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If you go with all the options while talking to Dal Busta, but backing up every option afterwards, you will be able to make TRI go to war with everyone.

For Xenon capital containment I'll throw up a defense platform , 5 disks with Argon plasma and flak, 4 bridges with argon beam and flak. Set construction to closed loop and it goes up quick for a bit less than 10 mil credits. Instead of a cross, i turn it 45 degrees to make a huge X. For S, M sized pirates, I've had good luck with groups led by a Sapporo on 20km position defense. Attached to the Sapporo are 8 Odachi arranged in 2 flights of 4 set to intercept. Has worked well for piracy prevention where I've set them up!

Glad to see you bouncing back from the Hurricane. Best wishes.

I am not sure if you want suggestions how to continue or about a new game, but if you restart, you could consider playing a modded game, like the excellent Reemergence mod!

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Awesome

If you unify the Split, let them fight against each other. A strong Paranid-Fleet vs a strong Split-Fleet would be awesome.

Terran Story can divide Argon and Antigone or can setup Argon and Antigone to fight Terran or you can keep it as is.

Thank you love the update.how many hours are you into the play through. Do you know about the seg pioneer freelancers that can be attacked with our loss of reputation.

XEN are only as aggressive as they can throw energy cells around. If you block Hatikvah's Choice I and Getsu Fune(sp) efficiently, then HOP will manage to finish south and you can help ZYA/FRF with the north. Strangle their mining efforts with guerilla hit-n-runs and they will crumble, like any empire. Or just run a fleet of destroyers in and camp their gates.

I have a stork with three M docks, inside it are 9 ospreys fully loaded with drones. This is the solution to your problem. In fact, you need any cruiser with 2-4 M docks. And fill it with frigates with drones to the maximum. This allows you to be more flexible in management, drones can perform different functions, since they obey their frigate.

The audio for this video is shit. The game volume is way to loud and your voice is to quiet and sounds grainy at times. Because this is I had a very difficult time trying to understand what you were saying and it significantly subtracted from the video. With that said, I do appreciate your insights on the barbarossa. I recently captured one myself and I'm very excited about it. It

I'm new to X4 and was wondering if this is still viable under the timlines release As an old Eve online player I love drone boats and missile boats so thie really appeals to my game play style of combat lol.. Great info BTW thanks for that. :)

I enjoy flying in a small fighter close to those giants and blast their sub-components with Burst Lasers, just today i used my Geometric Owl to de-fang a K. The Sector Defense took it out and i grabbed a lot of loot. Plus fought off a bunch of other fighters. But you NEED L and even XL ships for anti-station combat, otherwise you are just ENDLESSLY shooting at the same target. At least once i want to try and buy an entire swarm of small fighters and send them at a K or I with Burst Lasers to cripple it, but that will likely lead to a lot of losses.

Cluster missile speed is 36m/s? Are those things even going to arrive before the K gets in firing range?

Plop a Cross shaped defense station on that gate with Argon Flak and Large plasma's. costs about 15 mil. problem solved.

Skillet! Glad to hear you're safe, Brother! We live in Florida's panhandle (extreme Western edge, just East of Pensacola), and we've been sending assistance and praying for everyone who've been affected by this year's storms. Please be careful and be patient, the infrastructure will come back, just gotta wait for the priority areas to be taken care of first. Stay safe and chat later!!

Have you not met humans?

Its the range of your weapons, heavy smart missiles have a npc range of around 5.5km, the heavy dumb fire has a npc range of 9km but your main battery has a range of 10.9km Ai will try to stay as far as possible and given your longest range weapon has unlimited ammo, it will always try to stay at a distance out of range of your missiles This does not happens with the xenon capital ships cause the K tries to close the gap to getyou in range of their guns Use turrets and batteries with shorter range than your missiles

The bigest advantage of laser towers over defense platforms is they pull ship out of travel speed quite effectively, defense platform are horrible for that.

