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. #5 Showing 1 - 5 of 5 comments Per page: 15 30 50 Dec 20, 04:22, Post You could take pilots from mining ships that are 3 stars and transfer them to your trade ship. The player can pilot many different ships and engage in various activities such as trading, mining . You can buy those babies up to 20 at a time. ._2cHgYGbfV9EZMSThqLt2tx{margin-bottom:16px;border-radius:4px}._3Q7WCNdCi77r0_CKPoDSFY{width:75%;height:24px}._2wgLWvNKnhoJX3DUVT_3F-,._3Q7WCNdCi77r0_CKPoDSFY{background:var(--newCommunityTheme-field);background-size:200%;margin-bottom:16px;border-radius:4px}._2wgLWvNKnhoJX3DUVT_3F-{width:100%;height:46px} Valve Corporation. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. X4 Wiki: 4.14.23 LIVE NOW with the 4pm. Let's look at how training and seminars. 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Any combination of skill stars, to give an overall rating of 1 star, can auto mine. If I recall correctly, having the pilots assigned to stations would reliably increase their piloting skills within a few days. Dec 20, 16:32, Post Many people understood, and agreed, that not everything in the game should happen quickly, or be tied to the amount of money you have. Find Out Inside! So, I've returned to the X universe after several years. X4 Foundations v3.1 | Beginners Guide | How To | How to get Ship Crew XP | Episode 6This video is an updated guide for X4, covering 3.0+ and Split Vendetta. New to X4 here, I recently bought a large freighter with the purpose of selling all the excess energy cells I was producing in my HQ automatically. ._3oeM4kc-2-4z-A0RTQLg0I{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-ms-flex-pack:justify;justify-content:space-between} ? 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". The moment you leave again, your pilot takes the helm and continues with their previous orders. Those fighters will level up pretty quickly murdering all the Xenon fighters coming through, and a few P kills to boot. You can use those seminars to level up your pilots. X4 Manual: AI is still terrible even with a 5 star pilot and commands that are locked behind it are not worth bothering. Distribute wares is much worse. My pilot is almost a 3 star pilot (hired at that skill). friendship | 3.9K views, 195 likes, 110 loves, 284 comments, 154 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from The Victory Channel: The Victory Channel is LIVE with Victory News! At one star it's barely decent. 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. You may want to try the "Fill Shortages" behavior. Espaol - Latinoamrica (Spanish - Latin America). New game-starts allow an even more varied experience in the biggest sandbox this side of the galaxy! 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. whats the best way to find or train them? I've left the game running with the pilots active for a week straight and they never gained more than part of a star. https://www.egosoft.com:8444/confluence/display/X4WIKI/X4%3A+Foundations+Manual X4 doesn't have a microtransaction system to subjugate players with, it isn't directly multiplayer, and it very much a single-player sandbox experience. It would be much better if player could simply "buy" more experienced crew and pilots/captains at shipyards at bigger expense. Find Out Inside! You will also need to spend vast amount of marines to get one vet. I may receive a small commission if you purchase a product or service with the links that are provided here. Mining helps level up pilots, supposedly. https://www.egosoft.com:8444/confluence/display/X4WIKI/X4+Wiki+Home, Press J to jump to the feed. I get one of my best pilots to a trade cargo ship, and then I start training him up. 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. Closed Captions available.https://store.steampowered.com/app/392160/X4_Foundations/X4: Foundations is the latest title in the popular X series of space simulation / sandbox games, played as action games from a first-person perspective in a living breathing universe, with TRADE FIGHT BUILD THINK as the common tag-line. I just stood on the bridge designing ship fits and checking on the crews I already had. X4 Foundations: Ep. Dec 20, 09:13, Post I need a few lvl 3 or higher pilots. A dog has a master; a cat has domestic staff. Espaol - Latinoamrica (Spanish - Latin America), Running the Game with a different screen active. https://www.egosoft.com:8444/confluence/display/X4WIKI/X4+Wiki+Home. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. I cannot however even change the default behaviour of that ship at all. X4: FOUNDATIONS, the long awaited sequel in the long running X series brings our most sophisticated universe SIMULATION ever. You can order cheapest possible ship with minimal equipment and you get randomly from decent to excellent pilot with it. X4 will be the first X game to allow our races and factions to freely build and expand their empires; the same flexibility the player enjoys in creatively designing space stations from modular building blocks is also available to them. Building space stations and factories has always been a foundation of the X games. It is the seventh and most recent installment in the X series, following X Rebirth . My crew service members have skilled-up though, they're all able now, and started out as apprentices. 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. Generaly speaking you have the following options in vanilla: there is another way but you will need to be well established. 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%} Dec 20, 21:56, Post Dec 20, 23:33, Post The feedback was mixed. 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But then i noticed that to select 'Autotrade' as the default behavior you need a pilot with atleast three stars in trading. So it seems bugged out. And once you get a S/M Ship Fab your credit issues are over, and a new one begins. Anybody know the fastest way to level up pilot skills so I can finally setup Autotrade? 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. Hundreds of stations, and thousands of ships, trade goods among themselves. Didn't encounter a single K or I, but N/M/P all suicide into me in waves. Now with X4, we have taken another, massive step. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. So apart from the obvious we can only guess, if for example explore in a dangerous sector gains more skill points. 3. I don't understand why the devs went at it this way. There's so many ways to go about this, that might actually provide some interesting gameplay decisions and instead they decided to just slap a massive time gate on it, and not even in a way that makes a lot of sense. It will have a pilot with 3-4 stars. and maybe verify your game files. x4 foundations forum https://forum.egosoft.com/ Check the game out at https://www.egosoft.com/ #BaconsTV #x4foundationsCE #Games Played all of the X games except Rebirth, and at first couldn't get into X4. 