I apologize for the super long video and the info dump, but there are a LOT of things to cover for new players. If there is interest, I can also do (likely shorter 😅) videos on various other subjects in this game (Fleets, Mining, Trading, Piracy, Station Building, etc.).
@steso8979
Жыл бұрын
Do you know why my trader, just sits at a station ( looking for trades ) kinda stuck for hours now.. Tried to move him to another sector, but to no avail.. I put up 5 satellite covering all station, but still stuck looking. I have +12 rep in the sector. I also tried redo the settings for trading, that didnt work :D Edit, made a new game to test if my other save was bugged, and it seems like it, hmm.. Now its trading just fine. idk
@cykotich
Жыл бұрын
Sometimes they go derpy. But, just in case, make sure that you have him set to fill shortages, and not local auto-trade. The auto-trade has never worked quite correctly for me. The satellites are important as well. He has to have a place to not only buy, but sell as well. If all else fails, either save and reload to see if that fixes it, or check and see if he has things in his hold. If he does, manually sell them someplace and see if he starts running again. It's possible that when it was purchased, there was a profitable deal, but after the pickup, the sale was no longer profitable. Edit: also, be sure that you uncheck things that tend to clog inventories. I uncheck all of the illegal items so that you don't run into trouble there, and the food items as well as NPC factions have a tendency to over-produce them, so you'll have screaming deals on purchases, but no where to offload them because all of the other stations are full up.
@steso8979
Жыл бұрын
Seems like I got it fixed, by selling the ship, and buying a new one. The Automatic Resupply - Global, setting option was bugged and I could not activate it, its on now on the new ship, and selling again.
@cykotich
Жыл бұрын
@@steso8979 Interesting, that setting should only come into effect if you have missile launchers, torpedoes or other weaponry with ammunition. The re-supply is to refill ammunition and consumables. That may actually be a bug. As long as it's working now!
@steso8979
Жыл бұрын
@@cykotich Oh, yea im not dealing with missiles, so a bug it must be. But im happy it is working again.
@steso8979
Жыл бұрын
Need to watch this a few times, for the good old braincells to remember, definitely one of the better guides out there, for a noob like me! Easy to understand, as you show and tell. GG 10/10 Hoping for more to come
@cykotich
Жыл бұрын
You're very welcome! I threw in time stamps as well to hopefully help out for re-visitation. It IS a bit of a data dump. I'm glad it will help!
@RoamingAdhocrat
Ай бұрын
I've sunk hours into this game, at a midgame point with a handful of stations and dozens of ships (albeit only one destroyer so far) and I did not know the travel-drive ctrl-space trick
@RoamingAdhocrat
Ай бұрын
one trick that can save time: once you know what the docking platforms look like, you can just drive straight in and head for the nearest landing pad. within a certain distance you'll be given landing clearance automatically for the nearest pad or if you get directed to a pad you don't like, hit shift-d twice to cancel and re-request landing clearance, and the new clearance will be for the nearest pad
@cykotich
Ай бұрын
Glad I could help out! It's a trick we used back in the Freelancer days to change direction quickly without sitting still and letting the AI kill you. It was the ONLY way to defeat higher class ships than yours. It translated quite nicely into X4, with the added bonus of not making you a sitting duck while your warp spools up.
@davidbilich1708
Ай бұрын
Thank you for the easy to follow tutorial. While a lot of this information is out there, nobody i have gound compiled it together into one string the way you did. Best of all was your constant reminding of hotkeys. Vital information that most of the tutorials completely gloss over, but you kept pointing out your button presses each time. Thank you, you certainly earned the like and sub!
@cykotich
Ай бұрын
You're very welcome! Glad to be useful! Thank you, as well. Hot keys are very nearly required to keep the game playable in the midst of combat and/or trying to quickly make trades. Habitualising them makes it much easier. A lot of players aren't even aware of them for the reasons you stated. The game briefly mentions them once, and only once, during an entirely optional tutorial. I feel like the controls are a huge barrier for entry to people that are not seasoned gamers willing to put in the work. Hopefully illuminating how veteran players use them will help to lower the "wall" a bit.
@MrStoffzor
2 ай бұрын
Super helpful video! 💯 I hope you keep making content for this game
@cykotich
2 ай бұрын
Thank you! I'm glad you found it helpful. I do have some ideas for further videos, time permitting.
@oneill6291
Ай бұрын
This is incredible - By far the best help I've found so far. Thank you!!
@cykotich
Ай бұрын
You're very welcome! I'm glad it helped.
@LuNaTiC9oNe
11 күн бұрын
lol had a long drive so i used this as a podcast
@cykotich
10 күн бұрын
Fantastic! I hope I was good company for your sojourn!
@PsychoBoyTyler
11 күн бұрын
The teleporting to your ship is probably happening because you pressed Shift+D. I kept doing this too hoping the Shift was making me sprint/run faster.
@cykotich
10 күн бұрын
It's entirely possible that you are correct. I don't know if I was aware of the hotkey when I made the video, but it does sound like something I would do!
@Aardvark892
13 күн бұрын
Isn't it funny how Space Games don't have Simple Technology like web pages that you have to look up externally
@cykotich
12 күн бұрын
Yeah, it seems to be more of a trend with the more recent games. In all genres to be honest. Older games used to have mini in-game wikis with detailed information and sometimes interlinking entries to help you chase down what you wanted.
@dh599
Ай бұрын
Should have called it "A strong Foundation for beginners" ahh well...
@cykotich
Ай бұрын
Oooh, clever. You're right, that would've been better!
@storminpe
3 күн бұрын
Seems you didn't show us getting the Pegasus.
@cykotich
3 күн бұрын
It's at 1:03:00 ish in the purchasing ships section.
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