PSA, research will be needed to unlock the ability to get blueprints from scanning leaks. Imagine my surprise when the 5 emp bombs didn't net me any! I'm playing with the base game and no dlc. Keep up the videos Francis, I've been sleeping on X4 and now I'm getting back into it now that they've added useful things like tutorials.
The scale of things is one thing this game does VERY right. I love how BIG the stations and modules look. Great show so far. I really hope you continue this series.
I love your tendency to find a game and say "I'll make my own guides, with blackjack (whiskey) and hookers (bacon)." "if you don't feed your workers, they don't live" These are the hot tips I come here for. =D
couple of tips 1. plot cost depends on location, you pick some more distant spot, you'll pay much less 2. build speed depends on how many drones the builder has. and you don't know that unless it's your builder :)
^--- THIS!!! Always build your small dock and storage before anything else (save maybe for connectors here & there) so when your production modules are done they immediately are able to store the end products.
You'll find that you'll want to create a satellite station for mining silicon. If you try to do ore and silicon on the same station the manager will fail to effectively manage the mining ships and you'll run into periodic shortages of one or both ores. You can accomplish this by setting up a mining ship to haul the ore between the satellite station that actually does the mining and your main station. Transports can't haul ore or gas. I usually take it a step further and refine the silicon before shipping it since it's a 1:1 relationship between ore and product at that stage of the production cycle.
100% this. Miners can be set as station traders and will trade wares in their cargo type (solid or liquid) for their commander. I personally like to build a trading station for each raw resource as this, when done strategically, can effectively double your effective mining range as the trading station manager levels up to 5 stars.
That was an issue before Tides of Avarice but Egosoft addresed it. I have no problems with Computronic Substrate production stations which require both Silicon and Ore.
@@FrancisJohnYT Looks like the other poster is correct and they fixed it. I created a megaplex using all the ores and gasses and I've had no trouble with miners getting stuck on one resource and starving the others. This greatly simplifies my resource chains.
Don't forget about those random enemy raids from Xenon/Kha'ak/Pirates all it takes is a few undefended blind spots on your stations and they can be severely damaged. Also you may want to make sure your hired pilots/managers have good skill levels (skill training is extremely slow! in X4) and anybody with less than 3 stars is usually garbage and expendable.
with stations you can set them to buy only from your own stations. this way you can build stations focused on one product that trade with each other. doing this you can expand each station at the same time. Just a different method to mega factories people might want to do
If I had it all to do again I would have made food and medicine it's own section. Takes far to long to build up the infrastructure and it slows down the building of productive infrastructure.
Well, after watching this video a bit, I feel like I need a degree in rocket science just to keep up with the game mechanics! When francis say " they're not that complicated to make" and the table popped up, my brain just went 'nah man, I'm out.'
If you start the game first you should do the tutorials to get to know the controls. Then you should probably do the standard scenario with the mission chain that introduces you to most if not all of the game mechanics. You can pause or ignore the missions almost always at any point in time to do your own thing.
This is very much a game where you can do a lot of very different things. If you don't want to be a factory magnate, you don't _really_ have to (though it's certainly handy for later game supplies).
I think a lot of people just play the missions as a fighter pilot and don't really get into the factory bit of it. I just want to buy lots and lots of big ships so I'm willing to learn the economy.
don't forget each module has individual loadouts where you can put turrets and shields and such. also the Ares Heavy fighter (HOP produces it) is a reasonably good ship for escorting your miners and traders
I tried using a single Ares to escort a miner and it died to a Khaak attack. The Khaak attacks in fives so it stood no chance. I think ripping out the infestations by the root is the only real option.
@@FrancisJohnYT yeah a single Ares won’t do much but buy the other ship time to flee, you also need to pay attention to what weapons and shields and engines you put on it. A Argon mk3 combat engine isn’t the same as a HOP combat mk3. If you use the encyclopedia in game it’ll give you the stats. If you’d rather hear someone explain things and how the work I would recommend watching Captain Collins
I'm just going to live vicariously through you on this one Francis... I'm lucky if I manage 3 hours a month in gaming time so feel free to let rip the dogs of war on my behalf... or whatever ;)
Scanning and exploring does get tedious. These days I use the custom start to begin with 10 million and use a mod that explores all sections and stations from the get go. For getting blueprints, I only bother stealing the really expensive ones. I generally don't bother making all-in-one stations like Francis John is planning. It gets really hard to keep scaling them out when you are making mega-stations. Hull Parts complexes (Hull Parts + Graphne + Refined Metal) and Food/Medical complexes (food + medical + spice + wheat + meat + water) are as complicated I go. My Claytronics complexes only ever have Claytronics (maybe Solar Farms if they are big enough). I have completely separate Quantum Tube complexes (Quantum Tube + Graphice + Superfliud) and Microchip complexes (Microchip + Silicon Mine).
What is it about this "game"? It's a time sink like no other I've ever experienced but by the Gods its satisfying! Thanks so much for the guides, it gives me something to watch while "Traveling" :)
There is so much wrong with this game.. Really.. but I've been totally hooked since I started a week ago and have 50+ hours in and have accomplished not much at all.. Still a blast though
Hey Francis, I can see that these X4 vids underperformed your normal numbers but keep the faith. I feel like this is a game that has a slow burn but it has a growing fan base. Your guides are getting a new crowd involved in the game. I hope you have another guide or two up your sleeve for X4. An Erlking guide or even a Claiming a sector guide would be awesome!
Lol! I just found your videos. I love watching you make the same mistakes and discoveries I did when i started this game, but you are way more smooth about it. You are actually teaching people way more effectively because of it.
I think the actual real obstacle in making a station is making it look pleasant to the eye, at least that's the case for me. I want to have all the components I need to make the station like I want it to look, but for all that I need lots of money, and for lots of money I need stations.
The best way to find missions is to get on the highway and open your map and look at mission offers on the map screen. Also money is not the real reason you want to do missions, reputation is. Max reputation with a faction affords you a lot of juicy benefits that you want to unlock ASAP. For money, you've pretty much already got that figured out just keep doing what you're doing. Mining and selling ore with auto miners is a great start. Most of the missions offered via data leaks are to basically go do crimes, typically with an opposing faction that you will want to trade with at one point or other.
