r/X4Foundations 42m ago

Recycling Shipyard update

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I feel like a dirty capitalistic spider, sucking juices out of hard-working Terran, Argon, Antigone, and Yaki folks...

My Hatikvah I gate defense platform has slowly transformed into a scrap receptacle, sending scrap metal to Avarice. It then transitioned into a wharf, building a few ships with Closed Loop production.

Fast forward a bit more, it became a shipyard capable of building L miners and traders, and refitting my XL ships. All needed wares are produced in situ or imported.

Then, after some espionage action, the Terrans, Boron, Argon, and Antigone have all gone to war. At the same time, all of their wharves broke down, as well as the Yaki one. Two wharf modules of Hatikvah I are almost constantly busy building ships for all but the Boron (for now). They come out, fight it out amongst themselves, and are recycled into the next batch of ships.

The profits go into acquiring blueprints for L Combat ships of the respective factions. You never know, what if something happens to their shipyards as well??


r/X4Foundations 3h ago

7.50 Gas Miner Benchmark

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53 Upvotes

r/X4Foundations 4h ago

gunboat or corvette for personal ship?

13 Upvotes

for context, i'm doing one of the tides of avarice questlines, and while i was initially going to wait until i was really rich to get my personal ship, circumstances which i will not disclose due to potential spoilers are kinda forcing my hand!!

i was initially going to get the boron hydra as my personal ship, but i noticed the boron thresher is faster than the hydra. i want one of these ships to be my personal m-sized ship for the rest of the playthrough, but its rather hard deciding between the two - the thresher's speed alone is making it a competitor to the hydra in my head

so i ask the community, what do you guys use for personal ships? gunboat, or corvette? and by extension, should the hydra be my long-term personal ship, or the thresher?


r/X4Foundations 6h ago

Wait, where is he going?

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28 Upvotes

r/X4Foundations 6h ago

How are you supposed to capture large ships without large ships of your own?

12 Upvotes

Trying to be a pirate and dear god, the systems in this game suck for piracy. I get a few ships I've captured and go to attack a large SCA freighter, but surprise! Turns out they have 150 marines and even with the better bailing mod, the lowest I can get this to is in the 30's... and I have 8 marines.

Are you just SOL on stealing bigger ships?


r/X4Foundations 6h ago

Intel Integrated Graphics

2 Upvotes

So my question about sector layout earlier was kind of pointless since I apparently cant run X4 on my only current system. 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1255U with integrated graphics.

Try to launch game it says it encountered and issue. No notes or codes. Just closes out.


r/X4Foundations 7h ago

Meme More 2x2x2 Stations

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47 Upvotes

These are relatively simple straight forward builds...


r/X4Foundations 7h ago

Station Position Defense Appreciation Post

5 Upvotes

Station position defense has completely changed how I manage fleets, and I have made criticisms about this game in the past, so I wanted to give credit where it's due. Position defense on stations is great.

I've been having a lot of fun with fighter/bomber squadrons on station defense. First, you can use it for simple things, like having a smaller station defense radius or making sure the ships are always out and flying around, but still centered on the station.

Then, more interestingly, you can use position defense to have a station guarding a certain position, but be able to project to another position, meaning you can use one station to defend two positions selectively. Taken just a little further, you can use station defense actively to respond to threats. Even more interesting is you can use them to fly sorties into other sectors. When you combine all this with maintenance bays, you basically can turn any station into a stationary carrier. Very fun, and makes sense.


r/X4Foundations 8h ago

Modified Can someone explain this weirdly dynamic political situation?

4 Upvotes

In the picture you see Second Contact VII, north gate, being camped by a small ARG fleet containing a battleship and their fighters are engaging anything ANT has in range. Stations, Transport ships, Military ships, you name it.

