This went through several passes over the past few betas. How is it now (beta 6)? Same problems persist in high attention, can't aim up/down targets, can't predict target movement. I've noticed the performance is much better in low attention mode. Although they still barely use the main weapon prop...

Just watched your (?) video (two Ody E against Xenon I) from two weeks before: I think, the ships AI wants to go in a certain direction for whatever reason, and it turns the ships to do that. And this comes into conflict with aiming. It would be interesting (but not very enlightening) to test this ...

That is unnless they fix the AI and make them reliably use their fixed gun in a fleet battle. I still don't understand why capital ships in low attention are so much better. Their physics engine is so basic, and there aren't any thrust or center of mass issues that might affect control. Why can't t...

But hey, I'm also not a fan of the late game anyway, I enjoy the early game much more where I'm actively flying a ship and doing things, so yeah I'd like more of that (immersion) - but with more simulation and more logistics, etc. For a logistics simulation like X4, I don't think it would be feasib...

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As long as most of the games happens in abstract menus station interiors will remain almost pointless.

Viewing the ship from the station provides an excellent perspective on its scale.
Personally, my favorite is watching the XL ships depart from the production module.

I have intercept wings staying docked through everything by adjusting the launched/docked setting for their group(s). I did that to deal with a huge s/m ship onslaught by my destroyers and carriers only. What condition(s) are you saying will make them undock? ..haven't run across that yet. In an ea...

There should be an option as the map

Early game, trying to get any L-sized military ship for trading purposes is quite difficult to get to (outside of that one abandoned Oddy, I suppose.) That's the time where you deal with Pirates the most. Later-game when you can afford to do that, you can also afford to just slap Mirage mods on eve...

Just guessing, not tried follow groups since I assumed that meant they would not dock, and didn't want that. As it stands, there is no method to keep a subordinate consistently docked on the capital ship except by giving the direct order for the subordinate to dock. All subordinate groups will undo...

The subordinate in follow role will never dock now no matter whether the subordinate control is set to docked or launched

Aha; in this case, it appears that my colorblindness is giving me an advantage here, as the type of colorblindness I have means red looks much dimmer. I'm not sure which color is used for the flashing part, but the red part should be crosshair_shield_damage, so you could try changing that to, say, ...

I have tweaked the colorblind settings, but nothing related to the shield bar; I mostly just fiddle with the holomap_component_* colors so I can actually tell what I have and have not already scanned. https://i.imgur.com/uOPJMiD.png You're correct. Upon capturing a screenshot and examining the colo...

I believe the most apparent answer involves streamlining the trading system to reduce its consumption of system resources, thereby enabling other AI to update more frequently.

According to this, 55% of the players want more midgame. https://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=146&t=460715 In general, adding more mid-game content doesn't equate to making grinding more difficult; rather, it entails introducing additional game content such as factions, ships, and factories, m...

I'm personally colorblind, so I'm used to confusing two similar colors, but the shield bar doesn't look (to me) like it flashes red at all. So it is actually 2 shades of red but could only identified by colorblind people? Or is there a colorblind mode? Have you adjusted the color theme in the setti...

And with M class' 100 inventories, players could easily destroy an Xenon I :https://youtu.be/e7b66yf8RJ4

Well, if you think it isn't broke and people get trhe most enjoyment from the midgame, extending the midgame is a logical conclusion. By making grinding harder? That's called trying to fix something that isn't broken. Anbd the syn, I thought we were talking of progressing through the game to build ...

of course it will. It will extend the mid-game which is where most players get the most enjoyment. If obtaining a destroyer is harder, then the game is harder (by definition) I think you also overestimate what 1 destroyer can do to a xenon sector. You could get a syn from TER plot and 1 Syn vs 1I+6...

Why is the Fight aspect the only part that people complain about being easy? X4 is about 4 different parts, and frankly, fighting the xenon is only easy because the rest are easy too. If your wares were much less profitable, and your stations didn't spam out more product than anyone needs, then thi...

...No? It flashes, but if the whole bar is red... you don't have shields anymore. However, it shouldn't flash red; it's too difficult to discern, especially when the lost shield is also indicated in red. Flashing red is acceptable, but it would be better if the lost shield is displayed in a brighte...