If my X3 days are anything to go by then.. Teladi tend to build them sturdy with big shields and big cargo. Splid(?) like them fast and stuffed with way to manny weapons to the detriment of most anything else. Argon are basic and therefore allways an ok option. Borons just look fishy. Paranids overspecialize their ships. They tend to do one thing really well, but lack balance. But giventhat you chose a pegasus i figure you already knew. I fondly remember my paranid destroyer mostly equipped with shockwave generators decimating an entire battlefield, a nearby station and my framerate. Every race hated me after that but what were they going to do? Come into target range? Sadly empty sectors are only fun for so long and the big boy tended to also catch the loot in his aoe. But having that thing ready to jump in on my location and ruin some unlucky pirates or xenons day felt kinda nice. Didn't work well in a fleet though.
I haven't had the time to mess with the boron expansion, but i like the yaki moreya more then Pegasus. It has better speed with Terran mk3 engines and MORE weapons 4 vs 1.
'bout right in X4 as well. didn't like the teladi designs though, I mostly went split/terran for my fleet. there's a particular unique capital ship available that can be incredibly potent as a flagship as well, though you only get the one. the thing in X4 that seems most different to X3 to me is that there isn't a general "good at everything" weapon load out like the shockwave generators were in X3. capital ships can be good vs fighters or good vs other capital ships but it's hard to be both.
True, but at the same time, you're now building factory complexes by default rather than individual stations that need to be connected with ships, so it's warranted. When they added this to X3, it didn't really fit well with the economy of the base game.
I really like this series from you, it's something I've had my folks ask me to stream for years and I'm like 'no, no, NO' and even though you don't have guides yet, your clear voice and entertaining way of explaining games has always made things easier to understand. I found you from your first vids on ONI, then Songs of Syx and now x4. I really hope you do do guides for this game, it's INSANELY complex and that's coming from a former EVE online player of 11 solid years. Thanks for breaking it down so far, I know it's not worth giving them the game live, I'd be hopelessly lost without a few play throughs. But you were right from this video, the 'sunk cost fallacy' that many players feel is a good thing. Why restart endlessly and never get anywhere when you can learn and fix it. My only concern, does the universe actually grow/fight/contract with the enemy so that waiting a ton of time would be a bad thing? Or is it static enough that you could take a ton of time to learn in one universe without a ticking time bomb of enemies eventually going to wipe out the entire universe?
Xenon became more and more aggressive with each update. You might end up with a playthrough where Xenon take sectors rapidly. Just don't exploit SETA to pass time by doing nothing because it's a waste of credits or opportunity to whittle the Xenon down. You might consider Xenon as a ticking time bomb.
Im doing my first playthrough of this and in my game the enemy is very proactive. I let the game run overnight and they cut all the supply lines and trashed my miners 😂 My buddies game is completly different and he has just been space trucking and building stations no problem. Seems like its different every time.
hehe.. another EVE vet here.. not 11 years but a long time and a lot of hours anyhow.... I've compared it before but I'm new to X4 and the series (even though i've glanced at it many times in the past).. But playing this game really brings back feelings of EVE. Not that I will ever return to that.. But its fun gatecamping in X4 with you shiny new Guardian Raider and blasting at things and getting some nice loot in the process.
if i am reading the UI correctly, I believe you made a 20km cube? there are + and - sliders for each coordinate axis, seemingly extending the plot in both directions for each axis? just curious.
Personally, I like turning the phq into a self sufficient shipyard precisely because of that. It's just really nice to be able to move everything around the universe to support your takeover.
@@gogudelagaze1585 Having it as your shipyard is a good idea, but I'm more talking about hull parts, food and advance electronics. I usually do hull parts/food in the void, and have adv electronics in paranid space. Paranid medium are decent enough for regular freight to PHQ, and large argons are decent enough for moving large amounts for building new bridgeheads.
You can buy parts for crafting emp bombs at pirate bases so you can get them at bulk with xenon parts you can easily get in places where xenon regularly invade.
I'm close to finishing up my first ONI - Spaced Out! play-through and gosh-darn-it, you made me buy the next time sink! After sinking way too many hours into the X-Universe, I purposefully did not buy X4, but you changed my mind... Anyway, I love your initial mind set to grab free loot while it is available to boot-strap your empire. I would have loved to see you continue this on the larger scale: everything has an opportunity cost. By going with an expensive, closed-loop setup for your mega factory, you try to leverage an advantage in this very complicated economy. I get it! But, if X4 is true to its predecessors, it will have unbalanced supply and demand and the story missions plus the time you need to do them lets the game evolve into a situation where overabundance and shortages become more obvious. Watching your factory grow in SETA will of course have a similar effect... For empire building, I usually start at the bottom and work my way up. As an example that might not work in X4 any more: You buy cheap food where it is overproduced, sell where it is in highest demand and build a food-factory there. When the factory is up to production, dump your food stock in its inventory and let the locals buy. Then you can add higher-tier production to an established food supply that you could make closed-loop if food becomes sparse. By supplying food to the AI, their factories begin to produce more stable and fill their inventory, which drives down component prices, so you repeat the process at the next scale... In X3 this used to be the only way to make highest tier goods available for purchase at all (without cheesing): helping the AI run their factories efficiently to be able to buy cheaply ;-P I'm still 9 episodes behind and look very much forward to how this game evolves around you...
It's also easily and justifiably confusable with being a scam. X4 is a real game. Star Citizen is at best incompetently managed, at worst a way to part rich people and nerds from their money.
I just picked this game up recently, and its got its claws in me deeeeeeep. I'm suffering, I'll be playing and then realize its 4am and i have to be up in a few hours lolol
Yeah that is pretty much everyone's first experience, you either bounce right off or suddenly realize it's tomorrow. I do love how some games can do that to you.
Yeah it takes so long to get up and running that the prospect of starting over is not that appealing. Compared to my game this is super early game. I have multiple mega factories capable of taking raw materials and producing every part needed for ships and then making all ships sizes in the same system as every factions SY so that I can sell ships to them directly. I also have purchased every blueprint from all the factions so I can build whatever I want. The galaxy is so much more alive compared to the start as the factions can easily resupply their ships so they can defend themselves and thus have over a dozen factories in most systems. Fleets of a few dozen fighters on patrols, dozens of trader ships going about, and an overall lively economy that I can watch as they battle each other and the Xenon while I pull in Billions. I'm pretty much working on completely terraforming all the planets and not simply doing the few terraforming items required to complete their quest. While the factories pump out the millions of resources needed for those quest I basically go around achievement hunting, data vault hunting, testing out new designs, pirate a ship for fun because +30 rep means I can hit a few of their ships and they still over +20 Allied with me though doesn't matter as I got all their BP. It's like I got hundreds of hours and the idea of starting from square one is daunting. And pretty much already at a point where I can do whatever I want, I could wipe out any faction or Xenon if I really wanted to but then I wouldn't have them fighting each of for loot drops. It's like if I wanna live pirate life style no need for full reset just make some different ship builds/loadouts and go pirating, wanna do a small carrier strike force I got carrier and aux ship with fighters and frigate support and dove into Xenon space to hit a few stations and test the designs. Basically the further you get the more of a sand box it becomes and you can do whatever you want. If you want restrictions you can simply self impose them without need for all the tedious getting off the ground work at the start.
