Why do most empires start with scavenging and mining : X4 Foundations
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Well that went better than expected. The new start they introduced in this DLC has made skipping a lot of the early grind possible. Now I just have to figure out how I sell energy cells out of our new power station.
Included DLC
Split Vendetta
Cradle of Humanity
Tides of Avarice
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X4: Foundations is a huge space sandbox simulator that lives and breathes within your gaming system. Thousands of ships and stations trade, mine and produce, all realistically simulated. In this universe, you can grow from being the lone pilot of a fighter ship, to managing a vast empire, commanding your fleets and designing colossal space stations. Transition seamlessly from first-person action, boarding ships and visiting their bridges, to an expansive strategy and management simulation. Choose your own path at your own pace. The decisions are yours. Trade - Fight - Build - Think.
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"You spend a lot of time travelling in this game."
- Cue traumatic flashbacks from Elite Dangerous.
not the same at all in X4... the "travel drive" (available on all engines) or SETA (can't use both together unfortunately) combined with "highways" make travel much more tolerable... plus because you can actually see all objects / stations as you travel through sectors makes it at least visually interesting when travelling... unlike Elite 😉
But my free anaconda!
Dropping satellites everywhere will cause a massive performance penalty in the game since it calculates the ships' positions within each visible area. This is also a problem in previous X-games. To overcome this issue, the devs introduced buying a trade license from the faction representative, which gives you access to the real-time prices, supply, and demands for each factory of this faction. For this license, you must have a certain standing with the faction.
have literraly thousands of sattelites and there is no preformance penalty from what i can tell, the only time preformance gets hit is by useing the SETA for too long but in this playthrue my first btw is 300+ hours in.
Pervious versions where only single core. Hence why satellites etc. Caused such performance drop. Here, if you have decent cpu it isn't as big of a deal. Unless you take it very far.
@@SmallKittyPaw thanks for the info! Great to hear that this got improved. I guess the trade license is more cost effective in the long run?
@@sisu4u I guess? I didn't played for long enough to test it
The concern over satellites dropping performance is way overblown. I drop hundreds of satellites in my game and don't notice a significant performance drop.
There is a teleport technology researchable in the headquarters, which allows you to teleport the player character to another ship you own. You can spread out cheap ships everywhere and just teleport to somewhere else when you need to be there in person. But most of the stuff can be done remotely.
Here is a nice mid/late game goal: Get an own shipyard/wharf, some blueprints of factions that don't like each other and allow them to buy ships at your station. They will instantly kill each other after takeoff, leaving scraps behind that can be automatically collected. Building ships for sale is insanely profitable. AI factions will buy at any price as soon as possible, resource resupply is the only limit.
One important thing to keep in mind for longer games: The Xenon will get stronger with time. If the player does nothing to keep them at bay, AI factions will lose the fight, meaning that eventually every sector will get steamrolled by xenon. The game can at some point turn into a large scale strategy game if one does not put a plug into the xenon jumpgates in a timely manner.
I've got that with the vigor rn because I didn't do their missions until late game so they got really really big and I'm trying to fend them off with only 3 destroyers 😩😩
Get Ready Francis, 7.0 is about to drop!!!
The most stress relief I’ve ever had was with the sounds of someone special saying “Aaaaaand we’re back!” Please don’t ever change good sir, so much love! ❤❤❤
don't forget to assign funds to construction of the module :) It's a pleasure to see you catching up quick.
If I remember correctly, the Argon are the humans that were separated from Sol by the gate shutdown. The big difference between them is pretty much their production chains are completely different and where they start.
The Argon come from well before the timeline of the very first X game, they're the descendants of the original Terran fleet that tricked the terraformers into the X universe and then have Earth cut them off by destroying the human gate (stranding that fleet led by, wait for it, Nathan R. Gunne. Get it? :P ). In the first X game, you play a Terran pilot who used an experimental jump drive and accidentally accessed the X universe some eight centuries later. At the end of X3, the Terrans reconnect to the X universe by making another gate of their own... and things go downhill quickly.
So yeah, both Argon and Terran are humans. Just separated for a long time, and with Terrans being decidedly more advanced and powerful than any other faction in the X universe, save the Ancients and _maybe_ the Xenon. So Terrans integrating with the X universe was definitely a big deal, despite them being just another human faction like the Argon - they're very much the big guys.
