the sectors exist beyond the edge of the map sector, when you go beyond the map sector border, the map will zoom out, meaning, each map you see in the overall map view, its actually zoomed in, and as you explore beyond the border, the map sector will just zoom out
As you still carry your illegal stuff around let me give you a quick tip. in the HQ in the researchers room to the left is a storage unit where you can store all and collect all that stuff so you don't have to carry it around. ;) your welcome.
Starting a station is not a bad plan. Claytronics for end goal is always a solid investment, since it's used for station construction, but has a somewhat complex production line. Need antimatter cells, silicon wafers for microchips, graphene+superfluid coolant for quantum tubes, raw mats are energy cells, silicon, methane, hydrogen and helium. So you could start with silicon wafers to microchips, which is always a good sell, and you already have the miners for that.
Just so you know there is no edge of the map it will just continue to expand The sectors are a lot bigger than you think and there are a lot more factories in all the sectors than you have currently uncovered
Each faction has a sub faction, ex- Paranid with Pontiflex, Argon with Antigon etc, and each faction has its ships, one is the vanguard and the other is the Sentinel. The differences are in the hull and speeds.
If Hatikva remains clear of Xenon invasion. Then it might be better to centralise your hub. Honestly grand exchange is pretty good as just a hub as its pretty much central. and you already have it However, if Hatikva falls to Xenoscums. You might want to build factories in Argon Prime to fuel the wharf. The Accelerator Highway (jumpgate) is usually high traffic between Silent witness and Argon Prime. In my gameplay. The Xenoscums have 2 Defense platform on that vulnerable spot and shoot down every freighter that tries to get to Argon Prime and eventually starve Argon from much needed resources to produce ships. Personally, i kinda like Paranid ships. They seem more capable. But yeah, play close attention to Hatikva's Choice. That jump gate to Tharka's Sun is totally undefended and is basically an invitation for the Xenons to wreck face all over Hatikva.
My previous comment WRT asteroid models wasn't to do with the type of xtals available (which IIRC is purely random), but to determine what the asteroid itself yields when mined (ie nothing, ore, silicon or ice), as you eventually noticed. That being said, if xtal hunting with your own ship (rather than simply following a miner around & scooping up what it drops), I /believe/ that using a mining laser will improve xtal yield over just a regular gun.. haven't really tested this, but it makes sense as the regular gun is more likely to destroy loot drops than a specialised mining tool To capture/own a sector for yourself you must have more defence platforms /with admin modules/ than any other single faction within the sector. If other NPC platforms exist the sector will be classified as 'contested'; if they're all exclusively yours then the sector classification changes to 'owned' (& BTW your owned sectors are a different green from TEL) LRS scans return different coloured pings (mostly) depending upon how valuable/desirable that item is (eg valuable/prioritised due to mission lockboxes vs only 1 or 2 locks). Be aware tho that some items returning yellow pings can also be v dangerous (eg mine-sabotaged asteroids or small autonomous xenon defence platforms) Sector borders/boundaries are fixed while in map mode for ease of drawing the 2d map projection, but within the sector itself they can effectively infinitly expand: there's no fixed 'sector wall' that you can't fly past. If you explore too aggressively this can lead to some awkward map scaling, with all the stations appearing to be contained within one tiny part of the sector, then most of the rest is effectively empty, so bear that in mind when asssigning explorer ships Yes, you can completely customise any ship loadout with different race's parts (eg Teladi shields on a Split chassis with Paranid engines & Argon guns) depending upon how you want to min/max that design When trying to board wrecks etc, don't let your ship get too close to the hull: the 'lock on' effect still needs a little room for maneuvers even without a pilot in the chair. I suspect the problem was that as you exited the chair your empty ship stopped synching its rotation with the wreck's, so allowing for some collision there. Also remember to use before you get up from your chair to ensure all your engines are set to 'dead stop' IIRC SW12 is a dead-end sector: there are no other gates leading to/from it (tho that may have changed with the DLC). However, the storyline is v interesting: look it up in the Encyclopaedia & read the background of some of the sectors you've discovered To train up your pilots quicker, buy all the basic & 1-star seminars then apply them until you can't use them anymore (each seminar trains ~1/3 of a star). The low-lvl seminars are cheap enough to lvl pilots quickly to 2 stars; after that you can simply have those pilots fly around exploring/trading/mining/WHY until they gain enough XP to reach lvl 3. Alternatively, 3* & 5* seminars can be gained from lockboxes or data points (rarely) or as mission rewards Check out the station calculator app that makes station construction (with all required modules/components etc for self-sufficiency) really easy & convenient! It's not a game mod: it's a separate app for X4 station design, similar to the old X3 calculator
Vanguards version of the ships have less hull than Sentinels version but are a bit faster. ps: there is no "edge" on the sectors map, the borderes represent the main area of interes but you can find "stuff" beyond the lines and yes some sectors a much bigger area of interes.
