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*** And if that isn't enough, this level was made even harder with one patch.

** In ''Terran Conflict's'' Operation Final Fury plot, the last mission has you attack and destroy the last [[Horde of Alien Locusts|Kha'ak hive]] in known space. Well and good, except there's multiple Kha'ak capital ships and defense platforms, not to mention endlessly respawning fighters, which requires most players to fly an M2 destroyer to survive. And the sector's jump-in point is about 250 kilometers from the objective, and [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|an M2 can't even top 100 meters per second]]. So after the initial fight with a defense platform at the jump point, you're left crawling laboriously across the sector with nothing breaking the monotony except occasional raids by fighters that can't even dent your shields and are promptly splattered by your flak mounts. Most players use this time to do admin work on their trade empire and/or grab a sandwich.

*** The Hub plot is a huge [[Guide Dang It]]: nobody [[In Universe]] warns you that you'll have to build about fifty chip plants well in advance of the final stage and use multiple TL heavy transports as warehouses in order to complete the plot in less than several months real time. Fortunately this [[Scrappy Level]] has a reward that matches the effort: in addition to your newfound control over the game's [[Portal Network]] via the Hub itself, the factories you built for the plot will make stupid amounts of money afterwards.

*** The Hub plot is a huge [[Guide Dang It]]: nobody [[In-Universe]] warns you that you'll have to build about fifty chip plants well in advance of the final stage and use multiple TL heavy transports as warehouses in order to complete the plot in less than several months real time. Fortunately this [[Scrappy Level]] has a reward that matches the effort: in addition to your newfound control over the game's [[Portal Network]] via the Hub itself, the factories you built for the plot will make stupid amounts of money afterwards.

* [[That One Sidequest]]: '''''Every''''' [[Escort Mission]] except the one in ''X3: Terran Conflict's'' Terran Plot (which is the exception that proves the rule). See that page for the reasons why players avoid them like the plague.

** [[Stalking Mission|"Follow Ship"]], because it takes ''forever'' since you can't just call up the quest giver and tell him the target's destination, even though it's prominently displayed in the target's infobox. "Retrieve Stolen Ship" because you have to make the pilot bail out, which requires you to [[Cherry Tapping]] the target until the [[Random Number God]] smiles on you.

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*** Ditto ''Albion Prelude''. The forum moderators have basically put a moratorium on pro/con [[Steam]] discussion for the time being because they're tired of dealing with flame wars.

** Some hardcore players were up in arms about how easy it is to get money in ''Terran Conflict'' compared to previous games (read: no longer takes 50 hours of gameplay to get a capital ship) by doing the entirely ''optional'' randomly generated missions.

** Flame wars ensued over a rumor that ''X: Rebirth'' was going to be an [[MMORPG]]. ("It'll be an ''[[Eve Online]]'' [[Its the Same So It Sucks|clone]]!" "No, it won't! It'll bring new players!" "No, it won't! It'll wreck the [[Game Mod|modding]] community!"<ref>Come to think of it, it probably would have.</ref>) By far the biggest worry was that it would open the noob-friendly ''[[X (~~Video~~ ~~Game~~)|X]]'' community to MMO Trolls who pwn noobs [[For the Evulz]] and brag about it online. Thankfully, the flames promptly dissipated [[Wild Mass Guessing|when Egosoft stopped laughing]] and confirmed the rumor was false.

** Flame wars ensued over a rumor that ''X: Rebirth'' was going to be an [[MMORPG]]. ("It'll be an ''[[Eve Online]]'' [[Its the Same So It Sucks|clone]]!" "No, it won't! It'll bring new players!" "No, it won't! It'll wreck the [[Game Mod|modding]] community!"<ref>Come to think of it, it probably would have.</ref>) By far the biggest worry was that it would open the noob-friendly ''[[X (video game)|X]]'' community to MMO Trolls who pwn noobs [[For the Evulz]] and brag about it online. Thankfully, the flames promptly dissipated [[Wild Mass Guessing|when Egosoft stopped laughing]] and confirmed the rumor was false.

*** It should be noted that the idea of an optional multiplayer feature (such as an online arena) was generally fairly well thought of.

* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: Subverted. The opening cinematic for ''Terran Conflict'' claims that races outside the Solar System are experimenting with AGI. The only guy in the game proper doing anything remotely like that is {{spoiler|Marteen Winters, a [[Mad Scientist]] in the Aldrin System who's fiddling with their #deca CPU ship}}. Then ''Albion Prelude'' comes out and turns it into a [[Brick Joke]] with the Argon Federation's artificially intelligent warships.