@@LuaanTi i like "humans" are the most advance civilization in a universe with aliens lol
@@v44n7 Not the whole universe, just a tiny section of it. And as rare as it tends to be in modern sci-fi, that's mostly a result of the common scenario where humans are visited by aliens (ideally in relatively modern times or even earlier; at most while taking our first tentative steps into the unknown) - of course the aliens have to be more advanced to travel interstellar if we can't.
X universe is different. The gate network was built and managed by the Ancients. The other alien races use the system, but can't do interstellar travel on their own. In fact, just like the Argon, the others in the system were cut off from _their_ homeworlds - we don't see their whole civilizations, just a remnant that tries to recover (and ideally, reconnect). In contrast, the Terrans _built their own gate_ - and were very surprised when they found out it connected to other, until then unknown, gates.
As the Argon, they were essentially brought down to the technology available around them; technology doesn't exist in a vacuum, and the stranded fleet was quite small to boot. So most of their technology plays nice with the rest of the gate network. But when the Terrans finally manage to reconnect, the entire power balance is ridiculously lopsided. The other factions number in the millions; they are still building up proper infrastructure. The Terrans have many billions, with fully industrialized worlds (in the Solar system). Even if they weren't the most advanced (and they are, at least compared to the cut off remnants in the gate network), their economy dwarfs everyone else combined, and is heavily defended and concentrated to boot.
But again, that's just the neighbourhood that was brought together by the Ancients' gate system. A portal network connecting a few dozen systems (many of which are inhabited by the Xenon, who have Terran tech - and boosted up, at that). There's also the Kha'ak, who are still kind of mysterious and seem to be somewhat more advanced than even the Terrans. But outside of that gate system? There's still hundreds of billions of stars just in one galaxy. We're still just talking about being around the top of a tiny pond :P
X4 is my favorite open world space game. It's got so much to do in it!
"open world" ?
you have a few hexagons....
Funnily enough I almost never end up doing nothing while traveling. I'm always in a menu scouting for new stuff or picking out a new ship or planning a new station or plotting my next move. Even just watching the factions go to battle with one another is entertaining enough. I love how the game encourages and enables you to do a bunch of stuff all at the same time.
To build a station you need claytronics, hull parts and energy cells. So I think it's a good idea to create a self-sufficient factory for these materials and go from there.
Also for the future reference - mining is the slowest and the most painful start. In general it's not a good idea to provide your future competitors with resources.
Doing piracy (boarding L-ships with captured M-ships) is the best start IMHO. It provides more money but also cripples production which creates deficit on a market for future exploitation.
wouldn't that also hinder their ability to combat the xenon, which in turn allows the xenon to shrink your market?
Spoken like a true Teladi. Great profitsss to you my friend.
I hope you'll continue this as a series.
Keep them coming!
"Bring a cup of tea." Noted I will update my Tea stash for the future of this series Francis thanks for the tip.
Man this game is just built for you. So much to explore and exploit. Can't wait to see what massive empire you'll build eventually. End game is usually the most fun for me.
I'm late to the X4 party so this kind of video is just what I needed. I'm thinking about picking it up next time it's on sale. Thanks!
Sale time! I only just came across the game, picked it up and very much enjoying. So much to learn still...
For a personal fighter ship to pilot, perhaps a Terran Katana would be something to consider? Sure, it's a medium-sized corvette, but it's so fast that it acts more like a tactical bomber, with its medium-sized fixed mount weapon hardpoints, plus its 2 small-sized turret hardpoints (like with many World-War-2-era bombers). Moreover, unlike the Split Dragon, another super-fast corvette, the Katana also comes with pretty good hull and shields for surviving blows, while the Split Dragons are quite frail, but also have even more firepower on them.
and don't forget the Gorgon... makes an excellent player ship (advantage of a small docking bay over the Katana too) almost as manuverable as a Katana too imo 🤔
2:00 😂 Has that Eve Online vibe, which is often “played” alt-tabbed out.
it's nothing like EVE... thankfully 😉
This is definitely a game to watch, rather than play for me. I will give it this though, it's pretty.
Pretty damn hard to pick up
Very very hard to pick up. Only reason I stuck with it was experience with the sequels at least at first.
