Tutorial : Early to Mid Game money by Fighting : X4 Foundations

I just started the game and I don't know if it is because I am coming from playing Chorus, which is all flying and insane combat, but I have a lot of trouble handling the fighter and pointing at the enemy ships. The gamepad controls move a lot and are very imprecise and difficult to handle. It might be the sensibility, but I have tried different options and still can't do decent combat. Any thoughts?

Your tutorials are great I wish they were more general though rather than go get this op free ship, which just feels like cheese

Lucky, mine didnt get to have the main gun on when i found it

Lots of great information in this video and a joy to watch.. I really hope at some point in the (near) future you'll play some more X4.... thanks.

juste arrived with a moka (?) ship that I got from standard missions. No "decode data stream" option. I'm fed up of dyjng trying to get there.

died because AP sent me throught ennemies and I died when exiting.
Then died because on arrival I exited on spacesuit and was shot by a "M".

edit : OK I got it after I failed several times to fix data leaks on easy missions

you have no idea how lucky you are to get main batteries on your ship. It almost never happens.

You almost make me want to try this game. Then you explain the insanity at the end and i say meh

Well this is closer to what I want from the game, but, is hiring a captain to trade with the factions absolutely necessary?

you can shoot the ship radio thing with the repair gun to expedite the capture out of range of touching it.

Did anyone find the Paranid Destroyer had no main guns when they boarded it (just turrets)? Or have I hit an unhappy glitch in my game?

Great videos and love the humor :)

I have enjoyed your tutorials. Have you considered piracy?

Can your laser towers cause abandoned ships now and again?

Cheese guide

Hello, I would like to ask you if there is a mod or other to make time pass faster within the game, to avoid waiting hours and hours. Thank you ^^

Hey what you said is incorrect... You can sell all of your illegal where's including the security slicer/decryption things at (hat/sca) factions... But have to have enough rep wit ..hat

Rimworld Please!

I really dig this series and its one of the reasons I purchased and invested quite a substantial amount of time in the game. Ya got me hooked bud. Lol but if possible could you make an x4 series w the VRO mods where you try to conquer the "known galaxy" i think its be an undertaking but I think it'd be a fun challenge to bring all the factions under the yoke of the empire! "For the Emporer brother" lol

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have learned more from watching your two videos than I have playing the last week.

Where to go - There's Violence, Capture and Factory - and we are going to go with VIOLENCE 🤣🤣🤣
Wow - you are lucky - I have captured that Ody many times and never got main batteries on it...
I didn't know about the sales - That's a good tip for someone who has been playing X-Games for about 20 years 😁
That Turbocharged nitrous breathing Pegasus looks to be sooo dicey to fly through gates at very acute angles on full throttle
Sayy, do you use a HOTAS or Joystick ? - I personally use a Saitek X52 PRO - which gives a lot of realism to any flight sim.

I usually head for this ship at the start of any playthrough. This ship has a tremendous cargo for its size and has great speed to transfer claytronics and hull parts to make stations, for a faction or for myself. How ?

The Odysseus Vanguard has space for 40 S ships and 2 S docks on the outside, so if you stick 40 Frogs from the Terrans you will have 40x4120 m3 = 164800 m3, you might as well carry multiple Defensive Station materials to build across the galaxy, especially with closed loop production chain. I use the outer 2 S docks to park my S fighter and a fast scout.

Thats not all, it can also hold 10 M size ships inside, stacking 10 Teladi Vulture Sentinels, each with a 15100 m3 will give 151000 m3.
On the outer M dock will be a place for a Nemesis Vanguard to deal with pesky Xenon Ps in a breeze.


The best thing is , pirates can not detect what your ships have if they are parked in the internal cargo hold.
With 40 Frogs and 10 Vulture Sentinels in the internal cargo hold you have is a whopping 315800 m3.

So the ship is offered for free by the game so just grab it.

Great Tutorial!
just a small change at ~12min: get a captain, go into information, behavior and change it to repeat order. then give the order to sell 1 food. the captain will then repeat that order on their own while you can do something else.

You are a very, very bad man. You got me into this game and I love it.

Lets see If I can add some cheese to the trading platter...

ARGON REP FROM +5 TO +20 IN 1 HOUR 15 MIN(game time). Took 2 hours 45 min IRL with some blunders on a first attempt.

Young Gun Start, load up on a full set of crew+pilot and faster engines(will need to butcher/sell some thing off starter ship). Headed to Hatikvah’s Choice I. Started the Hatikvah’s Trade Revolution mission. You get a small freighter and a medical supply delivery mission, you can get rep when you sell the mission meds 1 by 1. Thy give you 250 to deliver, took me from +5 to +16 with argon.
You can double it up if you go pick up the derelict Elite Vanguard in Grand exchange I, for some reason its hard for me to find the one in Silent Witness XI. Be sure to pick up some crew at the start cos you gonna need to promote them to pilots for the new ships.

Rep trades work on purchase and selling.
16 to 17 rep, 66 trades
17 to 18 rep, 81 trades
18 to 19 rep, 101 trades
19 to 20 rep, 127 trades
All trades where done with medical supplies.

"Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game." By Soren Johnson

Can you do an overview of the Boron expansion, what their equipment is like compared to base game, if it's worth replaying the game just because of the dlc

Creeeeeeepy ending

Very cool

Great video! I had to watch it a few times. Your vids are always packed with info. I would love it if you could do a video on how to scan stations. I can't seem to 100% them.