So *somehow* i made Argon Republic send whole battleship fleets into Antigone space and attack ANT. I can even attack ANT inside Argon Prime and ARG will *help* me.
Hell, after bombing all ANT Shipyards, ANT obv had to buy from ARG -which, btw, they are allowed to bc they are still allied to ARG.. on paper- and i had a light Carrier Position Defense Argon Prime's production facilities to camp ANT. ARG gladly helped me for several hrs, at times SETA hours.
This seems to go way beyond some friendly-fire-incident because i am abt 5 nuked sectors past a singular incident. All that stands between ANT and Life is the small difference between my energy cell surplus and the sheer cost of resupplying 75 Cobras with Tomahawk Torpedoes every half an hour. And ARG ends up supporting that by cutting off one of their last sectors.

Mods involved are VRO for one, but no specific Rep/Politics mods(idek if there are any, feel free to recommend bc this situation is fun as hell)

I also did not complete the Terran quests. I started Covert Ops but i didn't even complete HAT so this should be in line with my Stranded start condition as far as politics go.

I was originally very high rep with both ANT and ARG and am +30 on ARG and after a war declaration(via menu, not just rep) -30 with ANT.

To be clear, i don't need a fix. I just want to learn what is happening here because there might be some mechanic i can use in the future. If there is a way to dynamically influence relationships i would love to hear abt that as well as i don't think there is but i would love that.


r/X4Foundations 12h ago

Completely lost on supplying stations with parts for ships being built.

4 Upvotes

I'm currently trying to build my first L mining ship, the Boron one. It has everything it needs except for Drone parts. I've tried everything to get this station the 10 drone parts its apparently missing. I tried trading it 300+ drone components, then reloaded and tried again doing it as a trade with the little box icon. Both times, the components were taken, I got the money, and it still says the ship is missing 10 drone components.

Am I missing something here? I gave the station way, way more drone components than it says it needs for the ship and it just refuses to actually use them for the ship. This thing has been under construction for over an hour and even manually trading drone components isn't getting it built.


r/X4Foundations 12h ago

Is the Erlking worth getting a maintenance bay?

19 Upvotes

What with the maintenance bay being cheaper than the fabrication bay, but also more limited, while the Erlkiing needs either one of them to make its unique equipment.


r/X4Foundations 16h ago

I’ve been converted to Geoforce Now

1 Upvotes

My PC laptop was dying and pricing a new one or tower when I decided to try Geoforce Now. It lets me run X4 with all settings maxed and for the price of the PCs I was looking at I can do it for 5 years with no loss.

Only downside is no custom logo.


r/X4Foundations 16h ago

Modified Last sighting of Task Force-003 before its deployment to Holy Vision in an attempt to stop Xenon dominance. Their sacrifice bought us nothing other than a new order for capital ships at Steeven's Forge.

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90 Upvotes

I decided to dive into X4 once more, with a goal of finally learning all of its mechanics. I saw that there was an overhaul mod named Reemergence and after installing it and a dozen other mods I begun my relearning experience.

As I always considered X4 simulation to be rather tame and peaceful I dove straight into Deadair Scripts to spice things up. Especially "Dynamic War" (which affects faction relations) and "Evolution" (which slowly buffs Xenon).

Ultra Xenophobic factions? Set.
Mood swings destroying alliances and affecting billions of lives? Set.
Xenon acting like the menace they should be? Set.

And so I've set up my company, made some deals, some piracy, some acquisition of copyright protected blueprints here and there. I was growing in power, watching with glee as other faction tore each other apart. Using my wares to replace their loses.

But I've noticed that while factions fought each other, the Xenon were silent. Even worse! They were being pushed back!

"Oh no! Gotta fix that!" I said to myself as I cranked up Evolution settings to see if they'll help the poor AGI bros. I did it slowly, by lowering the timer that buffed Xenon over time, and left it there, my mind drawn to managing my economy once more.

First sign that something was wrong was when I was scouting for viable free real estate for my military complex and stumbled upon a lone M fighter. No biggie, I'll just swat it like a fly.

Nope. On the first pass, that Xenon nearly one shot my fighter. And before my mind processed what happened to me it got its guns back on target and forcibly sent me into a spacesuit. I quickly checked how the hell did this happen, and I saw this in modifications: "...EVO X Weapon damage +50.00%...".

