Anyone play X3 Reunion? Does it play like an MMORPG without other players?

[Deleted member 4644]

Anyone play X3 Reunion? Does it play like an MMORPG without other players?

Is it a good game?

 

[uhohs]

starforce copy protection has kept me away from the game.

 

[amish]

i thought this had starforce on it, let me double check.

edit: uhohs beat me to it.

 

[rstove02]

Last I heard, they were offering an online purchase/download of it without Starforce.

Played the game religiously for about a month and got bored with it.

Basically there are 5 races each with their own faction. You have to raise your faction to be able to buy bigger/better ships, buy better equipment for your ships, buy factories to build equipment for your ships, buy factories to make money. The faction grind is HUGE to be able to by capital ships and equip them. Also since to get the best loadouts for your ship(s), you have to be on good terms with 2-3 of the 5 factions. So that HUGE grind is multiplied by 3x.

Gaining faction is quick and easy at the beginning, but then at the half way mark it goes insane. The only ways to get faction with a race are the following:
1) Trade with faction
2) Do quests for the faction
3) Destroy enemies in the faction(s) space

The problem is that quests are few and far between and you have to land at the stations to check to see if any quests are available. You check for quests at the news terminal and your lucky to find 1 quest at the terminal and your usually turned down to not being liked enough or not having the right ship.

Next after doing the initial clearing patrols in the faction's space...it is quite hard to find new bad guys in said space. So killing enemies in the faction's space gives reducing returns in many ways.

So basically...the only real way to get faction is through trading and that is also dog slow.

Also add to the fact the your fleets that you build (the term fleet is usually 3+ ships in this game) have many quirks. For example their power in battles is computed differently depending if your in the same sector as the fleet. If your OOS (out of sector) then you load up the slowest heaviest hitting guns, but if your IS (in sector) your fleet will be decimated since the guns can not hit anything but super slow targets.

Also when your IS...collision detection is done with your fleet. And your ships in your fleet have to controlled by the AI and a notorious for smashing into ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. Because of this you will not be able to watch any of your fleets in battle (i.e. being In-sector) due to the problems of In-sector combat.

After I got bored with the game I set my faction to max with all the races and built a capital ship and loaded it out and brought it to an hostile sector only to find that combat is the same as the first ship you start out with only much slower moving (strafing is your friend in this game).