I just subbed after watching your 4 videos in your "X4 Tutorial nuggets". I've seen quite a few tutorials by others already, but you've touched on quite a few things that I haven't heard before.

I have a new start and stayed in SOL system too long it seems. After coming out for the first time, I discovered the Kha'ak have wiped out more than half the Antigone stations and all ships. Teladi space also has no ships and a lot of stations missing. Luckily with three destroyers I took out the two large Kha'ak bases. However, the Argon are almost completely wiped out by Xenon that have taken over sectors including Argon Prime and Hatikvah's Choice I, and destroyed the wharfs and shipyard. The Argon faction representative is still in it's sector, but It's there with only about three small bases and a Xenon defense station. I was considering a restart, but I may try your faction trick to get to Argon 10 to buy M-Flak Turret blueprint. I can get the Plasma Turret from the Antigone if necessary. Antigone don't sell the flak turret. If I can drive the Xenon back with defense turrets to their original start sectors, this game might be salvageable. Do you have any secrets for taking out Xenon defense stations? lol

I know I'm super invested in a game when I start adding terms like Teladi and Kha'ak to my spell check. lol

Francis sells food, brings the cheese.

Wow! They made getting that ship SO Much easier! It used to be inside of a minefield.

I just noticed, is that a Starsector portrait you're using? Does this mean we'll get some videos of that at some point? Such an amazing game.

Also, there's just a free destroyer sitting there?? I wish I'd known that when I started my last game of X4 (Which you inspired me to over a month ago). Never found it before.

Haha I don't have to listen to them... I haven't mod that gives them a muzzle 😶😆 I just wish there was a mod four pilots when they are in combat... It just wants to make me pull my hair out! Not only is it awful it's repetitive to ugh😖

I have been playing this game since launch and did not realise you can buy multiple different ship types/setups at the same time :o

Great job on these tutorial and playthrough videos, FJ. Just one thing to note, you don't need to scan a ship's data leak, you can use your repair laser on it and it will also acquire the ship (this way you don't have to get so close as to bounce off the hull). Great job, as always, this game is amazing to play and immerse yourself into!!

I just use autotraders to get the rep up, but this cheese seems even more efficient. I wonder if instead of manually queuing the orders you could use "repeat orders" behavior. You can sell the security tools and a bunch of other stuff nobody else buys to the SCA station traders. Doesn't really make much sense, but you can.

Francis: "we built this ship"
My brain: FOR ROCK AND ROLL!!!

If you sell that large ship and take the 9 million (sometimes its better anyway because they spawn randomly such as with no engines like I got) you can buy like 20 miners right away. Put them all in argon prime because for some reason all the ore there has spacefly eggs in it. Fly around and gather eggs while your mining fleet does its thing and you can make a lot very fast in early game that way. That said they eggs will dry up as the ore does. Also if you have a headquarters you can make any of your item collector scouts deposit their inventory there, this helps avoid police checks and consolidates your goodies. Also also I know I mentioned you could capture xenon ships before however that appears to have been an old bug and I was just crazy lol.

You're the only person that doesn't sound drunk on 0.75 speed, I need a new brain processor to watch on 1.0 LOL!

jesus that talking bit at the end sounds painful, props to you for 'listening' to that.

Yes, hair styles are in DIRE need for some re-touching by a proper designer XD Seriously, X4 is such a great game, but their characters look NIGHTMARISH.
Just head for the Bar and look how their neck goes when they lean forward over the table. The horror. But hey, it´s a SHIP game, not a PEOPLE game.
In fact, i for my part would prefer if they got rid of the 1st person mode, i do not comprehend what it´s good for.
Oh, for rapid Reputation increase, i recommend buying some small miners and letting them Auto-mine in sectors of the faction you want to increase your standing.
Not just gives it a constant passive income, it slowly but surely increases your popularity, and the more you get, the faster your Rep raises.
And yes i MEAN small miners, the amount of trades you do seem to matter more than the amount you trade for, interestingly.
Hacking tools CAN be traded, at Black Market vendors, you know, those guys you get in Bars. On the map, it´s the icon of a guy in Fedora with glasses next to the station.

missions even the early ones are as fast or faster , sctor patorl is really good because you dont have to a thing just hang out in the sector.. killing the enemy just increase your rep and money you get in the but you hide in a station (not docked) activate seta and just wait.... and you can accept multiple for the same sector...miner escorts(i got on avagere 1mil and one i got from 3-11 rep after one mission) are even better if you have a fast M-Class.... and police licence dont forget them they paid off really quick particularly when you do escort and patrol missions which can be done at the same time and you got double paided or tripple ( depnds how many mission you got in your log)

good lord, that neck...also she's got crazy eyes 🤣

a less tedious way is creating a trading loop - it´ll take longer, yes but you will have to do only 5 clicks instead of 100x5 :D
oh and you can farm the exeptional thingies by fighting the buccaners (if you have their expansion DLC) unless you do their quest their reputation is locked at -15.

Thank you for the second part of the tutorial! Was really looking forward to it! Also, you are really good at explaining things, while moving along quickly. Please continue the great work! This game is way underappreciated, and its underappreciated due to how dense the systems are at the start. Absolutely overwhelming.

Aaaaand we want ONI! :D

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