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In the Yaki plotline for terrans, where the hell do I Find a connection to the Yaki? I'm at the big asteroid after blasting some customs officer out of the void.
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Mar 23, 2021 07:53
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DJ Dizzy posted:In the Yaki plotline for terrans, where the hell do I Find a connection to the Yaki? I'm at the big asteroid after blasting some customs officer out of the void. There's an entrance so you can fly into the asteroid.
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Mar 23, 2021 08:04
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ZombyDog posted:There's an entrance so you can fly into the asteroid. Tried that. No dice. Edit: Is there a mod somewhere that reverses the mining changes? DJ Dizzy fucked around with this message at 10:10 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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Mar 23, 2021 08:25
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I have a spoiler question about the end of the Yaki questline. What's the consequences for the decision at the end to blow up the station vs informing the Terrans or placing the satellites?
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Mar 23, 2021 11:13
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sloppy portmanteau posted:Very interesting. Did you test combat vs travel engines? I feel like combat could win out at least when mining within the same sector. Ah, yes I did, thank you. Combat only wins out over the course of about 50-70km, so not really great. TER combat vs ARG travel stretches that to about 100km in a drag race, but the slow boat time of subwarp speed hurts it bad enough to again only give it an edge at distances of 50ish km. Here's a table of all the traders and mining ships that are potentially worthwhile based on speed/cargo stats. Any not listed are deleted because something else hauls more items and has faster speed, which is why neither Teladi L Freighter appears, the Shuyakus just dominate them.  The values are for 0 sector travel, to get relative value between L and M/S over multiple sectors, take the throughput value and multiply by .7 per sector of range. That seems to hold up for both mining and trading ships thanks to Ls having to stop and orient on every jump while Ms just cruise along.
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Mar 23, 2021 13:03
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How do I set a ship to autotrade? I've got a mod which should mean i'm meeting the entry requirements but I don't see the option when giving orders.
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Mar 23, 2021 13:07
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DJ Dizzy posted:Tried that. No dice. Look for a big pipe filled with a bunch of jagged rocks, it might seem like that's a sign of "you can't go here", but it's plenty big enough to jetpack into Womyn Capote posted:I have a spoiler question about the end of the Yaki questline. Blow the station: Yaki live, Terran stay normal, Xenon stay normal. Long term no change Inform the Terrans: Yaki die, Terran send force to kill them but mostly stay normal, Xenon stay normal. Long Term, you lose access to Yaki Place satelites: Yaki live, Terran focus changes into survival, Xenon focus efforts onto the Terran. Long Term, Sol becomes much more exciting and profitable Zereth posted:How do I set a ship to autotrade? I've got a mod which should mean i'm meeting the entry requirements but I don't see the option when giving orders. Behavior>Default behavior>Autotrade in the ship info
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Mar 23, 2021 13:10
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Autotrading I believe is set up as a default behaviour, so when you have a ship selected it should have tabs across the top left like information, behaviours, loadout etc. You can set a default behaviour for when there are no other orders, and autotrading is one of them.
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Mar 23, 2021 13:11
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Antigravitas posted:Iirc a police scanner will disable their camouflage. TheDeadlyShoe posted:If you shoot a sca ship while it's still flagged as something else you will piss off the police. Just went back and saw these. Thanks.
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Mar 23, 2021 14:18
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I did the science lady start and now I'm somewhere where I don't know where I am and I have two ships and a space station? And no money. What should I do
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Mar 23, 2021 15:48
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The Chad Jihad posted:I did the science lady start and now I'm somewhere where I don't know where I am and I have two ships and a space station? And no money. What should I do Look around for some stations with yellow icons on your map; they'll have missions to do. Also go north to Hatikvah's Choice for another set of story missions that are easy to do and get you a third ship Once you get 400-500k or so buy a gas miner and some resource probes and try to mine methane somewhere and you'll have easy income
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Mar 23, 2021 16:04
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RBA Starblade posted:Look around for some stations with yellow icons on your map; they'll have missions to do. Also go north to Hatikvah's Choice for another set of story missions that are easy to do and get you a third ship What third ship?
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Mar 23, 2021 16:11
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The Chad Jihad posted:I did the science lady start and now I'm somewhere where I don't know where I am and I have two ships and a space station? And no money. What should I do If the ship you left behind has a pilot you can order it to fly to you and it should find its way on its own all the while revealing the path on the map. RBA Starblade posted:Look around for some stations with yellow icons on your map; they'll have missions to do. And then pretty much this. Missions and then and buy a miner for passive income. Very easy and easy missions are pretty much the only ones you'll be able to do to begin with, except the patrol sector one which is I believe medium, and all you need to do is sit in a sector for 20 minutes.
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Mar 23, 2021 16:13
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Taerkar posted:What third ship? You get to keep the Callisto the HAT station has you get in
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Mar 23, 2021 16:17
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Huh. I just did that mission chain on my modded game and there was no Callisto.
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Mar 23, 2021 16:21
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Taerkar posted:Huh. I just did that mission chain on my modded game and there was no Callisto. Oh weird; maybe it just gave me a ship to do the mission in because I arrived without a large enough cargo bay? The Pioneer questline upgraded my spacesuit for free too (supposedly, though I'm pretty sure I didn't get anything)
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Mar 23, 2021 16:29
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How did you get the delivery to do? The ship spawns with the goods in the hold and then you fly it to do the delivery.
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Mar 23, 2021 16:31
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RBA Starblade posted:Oh weird; maybe it just gave me a ship to do the mission in because I arrived without a large enough cargo bay? The Pioneer questline upgraded my spacesuit for free too (supposedly, though I'm pretty sure I didn't get anything) You get improved thrusters and a blaster if you haven't upgraded your suit at all before doing that quest.
