Err... no. Freelancer is small and limited and... the universe feels dead. It's a great game to play through, but not a great game to play indefinitely, like X3 is.

You can get carrier class capital ships large enough to house over 50 fighters! Nothing to stop you owning more than one either though they cost a packet.

A quick warning about that site. There is a zero tolerance policy on DRM/Piracy discussion there. The moderators are more than happy to lock any posts they don't like. Unfortunatly, the somewhat convinced the users there that hey are the best on the planet (I started a thread complaining about the mods, and flamed by all the users there )

X3: Terran Conflict is a good game, but it still needs some work. The developer, Egosoft, just does not know how to test for bugs, so their games are crap at release. Update it before you even play it.

You can get from Steam and various other websites. Fry's Electronics sells copies at their stores.

Yeah. Capital ships are very expensive, though.

It's available in the US

Or Steam, if you have nothing against it.

I only see the UK version listed on Amazon, sold through GoGamer.

It's in there

I'm in Pennsylvania in US....so idk if that has any bearing....

I didn't look hard in Steam, i just did one search and it didn't find it so I just exited out....looking again...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtzUtCWfkKU&feature=related X3: Terran Conflict Tutorial here. Hopefully, this is just a portion of a much longer tutorial.

This tutorial somehow reminds me of the EVE tutorial. Impressive looking game!

Egosoft is in Germany.

Distribution of the US version of X3:Terran Conflict is only through Steam.

You can get UK DVDs through Deep Silver on Amazon and GoGamer.com and probably other channels now as well.

The good news is that X3:Terran Conflict v2.0 is now in late beta.  When X3:Reunion v2.0 was released - it was released with all the bonus content on a DVD that had the DRM removed.  Since Egosoft removed their DRM after about a year into production for their past X games, I'm hoping they're about to do the same for X3:TC, because then I will buy it and replace my well-used X3:R 2.0 disk.

The best sand-box game ever.  If you are a player that puts it down because you "don't know what to do", the only suggestion I can make is that you can do whatever you want.  You can fly around and enjoy the music and scenery. You can blow stuff up. You can build things to replace the things you blew up.  You can trade things.  It's your universe.

Here's the first factory complex I built in X3:Reunion.  It was used to make the futuristic space equivalent of a hot dog ("Meat-Steak Cahoonas")

Argon Bio-Plex

Hmmm, I may just suck up to my parents and let me use their credit card to buy it on Steam.  Thanks Maybe Spring Break when I got the time too...

The whole X-series is definitely worth of playing. I spent half of the last night by organizing my trade ships between Argon Prime and Queen's space. O my God! Those Boron trade ships are so huge!