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*** 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.
* [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]: Via mods. Not nearly as much as, say, ''[[Star Trek: Bridge Commander]]'', but there's still a few out there. For example, the Xtra Ships mod adds the Longsword and Longsword Mk. II, which don't sound that interesting [http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f75/chobit-389/Cadius%20Ships/Cad54.jpg until] [http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f75/chobit-389/Cadius%20Ships/Cad23.jpg you] [[Mass Effect|look at them]]
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: The Argon race portraits frequently dip down into the valley, and the Terran portraits to a lesser extent.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: These ''really'' start to crop up if you start to think about who each race represents. Boron are squid, Paranid vultures, Split are warlike humans, Teladi lizards, and Kha'ak are insects/birds. Heck, there's even an unseen, non-space-capable Whale race that's protected by the Boron.
* [[You Keep Using That Word]]: Occasionally the forums are the scene of minor arguments over whether or not M2s should be called destroyers (as they are officially) or battleships, as some players [[Insistent Terminology|insist on calling them]]. [http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=309029 This thread is a great example.] The gist of the argument is that as of ''X3'', they fit the definition of [[World War
** Made even more confusing by the ATF Valhalla and Terran Kyoto, which are M2s that can carry M6 corvettes.
*** Add to it that the ATF Valhalla is canonically an M0 Battleship. X3 simply doesn't have an M0 classification in its files, thus limiting the Valhalla to being a very slow and deadly M2.
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