I think the more important part of the Workforce calculation is the cost vs benefit analysis. Building the 5 Hull Parts factory will cost you circa 10m for 1.5m profit. Adding on the workforce modules and *all* of the associated production will only cost you about another 4 million but will boost your income by 1 million. So building a workforce onto a profitable factory is a lot more cost efficient and cheaper with significantly higher returns than building another factory doing the same thing. The main benefit of getting more factories vs focusing on workforce is build time. While you lose out on the benefit of a centralized workforce boosting all of your production for every step, you gain the advantage of being able to set up and upgrade a lot faster. Ultimately deciding between the two is just a question of how quick you are raking in the money/resources and whether you are able to stay ahead of the ability to add new modules.
Playing 7.0, I think it is harder now to EMP bomb stations without the fuzz showing up to blast you. To keep stealth, plant the EMP, return to your ship, retreat about 3.5 kms and detonate it from there. Then return and do your scans. Works every time.
34:20 "may have overbuild it" it's solid for a start. Just started construction on my factory with 80 hull part modules, because I have a slight shortage on it. Basically with ressources it would pimp out about 94k Hull parts per hour while also swallowing 247k ore and 44k methane. I'm still wondering how I will feed this factory without using a mod for ore production modules and how I will get enough claytronics to build it soon ( Got a little shortage on that too, about 400 Million to 600 Million ) . Edit: No I won't put workers on this hellhole. I won't supply about 39k workers for a measly 30k production increase of hull parts and the pain of inclusind all the hab and food modules for them. 90 modules more would i need to get in this crap. thats torture for me and them
Buy some miners and assign them to auto mine sectors where their is demand. It's not perfectly safe but it's a decent money spinner and does not require much effort to setup.
I know that feeling, that decision of should I try and sleep for 2 hours before work? is it worth it? The answer is always yes. Having even 1 hours sleep is so much better than none. But I still asked myself every time.
Modded X4 - Limitation on construction is no longer build time, but the massive blob of ships waiting to drop off because the build storage only has one L receptacle and 2 M/L receptables. You think 5500 Hull Parts is a lot? Try 1.8 million hull parts and 800k Claytronics haha.
Did you know you can use a seta module to pass time faster? It is very useful to build complexes, or just wait for your ships to bring more money in. I'm currently giving a try at making my HQ a closed loop shipyard/warf... It's taking an eternity and a half.
Buying ships. How quaint. I probably have many times more (ex) pirate raiders than any pirate faction in the game. They're still a bit meh, but they are good for boarding capital ships
Ahh wanted to tell about EMP bombs this episode 😢 oh well have fun. Oh yea research teleportation so you can atleast teleport back to your ship in system.
You can lower the buy price for station building in the build menu. I like to start at 60% so I'm not paying top dollar. Couldn't see if you caught that watching on a phone.
I quite enjoyed watching this and it inspired another game of my own, I however am having an issue, how do I get my new construction to use the parts from my own factories? Also loved your Advanced Sat tip!
If you ever decided to start live streaming, I think this game could actually work, since you wouldn't "waste" all that time in transit and while grinding and you can edit this sort of episodic content from the stream either way. I'd tune in if I saw you were ever live and I wasn't busy.
In my opinion this game is way to boring for that. The game is great, it's fun to play but it has way to much down time. I think that might explain why it has such a small UA-cam footprint despite being so close to games like free lancer and star citizen.
Getting Blueprint tips: 1. Use space suit scan mode not the ship scan. 2. Use EMP bombs. 3. Your reputation with the faction that the station belongs matters, higher reputation more chances to get the blueprint with scan on the data leaks created without or with EMP. 4. You can NOT obtain building modules actual ship building mobule only when you have the reputation +20 and need to pay for the blueprint so don;t go looking for those data leaks. To speed up building tips: 1. Buy your own Builder, with 30 building drones on him is the max speed. 2. Assign two fast traders on "trade for building storage" option. How to get freeish builder tips. 1. Find a sector which has white xegaone which means it belongs to no one or it's Free Pirates zone, which means it has no police to stop you from what your going to do next. 2. When you are set on the sector place a new plot for building on white sectors you don;t pay for permit since the sectors has no owner nor police, now where you place the plot is important somewhere there is no traffic no stations near by is better. Go little bit on the sides of the sector to avoid any unwanted traffic. Suggestion of mine is to go to Silent Witness XII find the KAX hive and send the builder to get beaten, by placeing the plot near the hive, when he is lower on hull points boarding will be easy 75% or lower hull will do. Dispatch the KAX so they don;t destroy him. 3. You need to buy one of this Shuyaku Vangard or Sonra Vangard or Incarcatura Vangard - Freighter: this Freighters have the highest crew numbers others mite work too it depends on how many crew the builder has and it can have alot thats why i suggest one of those freighters, pay for one captain and all the rest marines on the freighter. 4. Once your set and the Freighter is in place, set the constraction order and wait for the builder to come and start building. What you need to do is Pilot the Freighter yourself aim him to pass to just as near as possible below and behind the builder in travel mode. 5. Save the game before attempt. 6. Soon as you are in possition as near as possible to the builder Pause the game. Select the Freighter and then on the builder start the boarding, select all martines then set the bottom options to start each phace at "Very Strong" initiate the boarding. Unpause the game and fly away at a distance and wait. If you fail try again, each time the Builder will have less crew. If all done correct there won't be any reputation loss with the faction the builder belongs to, it can be done aswell in a sector that the builder faction is enemy to the sector owner Police will not give you reputation penalty but they mite get involved and shoot him down so avoid nearby traffic.
Building a Factory is by far not efficient at the start. Better to build trading-stations with low-buying-prices and high sell. And a fleet of M-Traders. The Sation only needs 1 Docking-Sattion and a M or L-Container-storage. Thats it.