Yes, more of this! Love the game and loving this series =) definitely earned a sub from me =D Also I would highly recommend downloading the XR ship pack on the steam workshop, it adds all the L and XL X Rebirth ships to the game and it's honestly really cool as the AI will also build those extra ships and properly outfit them, plus they're pretty well balanced =) you can still earn achievements on the save it just disabled the Venture "multiplayer" stuff
I think once things are stable I might look into adding more mods. I'm really nervous about adding them mid-game as I'm unsure of how it will affect balance. Maybe on a different run?
Yeah that's fair, I was the same initially, but ended up putting in a few quality of life mods and the extra ships =) which so far, I feel hasn't unbalanced things - but I did end up waiting until I'd put about 70 irl hours into the save so things in my universe had a good chance to develop =)
great vids you are doing keep it up dude, the sectors are not the same size as each other and you can expand the area you can see of a sector by traveling to the edge of the sector and just keep going
I somehow had a defence drone just yeet itself into deep space, and now Pious Mists II is completely covered in fog, except for a little dot of the actual system :p
People make such a big deal out of illegal inventory but it just means sometimes police will bother you, most of the time I just dock at any station and they give up immediately.
HOP ships are usually of the sentinel variants, a sturdier ship, but it comes at the cost of speed. Meanwhile, PAR uses vanguard variants, which are faster but more fragile. the actual equipment doesn't change. I believe that some ships are available only in one or the other factions. the same can be said with each of the other races. I know for sure that if you want the split frigate, you need to befriend the patriarchy, but I wouldn't be surprised that there are other cases like these spread out amongst the races I personally tend to Frankenstein my ships. I tend to favor Paranid and split ship designs and engines while equipping Teladi shields. I'm still experimenting with guns, but so far, the split disintegrator is my favorite... I seriously hate Teladi ship shapes and gun placements... too many blind spots on them or at least spots with minimal gun coverage. Yet they represent a big chunk of my fleet, for the same reasons -_- A big chunk of my fleet is made of ships stolen from pirates, which uses a lot the phoenix dd... can't fathom why
The Hatikvah plot is a good start. Will also lead you into more interesting storylines and you get free ships along the way. If you really want to delve into economics already i recommend more miners instead of station construction. You need to make some investments and station profits start off slow. Plus you don't have many satellites yet. Personally i don't enjoy the crew micromanagement at all and recommend LearningAllTheThings mod.
When you are looking for gates, you should use your long range scanner, too. It can reveal gates from a couple hundred km, if you charge it up and give it a little bit time to scan to that range. They will then pop up as "unknown object".. also I dont know what u should do I would maybe look what blueprints I can buy and then maybe decide to build a station.... But you cannot claim a neutral sector yet because the admin module bp costs like 11 mil credits :/
One tip I use is go threw faulty logic continue too travle forward until you reach the high road there you will see an asteroid filled this field is beaming with crystals you can spend a few minutes there and earn millions also a large amount of unstable Crystal's
You can also take over a sector by placing an admin module then destroying any other admin modules, you can do this with minimal hit to faction, if not an enemy, by hacking their shields and turrets first and only destroy the admin module.
Definitely go the rout to taking Nopileos' Fortune. I've made a lot of money due to the rich asteroid mining there with a refined goods complex. Not much in terms of gas though, I think just hydrogen.
I built my first station over in Teladi territory yesterday since Maja Dust and Spaceweed are legal there, but after staking out my claim on the gate crossing in Nopileos' Fortune (My station is smack dab in the middle) I felt mildly upset... You can just grab the most valuable lot in the system for free since nobody owns it, and it's right next to the best sales port for Spaceweed in the whole sector. Oh well, I suppose I'll just grab the large asteroid field as well and then build a second Teladinium forge in there so my mining fleet has something to unload at.