I use them for my honor guard, that also has the ships I use to scout/fight.

I used to throw combat engine and thrusters on everything, but I've moved toward combat thrusters and travel engines on my personal craft because I can boost while spooling instead of doing the opposite. That switch has saved from combat encounters more times than I care to admit...

Odachi is my new favorite M class. I use it in fleets for position defence and police.

Balaur or Chimera or Moreya or...

I do recall some saying that this Xperimental Shuttle could have strong shields, but a hull so weak that the lightest bump would destroy it in the OG X game if your shields were down. I wonder how the current weapons would have compared to the Terran weapons from X3 though...

What also strikes me is the different ways factions police their space. I tend to put my initial economic stations in TER and BOR space. Both heavily police and patrol their sectors, but TER have zero tolerance for Scale Plate, and will destroy on sight. BOR on the other hand let everyone who isn't actively shooting at them in, so I'll have messages from my traders that they're getting pirated from time to time. It got so annoying that I set up 2 squads of 4 Mako each to patrol the 2 BOR sectors my traders were being harrassed in, and put up defense platforms on my BOR station.

I pick up the police license for the increased bounty payout. One time I got the killshot on a K in Getsu Fune, and the TER payed out 900k.

Police license allow you to scan the faction ships. So with an argon police license, it is legal to scan argon ships, but not to scan terran ships in argon space. It's a way to be a pirate and scan ships before picking your target, without them being upset or even run off. Being a Pirate Hunter is pretty rough for SCA as they cloak and your stupid automated ships can't scan to decloak them. Better off doing the Terraforming project that unlock SCA rep. The Free Families Pirates, spawn rattlesnakes from the shipyards, so I've put a fleet on yards that kill the rattlesnakes as they leave the yard, not very fun mechanic, but it works.

Lol! I would like to start a new game, I have over 1000 hours in but every time I start a new game the Ramp to building up a good economy looks like Mount Everest in a blizzard. especially since its so much harder to hunt crystals for starter money or hack stations for blueprints.

wow, i'm suprissed you just found out "60 km from station" rule, it is in pirate tutorial (arcane endaveur one in windfall). It is easy to notice in hatikva. As long as defence station is alive, for every xenon destroyed in 60km from it you get money. After it falls, no money, but you can pirate argon s and m ships for 0 rep lost - as they are fourther than 60 km from nearest station (you still have to destroy emergency probes they send, if you dont want to lose rep).

I started new game, no mods in 7.0, because of teladi defence station being little to the east early game teladi warf was destroyed by fallen families rattlesnake , and they didn't build new one. Best game ever for me, there are nearly no reladi medium traders in the universe (and annoying teladi trade with anyone). Having all these resources storaged in warf destroyed complete changed economy. Now I considering starting new game, grabbing Odysseus and few security slices and quickly destroying all major warfs, to see what happens (most of them will get rebuild, but resources on destroyed ones wil lbe lost).

I've never used the Police License in a vanilla game, because the rewards are pretty underwhelming compared to the effort. However, there are mods that revamp the police & kill credit system to make it much more interesting and it can be profitable to defend sectors from Xenon. Basically it incentivizes being a PMC and using your assets to provide security making it possible to make a profit, even if you lose ships (not too many though). Defending sectors against Xenon is always an option for any situation you might be in, but it also works if you decide to get involved in a war between two factions. You can participate in those large fleet battles and will generally earn enough money to make it worth risking the loss of assets like destroyers.

Excellent thank you.