Go straight for factory building, pick a start that leans that way, ignore the missions and go for money income.
I use to play Elite years back but stopped. Always had an eye on this game but never jumped in. Grabbed the main game and the first two expansions last week. I'm excited to get into it.
enjoy the rabbit hole 😉... (never understood why there isn't a system in the game named "Rabbit Hole"... lol)
@@dragonfyahh4457 I definitely enjoy it a lot. I'm usually stuck on Project Zomboid so its nice to have a space sim to play. I'm just having a hard time learning the game. Seems the devs change stuff up so much all the tutorials and quick start helps that RUclips likes to push me are obsolete now.
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Yoooo it's Francis and he's playing X4, that is one tasty combination.
I do want to see him micromanage the bejeezus out of his empire so yeah, make it a series
06:00 Trash Panda
18:39 Hiring Miners
25:00 Trade Filters & Satellites
32:44 Factory Stuff
Loved your ONI Series - Just found you do X4 - although I have a lot of time in X4 (1,747 hours) it's just wonderful hearing you talk over what is happening - you do it so well. I started the X series with X-BTF back in 1999 and then on through X2, X3 and X4. As a flight instructor on Helicopters and planes, I love this sort of thing and the sights when flying through these sectors are just amazing.
There is another good start which I always find gives many drops and that is the gate between Second Contact II Flashpoint and True Sight.. Everytime you start a new game, the HOP are bashing the Argons and Antigone People and I start with the Basic ship and 2,000 credits and after a trip there have about 5m and have to go back for more. As you say, the best are those Programmable field arrays which sell for around 140k each. Once that battle has died, they tend to take a while to build up another fleet for another go (The AI actually mines and works for their next fleet to go again). At this point, I tend to go back to the anomaly (BHS IV) and do some anomaly jumping - just going in and out of the anomalies (wormholes) which opens up lots of new sectors (and I tend to put a NAV beacon at every point I land so I know where they are - if I find Trinity Sanctum VII, then I stop and get myself a Nodan with Combat Engines and another which I use for mapping. I then go to Hatikvah and do similar as by that time the Xenon will have built up a bit of a presence.
Oh, if you fly with a joystick, the Saitek X52 pro is probably one of the best to use (I have gone through dozen's of others before finding a good joystick).
Thanks for the stream - it's bringing memories flooding back from when I last played some 6 months ago - oh and Sierra and I are avidly watching your ONI too.
FJ Don't forget to assign an appropriate sized trade ship to your asteroid base/construction ship, to gather the parts needed for it to build the new modules your trying to construct. Also please be aware some sectors have incredibly low solar energy available, compared to others (essentially the darker the sector the less efficiency your production of energy cells will be)
What do you mean assign it. How do you do that?
@@cyrieldeneve8522 Unless it's changed in recent patches (I haven't played in a while) you'll want to pull up your asset list, select a group of ships you want to assign a role, then right click the station you want to assign them all to, and from there you should be given a drop down menu of options for the assignable roles based on a few factors (manager skill,station production type, station items in storage, etc) From there on your station manager will be able to take care of those ships (less micro management for you)
The initial fight right the start of the game is on the other side of the jump gate, that's why nothing is there right at the beginning. A better option is the Paranid and Argon fights happening at Second Flashpoint and the couple systems down the highway from it. You can freely collect that material without risk of being shot at the same time.
You can also just use the custom start option (Budgetted custom start won't count as modifying the game) and start with your initial ships/money you want.
i got myself a dragon raider, fought a bit, got some autotraders, then setup some "free energy cell factories" (sell for 10 credits, dont need a single subordinate, traders come to you)
then i built a claytronics & hull part factory next door to the HQ and started building it into my shipyard.
no mining yet.
In the future, space stations will be covered with rubber tires. Reasons.
X4 is imho one of the best games ever made. It's like Freelancer but everything is extremely dialed up 😂
Not a bad comparison, although I really miss the feeling of being just one of hundreds of ships at a planetary port and bar hopping.
In x3 terran conflict I had a whole empire going on. Needed mods to make the autonomous ships a bit more useful. I think some of that is built in in x4.
