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96 L plasma turrets  yeah that'll do it. Watching space battles from a station is pretty awesome. I had to dock at a station that was being sieged from overhead by a Xenon K and the view was incredible.
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I'm still at the game where taking on an I seems like a daunting task. Can't wait to mount a crazy amount of L turrets on a station next to every single jumpgate from enemy territory.
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X isn't a series that's difficult to learn in the sense that you have no idea what you are doing, it's just difficult in the sense that there's lots of possible things you could be doing and it's never obvious what's optimal.
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I was going to smash the patriarchy but they are the only ones currently building ships at my first wharf so I may let them live a while longer while I take all their cash at 150% ship price. And in the game…
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Apr 30, 2020 21:43
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I spend more time designing mega stations than every other activity combined.
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May 1, 2020 00:08
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guys i did it, i sat in an asteroid field and found some crystals, they were worth 15k a piece, so i sold them, did a few easy missions and bought a mining ship with the cheapest fit (argon drill i think). figured out how to auto mine, set it up in black hole sun IV and now he mines and sells at the ore refinery there, makes like 50k every 10 mins! then i noticed the wharf just north of there, the TEL one or whatever was taking damage so i went to have a look, and some big rear end red ship was kicking its rear end, so i started shooting it with my starter ship and nearly died, so i ran away, then another fleet showed up and killed it. game good
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May 1, 2020 16:41
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I can't find a damaged singularity engine to save my life, orz.
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May 1, 2020 16:46
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If you only have one miner you should set it to Nvidium for max cash. It eventually will run out of places to sell but that'll be dozens of hours. FWIW the pricing for mineral seems to be nvidium > silicon > ore > ice.D. Ebdrup posted:I can't find a damaged singularity engine to save my life, orz.
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May 1, 2020 16:46
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Less Fat Luke posted:If you only have one miner you should set it to Nvidium for max cash. It eventually will run out of places to sell but that'll be dozens of hours. FWIW the pricing for mineral seems to be nvidium > silicon > ore > ice. I think the flux capacitor drop from khaak
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May 1, 2020 17:10
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May 1, 2020 17:15
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Krogort posted:I think the flux capacitor drop from khaak Well gently caress
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May 1, 2020 17:19
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Dal Busta's clown shoes.
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May 1, 2020 17:40
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Less Fat Luke posted:If you only have one miner you should set it to Nvidium for max cash. It eventually will run out of places to sell but that'll be dozens of hours. FWIW the pricing for mineral seems to be nvidium > silicon > ore > ice. staberind posted:
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May 1, 2020 17:44
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If crafting SETA has you down you can consider using the Early SETA mod which lets you craft it for just one interface unit, available for cheap from most trader corners and also as a freebie from Boso Ta at the beginning of the player HQ quest line.queeb posted:game good 
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May 1, 2020 17:45
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timn posted:If crafting SETA has you down you can consider using the Early SETA mod which lets you craft it for just one interface unit, available for cheap from most trader corners and also as a freebie from Boso Ta at the beginning of the player HQ quest line.
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May 1, 2020 17:55
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loving holy moly. i moved the trader dude over to grand exchange, set him to sector mine nvidium sicne thats the only place i could find selling. he flew around to grand exchange IV, i went off to crystal mine, like 15 mins later he makes a 550k sale. jesus. im over 1m now with the crystals I mined. time to kit out another 3 miners
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May 1, 2020 17:56
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Yeah a full tank of nividium in a medium miner is about 500k, some of the best starting money you can get. It does fill up the trading stations though so you can't do too many of them until the nividum... dissolves into the ether or however it gets out of the trading station.
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May 1, 2020 17:58
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ill probably leave him doing nvidium and toss the other 3 just doing ore or something, just so i dont over saturate.
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May 1, 2020 17:59
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Yeah it's a great way to boot strap your game to do non-boring stuff 
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May 1, 2020 18:00
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I am certainly glad the days of X3 Energy Cell trading in an M5 are definitely over.
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May 1, 2020 18:05
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There are by my count six sectors with a trading station in which you can also plop a 0 star auto miner for nvidium, 3 in Teladi space and 3 in Argon space. A single medium auto miner will suffice to saturate each, and between the six of them you'll have plenty of passive income to outfit some combat ships and build up a big station of your own.
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May 1, 2020 18:06
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queeb posted:ill probably leave him doing nvidium and toss the other 3 just doing ore or something, just so i dont over saturate. You can have them mine and sell nividum in other sectors with a trading station that buys it, there's about five sectors you can put them in I think. E: Or six!
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May 1, 2020 18:08
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amazing, time to do some exploring! I think i found 3 so far. the world seems huge
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May 1, 2020 18:16
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That said with enough piloting stars you might be able to use the more advanced auto miner commands to supply trade stations which don't have local nividium too. However by that time you've probably got enough other passive money making schemes in the works that it's not worth the extra effort to bother setting it up.
