@4:00. Pirates do not attack mining ships as the pirates have no cargo-hold for mined ore/silicon/nividium. It is only the bugs (Kha'ak) that attack miners. And the L-miners can shrug those off with their massive shields (M- and S-miners not so much). If you give your L-miners an escort of M-fighters (S-fighters receive hull-damage from time to time and need mini-management), they will get rid of the bugs and provide your team with some pilot training. Win-win!
If you manually mine then use scan mode 2 look for orange spots if you see none or shoot all of the spots turn scan mode off then on again this resets the spots, this way you get more ore from that asteroid
Nicely done. if you can afford them I use 2 S ships to defend the L sized miners, it tends to deter most of the pirate scum out there unless they are Xenon and just want to destroy the universe...!
I find that most of the threats that attack mining arent strong enough to do any damage to L miners, their shields just regen faster than the damage they take from khaak raiders etc
I started with M miners then back tracked and tried S miners, now I have hit the 200 cap for miners for a single station. Are L miner really better? I was put off by the idea of providing enough docking for them as the Terran L dock I start with was crazy big.
L miners hardly ever get destroyed but will need some support to keep mining so you will need a ship or 2 to clear off whatever is attacking your large miner so it can get back to work, definitely invest in large miners
M class miners with combat engines makes far more per hour than any other option. No update has changed that yet. If you're afraid of losing them you add a fighter fleet to them for much less than an L class would cost in the first place. Effectively making it far more safe than any L class miner for less money. These are all well known facts of X4 you'll find on many forums and videos.
Reply, yes just shoot the mining laser how you would a weapon, some ships have auto lasers. Another bonus, irlt doesn't take you as long to fill up your cargo of you're manually mining
M class miners make far more profit per hour. Another well documented part of X4 by many in the community. And always use combat engines. Nothing else. Ever. Combat engines instantly toggle travel mode with no delay, unlike other engines. Each rock the AI pilot gets stuck on means you wait another 3 seconds per cycle. And it ends up going way slower even if the travel speed on travel engines looks better on paper. It is not.
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@4:00. Pirates do not attack mining ships as the pirates have no cargo-hold for mined ore/silicon/nividium. It is only the bugs (Kha'ak) that attack miners. And the L-miners can shrug those off with their massive shields (M- and S-miners not so much).
If you give your L-miners an escort of M-fighters (S-fighters receive hull-damage from time to time and need mini-management), they will get rid of the bugs and provide your team with some pilot training. Win-win!
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thanks for the good guides iv played a while but it helps alot
Glad you like them!
If you manually mine then use scan mode 2 look for orange spots if you see none or shoot all of the spots turn scan mode off then on again this resets the spots, this way you get more ore from that asteroid
Good tip!
Nicely done. if you can afford them I use 2 S ships to defend the L sized miners, it tends to deter most of the pirate scum out there unless they are Xenon and just want to destroy the universe...!
Also a good tip
I find that most of the threats that attack mining arent strong enough to do any damage to L miners, their shields just regen faster than the damage they take from khaak raiders etc
@@jeffcapes thats why they just need mining drones, it makes mining easier and faster. they are like tanks
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Bigger is not always better in X4
Bigger makes you a bigger slower target.
I started with M miners then back tracked and tried S miners, now I have hit the 200 cap for miners for a single station. Are L miner really better? I was put off by the idea of providing enough docking for them as the Terran L dock I start with was crazy big.
L miners hardly ever get destroyed but will need some support to keep mining so you will need a ship or 2 to clear off whatever is attacking your large miner so it can get back to work, definitely invest in large miners
M class miners with combat engines makes far more per hour than any other option. No update has changed that yet. If you're afraid of losing them you add a fighter fleet to them for much less than an L class would cost in the first place. Effectively making it far more safe than any L class miner for less money.
These are all well known facts of X4 you'll find on many forums and videos.
Can I use turrets to mine?
Reply, yes just shoot the mining laser how you would a weapon, some ships have auto lasers. Another bonus, irlt doesn't take you as long to fill up your cargo of you're manually mining
M class miners make far more profit per hour. Another well documented part of X4 by many in the community.
And always use combat engines. Nothing else. Ever.
Combat engines instantly toggle travel mode with no delay, unlike other engines. Each rock the AI pilot gets stuck on means you wait another 3 seconds per cycle. And it ends up going way slower even if the travel speed on travel engines looks better on paper. It is not.
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