5 BIG Time Saver in X4 Foundations

OH snap... I thought the search bar was wears exclusive ... I had no idea, and I have 1129h into x4 .... lol

Less than 1500 hours!? Rookie numbers 😂

SETA is good in early game but in late game if SETA active for too long, it can crash the game (and i don't have a potato PC). Also you can activate SETA when you are a your desk on the station with Boso Ta (don't remember the name) less noise that in a ship and you don't get police scan.

Be careful with the shuffle module button when you got commonwealth and terran blueprints. it will sometimes sneak in terran connector modules into a commonwealth factory and vice versa, you'll often end up having to provide the resources yourself that way when you build far away from terran space.

Great video but not sure what you mean by fly-by boarding. If you can explain that which you never in this video. Tried searching for it but cant find it.

Hard pass on the station shuffle. I'd rather sit hours in the station designer to build nice looking plans for everything and optimize plot sizes than having to look at those malformed monstrosities. Besides, tinkering with station builds is the best part of designing your own ones. I'm quite proud of my triangular Graphene Refinery with 24x production modules and that took me a bit less than an hour of tinkering about until the muse frenchkissed me.

I like well designed, good looking stations. As such, I will never use the shuffle button.

That last bonus tip was a mindblower!
Thank you!

omfg, I spent 1 hour going over every option, or what I thought was e very option until now.... that shuffle thing, that is a HUGE time saver. thank you

While shuffle is surely time saving, my sense of aesthetics and customization won't allow me to use it.

520hrs into this game and I never knew there was a shuffle modules button. Making big stations always stressed me out, but not anymore!

Thanks for the tip Captian!

I'm not even at war with them but since they lost it to HOP, I still control Argon Prime for uh ... peacekeeping reasons.

To expand on the search function tip, it's worth mentioning the "object list" on the left hand side as well. Given the sheer amount of ships/factories you might end up with, if you get the notification a plunderer turned hostile for whatever reason, one of the dozen or more spawned plunderers will show as red in the object list, of course it works with SCA, BUC and VIG as well (Captain probably is already aware of this but for those that aren't, here you go)

660+ hours and I learned about station parts shuffle just now.

900 hours here myself

Thanks Captain!

Try to shuffle a 200 part station. Can be really funny. Too bad the shuffle only does planar stations, not 3D

The bonus one at the end is the best one, though in the game it's technically a time waster ;)

For the buildings you can save the projects like Defense station, small mining, independent super-abundant-XxXxL-shipyard :). I`m grateful that egosoft implemented the ship configs needed in plots. Also another time-saver-money-making tip: defense stations near xenon gateways to "milk" xen for expensive drops.

Number 6, park cheap ships at each faction rep station, so you can teleport there instead of flying. Bonus if you name them something like X Teladi, X Argon, so you find them fast in your list. Only later you can directly teleport to the station.

Captain collins: 1487.1 hours
Me: ...... 3798 hours

Stopped playing excessively about a year and half ago. this game really pulls you in.

Addition to #2: activate the trade mode, type in the full ware name. zoom out and you will see every offer for this ware everywhere. if you zoom out completly it will show only the best offers

Hallöchen Captain ! :D

"A few tutorials" HA! If it wasn't for you I would have rage quit the game at least six times.

500th like :D

I have definitely wasted way too much time looking to the right station to buy or sell from

seta rofl great

terran combat engines are time saver

Thanks, didn't knew the shuffle existed and also never really bothered with the search bar. Making a few ships just for teleporting is still on my list 😬 ship pre sets Imade a few, but will probably also make an updated one for the upgrades for ter shields and such once I have the money 😢

Thanks Cap'n

Im trying to use shuffle station parts but it does nothing, some time it just select a random piece.

Thanks for video...

Don't think of the UI to help the player but as the Owner's Logistics Interface for the Character's Commercial/Military Fleet

I just bought the game, a week ago or so, and all your videos have saved me hours of more pain. Wish I had seen this specific video a week ago! Thanks for sharing!

To add to the search function, if you type in the name of a ware, it will activate the map trade mode and filter in the stations that either buy of sell that ware. You can add up to three ware filters concurrently that way.

Callsigns are intended to be unique, and generally are, but a bug in the multiverse teams season beta found some visitor ships generating with duplicate callsigns. I have them preserved in my save :)

The shuffle trick alone was worth the watch. Hundreds of hours in and I did not know about it. So many wasted hours fiddling with the construction menu for naught :(

One of my normal things is to leave a ship parked at all the faction representatives so if i ever need a blueprint or the get a new license i can teleport there at any time.

Also is crew relocation instantaneous now? I remember when they used to get lost in space if the ships weren't close to each other. I know they made some changes so they didnt get stuck in collisions when boarding, but thought there was still travel time over distances.

Oh and make station presets for those "hard" building missions so you can drop a defense station etc in an instant. Presets are not 'save' specific, so you'll still have all your presets available (provided you have the blueprints) if you start a new game.

I had no idea about the shuffle

Ive spent entire saturdays building perfect stations to hang out at. 😂

I hope there will be a filter for the shuffle to avoid using different connectors from different races. Sometimes I prefer the station in a style that conforms to the sector.
The using of searching bar to search a specific ship really amazes me. Almost 500 hours of gaming time, I never think it can be used to search a ship! Nice advice!🤣

What. How could i miss the shuffle Option for 1000 hours playn that game 😮

I wish the station shuffle feature would take into account modules already placed and confirmed. Would be nice to automatically add to an existing structure.

I have a tip that I haven't seen on any other vid:
Get multiple ships auto trading with only one 3 star oilot:
Assign 3 star to tradeer/miner
Set to auto trade
Promote service crew to pilot
Train to min 1 star (basic seminar)
Re-assign 3 star pilot to next trader/miner
You now have 2 ships able to auto mine. So long as you don't change it from this you can play with wares and anchors.
The first ship can only go one jumpgate but it is better than local and don't forget to check back and increase the gates as the pilots increase in skill

Seems that flyByBoarding does not work anymore or i modded the game to gard.
Waiting for 3 Hours now that my Boarding Party starts at a Construction Vessel. Still, they have not breached the Hull yet

Sadly shuffle for Station building is limited. tryed it with a "big" station and it did not shuffle :/

I have 2k hours on my watch, and I wish I had known a few of these things earlier. Like with only 100 hours. But no, I had to figure out all by myself. So I watched this video just to be sure I didn't miss anything. The game has just to many thing in it, and it's easier so miss something. I'm glad there was nothing new for me in this video, but also sad there wasn't something new for me in the video that would save my time.
Alright time to go back to eradicate the Argon.

I've found the biggest time saver is this channel.

Been playing sincw x3 days. Today learnt of shuffle button. Damn ...