I'm a greedy capitalist that love closed loop and hate seeing those red words saying i lost some ships. That being said i either use argon with vig/yaki ships or full terran, if i do gate camp or siege warfare i use a line of destroyers with heavy weaponry on top set to kill capitals first (for those lovely k that like to bombard from above), flak heavy on the bottom and parked gunships on them with flak set to shoot missiles first, couples orbiting flak gunships as wingmans to those destroyers, set in defense so they stay close, behind that line is 2 auxiliary to resupply and repair that fleet. In another fleet i use a carrier, either with takobas for the terrans or moreya for argon, set to intercept and using point defense command just over my destroyers, with the edge of engagement just slightly foward of them. And always keep 2 corvettes with torps if something heavy dont get blasted instantly, (Xenon I or asgard usually) Let me tell you this setup swat everything coming my way, and if i dont swat them hard enough the interceptor buzz what survives while staying safe.

I appreciate the content, but if you took away all the pauses, wouldn't this video be about 5 min?

The missions of "Help our stations. You have 2 hours" if it includes Ore or similar, I have just ended utterly ignoring them and abandoning the mission so as not to waste my time OR money, because the last attempt was to use several L class miners in a nearby sector (to reduce travel) set on Repeat Orders to SPECIFICALLY ship Ore, but using Ore takes ECells and since making refined metals from it uses up food and medicine, THOSE turn up as required as well, meaning you have to redo all those things or ignore them to the very end, but since it requires 50,000 ore and you can deliver 2-3000 each run, it gets used up and you will fail, and the BEST I managed was to get it to 67% out of 70% required to "Win" before time ran out. UTTERLY not worth it. Like at all. And you can't tell unless you go there and scan the station to get its total storage amount what it will require (or do test runs to see what % is done with a full load). Not. Worth. It. Because the requirement is to half fill a Large Solid store while it works on it, and that is a couple dozen trips, more if you necessarily take time, and each will be less and less profitable to do, while everywhere else is starving for Ore because you are doing only that single station. In two hours.

Great video

Excellent commentary as ever

Ever since timelines was released, i fell in-love with the Odachi. But after a long while, i got tired of it, making things too easy, still, its a good personal ship. The Xperimental shuttle is a good option too if you prefer to personally fly S ships (I prefer M). My Sapporo is a command / boarding ship. With its speed in travel and maneuvering, it can easily deploy boarding pods fast and also has a good crew capacity. It becomes an early to mid game command ship to support any assault/defense with its missiles.

Great commentary

I started watching your videos at the beginning of the week. Started with the slow play. I’ve watched these lets talks and it’s opened my eyes to a lot of different ideas from how I did play vs how I play now. Keep it up!

I have no idea how many 100s of Odachi's I've build by now; that thing is amazing. Xperimental would be my prefered player ship, if I had any baddies left *sad face*

Xperimental is strong, fast, maneuverable, and tough. Aesthetically, I'd like to chop off the tail just past the wings. It slopes down and looks like a dog dragging ass on carpet. I hate that one thing.

The Odachi is a sweet M ship. Not quite as fast as the Katana but a lot more manuverable. The EM cannons also hit A LOT harder than even Mk 2 Protons on the Katana and the turret coverage is better. I've been using the Sapporo to help me find Kha'ak installations and currently helping me hunt for Erlking data vaults, the extra sensor range is nice. Haven't used it for combat yet as I can't resupply its missiles yet. X-Shuttle is a great personal mission runner. As far as the Cutlass goes, its a great mass-produced fighter and cheap to make. Haven't gotten that far in my game yet though.

Just great advice get then towers down

This update idea is excellent for a Play through. You could do short update every one to two hours of game play. I have only my second Game on the go with 2 days make just passed. Am mile behind you But hold zenon back in with lazer towers for now. As a New players seen lost agaist the coming wars you give a scale thank you excellent as ever

Hi again getting started few ideas and question Police scanner and scanning ships this is grey are for all new players have you drawn any conclusions Is it Correct that scanning a station to 100 percent delivers goodies. Understand you need to go out in space suit and Scan to get100 percent Mission no reputation loss for destroying ship wile on mission . Exeryone sets up A station. But they look like money pits . Hull parts cost 101 credits To produce materials only no set up costs or running costs included in that number Thanks as ever excellent Content Chris

Hi watch at of your video yesterday all excellent.