@@Reddotzebra Nopileos' Fortune is just a good starting point for any new game. Don't have to pay for the lot and the traffic through those sectors is already good. It's literally where I always start building first to ultimately build a self sustained shipyard. What I usually do is go from the lowest tier factories and work my way up to the second tier and then finally to the third tier. After getting to that point your making enough money to start a self sustained shipyard, but not quite. I have blueprints of the stations I've built going from the bottom to the top. A refined goods complex, high tech factory complex, a ship tech factory, a mega factory containing all three factories, then finally a self sustained shipyard. I usually only build one of each, the mega factory gets built up to being a shipyard but I use the shipyard blueprint so that whenever I claim a sector that I want an economy in I can just load that up and don't have to worry about modifying it other than adding more factories that can't produce more than what's being used. I wonder if there is a way to upload those blueprints so other people could use them. I would really like to show them off, spent a lot of time making them look organized.
Just set those autominers to nividium mate, and sell manually at trading stations until there's no demand. You can pretty much buy a new autominer after each completed haul. Also, I'd drop satellites next to the pirate station and the illicit goods factories. If anybody wants weed'n stuff, it's them. Trading stations buy it too, but the police might get your ships around those. In general, just check who buys what, how many and for what price.
@@TobelPlaysSims The blue ones? You mean the Menelaene crystals, which you just sold for 'quite a bit of money'? They're ones I was talking about the first time... that were worth 11k each at that other station... that you just sold for 9.7k each. /all kinds of smug-face/ The tatty naff ones are the purple ones (about 1k each), then it goes blue, green, yellow and white (soopah rare).
Doesn't Tharka's Cascade have that other abandoned Cerberus that you came across in an early episode? Unstable crystals are a random spawn from farming other crystals! For that situation you had trying to get back to your ship from the wreckage,teleportation would have been a good thing to have! 👍😀
In terms of pilots iv had no problem training them up from no star too 3 star I just send them of and get them to take a seminar wile they fly round placing saterlights for my traders
The only next step after earning your first mil is to get that passive income going. Start buying autominers. Ore/silicon are fully automatic. Nividium requires you to order them where to sell when they fill up.
buy 2 or 3 M miners and send them for Nvidium but before that send scouts to every asteroid fields you now and drop "resource probes" so you can find the best deposits.
@@stefanalin8494 find more Trading Stations, in Teladi Isamazura and Free Split systems are 2 stations with highest demand than the ones in Argon and Ant. i have 3 m miners , one feeding the Argon stations because demand is lower and 2 other feeding the Split and the Teladi, so it goes pretty steady.
The HOP and the Godrealm of the Paranid you mean. And no, not really. The Paranid ship designs focus on two things, not just speed but also hull durability. This is why Paranid ships go so well together with Teladi shield generators.
Teladi ships in X3 were huge monsters ex: Pteranodon, with the most hull and most shields. Paranid in X4 can use Teladi shield but does not have the slots to fit as many as Teladi.
@@zontarr22-zon Yes but I still like the Paranid ships because their heavy fighters generally have around equal parts shield and hull strength when you slap the TEL shields on. But the reason I LOVE Paranid ships is that they have (At least as far as I've seen) the best medium freighters in the game (The Demeter class, plenty of cargo space and they can outrun pirates like a BOSS) and the fastest scouts.
So I don't know if they have changed the spawn mechanics in the new version for pilots as I have not had the chance to play yet but when I did play previously 3 star pilots and above were only found on the capital stations for each faction I could never find them anywhere else. I hope this helps and I think you might want at least 5 - 7 miners with them mining different resources otherwise eventually silicon can and will crash as everywhere will have a stock of silicon the only exception to this is ships getting destoryed starts the economy again.
Yeah, the Pegasus is the fastest scout ship you can possibly make, able to outrun pretty much anything. I bought two and predictably named the first one just Pegasus, and the second one Alicorn, because it's a winged horse with a single horn so what else could it be? They are perfect for exploration, satellite network extension and fast movement. Garbage at pretty much everything else.
I'm pretty sure the DLC Split designs now eclipse even Paranid for outright combat speed (I think my unmodded Split Jaguar is currently running close to 800 combat speed: need to check), but they're garbage WRT durability &/or shield capacity, hence upgrading stuff from a different race is definately a priority with their ships IMO. Give the Jaguar max Teladi shields & a default 'flee' order & it makes a decent cheap fast scout IMO
Future buyer here so I am ignorant of the things in the game but I think if you stopped the ship speed to 0, maybe it would stay put in place (during wreckage exploration)? Though it was funny, "Noooooo..."
Miroslav Štěpánek You van also research teleportation pretty early on. Allowing you to teleport back to your ship or to other ships, stations. So useful!
The SCA factory means that it's a station being built or already built but missing a finished production module that's owned by the Scale Plate Pact criminal syndicate. I don't know why they don't just label it SPP...