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May 1, 2020 18:19
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I actually think literally every trading station that buys nividium can mine it locally in the same sector (or cluster, because sectors linked by blue/orange superhighways are counted as the same sector for AI purposes)
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May 1, 2020 18:26
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May 1, 2020 18:34
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Patiently awaiting a screenshot of a station-sized Dal Busta floating in the void of space
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May 1, 2020 18:37
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man i have 5 million bucks now, i dont even know what to do with all this cash. i guess theres a personal HQ quest? ill google that and do it while these guys make me assloads of money
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May 1, 2020 19:17
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Get 10 rep with the Paranid or the Split and buy yourself a Nemesis or a Dragon, respectively. Trick that thing out for busting Xenon and then probably start working on building your first station.
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May 1, 2020 19:22
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OwlFancier posted:I actually think literally every trading station that buys nividium can mine it locally in the same sector (or cluster, because sectors linked by blue/orange superhighways are counted as the same sector for AI purposes) No, there are definitely ones that buy it even though they have no nvidia in their sector. Specifically the ones in Tharka's Ravine and Open Market, at least. queeb posted:man i have 5 million bucks now, i dont even know what to do with all this cash I'm still convinced Dal Busta is his wrestling name. As for money: you can buy a bigger boat, buy many smaller boats to follow your big boat or rest inside you, buy more miners to make more money to buy even bigger boats, or buy a plot of space to build the pleasure resort/industrial hell-hole of your dreams. Anyhow, random newbie tips without too many spoilers in them:
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May 1, 2020 19:23
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Xerophyte posted:No, there are definitely ones that buy it even though they have no nvidia in their sector. Are you telling me they're been making 2080ti's with that poo poo this whole time? What rep do I need before I can sign up to become a board partner?
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May 1, 2020 19:29
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hmm, do stations spawn in different areas or stuff? There's supposed to be a trading post in holy vision but I've searched the whole thing and there isnt one there.
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May 1, 2020 19:45
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They can get blown up and the faction will rebuild it somewhere else.
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Xerophyte posted:One is a mission you always get the first time you find a communications leak while scanning a station.[/list] That's also the start where it felt like I had some idea of what I was doing, which was kinda fun and a nice chance of pace, instead of just floundering around. If you ever put down the game because you want to let it cook some more (my reason), I do encourage think starting over is a much better idea than picking up where you left off. queeb posted:hmm, do stations spawn in different areas or stuff? There's supposed to be a trading post in holy vision but I've searched the whole thing and there isnt one there. I also get the impression that it may be possible for the Wharf and Shipyards of some of the factions (but not the Argon and Paraid?) to be in different sectors, but haven't been able to completely confirm that.
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D. Ebdrup posted:Fwiw, I've had it not be the first one, on my most recent start. I can totally 100% confirm this, I've only had the game a week ago but I've restarted countless times while trying to get a feel for it, trying the different starting options and different mods to work out what I wanted before investing 500 hours into something that just wasn't exactly what I wanted... Several times I've had a wharf or shipyards etc in different sectors to what the out of game map I've been using have said. They've never been far away, but they have certainly changed. It's usually, from what I've seen, the Paranid and Teladi. But then again, I could be 100% crazy after being locked in my house for weeks on end and having nobody else to talk to other than strangers on the internet. 
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Xerophyte posted:No, there are definitely ones that buy it even though they have no nvidia in their sector. Specifically the ones in Tharka's Ravine and Open Market, at least. Oh... yeah... those are xenon sectors in my game so...  timn posted:Are you telling me they're been making 2080ti's with that poo poo this whole time? What rep do I need before I can sign up to become a board partner? Nividum, in case anyone isn't aware, is what they call platinum in X.
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OwlFancier posted:Nividum, in case anyone isn't aware, is what they call platinum in X.
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In Ianamus Zura at the Thuruk's Demise jumpgate, the last couple starts I've begun there's been a little cutscene with a split ship coming through with the Argon federation icon stamped on it, talking about stars matching old charts and this being a way back to the 'old federation'. I have no conversation options with the ship I see afterwards. What's this all about?
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Less Fat Luke posted:I thought that was teladinium. Teladianium is a weird metal rich ceramic that the teladi use as a construction material. They actually have a whole alternate production chain for it in X4, though it uses the same inputs. Duodecimal posted:In Ianamus Zura at the Thuruk's Demise jumpgate, the last couple starts I've begun there's been a little cutscene with a split ship coming through with the Argon federation icon stamped on it, talking about stars matching old charts and this being a way back to the 'old federation'. It's a small cutscene that plays when you first encounter a gate to the split DLC sectors. Nothing more. There's an equivalent one if you start on the other side of those gates.
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I have bounced off X4 many times just because I struggled so much with the controls, but I have finally bought a HOTAS and oh! the difference. I am really enjoying this now I can actually shoot things. So: are the map sectors actually joined up, or do the cells only have a few defined exit points? I mean, if I am in Trinity Sanctum for example and just fly south east, will I ever reach Hewa's Twin?
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