? Fly that puppy through a gate into a Xenon sector. 47 minutes ago 1. You will also find additional information from developers here. In the meantime, I continue to build up my space station and continue to reseach.I also want to set a ship to auto-explore, but I am not successful in doing so, I'm afraid. whats the best way to find or train them? By the time your pilot is three stars you may already have a Wharf producing millions if not billions and the auto trade function seem utterly pointless by then. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. Prices change based on supply and demand; resources are mined and processed in several stages. Assign manager to station and assign freighter to a station as a trader - done. Generaly speaking you have the following options in vanilla: there is another way but you will need to be well established. For each pilot that successfully graduates training, the training carrier commander may receive a minor bump in XP to the commander's piloting and management skills. Aug 20, 08:17, Post This economy is linked directly to the simulation of major conflicts in a universe with dynamically-acting factions. by Azhukar Thu, 6. I need a few lvl 3 or higher pilots. I've never seen an actual 3 star pilot at any station. Dec 20, 02:31, Post 10K views 2 years ago Today in X4 Foundations Split Vendetta DLC we build our pilot school to try and level the captains pilot stars, with hopes that we get some 3 star pilots. I did use seminars on my first 3 miners or so, but stopped doing it after that, as I started to get a feeling it was bugged if you used seminars. ._3Z6MIaeww5ZxzFqWHAEUxa{margin-top:8px}._3Z6MIaeww5ZxzFqWHAEUxa ._3EpRuHW1VpLFcj-lugsvP_{color:inherit}._3Z6MIaeww5ZxzFqWHAEUxa svg._31U86fGhtxsxdGmOUf3KOM{color:inherit;fill:inherit;padding-right:8px}._3Z6MIaeww5ZxzFqWHAEUxa ._2mk9m3mkUAeEGtGQLNCVsJ{font-family:Noto Sans,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;line-height:18px;color:inherit} X4: FOUNDATIONS, the long awaited sequel in the long running X series brings our most sophisticated universe SIMULATION ever. I am not playing X4 as a competitive RTS against another human, vying for the highest actions-per-minute as I spastically fly about the map. Do you not enjoy having a pilot take 30 real-time hours to get 3 start? Autotrade is basically worthless from what I have seen. X4: Foundations is a space trading and combat game developed and published by Egosoft. I've finally gotten the motivation and had great success in getting into it. by jlehtone Sat, 5. by Nulric Thu, 6. The game runs on Linux and Microsoft Windows. We will continue to iterate on this feature to try and strike the right balance between there being too little and too much work involved in building up the experience of your crews. Once you've unlocked teleportation, you can jump from ship to ship a lot quicker and experience all the critical situations your NPCs encounter first hand. AI is still terrible even with a 5 star pilot and commands that are locked behind it are not worth bothering. With zero stars, the NPC obviously doesn't know how to pilot at all. You'll need to endlessly grind missions for seminars, otherwise. . Was reviewing my current staff and even my very first auto miners hasn't gained at all. There are so many places where the game design means the player, with little effort, is basically trivially assured of making a shitload of money, at least eventually. Frankly, auto mining is far stronger than auto trading. Started playing this just this week, and kinda have been on some hardcore sessions and currently sitting at 50h playtime. My pilot is almost a 3 star pilot (hired at that skill). .s5ap8yh1b4ZfwxvHizW3f{color:var(--newCommunityTheme-metaText);padding-top:5px}.s5ap8yh1b4ZfwxvHizW3f._19JhaP1slDQqu2XgT3vVS0{color:#ea0027} By what i mean by that also not just in fighters but in traders, that if you are manually doing the orders or trades your pilot is not getting the experience that he could be getting if he were doing it on his own. Seems really odd that they wouldn't have gained any experience at all from making millions in mining and dodging asteroids. Unless egosoft tuned some constants in the leveling probability formula recently. X4 Foundations: Ep. Dec 20, 16:58, Post Much less reserve a L trader for it. Now to be a 3 star captain they only need an average of 3 stars. In a livestream Bernd (the lead developer) said, that it is based on how risky the action is. Any combination of skill stars, to give an overall rating of 1 star, can auto mine. Do pilots gain skill from internal trading? Viewed 3k times 0 When you try to set default behaviors for AI-controlled craft in X4:Foundations, you'll see that the Default Behavior button brings up a list of tasks with a number of stars next to each. Didn't encounter a single K or I, but N/M/P all suicide into me in waves. Each seminar is only for pilots with a fixed skill set, so there are ones for pilots with one star which you can buy at most station traders and the higher ones you can get for said guild missions. Today