🎉 another video! you’ll at some point gonna want to set up hot-keys for the magnet if you pick it up yourself I use L-ALT if not assigned a ship to do it for you like a scout no weapons and and combat engine
he says in the video "press 'o' "... the default for the magnet 😉
One of my favorite revenue generators is crystal mining. I purchase a Paranid Tethys as soon as I can then head for a nice big asteroid field. It's an easy matter to harvest several million credits in well under an hour. One of my favorite hunting grounds is Heretics End, nice how that worked out. Full disclosure: I do use the "crystal glow" mod rather that try to spot a tiny glint in the starlight.
I tried the crystal mining in the past, but since the nerf it was pretty weak.
The highest tier crystals will only spawn once per sector and will not respawn again for several hours after.
So you need mods to the spawn rate and visibility mods to make it work now.
Just got my first Rattlesnake destroyer and hunting for the epic mods to install on it, soon this baby will burn the universe. Made every faction to have conflict with every other faction and the Terran vs Split conflict is coming to a build up of epic proportions and am selling ships to every faction and makeing profits from the complete anarchy in the universe. From a prison escapee to a space Bezos feels good. Love this game!
Love the kenshi mention
1:00 actually... theres 3 (4ish) versions of X3
X3 Reunion. which most people ignore since it had lots of issues plus it was a direct sequel to the Brenan family plot from the previous 2 X games and was more story focused (and its not a good story)
X3 Terran Conflict, standalone expansion to X3 Reunion which fixed most of the bad things from X3 and made is more sandbox dropping the arching Brenan family storyline from previous games. the most popular entry from the X3 games
X3 Albion Prelude, DLC for Terran Conflict
X3 Farnham's legend, which started out of a mod but later god official Egosoft approval, support, and release.
plus several popular conversion and overhaul mods.
" Fantastic video FJ " , very well done and you explain things to a tee for the most part.I played the whole X genre and loved 98% of it. Truly an open universe game that puts pretty much all else to shame. Watching your mini series has got me back into playing X4 again . :D . Hopefully we will see you make some more X4 content. !!
aaa the singularity engine time accelerator. that brings back memories. leaving your pc on overnight so your mk3 universal trade captains can trade and make you money. in the morning finding out that your stupid captains got themselves killed to a bunch of pirates. trying to adjust the place of your factories but they end up in the center. oo the president's end, the big war there and the loss of life, I can even hear the sad music. the good old days eh...
try towing an asteroid through a jumpgate in SETA... 😉
If you want early cash fast, best thing is to find the abandoned Odysseus Vanguard destroyer in Faulty Logic II
I remember picking up X3 Terran Conflict when I was maybe 15. I saved up school lunch money and my friend and I would go to a local store and look for cheap games. It was on sale for like $20 and the box looked really cool so I bought it. It was definitely a very cool game, but at the same time it was incredibly overwhelming and I never really figured out how to play it.
I'm 31 now, and a friend of mine told me about X4: Foundations. He described it as being kind of like StarSector with a mix of EVE and Elite: Dangerous and I was immediately on board. I figured I'd check it out since I hadn't touched one of these games in well over a decade. I'm not sure if it's age or just poor memory or better game design, but this one seems much more accessible? At least compared to what I recall being a teenager trying to figure out X3: Terran Conflict?
I appreciate your videos on this! That hotspot in Flashpoint II is super profitable and it's helped me make a lot of early-game money.
The symbols on the stations are the same as the smallest size ship they can build, wharf is small or T1 shipyard starts at T3 hence the 2 lines under the ship
Man, this makes me want to play this game again
I usually start for free families and there you can quickly capture a second jaguar, and if you're lucky, then a third. Immediately I take the quest from the Hatikva and get a merchant ship. I sit down for him and I put pilots on jaguars, then jaguars collect everything in such places, and I fly on a merchant ship to collect abandoned ships in the Exchange and Fortuna. I put more pilots there and send them to trade or sell them and start the quest to the headquarters. I quickly do the quest for the headquarters and bring the boso ta. Then I look for an abandoned Paranid destroyer and sell it. Then in free mode I start capturing small ships, usually my target is Zyart's split ships. I am collecting a wing of fighters from captured ships, and all this time my jaguars have been collecting loot, and then scouting sectors. And then free swimming...
Subcontracting miners is a _brilliant_ idea. Like you say, money and reputation ex nihilo (long as they don't die)
And it gives you the roots of a supply train to plug into your factory complex later.
