Tried the demo, not sure on something

Ralen-Sharr · Post by **Ralen-Sharr** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:44 am

I've been messing around with the demo, I did the tutorial, but I haven't actually run around just yet.

I came across this on Steam, it looked interesting. I've played X3 for a while and when I saw that this was a space sim where you can build stations and features multiplayer I had to try it.

I like the flight physics, looks like this could be bent in some interesting ways to make it fun.

I haven't been able to find a clear answer - can you own multiple ships of different type? If so, how big do they get?

I've already read that it's not the sprawling empire builder like X3, but I'd like to know how far you can go.

SeeJay · Post by **SeeJay** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:07 am

Hi and welcome Ralen.

The flyable ship sizes are fighters, not any kind of capital battleships.
They are devided into 2 categories.
Civilian frames (Can hold up to 4 crew members)
Military frames (No crew)

You can own as many ships as you like and store them in Hangars on stations or in a city.
You can only fly one at a time thou. (Can't build a fleet with your own ships).
You can hire other AI ships to join your fleet.
When you store a civilian frame that holds a crew, you loose the crew and need to
train a new one next time you fly a civilian frame.

There is an expansion coming this year to Evochron Mercenary that will allow you
to leave your ship on planets and walk/fight as a "MechWarrior".

It's the best space sim I have ever flied (Haven't tried all thou).

Hope this helps a bit.
/SeeJay

Post by **Marvin** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:00 am

Three things you'll find in Mercenary that you won't find in X:

Multiplayer (with a carryover of your SP pilot profile).
Seamless (no cut scene) when transiting between space and planetside ... where you can engage in planetside combat.
Seamless universe (you can use jumpgates or just travel from one end of the galaxy to the other on autopilot).

Star King · Post by **Star King** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:50 pm

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Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:09 pm

Hi Ralen-Sharr, welcome to the forum and hopefully the game, hope to see you out there if you do get the game!.....

Viper · Post by **Viper** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:30 pm

In terms of 'building your own empire' you can, as stated, own as many ships as you want since you can have like 100 (or somewhere around that number) different profiles, and then you can have ships stored in station hangars while you're flying another. And every player can build stations of different types. There's Trade-, Energy-, Research stations, and then you have Ore processors and Constructor stations. The possibilities are many.

Then you have the expansion coming up, it will include a lot of stuff including new graphics and station designs. you can read about it here.

See you out there!