in X4 Foundations Split Vendetta DLC we build our pilot school to try and level the captains pilot stars, with hopes that we get some 3 star pilots \"quickish\" .Hope you all enjoy the gameplay of this Lets play. X4 Foundations Split Vendetta https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKM7XG0f0X0iYUfQvtK0Y5-ywZCfvBmAr 7 Days to Die Let's play https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKM7XG0f0X0hpj15NhbC9uHwUioTzZFPp Borderlands 3 Let's play https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKM7XG0f0X0iU6Toog0D-g1N7t3yyKiHzFrom The Depths Let's Playhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKM7XG0f0X0ikzSLKLx8bGAwNDMunu6bO X4 Foundations Let's Play https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKM7XG0f0X0g-hd-IT4s0p4m0RFfcW2_M Satisfactory Lets play gameplay playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKM7XG0f0X0g5Y3IVUOW8Xh0_hv2Dm3mc Twitter https://twitter.com/Bacons_TVX4 Foundations BETA thread READ RULES and stuff'n'things !https://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=192\u0026t=405397X4: Split Vendetta is the next chapter in the X4: Foundations story. Apparently the gain is based on how many actions and exploring is the most actions for the time I believe. You can order cheapest possible ship with minimal equipment and you get randomly from decent to excellent pilot with it. ._2a172ppKObqWfRHr8eWBKV{-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0;margin-right:8px}._39-woRduNuowN7G4JTW4I8{margin-top:12px}._136QdRzXkGKNtSQ-h1fUru{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;margin:8px 0;width:100%}.r51dfG6q3N-4exmkjHQg_{font-size:10px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.5px;line-height:12px;text-transform:uppercase;-ms-flex-pack:justify;justify-content:space-between;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center}.r51dfG6q3N-4exmkjHQg_,._2BnLYNBALzjH6p_ollJ-RF{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex}._2BnLYNBALzjH6p_ollJ-RF{margin-left:auto}._1-25VxiIsZFVU88qFh-T8p{padding:0}._2nxyf8XcTi2UZsUInEAcPs._2nxyf8XcTi2UZsUInEAcPs{color:var(--newCommunityTheme-widgetColors-sidebarWidgetTextColor)} X4: FOUNDATIONS, the long awaited sequel in the long running X series brings our most sophisticated universe SIMULATION ever. I have seen higher level pilot seminars from missions. Building space stations and factories has always been a foundation of the X games. I am not playing X4 to be a MOBA and micromanaging each and every action of my unit on the map. You would think that the developers themselves would realize this and create more ways for players to create their own fun - since they do very little to create structured fun in the first place - but on the skill progression front they feel strongly that we must not have too much too quickly or the game wouldn't be "fun". You can buy those babies up to 20 at a time. Gameplay. How do I program my freighter to pick up wares from my stations and sell them automatically? In X4, it is now possible to be completely free and creative. I've been playing for 2 hours and only got one 3 star pilot by getting my 1/2 star to 2 stars with a 1 star seminar then the rest by manually selecting trade routes. All rights reserved. Get yourself a Rattlesnake or Raptor with all those beautiful flak turrets and large beam turrets (they sound and look amazing, this is more important than their actual damage application). by Alan Phipps Thu, 6. I just stood on the bridge designing ship fits and checking on the crews I already had. It's the least rewarding part of the entire game. And set that able crewman as the new pilot, and send them back to mining. Seminars are super easy to come by and get I made 3, 3 star pilots last night in about 20 mins doing guild missions and all I did was have an explorer drop satellites. by EGO_Aut Wed, 2. Meanwhile if the issue is simply the rate of gain, well, it's supposed to be an economy simulation right? Scan this QR code to download the app now. https://www.egosoft.com:8444/confluence/display/X4WIKI/X4%3A+Foundations+Manual I haven't even gotten any serious production up yet. Thank you for supporting DannyCodePlays so I can continue to make cool content! Step in and live your very own space adventure!#x4foundations The others would also wait 15 minutes from their creation until they started becoming autonomous. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Most of the times that answer is no. X4 Foundations has the most dynamic universe in the X series. Do you not want to resort to buying a builder just so it can spend 2 hours building a station of nothing but connectors, dismantling it and rebuilding it to get 3 stars? )I am looking for a few good pilots! So I just took all these marines and crewmen with 5 stars in morale and fed them a star of those basic seminars. The level you select as your starting point determines the proficiency of your pilot. In this tutorial video for X4 Foundations I show you how to use the new "Repeat order" function to turn your idiot pilot into an advanced mining champ! New players may feel completely alienated by the overwhelming number of options and features in the game. X4: Foundations is the last instalment of the X game series, developed and published by Egosoft. Mining ships will only go to resource areas you have discovered. other than that ive never noticed that any of my pilots/captains/managers would have ever gained skill, marines do 1. Stations can be constructed from a variety of modules, be it production modules, living sections, docks or many other types of parts. You can keep only pilot and sell ship back. But also, how am I supposed to get decent captains for my war fleets? Mining helps level up pilots, supposedly. Those miners will train up as a 3 star Pilot or a 3 star Manager over time. I have a bunch of auto miners and auto gas miners, that have been the majority of my income. The following section describes how to buy, customize and then give orders to ships. Well here is how to get a ton of 3-star pilots in maybe an hour without using mods. 4.14.23 LIVE NOW with the 4pm. X4 Manual: Espaol - Latinoamrica (Spanish - Latin America). This is the foundation of our living and breathing universe. From small scouts over a wide range of ship classes up to the biggest carrier, everything can be piloted from the cockpit or an external view. by GCU Grey Area Thu, 3. by Nort The Fragrent Thu, 3. So it seems bugged out. X4 Foundations: Ep. A pilot with 0 stars can trade, you just have to queue the trades for him or assign to a station manager that then does the same. Dec 18, 13:06 Hi, I wanted to setup a fleet of autotraders to make some money and fill some gaps in the economy. I know 3 star captains can trade farther away, but its hard to get 3 star captains without mods. But many of those games are designed around carefully controlling progress to incentivizing spending real money to skip progress barriers, not for the sake of "player fun". You can get seminars as reward for guild missions. 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For example, Automine requires a pilot with one star while Explore requires a three star pilot. I used to have a pretty reliable way to get pilots to 3 stars, but I don't exactly relent anymore (I haven't played in quite a while). It will have a pilot with 3-4 stars. I also turned my original 3 explorers into 3 stars just from exploring and dropping satellites. X4 Foundations v4.0 | Absolute Beginners Guide - Episode 3 - Mining & Money! I cant stress enough that tatertrader is better to use then the auto trade options that come in with the game, ._3K2ydhts9_ES4s9UpcXqBi{display:block;padding:0 16px;width:100%} I last played in 2.6 and i used to keep buying cheap ships until i got a 3 star pilot, this worked pretty well. By: Katharsis. X4 Foundations gives players a highly detailed X economy every made in the X series One of the key selling points of X games has always been the realistic, simulated economy. https://www.humblebundle.com/store?partner=dannycodeplays Support the Channel on Patreon! You name it. Dec 20, 17:53, Post https://www.patreon.com/dannycodeplaysX4 Foundations Season 1 Playlisthttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoRKOFz9bRLWD1KE4uk2CIeWwHeJ0ZQff------------------------------------DISCLAIMER: Links included in this description and comments below might be affiliate links. 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All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. All these guys are right, however. I've never seen an actual 3 star pilot at any station. Fly every ship, TRADE and FIGHT to BUILD your empire with modular station construction and THINK carefully when embarking on an epic journey. Hundreds of stations, and thousands of ships, trade goods among themselves. You could try to level it up by using distribute wares. Does it really take so much skill to take a look at a list of buy/sell prices and pick out an item where sell price < buy price? In X4, it is now possible to be completely free and creative. Current Gaming Rig Specs X4: Foundations 2018 Browse game Gaming Browse all gaming 98 views 69 views. Dec 20, 16:32, Post Much apprciated! If it's not a modded save you could try to bug report it. I did find an exploit though that allowed me to set lower level pilots as autotraders. At this rate I feel like auto trading will be pointless because when I can eventually do it it won't be of interest to me. Manage an empire or EXPLORE space in first person. Other games have exponential experience requirements because they are designed to limit the power of the player to progress at a particular rate. Every order you have given to a ship before turns into a mission objective when you pilot the ship yourself. Manually is easy, however, when I tried to automate it using Advanced Auto Sale and repeat orders it just doesn't seem to work, does anyone know how to do it automatically? Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. 2 star pilot is super easy to get now that each seminar give a guarantee 1 star gain. by Kpla Keltak Thu, 6. More boarding stars gives marine more combat power and boosts chances to clear the room drasticaly. If you join the group fighting the Xenon some of the missions in that might rarely have higher level seminars. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. After what was probably 45-60 minutes I had at least 30 crewmembers with 4.5 stars in morale and a pilot with 4 stars in piloting and moral. by jlehtone Thu, 3. Finding 3 star pilots on stations and buying them directly is one option. Aug 20, 16:50, Post Engines, weapons and other equipment can be added in a graphical editor and actually seen on the ship. I cannot however even change the default behaviour of that ship at all. Good advice, managed to find one 4-star pilot but his cost was 60m, a bit steep . New game-starts allow an even more varied experience in the biggest sandbox this side of the galaxy! https://www.egosoft.com:8444/confluence/display/X4WIKI/X4+Wiki+Home. Moderator: Moderators for English X Forum, Post It is the seventh and most recent installment in the X series, following X Rebirth . Once you get into Stations the range of the trader is dependent on the Managers Skill, which managers at a station train up to 5 on their own from 3 in my experience, giving the station 5 sectors of travel for all the assigned traders. 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And Yes also if you can get a small group as a AI fleet using orders like Patrol Sector, or Defend Position, Protect Station. Best bet is with mods. Every gameplay loop should allow you to build upon it, and arbitrarily time gating autotraders just forces everyone to find ways around the time gate. Aug 20, 11:33, Post Aug 20, 08:15, Post And yet, even in those games, which have plenty of automation tools on their own, the UI and the controls help the player to make macro decisions to control the game as opposed to requiring tedious player input literally every step of the way. All rights reserved. Stations can be constructed from a variety . Building space stations and factories has always been a foundation of the X games. ._1sDtEhccxFpHDn2RUhxmSq{font-family:Noto Sans,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;line-height:18px;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-ms-flex-flow:row nowrap;flex-flow:row nowrap}._1d4NeAxWOiy0JPz7aXRI64{color:var(--newCommunityTheme-metaText)}.icon._3tMM22A0evCEmrIk-8z4zO{margin:-2px 8px 0 0} Then make money from Sector Automining & setting exploration commands on fast cheap S size ships. X4: Foundations tutorial Auto Trading with a one star pilot! All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews . by Prosik Thu, 3. /*# sourceMappingURL=https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/chunkCSS/TopicLinksContainer.3b33fc17a17cec1345d4_.css.map*/From a forum post by CBJ on Skill and Training Feedback. Distribute wares is much worse. There is no effective way to level your pilots, it's designed to take real life days or obscene micromanagement with seminars. A dog has a master; a cat has domestic staff. https://www.egosoft.com:8444/confluence/display/X4WIKI/X4+Wiki+Home, Press J to jump to the feed. Now to be a 3 star captain they only need an average of 3 stars. Werit Gaming 3.18K subscribers Subscribe 10K views 3 years ago #X4 NPC's can increase their star ratings over time or through the magic of seminars! Outfitting ships costs money. You can build a defence platform station in front of the gate (equipped with large plasma cannons to deal with any encroaching K's and help with the P's) and have a 20-40 fighters assigned to defend the station. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. The fastest way by far is to train them in fighters defending a Xenon gate. 99 Ad nauseum until 15 minutes into the game at which point they would "learn" to work by themselves, but only the 3 you started with. aY227. I don't understand how they thought it was a good idea and good game design, especially when they got feedback about it. when i buy a ship they usually have 1 to 3.5 stars most of my old ships are now 4 to 5 star and because of that when i bought my new ships to replace I transfered the crew. Ships also offer a variety of upgrades. They have been working in different sectors so I have > 20 rep with Argon & Teladi and ~15 with Paranid, Hat and Hop. X4 Foundations, the latest space combat and trading simulator from Egosoft, is an exemplary space strategy that is as complex as they get. Before the patch it only went up till 2 stars for my traders. And you cannot hire the ones on NPC stations. Without the use of seminars, it will take in-game days/weeks to get a tradeship to the 3 stars of piloting skill required to simply start the autotrading process, let alone have good range for it. After gaining enough money through fighting or trading, most players want to establish their own economy and start influencing the universe on a larger scale. Everything comes out of the simulated economy. Dec 20, 23:33, Post Valve Corporation. So drop your current captain off as the manager you need, or pilot. 2. 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