"Not enough resource on line, I love this game its crazy" lol you are the resource! Thank you for your service. Would love you to take a look at Star Citizen.
For those not in the know. Early on if you are changing your equipment at a wharf after the initial equiping and not an equipment dock, you are throwing money down the drain for no gain and in most cases also time as you are waiting for x, y and z coming the docks way.
Francis: You see this icon that looks like the thing from Star Trek? That's a wharf.
Me, an intellectual: Worf was a character in Star Trek.
Thought you might like to hear this: I just took a survey asking what youtube channel was your favourite and after some thought It came out to be yours.
I'm 28 days in my campain .. and i can say I'M THE ECONOMY. For me its normal to order 100-200 traders(L Size Barbarosa), 100 gas and 200 mineral(L size Rorqa), Raw resourse sellers(M class miners, Several Asgards with some Rays and Syns, Patrol Odessy E(Pulse+Flak) and all of them use Terran travel engines or Smaler ships Combat variant. Ahhh I did board my first Asgard 21h ingame. btw my luck on Seta drops where SUPER bad it took me 4 IRL days 96h to get my first SETA and i had autolooters(S class ship that collects boxes from battlefields and deposits them at your PHQ) you can do it by Setting repeat order 1st Collect loot once he collects give 2nd order deposit loot.
You make this look so easy. Here i am, 28 hours into my 1st play and i haven't got a decent fighter. My headquarters admin sold my project wares. I can't figure out how to sell the excess energy cells that it makes. I can't get advanced electronics to save my life, and 3 K's' just popped through the HITK gate but at least my 200 laser towers there are holding things back......
Well, Francis John really should rename himself "The Way of the Trash Panda"
there's an abandoned battleship always in "Faulty Logic" (Xenon territory at start) that can get you upto around 9 mil if you claim and immediately sell early game... at least one YT vid out there telling you how to get it... does require you to run the gauntlet of Xenon to get to it's location... but that just adds to the fun 😎
I won't hate on you for looting for a bit. The rest of the game is administration. I mean, you could play the rest of the game from the relative safety of a random far out space station. And getting the SETA drive early in the game is very advantageous.
Ah, good old Elite. I played it first on an Amiga 500 and stopped with X3 and I see not all things change. Sure, Graphics and Sound are way better but the good old station smake is still gold. But you do not instantly die anymore, feels pity in comparison.
"Yes! I had to do the landing all myself back then! You, kids, don't know how good you have it nowadays!" :D
Ah, I miss that old landing Music on my Amiga and the crash after, because the expensive AI could not rotate well enough.
Not sure if serious? Elite is a completely different game...??
Nice vid. Very helpful and enjoyable to watch. Thank you
You could just put an AI pilot to collect stuff and then meet with him to get his loot.
Or just order him to deposite inventory in HQ.
Repeat orders is your friend with this!
Repeat orders. Collect drops. Deposit in hq. Will loop.
Watching this series as I recently picked x4 and I wanted to get a good understanding of the game mechanics. Also yes, I do read names at the end and the "Does anyone actually read the names" was a good easter egg for me. Also which rock do you like the most??
19:00 "Hello Worf, eat any good books lately?"
There's a way to pirate blueprints for station modules if you want to be really efficient and skip the whole buying them part.
Stack the space fly eggs instead of trading them?
EDIT: Spoke too soon. If you hadn't sold the 2 eggs the first time you would have had enough...
After playing Eve online for like 9 years I agree I don't want to do mining
What's great about X4 is you never have to do mining. Just buy a mining ship with a captain and tell them to mine for you!
@@michaelbennett7561 tbh that is what i did in eve as well!!
Cargo you don't buy but can pick up and sell is good cargo.
You can buy ships from stations remotely, no need to dock there.
9:11 I use a Pegasus vanguard to collect inventory items with repeat orders and collect drop
Then now and then I Let it drop a lockbox.
If they ask for help I pause and check if fleeing will save it, if not I drop the inventory and abandon ship, sometime the enemy looses interest in an unmanned ship.
18:56: When you pointed out the "star trek" symbol and called it wharf, my brain was very confused as you made it connect star trek with the character Worf.
It’s another synths of sphinx where the pawns don’t matter and the dupes are a lie.
You placed a few dock modules instead of connectors, you don’t need more than one dock.