Unfortunately ES decided to use the first 3 letters in the faction name as 'tag' identifiers, rather than the more common 'acronym' (it isn't, strictly speaking, but nvm) formation of using the first letter of each word :( Hence SCA for SCAle Plate; PAR for Pontifex-aligned Paranid (Holy Order (HOP) breaks this a little due to conflicts, but WTH :) MIN is Ministry of Finance (the Teladi (TEL) military/police arm) etc.. As you said, the 'factory' designator/placeholder for stations means they're in the process of being built: once completed they'll gain their suitable permanent designation. There are other such placeholders for incompleted defence stations etc
@@snafu2350 Well, since it's a SCA "Pharmaceutical complex" then I like my designations better. I named my fully self-sufficient (And perfectly legal, since it's in Teladi space) Spaceweed and Maja Dust factory the "Doobie Snack Bakery"
Honeslty leveling pilots is kinda stupid in this game, you'd be better off downloading the mod which allows you to buy the skill books for each piloting level - I had a miner on sector automine for around 50 hours and they never went past level 2 =/ I feel like leveling pilots is kinda bugged atm
It's fairly simple. Pilots gain skill by flying around doing stuff for you (eg exploration, mining, reminders of trade details etc), but you can apply 'boosts' in the form of 'seminars' to quickly lvl a pilot to at least 2*. Each seminar increases a pilot's skill by ~1/3*, so 3 basic seminars will gain you a 1* pilot; a further 3 1* seminars will gain you a 2* pilot. These low-lvl seminars are pretty cheap, & available from most stations' onboard shops (go to Trader's Corner), so stock up with as many as you come across whenever you can Higher lvl seminars are available as random rare loot from destroyed ships, lockboxes, data points etc, but are most commonly awarded as mission rewards. Otherwise it's a long hard slog to keep those pilots flying around to gain XP naturally.. but it'll come sooner than you may expect, esp if you power towards the SETA personal tech upgrade
@@snafu2350 I know how it's supposed to work, but honeslty in my game the very first miner I hired and then used pilot books to get them to 2 star just never went past 2 stars even after logging 50 real world hours on that save - kept moving them to different sectors whenever the price dropped of silicon but yeah the pilot skill never went up >< their morale skill went up to 4 star but the pilot skill never went up
@@ImpactedWhisper So move them to a different ship & give them different duties? Also the game was recently patched again (16 Apr), which may help things a little..
@@snafu2350 honeslty I tried, put him on my combat Corvette killing xenons and still never went past 2 stars so i just assumed my game was bugged, and after 70 hours irl on the game having my entire economy come to a standstill because I could only ever sector mine just became annoying and tedious having to manage so many ships and keep changing the sectors =P so I just downloaded the mod I'll likely go back to unmodded on my next save
You aren't wrong! Around that time I switched to a new video editor and also tried some new audio recording tricks. I think I've got it balanced around 8 or 9. Side-effects may include: reduced audio volume, deeper Tobel voice, echoey Tobel voice, strange glitches in video, tendency to grow another limb.
just bought "Balaur" heavy fighter, has 4 guns all grouped together in ships nose as a fire spewing dragon. Funny and fact is that "Balaur" in Romanian is synonym for dragon. Or the Aragon freighter "Incarcatura" in Romanian means "the load" referring it strictly to the stuff from a cargo hold.
@@TobelPlaysSims the devs gave alot of love for split ships, the biggest one even has a proper interior hangar like if it was a small station, it even has interior turrets
I might have panicked... Just a bit.
I mean, nothing bad has ever happened to someone exploring a *dead space* hulk, drifting through space. Right? Right!?
joppek77 *Gene-stealer noises intensifying*
the sectors exist beyond the edge of the map sector, when you go beyond the map sector border, the map will zoom out, meaning, each map you see in the overall map view, its actually zoomed in, and as you explore beyond the border, the map sector will just zoom out
As you still carry your illegal stuff around let me give you a quick tip. in the HQ in the researchers room to the left is a storage unit where you can store all and collect all that stuff so you don't have to carry it around. ;) your welcome.
Wooo!
Starting a station is not a bad plan. Claytronics for end goal is always a solid investment, since it's used for station construction, but has a somewhat complex production line. Need antimatter cells, silicon wafers for microchips, graphene+superfluid coolant for quantum tubes, raw mats are energy cells, silicon, methane, hydrogen and helium. So you could start with silicon wafers to microchips, which is always a good sell, and you already have the miners for that.
I love watching you explore this game. Very entertaining.
