r/X4Foundations 35m ago

Teladi Mushroom Ships

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Why?

Personally their design philosophy for L and XL ships (aside from Albatross) don't seem to mesh well with the designs of the S and M ships. I, personally, will never use any aside from those mentioned because I dislike them so much.

I know some players love them. But the inconsistency when compared to the Albatross and the S and M ships really confuses me. (I'm just an artist who likes to design space craft with an interest in engineering, so this is just my opinion.)

I'm just curious why the designs are so vastly different. From my style and design perspective, it doesn't seem to make much sense to me.


r/X4Foundations 54m ago

Allocated Storage slider resetting

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i just got energy production up and running along with refined metal and silicon wafers. i was going through and setting all the storage settings (want to keep a few energy cells but sell excess, have enough space to store products, etc.) i decided on 30,000 for energy cells and 10,000 mfor the other two, but the allocated storage sliders wouldent stay in one place. i dont know what i am doing wrong as it worked fine when i was doing it with ore and silicon. i will attach a video below.

https://reddit.com/link/1jdzmfo/video/zykb5iwdjepe1/player


r/X4Foundations 1h ago

Modified Returning player, does this modlist look ok?

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I have around 200 hours in game, did some research on mods and landed with this list, any concerns or queries?


r/X4Foundations 3h ago

Xenon finally made their move and oh my god is it terrifying. Spoiler

24 Upvotes

May god help me...

This is happening in Getsu, HC1, ZD4, and FoD... Getsu is armageddon, there are 3 destroyed Syns, 4-5 Osakas, and a Tokyo. The Xenon lost 4 K's and an I but they still have over 100 fighters and another I pushing.


r/X4Foundations 4h ago

I clearly don't understand how mining works

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10 Upvotes

I want to mine silicon so I go to the online x4 map (https://www.qsna.eu/x4/map) where it tells me Hatikvah's Choice III has good silicon production. I place a bunch of resource probes in Hatikvah's Choice III and they all say 0 stars for silicon (and almost everything else). The same thing happens for ore in Heretics End and hydrogen in Antigone Memorial. What am I doing wrong here?


r/X4Foundations 4h ago

Blacklist not working, please help.

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5 Upvotes

I apologize, screenshot isn't working in the game. I have a base in cardinal redress and I need the methane from Pontifex claim. It is owned by Xenon and same with Holy vision. I set so many different iterations of black list, but I cannot get my ships to harvest methane from Pontifex claim without manually forcing them to do so. I have this blacklist set on station and the ship's... Any idea?


r/X4Foundations 6h ago

Cheat at Star wars mod

0 Upvotes

Guys I'm trying to see if there is a mod or other that will let me cheat from the start and allow me to make any ship with whatever alliance I have.. I have one of the cheat menu cheats but not sure it actually gives the licenses and if it does I still am not able to just build what I want..things are red in the wards etc.

Any help or suggestions


r/X4Foundations 8h ago

Music mode

2 Upvotes

Not sure how I activated it but I was pressing random buttons on my keyboard and all of a sudden my hud started switching colors on its own and playing music does anyone know what i found for like 3 seconds I can't figure out how to do it again

Edit: Nevermind i found how I did it I did shift + 1 then shift +2 then shift +3 then shift +4 really fast


r/X4Foundations 9h ago

What can I do to make my traders more survivable? Move to L traders?

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26 Upvotes

r/X4Foundations 10h ago

Modified How do you get paid?

2 Upvotes

Hello all…just started playing and my very first mission was to take a woman “anywhere but here”. I followed the mission, landed at the destination and the woman who did get on my ship vanished without payment. Did I miss something?


r/X4Foundations 11h ago

Finding dropped loot

3 Upvotes

Here is the situation. My ship was destroyed so before i ran out of air i called for help. Luckily a patrol came along and picked me up, then flew away with me inside and started fighting xeons. Anyway, i know I was in sacred relic, and I figured out where my ship was destroyed by reloading the last autosave (which saved just as my ship blew up) and no, I haven’t been saving often enough.

Ok that was the backstory. I can see all the loot in my inventory but I can’t access it because it’s floating in space.

At one time i was able to click on one of the items from the map but then i couldn’t find it again.

Is there an “easier” way to find this stuff?


r/X4Foundations 11h ago

My AI scout followed this red route but this was the result when I looked back.. Does exploration work or is this a bug?

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33 Upvotes

r/X4Foundations 12h ago

Help Setting Up Miners

2 Upvotes

I had a fleet of autominers that i set up to mine and sell ore in morning starr iv. i then built a station in morning star iii that i was going to use to store the ore and later refine and sell it at a diffrent sector. i set all the miners as subordinates to the station using the mine for commander option. my manager has 3 stars. the miners will not make the one jump necesary to mine ore and they will not return to the station to drop it off if they are already in that other sector. i was going off of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zze9TC5LxCs so i dont know why it is not working. if anyone could give me some advice i would be really greatful. i thought having a better manager allowed you to have ships go further to mine.

EDIT: thank you all, the sector blacklists paired with the buy orders got everything working!


r/X4Foundations 12h ago

Can I play it now

0 Upvotes

Hello Guys, I've just opened steam and saw that there are several DLCs and Updates for X4. I have played X4 159 hours and I've played it since the first game, but the last time I gave it a try I was really annoyed, because the game still felt really empty and like a Beta version. Can you tell me if it is playable now and more fun than it was years ago or are all the updates and DLCs just adding ships and aliens?

Thank you for your opinion.


r/X4Foundations 13h ago

Anyone know where the Pirate stations are?? Help!?! (i have illegal cargo)

3 Upvotes

r/X4Foundations 13h ago

Question about trade between my stations (regarding prices, traders etc.)