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 seems now you can level them up via trading exclusively not just via fighting. ._2Gt13AX94UlLxkluAMsZqP{background-position:50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:contain;position:relative;display:inline-block} I currently own 109 ships, I have 3 stations and 1 sector. That's an instant 2.0 - 2.9 star pilot (or manager) for about 4k - 5k. They would do one cycle, then wait at the home base for more instructions. Gameplay. Changing the loadout after you've selected the starting point doesn't affect the pilot's proficiency. 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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? The game runs on Linux and Microsoft Windows. Espaol - Latinoamrica (Spanish - Latin America). other than that ive never noticed that any of my pilots/captains/managers would have ever gained skill, marines do I do believe you can get 3 star seminars from some missions perhaps guild missions, but it should say in the mission if the reward is a 3 star seminar you don't have to do the mission to know, it will just say that as part of the rewards. Then make money from Sector Automining & setting exploration commands on fast cheap S size ships. i did tons of guild quests i dont find any seminars anywhere. I trained one from zero star to one star, it took hours, and it was painful. 2 star pilot is super easy to get now that each seminar give a guarantee 1 star gain. The author of this thread has indicated that this post answers the original topic. by jlehtone Sat, 5. by pref Thu, 6. The powerful new map system allows you to drag and connect modules using a connection system to design your own unique creations. Much apprciated! Yield from resource ar X4: Foundations 2018. 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. Not trying to make a "Trading Empire" as you say but I need decent pilots for not just mining and trading but also beating the xenon back. I've never seen an actual 3 star pilot at any station. I found this guide a godsend as a new player, it should help give you some tips and a sense of what you're moving towards, aside from the story missions. )I am looking for a few good pilots! 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 The fastest way by far is to train them in fighters defending a Xenon gate. Valve Corporation. 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. If every loop has an arbitrary point at which "automation is too powerful to be allowed" they've made a bad gameplay structure. 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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. X4 Foundations, the latest space combat and trading simulator from Egosoft, is an exemplary space strategy that is as complex as they get. 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. I am not playing X4 to be a MOBA and micromanaging each and every action of my unit on the map. 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Moderator: Moderators for English X Forum, Post by Eyeseeyou Wed, 2. More boarding stars gives marine more combat power and boosts chances to clear the room drasticaly. Do you not enjoy having a pilot take 30 real-time hours to get 3 start? Manage an empire or EXPLORE space in first person. But of course he did not say what exactly risky is. Aug 20, 19:07, Post And set that able crewman as the new pilot, and send them back to mining. Seems really odd that they wouldn't have gained any experience at all from making millions in mining and dodging asteroids. by jlehtone Thu, 3. As it stands I have to ride along with them to make sure they don't totally screw up. Ventures and combat are best for training them up. For the first time in any X game, all parts of the NPC economy are manufactured from resources. The expansion greatly increases the size of the universe and introduces two new Split family clans along with their economy, new ships, weapons and station modules. X4 Wiki: 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. ._12xlue8dQ1odPw1J81FIGQ{display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle} Once you own a larger fleet, you will be very interested in researching a technology from your HQ: Teleportation. Manage an empire or EXPLORE space in first person. i feel like cheating every time i buy a ship but well, skills doesnt seem to add more than enabling auto actions so. 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. You could just manually give a ton of sequential buy and sell orders to the trade ship. Finish the station. He is currently just under three stars, so I hope it won't take too long. X4: Foundations is a space trading and combat game developed and published by Egosoft. Find a station building mission (I did it with one where I had to build a defense platform for the SCA). 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. I just started a new game and I'm having the same problem, where the above method no longer works. I did find an exploit though that allowed me to set lower level pilots as autotraders. 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Also the reserve captains of the ships you usually fly yourself can gradually gain pilot and morale skills from starting at 2 stars or less up to getting 3-4 stars, even if they don't do any combat or trading themselves. But it's so slow, just mod it. Includes a quick review of the Cormorant,. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. X4 Foundations seems to be hiding them in a far-off space station that I will never visit. You can hire a 0-1 star pilot (try to be almost but not quite 1 star) then give them pilot seminar's which you can buy at the trade shop. 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. It is a form of constraint, not one that improves gameplay - it makes it worse. I don't have to set each and every unit on the map in an RTS to 'mine' by going 6 clicks deep into a menu. Can a new player afford a dozen fighters though. Assign the trader to the station manager and it will use it as needed. It will have a pilot with 3-4 stars. This economy is linked directly to the simulation of major conflicts in a universe with dynamically-acting factions. With trading you have the potential to make a percentage of the item's value. Thank you all, this is definitely the sort of information I was looking for. Buying the "power point" cost money. Fly every ship, TRADE and FIGHT to BUILD your empire with modular station construction and THINK carefully when embarking on an epic journey. Outsunny 9.1'x 6.4' x 6.3' Garden Storage Shed w/Steel Floor Foundation Outdoor Patio Yard Metal Tool Storage House w/Double Doors Gray 3.5 out of 5 stars 65 $787.99 $ 787 . So I am on the lookout for a good 3-star pilot so that I can set a ship to auto trade. This is the foundation of our living and breathing universe. 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