I discovered info on this later on, but I was informed that you need about 15 mill of cash up front to buy your starting goods, though I am sure their has to be a way around that.
been there, done that. X4 is cool but I remember stopping after buying a large fleet and failing miserably to get it to fight properly. As incredible as it may seem, everything has become even more complicated with updates? thank you and good luck for what's next
5k hull parts (swimming in hull parts) lol I have 3 factories supplying a shipyard atm each one produces over 100k hull parts per hour xD and I feel like I hardly make any...
Francis is one these days going to find a game that's too complex for him but this was not the day. Haven't really seen edited X4 content, seems masterclass example. Wonder how Terra Invicta would hit your diet? Master of Orion 3 is one of those if someone is chasing a challenge. :D Well, it's also bad so yo know. It has actual spreadsheets.
@@FrancisJohnYT i remember sinking like 30 hours into MOO3 savefile cus it was mystifyingly deep but ultimately you are just watching number go up and not much else. Years ago now tho. It's unique fs, whether it's good or not is for someone who actually finishes a savefile to decide. I wouldn't personally recommend :D
Try starting as a Boron. The entire Boron space is in such a falling state, economy wise, that they produce barely anything and in my playthrough do not trade with any other faction. They are all too far and the closest ones are the hostile Split. The Boron start is basically a truck simulator because you will have to haul everything for them to be able to build anything. Order a ship, 100% chance the station is missing hull parts, turret components, engine components, weapon components or something else like water and it's up to you to provide those because Boron can't, for sure. In my current playthrough the entire Boron space has 1 claytronics factory which makes 112 claytronics per h so no wonder none of their stations are being built once the are placed.
@@FrancisJohnYT The low paying mission to help someone escape that you turned down a couple of times in this video. I believe it is a story mission, last time I played X4 was around launch so there's every chance I'm wrong.
EMP bombs are great. But what I loved to do was to get really, really close to a Xenon capital ship from behind. The weak spot of a Xenon ship is about 30 degrees above and behind. it can't shoot you. below or anywhere else, and it's curtains. I digress. In my small, but fast ship, I'd get towed along by the huge Xenon's gravitational drag. I'd then pop outside my ship and when I was close enough to the Xenon, I'd chuck some 50 or so bombs on it. Proper bombs. Exploding bombs. Once that was done, back into my ship then drop back from the Xenon ship, and then detonate them all. That'll really piss the Xenon ship off unless it actually blows it up completely. If it's still alive. *R U N !* 8-))...
How do you get you hands on 50! bombs that is a crazy amount of money/resources. I'd prefer to just shoot out the engines and then chuck out 100 lazer turrets and watch the Xenon melt :)
Very cost efficient of you, EMP bombs are a nice cheap way to get expensive module blueprints. However the most expensive modules, the ship construction ones, sadly cannot be gained through EMP-ing... shame, really. Yes, make some nice tutorials on X4, your videos are always great. Check out JK Ninja, he did great ones, sadly he stopped doing YT... I loved his great combination of voice, "straight to the point" topic focus narration and occational desert dry humor.
I'm so happy to see oni back. Might have to start playing it again. For me, rimworld was always a story about getting off the planet, biotech made it a never ending story.. played it for weeks no end in sight. The bug where captured prisoners give everyone a "prisoner escaped" debuff and having to use dev mode to anisthatise prisoners brought onto the home tile has ruined the game. Normally I would save scum rolling for dna.. now I just create the gene in dev mode.. architecture capsules take forever.. now I just fire money into the abyss and dev mode them in. Slippery slope.. I would just dev mode all Gene's in now.. but.. what's the point of playing then? To wait until shops have them? Slow boring way of doing it
Hey Francis, love your content. Friendly word of advice: building very large stations is a huge timesink in this game and doesnt make for interesting gameplay, let alone content. I definitely recommended checking out the faction conflicts that share borders with XEN like The Void, Holy Vision and Second Contact 2 Flashpoint.
Sort of. It's more of a sandbox with everything from peace full trader, Pirate hijacker, Fighter pilot, Industry titan or even fleet commander. You can experience about 90% of all the missions in a fighter so graduating to bigger ships is mostly not necessary if you want.
PSA, research will be needed to unlock the ability to get blueprints from scanning leaks. Imagine my surprise when the 5 emp bombs didn't net me any! I'm playing with the base game and no dlc.
Keep up the videos Francis, I've been sleeping on X4 and now I'm getting back into it now that they've added useful things like tutorials.
My God this channel is dangerous. I constantly get hankerings to play games I am woefully unprepared to dive into.
100 hours later and I can confirm we are all woefully unprepared for this game.
The scale of things is one thing this game does VERY right. I love how BIG the stations and modules look. Great show so far. I really hope you continue this series.
I love your tendency to find a game and say "I'll make my own guides, with blackjack (whiskey) and hookers (bacon)."
"if you don't feed your workers, they don't live" These are the hot tips I come here for. =D
Half the fun is figuring it out, if the game has been fully documented all ready their is no surprise anymore.
@@FrancisJohnYTAsia also à😊u
"Ice is a multiplier for productivity"
This explains Australian Tradies.
I originally came on for the ONI content but I'm enjoying...all the other stuff in the similar genre. Much more than I thought I would.
couple of tips
1. plot cost depends on location, you pick some more distant spot, you'll pay much less
2. build speed depends on how many drones the builder has. and you don't know that unless it's your builder :)
Soooooo... Francis will be creating a construction ship [fleet] for the next video?
If i remember right, the speed is capped at 40 drones. If you have more, they will not be used
@@MelfiortheOne there is a cap (40 or 50), but lower cap is 0 :p
You can see the number of drones in the information-Panel on the right side.
Scanned the constructor ship and it has 30 construction drones active. Going to have to buy our own eventually.
Always a good idea to build container storage modules before you build production modules. Otherwise your product will have nowhere to go.
^--- THIS!!! Always build your small dock and storage before anything else (save maybe for connectors here & there) so when your production modules are done they immediately are able to store the end products.
Looks like a great game for me! Love sci fi, space, do whatever you want type games. No mans sky, Eve. Gonna try this
Wow! $50... maybe next sale
it's an impressive decades old franchise, it even has actual proper books written in its lore, from an actual sci fi writer
You'll find that you'll want to create a satellite station for mining silicon. If you try to do ore and silicon on the same station the manager will fail to effectively manage the mining ships and you'll run into periodic shortages of one or both ores. You can accomplish this by setting up a mining ship to haul the ore between the satellite station that actually does the mining and your main station. Transports can't haul ore or gas. I usually take it a step further and refine the silicon before shipping it since it's a 1:1 relationship between ore and product at that stage of the production cycle.