Stop making me spend money!!! You keep finding these fun looking games that I never have time to play.
Any chance Ark Survival Evolved (on a solo server) would ever come up on your list? Building bases and a dinosaur empire is fun.
Looks like a solid game, the more recent reviews are horrible but I think that is more of a company thing than a game thing.
Not sure about the base building aspect the trailer looks like it's more about combat.
@@FrancisJohnYT If you run a solo game it's mostly about surviving the start, catching the biggest and best dinosaurs and building ridiculous elaborate large bases to store all your stuff. You could play through the story and "finish" the game, but right now I'm just trying to build my own castle.
@@brianhauptman Not unless you turn things way custom. The first fight at the end of the first map with a lot of super nice dinosaurs didn't work at all. The game designers have repeatedly decided not to balance boss fights for solo play.
Space Truckers is not a game genre it's a way of life.
I'm four days in, have not really watched any "how to play guides", just guides for specifics (like sending out a trade ship) and read a few Reddit posts about trading.
Never even considered mining, just jumped into all the easy and very easy missions whilst laying out my satellite network (2-3 full systems a night).
I set my goal at 1 mil for the first day and hit 5 mil my second day. Pretty much every station I am scanning has criminal activity around it to pew-pew, and that gives a decent amount of basic loot rather than actively going out and hunting loot. Of course if there is a battle happening right near where I am scanning, why not...
Four days in, have two M trade ships and two scouts and just aiming at widening my satellite coverage sector by sector each day.
Honestly, part of the reason I liked X3 better is the early game part didn't take *so much* time to get going.
This looks to be like Kenshi crossed with Starsector. Consider me interested!
Look at all those people needed to create a 40min Video. No wonder TV is struggeling. Wow.👍
Yeah I was wondering why you didnt start off with the sandbox starts in the first place!
This one is far simpler and we start with the player HQ, saves so much time.
The vast majority of the game requires zero personal cross country travel. Just get a few ships that you might want to travel in. I use a standard fighter build. Then obviously have a pilot in each, and the teleport technology completed to at least the 2nd level. All of this is relatively easy to accomplish in the first 2 hours of game play. You should also have a SATA device or the part to build it by now. You only ever need one. Now when you need to be across the universe, hop into a ship that is not moving, give another ship order to travel to wherever you need to go. Then turn on your SATA, to have time go at 6x normal speed. Your pilot will fly your other ship over to the location and then you will get a message "awaiting order". Now turn off SATA and teleport to that ship, EZ. Most of the time I dont even use the SATA I just send ships around as needed and work on other things until they arrive, then whenever I am between things I jump over to them, do whatever needed doing over there, then jump / teleport, back to somewhere else. If you are personally flying your own ships around for the majority of the game, you are doing it wrong.
I mean it’s a single player game, he can certainly fly around if that’s what he likes. Also SETA changes game calculations and alters how the world would otherwise generate.
Jesus Christ, so I'm on my 4th Tennent's ok, and I dozed off for a bit... I came back and I was convinced I was listening to Grian! I was BEYOND confused... well time for the 5th Tennet's I guess
LOL i remember x3 the pilots did learn bad habbits from you if you drove the first few missions with them thats why i train them in battle without me but it is much better in x4 but i still miss many things from x3 like the mod that added gate deploying ships, once deployed you could dock a few fighters to it for protection and i realy miss the guard stations they could jump around god i miss them
So, a vulture?
I do this just south of Argon Prime, they go MENTAL there, utterly mental and neither side hate you, so you dont ever have to worry about getting in the way (unless you are accidently shot, happened to me, took my shields down instantly.)
First episode and we are already trafficking in endangered species... oh this is going to be good
just started but obviously didn't know about the trash panda meta, sooo how do I make money to start a mining company for steady income? Questing? Any advice would be nice!
I made a tutorial on how to start listed below. It's mostly about scavenging at the start. The second video goes into combat and missions for even more money.
ruclips.net/video/V3ieWQ_dPEc/видео.htmlsi=QIi_1Gv8GGoixlo0
y'know, it's weird you can build favour by _sending ships into someone's sector, mining their ore, and selling it back to them._ perhaps there should be mining licences, bootleg mining, ore-laundering...