Just so you know there is no edge of the map it will just continue to expand
The sectors are a lot bigger than you think and there are a lot more factories in all the sectors than you have currently uncovered
Each faction has a sub faction, ex- Paranid with Pontiflex, Argon with Antigon etc, and each faction has its ships, one is the vanguard and the other is the Sentinel. The differences are in the hull and speeds.
If Hatikva remains clear of Xenon invasion. Then it might be better to centralise your hub. Honestly grand exchange is pretty good as just a hub as its pretty much central. and you already have it However, if Hatikva falls to Xenoscums. You might want to build factories in Argon Prime to fuel the wharf. The Accelerator Highway (jumpgate) is usually high traffic between Silent witness and Argon Prime. In my gameplay. The Xenoscums have 2 Defense platform on that vulnerable spot and shoot down every freighter that tries to get to Argon Prime and eventually starve Argon from much needed resources to produce ships. Personally, i kinda like Paranid ships. They seem more capable. But yeah, play close attention to Hatikva's Choice. That jump gate to Tharka's Sun is totally undefended and is basically an invitation for the Xenons to wreck face all over Hatikva.
My previous comment WRT asteroid models wasn't to do with the type of xtals available (which IIRC is purely random), but to determine what the asteroid itself yields when mined (ie nothing, ore, silicon or ice), as you eventually noticed. That being said, if xtal hunting with your own ship (rather than simply following a miner around & scooping up what it drops), I /believe/ that using a mining laser will improve xtal yield over just a regular gun.. haven't really tested this, but it makes sense as the regular gun is more likely to destroy loot drops than a specialised mining tool
To capture/own a sector for yourself you must have more defence platforms /with admin modules/ than any other single faction within the sector. If other NPC platforms exist the sector will be classified as 'contested'; if they're all exclusively yours then the sector classification changes to 'owned' (& BTW your owned sectors are a different green from TEL)
LRS scans return different coloured pings (mostly) depending upon how valuable/desirable that item is (eg valuable/prioritised due to mission lockboxes vs only 1 or 2 locks). Be aware tho that some items returning yellow pings can also be v dangerous (eg mine-sabotaged asteroids or small autonomous xenon defence platforms)
Sector borders/boundaries are fixed while in map mode for ease of drawing the 2d map projection, but within the sector itself they can effectively infinitly expand: there's no fixed 'sector wall' that you can't fly past. If you explore too aggressively this can lead to some awkward map scaling, with all the stations appearing to be contained within one tiny part of the sector, then most of the rest is effectively empty, so bear that in mind when asssigning explorer ships
Yes, you can completely customise any ship loadout with different race's parts (eg Teladi shields on a Split chassis with Paranid engines & Argon guns) depending upon how you want to min/max that design
When trying to board wrecks etc, don't let your ship get too close to the hull: the 'lock on' effect still needs a little room for maneuvers even without a pilot in the chair. I suspect the problem was that as you exited the chair your empty ship stopped synching its rotation with the wreck's, so allowing for some collision there. Also remember to use before you get up from your chair to ensure all your engines are set to 'dead stop'
IIRC SW12 is a dead-end sector: there are no other gates leading to/from it (tho that may have changed with the DLC). However, the storyline is v interesting: look it up in the Encyclopaedia & read the background of some of the sectors you've discovered
To train up your pilots quicker, buy all the basic & 1-star seminars then apply them until you can't use them anymore (each seminar trains ~1/3 of a star). The low-lvl seminars are cheap enough to lvl pilots quickly to 2 stars; after that you can simply have those pilots fly around exploring/trading/mining/WHY until they gain enough XP to reach lvl 3. Alternatively, 3* & 5* seminars can be gained from lockboxes or data points (rarely) or as mission rewards
Check out the station calculator app that makes station construction (with all required modules/components etc for self-sufficiency) really easy & convenient! It's not a game mod: it's a separate app for X4 station design, similar to the old X3 calculator
Really useful stuff. Thank you for posting.
Vanguards version of the ships have less hull than Sentinels version but are a bit faster.
ps: there is no "edge" on the sectors map, the borderes represent the main area of interes but you can find "stuff" beyond the lines and yes some sectors a much bigger area of interes.
Huh, I didn't realize you could find more stuff if you just kept going.
Yes, more of this! Love the game and loving this series =) definitely earned a sub from me =D
Also I would highly recommend downloading the XR ship pack on the steam workshop, it adds all the L and XL X Rebirth ships to the game and it's honestly really cool as the AI will also build those extra ships and properly outfit them, plus they're pretty well balanced =) you can still earn achievements on the save it just disabled the Venture "multiplayer" stuff
I think once things are stable I might look into adding more mods. I'm really nervous about adding them mid-game as I'm unsure of how it will affect balance. Maybe on a different run?