100% this. Miners can be set as station traders and will trade wares in their cargo type (solid or liquid) for their commander. I personally like to build a trading station for each raw resource as this, when done strategically, can effectively double your effective mining range as the trading station manager levels up to 5 stars.
That was an issue before Tides of Avarice but Egosoft addresed it. I have no problems with Computronic Substrate production stations which require both Silicon and Ore.
So far the station is running fine with Ore, Ice and Methane. Once I add in a couple more resources it might get more... interesting.
@@FrancisJohnYT Looks like the other poster is correct and they fixed it. I created a megaplex using all the ores and gasses and I've had no trouble with miners getting stuck on one resource and starving the others. This greatly simplifies my resource chains.
Don't forget about those random enemy raids from Xenon/Kha'ak/Pirates all it takes is a few undefended blind spots on your stations and they can be severely damaged.
Also you may want to make sure your hired pilots/managers have good skill levels (skill training is extremely slow! in X4) and anybody with less than 3 stars is usually garbage and expendable.
with stations you can set them to buy only from your own stations. this way you can build stations focused on one product that trade with each other. doing this you can expand each station at the same time. Just a different method to mega factories people might want to do
If I had it all to do again I would have made food and medicine it's own section. Takes far to long to build up the infrastructure and it slows down the building of productive infrastructure.
Well, after watching this video a bit, I feel like I need a degree in rocket science just to keep up with the game mechanics! When francis say " they're not that complicated to make" and the table popped up, my brain just went 'nah man, I'm out.'
If you start the game first you should do the tutorials to get to know the controls. Then you should probably do the standard scenario with the mission chain that introduces you to most if not all of the game mechanics. You can pause or ignore the missions almost always at any point in time to do your own thing.
This is very much a game where you can do a lot of very different things. If you don't want to be a factory magnate, you don't _really_ have to (though it's certainly handy for later game supplies).
I think a lot of people just play the missions as a fighter pilot and don't really get into the factory bit of it. I just want to buy lots and lots of big ships so I'm willing to learn the economy.
don't forget each module has individual loadouts where you can put turrets and shields and such. also the Ares Heavy fighter (HOP produces it) is a reasonably good ship for escorting your miners and traders
I tried using a single Ares to escort a miner and it died to a Khaak attack. The Khaak attacks in fives so it stood no chance.
I think ripping out the infestations by the root is the only real option.
@@FrancisJohnYT yeah a single Ares won’t do much but buy the other ship time to flee, you also need to pay attention to what weapons and shields and engines you put on it. A Argon mk3 combat engine isn’t the same as a HOP combat mk3. If you use the encyclopedia in game it’ll give you the stats. If you’d rather hear someone explain things and how the work I would recommend watching Captain Collins
I'm just going to live vicariously through you on this one Francis... I'm lucky if I manage 3 hours a month in gaming time so feel free to let rip the dogs of war on my behalf... or whatever ;)
Scanning and exploring does get tedious. These days I use the custom start to begin with 10 million and use a mod that explores all sections and stations from the get go. For getting blueprints, I only bother stealing the really expensive ones.
I generally don't bother making all-in-one stations like Francis John is planning. It gets really hard to keep scaling them out when you are making mega-stations.
Hull Parts complexes (Hull Parts + Graphne + Refined Metal) and Food/Medical complexes (food + medical + spice + wheat + meat + water) are as complicated I go.
My Claytronics complexes only ever have Claytronics (maybe Solar Farms if they are big enough). I have completely separate Quantum Tube complexes (Quantum Tube + Graphice + Superfliud) and Microchip complexes (Microchip + Silicon Mine).
Usurp the supply chain from the bottom up! First the raw resources, then hull parts, then microchips, and eventually ships!
What is it about this "game"? It's a time sink like no other I've ever experienced but by the Gods its satisfying! Thanks so much for the guides, it gives me something to watch while "Traveling" :)
Real cool. I played the original, X beyond the frontier and had no map, so had to manually draw out the whole galaxy on some A4’s. Good times😊
The bad part about your videos is after watching them I really want to play X4. The good part is, that now I actually knows how it works.
There is so much wrong with this game.. Really.. but I've been totally hooked since I started a week ago and have 50+ hours in and have accomplished not much at all.. Still a blast though
Hey Francis, I can see that these X4 vids underperformed your normal numbers but keep the faith. I feel like this is a game that has a slow burn but it has a growing fan base. Your guides are getting a new crowd involved in the game. I hope you have another guide or two up your sleeve for X4. An Erlking guide or even a Claiming a sector guide would be awesome!
Lol! I just found your videos. I love watching you make the same mistakes and discoveries I did when i started this game, but you are way more smooth about it. You are actually teaching people way more effectively because of it.
I think the actual real obstacle in making a station is making it look pleasant to the eye, at least that's the case for me. I want to have all the components I need to make the station like I want it to look, but for all that I need lots of money, and for lots of money I need stations.
The best way to find missions is to get on the highway and open your map and look at mission offers on the map screen. Also money is not the real reason you want to do missions, reputation is. Max reputation with a faction affords you a lot of juicy benefits that you want to unlock ASAP. For money, you've pretty much already got that figured out just keep doing what you're doing. Mining and selling ore with auto miners is a great start. Most of the missions offered via data leaks are to basically go do crimes, typically with an opposing faction that you will want to trade with at one point or other.
Got this game after starting watching you play episode 4. 10 hours in I wish I woulda started earlier...
It's a hell of a time sink I'm over 200 hours already.
@@FrancisJohnYT Holy crap I've sunk a lot of hours into this game in my first week. Someone needs to check on my family🤣
12:15 OMG ! I love complex flowcharts!
If my X3 days are anything to go by then.. Teladi tend to build them sturdy with big shields and big cargo. Splid(?) like them fast and stuffed with way to manny weapons to the detriment of most anything else. Argon are basic and therefore allways an ok option. Borons just look fishy. Paranids overspecialize their ships. They tend to do one thing really well, but lack balance. But giventhat you chose a pegasus i figure you already knew.
I fondly remember my paranid destroyer mostly equipped with shockwave generators decimating an entire battlefield, a nearby station and my framerate. Every race hated me after that but what were they going to do? Come into target range? Sadly empty sectors are only fun for so long and the big boy tended to also catch the loot in his aoe. But having that thing ready to jump in on my location and ruin some unlucky pirates or xenons day felt kinda nice. Didn't work well in a fleet though.
I haven't had the time to mess with the boron expansion, but i like the yaki moreya more then Pegasus. It has better speed with Terran mk3 engines and MORE weapons 4 vs 1.