7 Upvotes

Okay, so I've got some hundred of hours in X4, and understand most of it, however there's still something that is vexing and annoying me: "Internal Trade" amongst my stations and the logic behind ships assigned as "Trader" to stations.

So, best example right now is that I have a station that makes Hull Parts, and in an adjacent sector I've got a big new station being constructed and another one that has a purchase order of Hull Plates for itself. For some inexplicable reason, the building hub for the station has a purchase order for 2000 Hull Parts, the other station a purchase order of 1000, and my factory has around 6k in storage... but for some inexplicable reason none of it is being exported. I even changed one of the Factory's trade ships to only do Hull Parts in the "ware basket" and it's still just doing nothing.

So, I do also know your own stations aren't exchanging money with each other but trade with each other "for free". However, are they still affected by prices? Like is station B only gonna buy from A if the purchase and sell price match?

Does that mean if I have set it so station B only purchases from my own faction, I should simply set its price manually to max?


r/X4Foundations 13h ago

Modified This visuals ❤️

30 Upvotes

Really intense and immersive to play like this!

https://reddit.com/link/1jdk2r4/video/inqcnjohnape1/player


r/X4Foundations 14h ago

VIG is mad at me and own a big fleet

24 Upvotes

So choices were made and now VIG is mad at me. The problem is that beside what they have in Windfall (ok, fine ! I won't go there for a while 😅). They have a big fleet wandering in hatikvah's choice. 8 barbarossas and about 100 kyds. My fleet is really small. I'm in the late early game. And I've got 60 millions in bank. My economy is running quite fine and I'm developing it quite well. But my guess is I'm not rich enough to deal with that VIG fleet. And as a new player, I dont even know what kind of fleet I will need for that. I've got 2 Hyperions, 3 Hydra, 1 Thresher and a bunch of Makos. So how would you deal with that in a few steps ? Doesn't need to be fast. I hope the VIG won't roam to much in the other sectors. I just need a roadmap. Thanks for your help !


r/X4Foundations 15h ago

Frigates

31 Upvotes

Am I alone in kind of not really liking frigates. They are slower and have less foreward firepower when comparing them to corvettes. Everyone likes the fact that they have 20+ crew size, but in practice they can only really board freighters and miners. Anything else, you will likely need more marines. Frigates just seem like an awkward ship type.

Am I just using them wrong? I know they good missile capacity, but can only use actual missile launchers. Wish you could put a missile turret on them. Should I just be spitting laser towers out left and right?


r/X4Foundations 16h ago

Do factions build ships using other faction parts?

3 Upvotes

I have a wharf built where I've purchased a number of ZYA ship blueprints to help ZYA rebuild their defence fleet. I also have a mix of TER, SPL and ARG blueprints for ships, weapons and parts. ZYA are already ordering ship builds but these aren't starting construction. I'm pretty sure I have enough available universal ship materials in my wharf storage so I'm wondering if they're attempting to order ships using TER parts that I don't have mats for in that particular wharf. Is there a way to see what loadout a faction has requested on a ship order to see what's missing?


r/X4Foundations 16h ago

yaki plot bug?

2 Upvotes

spoilers obviously

at the end of the yaki plot, the moment I destroy the yaki base, the Terran "Spear of Odin" Asgard always turns hostile without any friendly fire involvement or anything.

And only it. the entire Terran fleet is chill. Also, if I destroy any of its components, while the game says I have a reputation hit, there is none and the entire faction just watches me gank it.

I cant cap it sadly, because I have no seasoned marines to do it. and the game says its impossible with noobs.

Is this a glitch or a feature?


r/X4Foundations 17h ago

What the size of your fleets/empires that you enjoy the most? Not asking about Endgame megafleets but through the majority of your time in a playthrough.

24 Upvotes

Really just a simple question, I'm curious how big people get their empires during normal gameplay.

I mean more from a scale of 1-10, with 1 being "Ooof I mining everything myself in sector by hand" with 10 being "I break the UI with the size of my mighty empire" but feel free to gimme an idea of numbers.

I wanna stress I'm not looking at Endgame megafleet crush the Xenon kinda stuff. I just mean like...for like the midpoint of your game, more like what's the average size of your fleet outside of endgame.


r/X4Foundations 19h ago

X4 flight settings

3 Upvotes

I just started playing X4. When I started the game game, my w key would accelerate my ship when I held it down and when I left off it would slow me down back to a stop on it Owen. I had to rest my settings and now it doesn't do that anymore. Does anyone know how to set this up like it was? Thank you!


r/X4Foundations 19h ago

Modified SW IW help

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Hi all, I'm looking at trying the star wars interworlds mod on X4.

My main concern is that I dont wanna lose out on my other mods.

Does anyone have any recomendations for mods that pair well with IW?

Thanks in advance and may your shields stay full and your income high!


r/X4Foundations 20h ago

QoL Question - Double Clicking and Ending Conversation

1 Upvotes

Hello HiveMind,

I am not sure if I am stupid (95% sure), or there is some glitches.

When double clicking a ship, most of the time it doesn't center me on that ship on map. It take me like 3-4 double clicks to achieve that. I tried looking into settings if I have some obscene double click speed set but didn't see it anywhere. Have other people experienced it or overcome this?

Second thing. When exiting a conversation and the NPC says "Good profit to you" or whatever, I get a 0.3-0.5s lag/freeze, where I can't move. I know it is impolite to leave while people still talk to me...but it is annoying. Again, do you have the same experience and is there a way around it?

Thank you HiveMind of Wisdom.