Yeah that's fair, I was the same initially, but ended up putting in a few quality of life mods and the extra ships =) which so far, I feel hasn't unbalanced things - but I did end up waiting until I'd put about 70 irl hours into the save so things in my universe had a good chance to develop =)
Great channel, can’t believe you don’t have mor subs 👍 anyway, just subbed
Much appreciated. You can say you were here for the start once we hit 1 million :D
great vids you are doing keep it up dude, the sectors are not the same size as each other and you can expand the area you can see of a sector by traveling to the edge of the sector and just keep going
Congrats on 1k!!!!!!!
Thanks much appreciated! Quick month
The map tiles scale depending on how far out you travel, but apparently there is still some upper limits depending on the system.
I somehow had a defence drone just yeet itself into deep space, and now Pious Mists II is completely covered in fog, except for a little dot of the actual system :p
People make such a big deal out of illegal inventory but it just means sometimes police will bother you, most of the time I just dock at any station and they give up immediately.
HOP ships are usually of the sentinel variants, a sturdier ship, but it comes at the cost of speed. Meanwhile, PAR uses vanguard variants, which are faster but more fragile. the actual equipment doesn't change. I believe that some ships are available only in one or the other factions.
the same can be said with each of the other races. I know for sure that if you want the split frigate, you need to befriend the patriarchy, but I wouldn't be surprised that there are other cases like these spread out amongst the races
I personally tend to Frankenstein my ships. I tend to favor Paranid and split ship designs and engines while equipping Teladi shields. I'm still experimenting with guns, but so far, the split disintegrator is my favorite... I seriously hate Teladi ship shapes and gun placements... too many blind spots on them or at least spots with minimal gun coverage. Yet they represent a big chunk of my fleet, for the same reasons -_- A big chunk of my fleet is made of ships stolen from pirates, which uses a lot the phoenix dd... can't fathom why
The Hatikvah plot is a good start. Will also lead you into more interesting storylines and you get free ships along the way. If you really want to delve into economics already i recommend more miners instead of station construction. You need to make some investments and station profits start off slow. Plus you don't have many satellites yet. Personally i don't enjoy the crew micromanagement at all and recommend LearningAllTheThings mod.
When you are looking for gates, you should use your long range scanner, too. It can reveal gates from a couple hundred km, if you charge it up and give it a little bit time to scan to that range. They will then pop up as "unknown object".. also I dont know what u should do I would maybe look what blueprints I can buy and then maybe decide to build a station.... But you cannot claim a neutral sector yet because the admin module bp costs like 11 mil credits :/
Good tip ! Also ooof on the price.
One tip I use is go threw faulty logic continue too travle forward until you reach the high road there you will see an asteroid filled this field is beaming with crystals you can spend a few minutes there and earn millions also a large amount of unstable Crystal's
You can also take over a sector by placing an admin module then destroying any other admin modules, you can do this with minimal hit to faction, if not an enemy, by hacking their shields and turrets first and only destroy the admin module.
Definitely go the rout to taking Nopileos' Fortune. I've made a lot of money due to the rich asteroid mining there with a refined goods complex. Not much in terms of gas though, I think just hydrogen.
I built my first station over in Teladi territory yesterday since Maja Dust and Spaceweed are legal there, but after staking out my claim on the gate crossing in Nopileos' Fortune (My station is smack dab in the middle) I felt mildly upset... You can just grab the most valuable lot in the system for free since nobody owns it, and it's right next to the best sales port for Spaceweed in the whole sector. Oh well, I suppose I'll just grab the large asteroid field as well and then build a second Teladinium forge in there so my mining fleet has something to unload at.
@@Reddotzebra Nopileos' Fortune is just a good starting point for any new game. Don't have to pay for the lot and the traffic through those sectors is already good. It's literally where I always start building first to ultimately build a self sustained shipyard. What I usually do is go from the lowest tier factories and work my way up to the second tier and then finally to the third tier. After getting to that point your making enough money to start a self sustained shipyard, but not quite. I have blueprints of the stations I've built going from the bottom to the top. A refined goods complex, high tech factory complex, a ship tech factory, a mega factory containing all three factories, then finally a self sustained shipyard. I usually only build one of each, the mega factory gets built up to being a shipyard but I use the shipyard blueprint so that whenever I claim a sector that I want an economy in I can just load that up and don't have to worry about modifying it other than adding more factories that can't produce more than what's being used. I wonder if there is a way to upload those blueprints so other people could use them. I would really like to show them off, spent a lot of time making them look organized.