'bout right in X4 as well. didn't like the teladi designs though, I mostly went split/terran for my fleet. there's a particular unique capital ship available that can be incredibly potent as a flagship as well, though you only get the one.
the thing in X4 that seems most different to X3 to me is that there isn't a general "good at everything" weapon load out like the shockwave generators were in X3. capital ships can be good vs fighters or good vs other capital ships but it's hard to be both.
Man ! I seriously enjoy the astetics of the game big time !
And I thought that complex construction was complicated in X3, this takes it to another level.
True, but at the same time, you're now building factory complexes by default rather than individual stations that need to be connected with ships, so it's warranted. When they added this to X3, it didn't really fit well with the economy of the base game.
I really like this series from you, it's something I've had my folks ask me to stream for years and I'm like 'no, no, NO' and even though you don't have guides yet, your clear voice and entertaining way of explaining games has always made things easier to understand. I found you from your first vids on ONI, then Songs of Syx and now x4. I really hope you do do guides for this game, it's INSANELY complex and that's coming from a former EVE online player of 11 solid years.
Thanks for breaking it down so far, I know it's not worth giving them the game live, I'd be hopelessly lost without a few play throughs. But you were right from this video, the 'sunk cost fallacy' that many players feel is a good thing. Why restart endlessly and never get anywhere when you can learn and fix it. My only concern, does the universe actually grow/fight/contract with the enemy so that waiting a ton of time would be a bad thing? Or is it static enough that you could take a ton of time to learn in one universe without a ticking time bomb of enemies eventually going to wipe out the entire universe?
Xenon became more and more aggressive with each update. You might end up with a playthrough where Xenon take sectors rapidly. Just don't exploit SETA to pass time by doing nothing because it's a waste of credits or opportunity to whittle the Xenon down. You might consider Xenon as a ticking time bomb.
Im doing my first playthrough of this and in my game the enemy is very proactive.
I let the game run overnight and they cut all the supply lines and trashed my miners 😂
My buddies game is completly different and he has just been space trucking and building stations no problem.
Seems like its different every time.
hehe.. another EVE vet here.. not 11 years but a long time and a lot of hours anyhow.... I've compared it before but I'm new to X4 and the series (even though i've glanced at it many times in the past).. But playing this game really brings back feelings of EVE. Not that I will ever return to that.. But its fun gatecamping in X4 with you shiny new Guardian Raider and blasting at things and getting some nice loot in the process.
Looking forward to your tutorials!
if i am reading the UI correctly, I believe you made a 20km cube? there are + and - sliders for each coordinate axis, seemingly extending the plot in both directions for each axis? just curious.
you are correct, he did 10km in all six directions resulting in a centered 20km cubed plot
I'm planning on filling that 20km cube.
Hey I would advise against building your factory on your PHQ. There's some mission in the later areas that allow it to be moved.
Personally, I like turning the phq into a self sufficient shipyard precisely because of that. It's just really nice to be able to move everything around the universe to support your takeover.
@@gogudelagaze1585 Having it as your shipyard is a good idea, but I'm more talking about hull parts, food and advance electronics. I usually do hull parts/food in the void, and have adv electronics in paranid space. Paranid medium are decent enough for regular freight to PHQ, and large argons are decent enough for moving large amounts for building new bridgeheads.
You can buy parts for crafting emp bombs at pirate bases so you can get them at bulk with xenon parts you can easily get in places where xenon regularly invade.
I'm close to finishing up my first ONI - Spaced Out! play-through and gosh-darn-it, you made me buy the next time sink! After sinking way too many hours into the X-Universe, I purposefully did not buy X4, but you changed my mind... Anyway, I love your initial mind set to grab free loot while it is available to boot-strap your empire. I would have loved to see you continue this on the larger scale: everything has an opportunity cost. By going with an expensive, closed-loop setup for your mega factory, you try to leverage an advantage in this very complicated economy. I get it! But, if X4 is true to its predecessors, it will have unbalanced supply and demand and the story missions plus the time you need to do them lets the game evolve into a situation where overabundance and shortages become more obvious. Watching your factory grow in SETA will of course have a similar effect...
For empire building, I usually start at the bottom and work my way up. As an example that might not work in X4 any more: You buy cheap food where it is overproduced, sell where it is in highest demand and build a food-factory there. When the factory is up to production, dump your food stock in its inventory and let the locals buy. Then you can add higher-tier production to an established food supply that you could make closed-loop if food becomes sparse. By supplying food to the AI, their factories begin to produce more stable and fill their inventory, which drives down component prices, so you repeat the process at the next scale... In X3 this used to be the only way to make highest tier goods available for purchase at all (without cheesing): helping the AI run their factories efficiently to be able to buy cheaply ;-P
I'm still 9 episodes behind and look very much forward to how this game evolves around you...
Fun Fact: Star citizen is still in alpha
It's also easily and justifiably confusable with being a scam.
X4 is a real game. Star Citizen is at best incompetently managed, at worst a way to part rich people and nerds from their money.
I just picked this game up recently, and its got its claws in me deeeeeeep. I'm suffering, I'll be playing and then realize its 4am and i have to be up in a few hours lolol
Yeah that is pretty much everyone's first experience, you either bounce right off or suddenly realize it's tomorrow. I do love how some games can do that to you.
Yeah it takes so long to get up and running that the prospect of starting over is not that appealing. Compared to my game this is super early game. I have multiple mega factories capable of taking raw materials and producing every part needed for ships and then making all ships sizes in the same system as every factions SY so that I can sell ships to them directly. I also have purchased every blueprint from all the factions so I can build whatever I want.
The galaxy is so much more alive compared to the start as the factions can easily resupply their ships so they can defend themselves and thus have over a dozen factories in most systems. Fleets of a few dozen fighters on patrols, dozens of trader ships going about, and an overall lively economy that I can watch as they battle each other and the Xenon while I pull in Billions.
I'm pretty much working on completely terraforming all the planets and not simply doing the few terraforming items required to complete their quest. While the factories pump out the millions of resources needed for those quest I basically go around achievement hunting, data vault hunting, testing out new designs, pirate a ship for fun because +30 rep means I can hit a few of their ships and they still over +20 Allied with me though doesn't matter as I got all their BP.
It's like I got hundreds of hours and the idea of starting from square one is daunting. And pretty much already at a point where I can do whatever I want, I could wipe out any faction or Xenon if I really wanted to but then I wouldn't have them fighting each of for loot drops. It's like if I wanna live pirate life style no need for full reset just make some different ship builds/loadouts and go pirating, wanna do a small carrier strike force I got carrier and aux ship with fighters and frigate support and dove into Xenon space to hit a few stations and test the designs.
