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* UsedFuture: Many of the Teladi and Pirate capital ships ships and some Pirate stations are crude and worn-down in appearance, and some look like random bits and bobs and ship hulls were duct-taped together.

* ArbitraryMaximumRange: All weapons have a maximum range, the longest being 8 kilometers.

** Some Split ships, by fluff, weren't even designed with shields in mind. The design team clean forgot about it and later had to be <i>retrofitted</i>. Starburst and Arrow, rather than being fighters, are supposed to be used for racing.

** Some Split ships, by fluff, weren't even designed with shields in mind. The design team clean forgot about it and later had to be [i]retrofitted[/i]. Starburst and Arrow, rather than being fighters, are supposed to be used for racing.

* GameBreaker: The Springblossom corvette in X3: Terran Conflict. It's a corvette which has the firepower of a Prototype M6, can outrun most fighter craft, and has the cargo bay of a small transporter. The only disadvantage to it is its extreme (for a M6) price, the rarity of the weapons it uses, and the fact that the insane speed will mean you're probably going to end up ramming into enemies and dying, a lot. Its little brother, the Spitfyre intercetor, can outrun most scout ships, has the firepower of a prototype M3, and the shielding of a M3 Raider.

* ''X: Beyond The Frontier'',
* ''X: Tension'',
* ''X2: The Threat'',
* ''X3: Reunion'',
* ''X3: Terran Conflict''

* CityGuards: The system police like to buzz around and scan ships for illegal goods, and have destroyers to back them up.

* FragileSpeedster: Scout craft, which while anywhere from two to several times faster than any other ship will explode with so much as a sneer from heavier fighters. Split ships as a whole also fit the type, as they concentrate on speed and firepower rather than heavy shielding.

''X: Beyond The Frontier'',
''X: Tension'',
''X2: The Threat'',
''X3: Reunion'',
''X3: Terran Conflict''

** [[spoiler:#DECA, a massive cylindrical CPU ship. The nose of the ship is a massive gaping hole, leading to a glowing red interior.]]
** OTAS Boreas, a destroyer looking like something from Babylon 5, and can outgun basically every ship in the game.

** #DECA, a massive cylindrical CPU ship. The nose of the ship is a massive gaping hole, leading to a glowing red interior.

* AsteroidThicket: There can be upwards of 40 asteroids (each of which 1-2km in diameter) in a 60 kilometer radius.

** M7Ms can wipe out an entire sector from a remote corner using a full cargo bay of missiles; the sheer volume of rockets will completely overwhelm any target who isn't using Plasma burst generators or Phased shockwave generators. Thankfully, the AI never does this in vanilla X3TC.

* Game Breaker: The Springblossom corvette in X3: Terran Conflict. It's a corvette which has the firepower of a Prototype M6, can outrun most fighter craft, and has the cargo bay of a small transporter. The only disadvantage to it is its extreme (for a M6) price, the rarity of the weapons it uses, and the fact that the insane speed will mean you're probably going to end up ramming into enemies and dying, a lot. Its little brother, the Spitfyre intercetor, can outrun most scout ships, has the firepower of a prototype M3, and the shielding of a M3 Raider.

** YouFailEconomicsForever: The Terrans trading AI, apparently. Their economy is perpetually stagnated, with goods sitting in factories unsold.

* SpareBodyParts: Paranid have from 1 to 4 eyes (this even determines status and rank in their culture).
** Strangely, many of the Paranid the player talks to have ''4'' eyes in the communications video.

* UnfortuneateImplications: These 'really' start to crop up if you start to think about who each race represent.

*** It kind of make sense as almost all Terran sectors are in the Solar System, and the planets are mostly on the same elliptical plane anyway. By extension, Lagrangian 'points' (stable 'places' which are suitable for constructing stations) tend to trace elliptical orbits on the same plane.

* CrapsackWorld: Quite a lot of planets with their crust blasted off, leaving behind molten red hellholes.

** Terran Conflict actually falls right back into the trope a bit: while the core X-'verse sectors are certainly much more variable in their layouts compared to the earlier games, many Terran sectors are flat as a pancake with stations smack dab on the same horizontal plane.