I just love this game, just bought it a couple of days ago. I just wish the AI was a little more competent.
Thanks for the videos! Have helped a lot. One thing I’m struggling with is how do you know if the system contains the resources? The filter shows in your video what they want but I’ve tried putting miners in on auto mine and they don’t seem to find anything.
Should just be a case of opening the map and looking at the info tab, it will tell you mineral types and quantities in the system.
As far as I'm aware you don't even have to explore the whole system it just tells you.
@@FrancisJohnYT thanks 🙏 yes I figured that out after wasting a LOT of time and resource probes
Just bought my third small miner, loving that passive income! Trade income really REALLY low and I can't find the hacking materials.
Francis John , herald of updates.
Make a video on Crusader Kings III so the AGOT mod will drop.
If you use a ship that you are not piloting to pick up loot like programmable field arrays, will they still appear in your personal inventory?
No. You have to visit the pilot and get them to hand over their inventory. You get teleporter tech to make this easier later on.
I think Backspace button is quicker than applying breaks yourself.
For mining I cheat , Build a station with ore/gas storage and have some ship mine for the station and others sell for the station. Buy more ships as you like 👍( you need mining ship to sell also as freight ships don’t carry ore/gas)
Using a minor to mine sounds vaguely illegal. XD
I have over 1k hours in this game haha 😂 I think just playing is a good way to show it off. also you can hire a pilot and tell them to collect loot on area and if your on the ship and take there inventory when your ship is scanned if your standing in you ship your not scanned 😉
Those hours rack up fast! Is there anything more satisfying than flying round a newly captured destroyer and fixing it? I've spent at least 2 days doing just that🤣
@@warburd you can capture destroyers?!
@@v44n7 sure, in face the 6 destroyers and the builder I have have all been captured. In early game they cost soooooo much money that I use a falx/nemesis/mako to take out engines and turrets then bring in the troops with transporters to board... All while laughing in a maniacal "Mwaahaaahaaa" kind of way.
If you have a pilot collecting and you’re on the ship how do you take the inventory?
@@barrett5229 just interact with them I think the option is under hand me your inventory
"I've got 200 hour in X3:AP" Oh, so you've played one game of it? XD X3:AP and X3:LU stole... easily over a thousand hours from me.
Yeah it was just one game pretty much, a few restarts early on then a nice long game. Stock market for money then factories for even more money. So easy to sink time into the game.
Can't find the trading station in that system.. I've scanned every part of that system... Either I'm blown up right away by hostiles or I'm flying around endlessly... not a good first impression for me to the game. Collected 1.5 mil of stuffz but not sure where to sell it.
Skill issue
On a different topic, but it's been 9 months since you uploaded ONI :(
X3 Reunion?
What is the “objective” of the endgame?
Slipstream mention 6:05 I know an Andromeda fan when I hear one
Btw the Argon are actually direct descendants of the Terran's who tricked the Xenon into following them and were left behind after the jump gates to earth were cut off to keep the xenon away from earth.
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So we finally get the real start that's realer than all the other real starts? lol
"I should probably stop the engines before I crash into stuff."
.. Quitter...
too much for my head to wrap , nah man i cant lol
So many things in the game, but no collisions :(
Just 2 minutes in and screaming at the screen "buy the SETA" lol, it increases the passing of time x9, no more watching the metres click down, watch the 10's of kilometres click down instead.
Yeah, I've been playing since x2 so it's second nature to pick it up, but I guess there isn't any onboarding telling people to do so?
Wait, you can't buy one, you have to find the parts and craft it? Oh, what a bummer.
X4 does look better than X3, but it lacks a certain something, not sure what it is but I much prefer X3.
@@wolfen210959 Might be able to buy it still, but crafting it is certainly cheaper.
@@KainYusanagi afaik there is no way to buy it anymore. Finding the parts and crafting it is the only way. But at least it's connected to the player so you don't need it again for every new ship.
SETA has been nerfed hard. You can't use it while you are piloting a ship.
You can only use SETA or travel drive not both. So it's really only good for passing time waiting for traders to make you money, you can't use it to get places faster.
Well technically you can with teleport but that is fairly far down the research tree.
The GRAND EXCHANGE?! What is this, Gilenor? Is Guthix gonna try to sell me cabbages?!
Well try this game before and it's way to big for me and I like big games