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Mar 23, 2021 16:32
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big nipples big life posted:You get improved thrusters and a blaster if you haven't upgraded your suit at all before doing that quest. Oh, I had a blaster but not a thruster, so that's cool e: I'm trying to recall, how large were the battles in war sectors in X3:AP WITHOUT mods? I had XRM so they were pretty giant and sprawling but in the base game was it just 10-20 ships at most like X4? It's odd (for a space game) how relatively peaceful everything is but it's still a nice change of pace RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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Mar 23, 2021 16:34
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I deactivated all my resource probes and my miners are doing a lot better now lol.
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Mar 23, 2021 16:43
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OwlFancier posted:How did you get the delivery to do? The ship spawns with the goods in the hold and then you fly it to do the delivery. I bought the goods to deliver.
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Mar 23, 2021 16:52
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Thom12255 posted:I deactivated all my resource probes and my miners are doing a lot better now lol.
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Mar 23, 2021 16:53
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Taerkar posted:I bought the goods to deliver. Huh, did it ask you to do that? There is supposed to be a callisto parked on the HAT trading station pad with them in. It might still be there in the internal storage.
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Mar 23, 2021 16:55
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In my game the callisto got devoured by the station and I couldn't summon it from internal storage because the transfer ownership trigger didn't fire.
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Mar 23, 2021 17:14
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What's the cheapest peice of poo poo ship I can get my hands on easily to load up with antimatter and explode for this scientist guy?
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Mar 23, 2021 17:30
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Any of the scouts, most likely, and don't bother with any parts you don't need. A kestrel is probably closest to you. Though if you started with an Elite I might suggest stripping everything you can off it and blowing it up and buying yourself something new, because the elite is pretty lovely ship.
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Mar 23, 2021 17:43
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Discoverer Vanguard, actually. I mean, "blow up your starting scout" is valid but i'll need a suggestion for a replacement "wander around finding things and dropping satellites" ship in that case  EDIT: Or more accurately standing around in the cockpit while the guy i hired and trained to be a pilot does it, but. Zereth fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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Mar 23, 2021 17:50
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Yeah, due to how weapons work in X4 anything with less than 2 guns is pretty much trash if it's not a super fast zippy boy. If you do blow up your starting ship make sure to strip it of any good parts first. IIRC you get list price back.
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Mar 23, 2021 17:53
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It does have two guns but i'm avoiding fighting anything that's not a defenseless criminal-faction civilian ship. I'm sure Tupmanckatslot would appreciate a ship to pilot where his head doesn't clip into the roof, though.
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Mar 23, 2021 17:55
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Zereth posted:Discoverer Vanguard, actually. Discos are quite good as a combat scout because they have two guns, but a kestrel is literally better than the elite because it at least has a decent cargo hold and is faster. If you have a disco and aren't looking to do specialized trading in high value goods to grind initial cash then I would suggest just buy the cheapest, smallest ship you can from a wharf, which is probably gonna be a kestrel from the teladi north of grand exchange. I can't remember if barebones elites are cheaper but you would need to fly west until you hit argon prime to get one.
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Mar 23, 2021 17:57
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The least amount of thinking to this nothing question is: just buy a min spec scout and wave goodbye You will soon be wasting even more significant pieces of stuff in the name of Economic Growth so don't dwell on it too much.
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Mar 23, 2021 18:01
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Before you know what you're doing and get your first big breaks you are trying to scrounge every credit though so I understand the trepidation. The nice thing about X4 is there are more opportunities I think to break into the moneymaking business compared to X3.
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Mar 23, 2021 18:10
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Oh it's not trepidation it's cheapness, yeah. I've got an autotrader running but they aren't producing cash very fast, since I couldn't afford much of a ship for it. Maybe I should've gotten a miner first oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Mar 23, 2021 18:12
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At least you don't have to trade energy cells in an M5 anymore. 
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Mar 23, 2021 18:13
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Zereth posted:Oh it's not trepidation it's cheapness, yeah. I've got an autotrader running but they aren't producing cash very fast, since I couldn't afford much of a ship for it. Maybe I should've gotten a miner first oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Miners I think are absolutely the way to go in this, the trading AI isn't very smart but the mining AI can generally fill up a cargo hold and sell it to a station, and there are plenty of stations around that need resources. I also think miners are a bit cheaper than traders for some reason. The economy sort of works in a broad sense but a lot of the individual actors are quite stupid. Also unrelated but god drat I like the interior on the katana. Clean, spacious, and you don't need to use the lift.
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Mar 23, 2021 18:16
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Up to 15 capped pirate destroyers now. i dont even know what to do with them.
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Mar 23, 2021 18:18
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Antigravitas posted:At least you don't have to trade energy cells in an M5 anymore.  OwlFancier posted:Miners I think are absolutely the way to go in this, the trading AI isn't very smart but the mining AI can generally fill up a cargo hold and sell it to a station, and there are plenty of stations around that need resources.
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Mar 23, 2021 18:29
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queeb posted:Up to 15 capped pirate destroyers now. i dont even know what to do with them. start a war
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Mar 23, 2021 18:30
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queeb posted:Up to 15 capped pirate destroyers now. i dont even know what to do with them. I've just been selling them, I have no interest in Phoenixes or Behemoths. Two of them had mods but they weren't anything great. Only Odysseus Vanguards for my AI fleet please, and a single Rattlesnake for myself.
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OwlFancier posted:Also unrelated but god drat I like the interior on the katana. Clean, spacious, and you don't need to use the lift. The only thing I'm not fond of is how much screen real estate the dashboard takes up when you're in control, but other than that the Katana is my favorite daily driver in this game by far. I'm glad Egosoft didn't just give the Terrans better stats across the board and call it a day, I really appreciate how their stuff has inherent advantages that aren't just "hee hoo number higher"
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