Just set those autominers to nividium mate, and sell manually at trading stations until there's no demand. You can pretty much buy a new autominer after each completed haul. Also, I'd drop satellites next to the pirate station and the illicit goods factories. If anybody wants weed'n stuff, it's them. Trading stations buy it too, but the police might get your ships around those. In general, just check who buys what, how many and for what price.
I think at the moment though we don't have any nividium showing anywhere.
@@TobelPlaysSims Try a few systems with big asteroid fields, a lot of them have it
"Better the devil you know, than the devil you don't"
Oh, it's suddenly 'quite a bit of money' from those crystals, now. **hrmph** ;)
Only the big big ones, not those peasant blue ones ;)
@@TobelPlaysSims The blue ones? You mean the Menelaene crystals, which you just sold for 'quite a bit of money'? They're ones I was talking about the first time... that were worth 11k each at that other station... that you just sold for 9.7k each.
/all kinds of smug-face/
The tatty naff ones are the purple ones (about 1k each), then it goes blue, green, yellow and white (soopah rare).
Doesn't Tharka's Cascade have that other abandoned Cerberus that you came across in an early episode? Unstable crystals are a random spawn from farming other crystals! For that situation you had trying to get back to your ship from the wreckage,teleportation would have been a good thing to have! 👍😀
Hmm might have to swing back by that way
On the universe map the red indicates mineral, the blue gas, and the purple is both mineral and gas.
Enable map-mode 'legend' button to see this IG
@@snafu2350 That works too.
You can check the recipes for manufacturing other resources, I think, in the Encyclopedia under wares?
Yes
In terms of pilots iv had no problem training them up from no star too 3 star I just send them of and get them to take a seminar wile they fly round placing saterlights for my traders
If you assign a trader or miner to your new station it will go and get all the materials ytou need and go sell your finished goods.
The only next step after earning your first mil is to get that passive income going. Start buying autominers. Ore/silicon are fully automatic. Nividium requires you to order them where to sell when they fill up.
Tobs my man, again with the moistening. Take me now.
Tobel doesnt want to fight space cthulhu, and what does he do? He goes and has a closer looks at the X universes version of... space cthulhu
Evil geometry I can handle - squiddie things from the great beyond I can not
buy 2 or 3 M miners and send them for Nvidium but before that send scouts to every asteroid fields you now and drop "resource probes" so you can find the best deposits.
After 2 hours i don t have were to sell Nividium anymore is same to you?
@@stefanalin8494 find more Trading Stations, in Teladi Isamazura and Free Split systems are 2 stations with highest demand than the ones in Argon and Ant. i have 3 m miners , one feeding the Argon stations because demand is lower and 2 other feeding the Split and the Teladi, so it goes pretty steady.
The HOP and the Godrealm of the Paranid you mean. And no, not really. The Paranid ship designs focus on two things, not just speed but also hull durability. This is why Paranid ships go so well together with Teladi shield generators.
Teladi ships in X3 were huge monsters ex: Pteranodon, with the most hull and most shields. Paranid in X4 can use Teladi shield but does not have the slots to fit as many as Teladi.
@@zontarr22-zon Yes but I still like the Paranid ships because their heavy fighters generally have around equal parts shield and hull strength when you slap the TEL shields on.
But the reason I LOVE Paranid ships is that they have (At least as far as I've seen) the best medium freighters in the game (The Demeter class, plenty of cargo space and they can outrun pirates like a BOSS) and the fastest scouts.
So I don't know if they have changed the spawn mechanics in the new version for pilots as I have not had the chance to play yet but when I did play previously 3 star pilots and above were only found on the capital stations for each faction I could never find them anywhere else. I hope this helps and I think you might want at least 5 - 7 miners with them mining different resources otherwise eventually silicon can and will crash as everywhere will have a stock of silicon the only exception to this is ships getting destoryed starts the economy again.
i-m having a blast with thisLP!
Yeah, the Pegasus is the fastest scout ship you can possibly make, able to outrun pretty much anything. I bought two and predictably named the first one just Pegasus, and the second one Alicorn, because it's a winged horse with a single horn so what else could it be? They are perfect for exploration, satellite network extension and fast movement. Garbage at pretty much everything else.
I'm pretty sure the DLC Split designs now eclipse even Paranid for outright combat speed (I think my unmodded Split Jaguar is currently running close to 800 combat speed: need to check), but they're garbage WRT durability &/or shield capacity, hence upgrading stuff from a different race is definately a priority with their ships IMO. Give the Jaguar max Teladi shields & a default 'flee' order & it makes a decent cheap fast scout IMO
Future buyer here so I am ignorant of the things in the game but I think if you stopped the ship speed to 0, maybe it would stay put in place (during wreckage exploration)? Though it was funny, "Noooooo..."