Basically the further you get the more of a sand box it becomes and you can do whatever you want. If you want restrictions you can simply self impose them without need for all the tedious getting off the ground work at the start.
I think the more important part of the Workforce calculation is the cost vs benefit analysis. Building the 5 Hull Parts factory will cost you circa 10m for 1.5m profit. Adding on the workforce modules and *all* of the associated production will only cost you about another 4 million but will boost your income by 1 million. So building a workforce onto a profitable factory is a lot more cost efficient and cheaper with significantly higher returns than building another factory doing the same thing.
The main benefit of getting more factories vs focusing on workforce is build time. While you lose out on the benefit of a centralized workforce boosting all of your production for every step, you gain the advantage of being able to set up and upgrade a lot faster. Ultimately deciding between the two is just a question of how quick you are raking in the money/resources and whether you are able to stay ahead of the ability to add new modules.
Yay😊 another upload
I kinda love the outro'es of just using game music and turning it full epic
Playing 7.0, I think it is harder now to EMP bomb stations without the fuzz showing up to blast you. To keep stealth, plant the EMP, return to your ship, retreat about 3.5 kms and detonate it from there. Then return and do your scans. Works every time.
34:20 "may have overbuild it" it's solid for a start. Just started construction on my factory with 80 hull part modules, because I have a slight shortage on it. Basically with ressources it would pimp out about 94k Hull parts per hour while also swallowing 247k ore and 44k methane. I'm still wondering how I will feed this factory without using a mod for ore production modules and how I will get enough claytronics to build it soon ( Got a little shortage on that too, about 400 Million to 600 Million ) .
Edit: No I won't put workers on this hellhole. I won't supply about 39k workers for a measly 30k production increase of hull parts and the pain of inclusind all the hab and food modules for them. 90 modules more would i need to get in this crap. thats torture for me and them
Feed workers ice cubes get more stuff.... got it
Just started playing this game, most of the time wondering WTH I'm supposed to do next. :/
Buy some miners and assign them to auto mine sectors where their is demand. It's not perfectly safe but it's a decent money spinner and does not require much effort to setup.
If you can get the Katana its awesome
Yep verry addictive, cant stop playing. 4:00 AM boarding ships, yea and my work starts at 8:00 AM.
I know that feeling, that decision of should I try and sleep for 2 hours before work? is it worth it? The answer is always yes. Having even 1 hours sleep is so much better than none. But I still asked myself every time.
oh yes, the joy of building mega factories at the start of the game, when you should probs start with small to medium
This video saved my life
Modded X4 - Limitation on construction is no longer build time, but the massive blob of ships waiting to drop off because the build storage only has one L receptacle and 2 M/L receptables. You think 5500 Hull Parts is a lot? Try 1.8 million hull parts and 800k Claytronics haha.
thought we might see more sleeping dupes
Monday & Wednesday = X4, Tuesday & Friday = ONI
Did you know you can use a seta module to pass time faster?
It is very useful to build complexes, or just wait for your ships to bring more money in.
I'm currently giving a try at making my HQ a closed loop shipyard/warf... It's taking an eternity and a half.
I worry the Xenon will wipe out a faction while I'm busy building. So I'm a bit sparing with using SETA for now.
@@FrancisJohnYT that is understandable, as long as you want the other factions to stay alive it might be a problem. 😄
Buying ships. How quaint. I probably have many times more (ex) pirate raiders than any pirate faction in the game. They're still a bit meh, but they are good for boarding capital ships
Ahh wanted to tell about EMP bombs this episode 😢 oh well have fun. Oh yea research teleportation so you can atleast teleport back to your ship in system.
How to get to your Ep1 ?
You can lower the buy price for station building in the build menu. I like to start at 60% so I'm not paying top dollar. Couldn't see if you caught that watching on a phone.
I am a bit of a spend thrift, I wanted that station now now now so I was ok paying normal prices.
I quite enjoyed watching this and it inspired another game of my own, I however am having an issue, how do I get my new construction to use the parts from my own factories?
Also loved your Advanced Sat tip!
I bought all the blueprints ..... :D Keep in mind when placing station they have a mux jump range of 5 for trading
It's only 5 jump range if you got a 5 star manager. But with a mega factory that is pretty handy to achieve.
If you ever decided to start live streaming, I think this game could actually work, since you wouldn't "waste" all that time in transit and while grinding and you can edit this sort of episodic content from the stream either way. I'd tune in if I saw you were ever live and I wasn't busy.
In my opinion this game is way to boring for that.
The game is great, it's fun to play but it has way to much down time. I think that might explain why it has such a small UA-cam footprint despite being so close to games like free lancer and star citizen.
Getting Blueprint tips:
1. Use space suit scan mode not the ship scan.
2. Use EMP bombs.
3. Your reputation with the faction that the station belongs matters, higher reputation more chances to get the blueprint with scan on the data leaks created without or with EMP.
4. You can NOT obtain building modules actual ship building mobule only when you have the reputation +20 and need to pay for the blueprint so don;t go looking for those data leaks.
To speed up building tips:
1. Buy your own Builder, with 30 building drones on him is the max speed.
2. Assign two fast traders on "trade for building storage" option.
How to get freeish builder tips.
1. Find a sector which has white xegaone which means it belongs to no one or it's Free Pirates zone, which means it has no police to stop you from what your going to do next.
2. When you are set on the sector place a new plot for building on white sectors you don;t pay for permit since the sectors has no owner nor police, now where you place the plot is important somewhere there is no traffic no stations near by is better. Go little bit on the sides of the sector to avoid any unwanted traffic. Suggestion of mine is to go to Silent Witness XII find the KAX hive and send the builder to get beaten, by placeing the plot near the hive, when he is lower on hull points boarding will be easy 75% or lower hull will do. Dispatch the KAX so they don;t destroy him.
3. You need to buy one of this Shuyaku Vangard or Sonra Vangard or Incarcatura Vangard - Freighter: this Freighters have the highest crew numbers others mite work too it depends on how many crew the builder has and it can have alot thats why i suggest one of those freighters, pay for one captain and all the rest marines on the freighter.
4. Once your set and the Freighter is in place, set the constraction order and wait for the builder to come and start building. What you need to do is Pilot the Freighter yourself aim him to pass to just as near as possible below and behind the builder in travel mode.
