i agree very much, i feel like auxiliaries were a mistake vs making carriers fully functional

i remain a proponent of just making gates 2x bigger in every dimension and adding dedicated entrance lanes in the front for L and XL. None of this turning malarkey!

I (relatively) recently assaulted my first Xenon sector. As part of this I attacked several Xenon stations and did a mission to strip Xenon station turrets. This experience made clear to me the inadequacies of the current subsystem targeting mechanic in several ways. 3.0's addition of shading depend...

In that scenario I like to invest in factories that directly use the product of the NPC smelters and refineries. This drives a great deal of demand for your mining ships so you make profits coming and going.

Torpedoes do track, but poorly. Light torpedoes track better than heavies. There are no Novadrone-equivalent drone missiles in X4 as far as I am aware. Smart missiles are expensive and do slightly less damage, but they are maneuverable, immune to Flares, and can pick a new target if they lose their ...

in 4.0 - i dont know if this changed earlier, i havent played much since 3.0 beta - you can try to breach at Very Strong but afaict it takes the marines FOREVER to breach the hull. like not stalled per se they're just trying to dig their way out of prison with shivs sort of thing, it's going to take...

you wont have this problem if you board in hostile sectors ^^

I'm sympathetic to the goal of constraining the number of auto traders, but I also hate how clumsy the seminars system is. My personal solution to this quandary is to establish a two tiered system of normal and elite crew. Elite crew would be difficult or expensive to acquire and you'd have a limite...

well you should complain to the VRO dev and also not make a huge post without even mentioning you're using VRO.... for real.

You can change their job from marines to service crew at will. If you are not going to be boarding with them, then currently, there is pretty much no reason to have them as marines. I definitely think that NPCs should have a chance to board other ships, including player ships, to give us a reason t...

What's their morale stat like? That could be an issue. Are they missile-armed? I didn't think it would apply to destroyers - they don't have missile main guns - but ships will flee in attack runs if they are out of primary ammo. edit: also just wild speculation do you have ultra-long ranged mods on ...

They usually drop a small pile of stuff, but it won't usually be right next to the wreckage.

You'll only get decent rewards for killing stuff in the context of a mission or to a lesser extent with a police license. Killing stuff outside that context is going to be a drain on your resources.

They level up 1/3 of a star because behind the scenes there are 15 flat skill levels - 3 for each star you see. A seminar raises 1 skill level. Pilots do not gain xp, they get chances to level up as they conduct qualifying tasks. yes, they fly better in combat. pilot rank reduces delay times between...

i mean there's no real reason for factions to pay full price for the ships, after all they have their own shipyards. Just reducing the price NPCs pay as opposed to the price of the ship - via whatever mechanism - does seem like a solution Limiting the # of NPC ship orders is not a solution though, a...

I dont have a problem with it anymore, as I have my own economy and yes, thanks to the modability of X4 :). I just wanted to answer to the post that CBJ quoted someone who said that its not possible because it is. Nothing more. So I am out here because It think the argumentation is less on the topi...

Egosoft can't just reduce the margins to reduce the money spigot, because then it becomes vastly cheaper to purchase ships yourself. Cheaper ships won't solve problems of having too many credits. You can't do it the other way, either; increasing the wares required to build a ship will result in extr...

"..playing around with custom pathfinding solutions such as A*. I was impressed to find that Unity's built in navmesh tools were still the fastest way to go, however I will say that this might just be due to my limited knowledge of A*." (word for word) That is because he is NOT referring to the A* ...

"..playing around with custom pathfinding solutions such as A*. I was impressed to find that Unity's built in navmesh tools were still the fastest way to go, however I will say that this might just be due to my limited knowledge of A*." (word for word) This is specifically in the context of things t...

the problem is not the theoretical feasibility, but performance requirements in a game that is already pushing the boundaries of what is practical. one of the videos you link even has the narrator discussing how they tried out A*, but went back to Unity's navmesh because it was faster. in any case, ...

Gonna put my 2c in for the "Larger gates with dedicated frontal lanes for in/out even for XL" fix on this topic, as I always do. It's a little bit clunky just retconning gate size, but i think every x4 player there is would accept that in a heartbeat for smoother journeys. I mean, some more proactiv...