I purchased new aircraft (Airspeeder) and also sent an Expedition to Europe. Somehow enemy vessels began to land occasionally. I even managed to plunder Academy ship with some armaments onboard. Maybe landing probability is somehow scripted to be connected to pursuing vessel's speed or class?

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XPiratez / Re: A thread for little questions

« on: October 12, 2017, 01:48:56 am »

Looks like I'm unlucky in this regard. I've been playing for many hours and NOT A SINGLE SHIP landed while I followed it Maybe bad base placement? It's positioned in Siberia.

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XPiratez / Re: A thread for little questions

« on: October 11, 2017, 11:03:37 pm »

Yep, and I'm OK with that. But situation is ought to be changed, and I'm looking for ways to do that.

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XPiratez / Re: A thread for little questions

« on: October 11, 2017, 09:40:43 pm »

Airbus can't really move a large distance so finding a landed ship is pretty hard, so best bet is to get a new ship that can equip weapons.

The problem is, I can't find any aircraft armaments.

Try shadowing with faster vessels and/or buying the Aircar if you come across a light gun for it somewhere (2x25mm or better).

Where can I obtain aircraft guns aside from looting the aircrafts? I read Air Strategy Guide or something (found that at ufopaedia on the Internet) and it said that aircraft weapons can't be bought.

...oh, wait, and are you sure you know how to actually make time pass when an air combat is set to 'shadow'? Click the minimize icon in the upper left of the combat window! It'll collapse the window and actually let the Geoscape clock advance and the enemy fly around/continue to its destination. Same as in vanilla X-Com.

Yep, that's how I tried that.

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XPiratez / Re: A thread for little questions

« on: October 11, 2017, 05:59:35 pm »

Ahoy everyone. I'm new to Piratez, though quite experienced with original X-Com.

How can I plunder vessels in X-Piratez?

The only landed vessels I've ever seen were feeble hunters from the very beginning of the game. Since then not a single vessel ever landed. I tried to pursue them with "shadow them!" option in air battle mode, I tried to pursue them without engaging in combat (setting waypoints endlessly), but they didn't land anyway.

I haven't captured any vessel weapons yet (because I, uh, can't plunder vessels). I'm still using the Airbus, though I can purchase basic vessels from Car Thieves.