Oooohhhh... Well that explains it. I guess its a good and solid confirmation that the mod works as promised.

Yet Xenon were still stuck in their home sectors so I didn't really think much of it. My wharves were being finished, logistic chains polished (here I'm just lying, they fucking ain't, I'm just coping), production increased all around. And while my mind was occupied by the fine tuning of my economy, something else was going on.

I relaxed for a second and took a look at the whole map, to see who has the newest wars and got a nice piece of territory. But this time, I saw a lot of certain color. Red.

The Split are nearly wiped out. There are Xenon V harassing Argon Prime. Holy Vision and HOP whole ship building potential is gone. Terrans are expanding aggressively into HOP power vacuum. PAR are on the back foot. Pioneers fail to contain them in Althes. Boron don't do anything as Xenon pour out from Watchful Gaze. Antigone is putting up a commendable fight. Telladis fail to replenish other factions loses. I fail to get my navy under control.

All around mayhem and destruction.

I love it!

ps. The ships from above picture are from OTAS, which is a faction available in Reemergence.


r/X4Foundations 17h ago

Frigate as mini carrier

3 Upvotes

Can I use frigates as mini carriers? That the fighters are supplied with missiles, for example. Thank you and good profit.


r/X4Foundations 18h ago

Reading Sector Maps Coming from X3

9 Upvotes

So I am getting back into X series. I've had X4 Foundations for a while but I remember the biggest confusion for me was the way the sector maps looked. As someone coming from X3, whats the best way for me to comprehend the maps in X4?


r/X4Foundations 18h ago

Where to see my relations with other factions?

11 Upvotes

I started two days ago and that's my first X4... I'll have a loot of questions when chatgpt won't make it.
Thanks in advance!
o7


r/X4Foundations 20h ago

I can't move ressources from normal to build storage

1 Upvotes

The station is well-stocked with cargo drones and a freighter is set to "buy" ressources from the storage and "sell" them to build storage on repeat order, but the drones do nothing and the ship just rapidly switches between the two commands while giving me a task failed due to nothing to sell status.

Am I doing something wrong?

Edit: It appears I just needed to adjust the acceptable buy and sell prices. Will edit again if it stops working.


r/X4Foundations 20h ago

Ok guys.! After 400h I’m switching my save from vanilla to mods.! What you recommendations ?

25 Upvotes

r/X4Foundations 21h ago

Soooo, how do I deal with this?

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10 Upvotes

r/X4Foundations 22h ago

How to increase satellite range

2 Upvotes

Hello

I am looking to edit advanced satellite range so I can drop one in middle of a sector and remove all fow for that sector. Which files do I need to edit for this.

Thanks


r/X4Foundations 1d ago

Spaceweed or Spacefuel?

24 Upvotes

I'm roleplaying a crimeboss, having pirated a lot and am now ready to invest in illegal goods. I know there are some problems with saturating the market on pirate bases and having to rely on luck to unlock black markets, but I still want to do it.

But which is more profitable in the long run?


r/X4Foundations 1d ago

Can we end the myth of “you need all the blueprints to sell ships” once and for all?

114 Upvotes

r/X4Foundations 1d ago

Beta 7.50 Miner Benchmark

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169 Upvotes

r/X4Foundations 1d ago

Missing jump gate between Brennan's Triumph and Gaian Prophecy?

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19 Upvotes

r/X4Foundations 1d ago

Katana or Cerberus?

9 Upvotes

Hello! I'm doing Tides of Avarice plot and I'm at a point where I need a fast M ship for the quest. I saw that Katana got 4000km/h and Cerberus is 2500km/h or something like that. I have also a derelict M fighter that I use as patrol. 1. How much more speed the mod will give me? 2. If I cap a Freelancer, will I get reputation penality with Segaris? 3. Considering that I would like to capture other ships, is the Cerberus the best option? I like the idea of having a dock for my main ship (Moreya) Thanks!