Sadly the wreck was rotating independently, but it all worked out in the end.
@@TobelPlaysSims Hope they'll add anchor tool or ship computer sync then. :) Yeah, it was funny.
Miroslav Štěpánek You van also research teleportation pretty early on. Allowing you to teleport back to your ship or to other ships, stations. So useful!
The SCA factory means that it's a station being built or already built but missing a finished production module that's owned by the Scale Plate Pact criminal syndicate. I don't know why they don't just label it SPP...
Unfortunately ES decided to use the first 3 letters in the faction name as 'tag' identifiers, rather than the more common 'acronym' (it isn't, strictly speaking, but nvm) formation of using the first letter of each word :( Hence SCA for SCAle Plate; PAR for Pontifex-aligned Paranid (Holy Order (HOP) breaks this a little due to conflicts, but WTH :) MIN is Ministry of Finance (the Teladi (TEL) military/police arm) etc..
As you said, the 'factory' designator/placeholder for stations means they're in the process of being built: once completed they'll gain their suitable permanent designation. There are other such placeholders for incompleted defence stations etc
@@snafu2350 Well, since it's a SCA "Pharmaceutical complex" then I like my designations better. I named my fully self-sufficient (And perfectly legal, since it's in Teladi space) Spaceweed and Maja Dust factory the "Doobie Snack Bakery"
If you make Silent Witness XII yours the mines also become yours. I think they are friend/foe mines.
please talk about piloting skills and what you found out about how to level them up.
Honeslty leveling pilots is kinda stupid in this game, you'd be better off downloading the mod which allows you to buy the skill books for each piloting level - I had a miner on sector automine for around 50 hours and they never went past level 2 =/ I feel like leveling pilots is kinda bugged atm
It's fairly simple. Pilots gain skill by flying around doing stuff for you (eg exploration, mining, reminders of trade details etc), but you can apply 'boosts' in the form of 'seminars' to quickly lvl a pilot to at least 2*. Each seminar increases a pilot's skill by ~1/3*, so 3 basic seminars will gain you a 1* pilot; a further 3 1* seminars will gain you a 2* pilot. These low-lvl seminars are pretty cheap, & available from most stations' onboard shops (go to Trader's Corner), so stock up with as many as you come across whenever you can
Higher lvl seminars are available as random rare loot from destroyed ships, lockboxes, data points etc, but are most commonly awarded as mission rewards. Otherwise it's a long hard slog to keep those pilots flying around to gain XP naturally.. but it'll come sooner than you may expect, esp if you power towards the SETA personal tech upgrade
@@snafu2350 I know how it's supposed to work, but honeslty in my game the very first miner I hired and then used pilot books to get them to 2 star just never went past 2 stars even after logging 50 real world hours on that save - kept moving them to different sectors whenever the price dropped of silicon but yeah the pilot skill never went up >< their morale skill went up to 4 star but the pilot skill never went up
@@ImpactedWhisper So move them to a different ship & give them different duties? Also the game was recently patched again (16 Apr), which may help things a little..
@@snafu2350 honeslty I tried, put him on my combat Corvette killing xenons and still never went past 2 stars so i just assumed my game was bugged, and after 70 hours irl on the game having my entire economy come to a standstill because I could only ever sector mine just became annoying and tedious having to manage so many ships and keep changing the sectors =P so I just downloaded the mod I'll likely go back to unmodded on my next save
Does the audio sound different in this one vs the other 4 episodes, it did to me ?
You aren't wrong! Around that time I switched to a new video editor and also tried some new audio recording tricks. I think I've got it balanced around 8 or 9. Side-effects may include: reduced audio volume, deeper Tobel voice, echoey Tobel voice, strange glitches in video, tendency to grow another limb.
please buy split ships :)
Good point, I don't think I've taken a look at those.
@@TobelPlaysSims Split ship are notorious about their unnecessary number of guns :)
just bought "Balaur" heavy fighter, has 4 guns all grouped together in ships nose as a fire spewing dragon. Funny and fact is that "Balaur" in Romanian is synonym for dragon. Or the Aragon freighter "Incarcatura" in Romanian means "the load" referring it strictly to the stuff from a cargo hold.
@@TobelPlaysSims the devs gave alot of love for split ships, the biggest one even has a proper interior hangar like if it was a small station, it even has interior turrets
First you better capture all of the systems, sir