5. Save the game before attempt.
6. Soon as you are in possition as near as possible to the builder Pause the game. Select the Freighter and then on the builder start the boarding, select all martines then set the bottom options to start each phace at "Very Strong" initiate the boarding. Unpause the game and fly away at a distance and wait. If you fail try again, each time the Builder will have less crew.
If all done correct there won't be any reputation loss with the faction the builder belongs to, it can be done aswell in a sector that the builder faction is enemy to the sector owner Police will not give you reputation penalty but they mite get involved and shoot him down so avoid nearby traffic.
This is fantastic advice and worked awesome just like you said.
Thank you!
@@rybuds47 You welcome.
I wonder if this is how the Borg got started...
The natural data leaks do NOT give you blueprints. Only the ones spawned by emp bombs.
Building a Factory is by far not efficient at the start. Better to build trading-stations with low-buying-prices and high sell. And a fleet of M-Traders. The Sation only needs 1 Docking-Sattion and a M or L-Container-storage. Thats it.
I discovered info on this later on, but I was informed that you need about 15 mill of cash up front to buy your starting goods, though I am sure their has to be a way around that.
@@FrancisJohnYT not realy. You can/should start with only 1-5 goods, needing only a couple of mio. And expanding as it goes.
been there, done that. X4 is cool but I remember stopping after buying a large fleet and failing miserably to get it to fight properly. As incredible as it may seem, everything has become even more complicated with updates? thank you and good luck for what's next
5k hull parts (swimming in hull parts) lol I have 3 factories supplying a shipyard atm each one produces over 100k hull parts per hour xD and I feel like I hardly make any...
Damm how much money is that bringing in?
6:46 This game is basically EVE offline...
Which is a big plus cause I dont want other people to wreck my stuff 😊
Satisfactorio in space
8 million for a build plot, ouch!! I would have just started small and expanded the size as needed, but okay then!
What elite could have been
Francis is one these days going to find a game that's too complex for him but this was not the day.
Haven't really seen edited X4 content, seems masterclass example.
Wonder how Terra Invicta would hit your diet?
Master of Orion 3 is one of those if someone is chasing a challenge. :D Well, it's also bad so yo know. It has actual spreadsheets.
I am damm good at Master of Orion 2 but I don't think that would help me with Moo 3
@@FrancisJohnYT i remember sinking like 30 hours into MOO3 savefile cus it was mystifyingly deep but ultimately you are just watching number go up and not much else.
Years ago now tho.
It's unique fs, whether it's good or not is for someone who actually finishes a savefile to decide. I wouldn't personally recommend :D
Try starting as a Boron. The entire Boron space is in such a falling state, economy wise, that they produce barely anything and in my playthrough do not trade with any other faction. They are all too far and the closest ones are the hostile Split. The Boron start is basically a truck simulator because you will have to haul everything for them to be able to build anything. Order a ship, 100% chance the station is missing hull parts, turret components, engine components, weapon components or something else like water and it's up to you to provide those because Boron can't, for sure.
In my current playthrough the entire Boron space has 1 claytronics factory which makes 112 claytronics per h so no wonder none of their stations are being built once the are placed.
I think you should do that escape mission you keep turning down.
Assuming it is the one I think it is? (can another commenter confirm?)
Escape mission?
@@FrancisJohnYT The low paying mission to help someone escape that you turned down a couple of times in this video. I believe it is a story mission, last time I played X4 was around launch so there's every chance I'm wrong.
I believe it is a randomly generated mission from dataleaks.
he? did i miss something in EP1 you were at the start and now u already build factories?
He did a regular start, then did a restart because they did a major update and released the latest expansion.
There was a 90 hours later... transition
Once you have a bit of money and some blueprints it's pretty handy to start building factories.
Congrats on 87.4k subscribers
EMP bombs are great. But what I loved to do was to get really, really close to a Xenon capital ship from behind. The weak spot of a Xenon ship is about 30 degrees above and behind. it can't shoot you. below or anywhere else, and it's curtains. I digress. In my small, but fast ship, I'd get towed along by the huge Xenon's gravitational drag.
I'd then pop outside my ship and when I was close enough to the Xenon, I'd chuck some 50 or so bombs on it. Proper bombs. Exploding bombs. Once that was done, back into my ship then drop back from the Xenon ship, and then detonate them all.
That'll really piss the Xenon ship off unless it actually blows it up completely. If it's still alive. *R U N !* 8-))...
How do you get you hands on 50! bombs that is a crazy amount of money/resources.
I'd prefer to just shoot out the engines and then chuck out 100 lazer turrets and watch the Xenon melt :)
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Very cost efficient of you, EMP bombs are a nice cheap way to get expensive module blueprints.
However the most expensive modules, the ship construction ones, sadly cannot be gained through EMP-ing... shame, really.
Yes, make some nice tutorials on X4, your videos are always great. Check out JK Ninja, he did great ones, sadly he stopped doing YT...
I loved his great combination of voice, "straight to the point" topic focus narration and occational desert dry humor.
I watched all of JK NInja's stuff. Solid info.
@@FrancisJohnYT And the humor.
I love his jokes and how he delivers it, yet doesn´t stray from the topic.
I'm so happy to see oni back. Might have to start playing it again.
For me, rimworld was always a story about getting off the planet, biotech made it a never ending story.. played it for weeks no end in sight. The bug where captured prisoners give everyone a "prisoner escaped" debuff and having to use dev mode to anisthatise prisoners brought onto the home tile has ruined the game.
Normally I would save scum rolling for dna.. now I just create the gene in dev mode.. architecture capsules take forever.. now I just fire money into the abyss and dev mode them in.
Slippery slope.. I would just dev mode all Gene's in now.. but.. what's the point of playing then? To wait until shops have them? Slow boring way of doing it
The name of this game should be bootstrap
Hey Francis, love your content. Friendly word of advice: building very large stations is a huge timesink in this game and doesnt make for interesting gameplay, let alone content. I definitely recommended checking out the faction conflicts that share borders with XEN like The Void, Holy Vision and Second Contact 2 Flashpoint.
"You don't buy all the blueprints, as that would be too expensive"
Bah, pocket change * *laughing in centri-billionaire* *
Not a fan of these kind of games . But dam you make some entertaining videos . Greetings from Sweden!
I think I prefere excel at this point
It's an empire building game that pretends to be a spaceship pilot simulator.
Sort of. It's more of a sandbox with everything from peace full trader, Pirate hijacker, Fighter pilot, Industry titan or even fleet commander.
You can experience about 90% of all the missions in a fighter so graduating to bigger ships is mostly not necessary if you want.
What a mess this game...