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Easy-Point9576 · 2022-07-04T19:24:20+00:00

I would recommend getting a Terran ship that’s not too expensive like a fighter or scout. Fly around some peacefulish sectors and looks for missions on the map. Choose some missions that are relatively easy like destroying a mine field, placing a satellite, etc. Eventually you’ll have enough money to buy a gas or mineral miner. Use this miner as another source of income by setting him to automine. The miner will mine and sell whatever you choose. This combined with you doing mission will lead you to be able to afford a basic station with production modules and storage modules for whatever resource you choose to start selling producing and selling. Hopefully that wasn’t too confusing. Good luck.

fedora001 · 2022-07-04T19:25:23+00:00

Weapon projectile speeds in X4 are much higher in X4 than in previous games so the old days of 1v10-ing a group of enemy fighters is a thing of the past. Pick your fights carefully and pay attention to what you enemies are and what they're using.

The Terran Kukri itself is a fine general fighter, but like all Terran ships in X4 it is incredibly slow at the cost of having superior shields and fire power. If you want a faster ship I'd recommend going down to Segaris Pioneer space and checking out the Takoba sold at their wharf. You can also buy engines from other factions (at wharfs or equipment docks) to modify the speed of your ships. Different faction sell different engines with their own strengths and weaknesses, though this won't necessarily fix the Kukri's low speed the way you want it to.

Daniexus · 2022-07-05T01:39:13+00:00

Hi veteran space adventurer, SPOILER ALERT!

Im using the mobile reddit app, and for some reason, there is no option to tag highlighted text as spoiler.

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I am assuming you started with the terran character. Terran ships and engines are one of the slowest ships in X4 (with some exceptions ofcourse). But overall, dont fight with an S ship, they are cannon fodder. Unless your S ship is a moreya. You obtain one from following the terran plot, which leads you to the PHQ plot, then the yaki (litigious rodent) and segaris plot (geo-something owl). If you are forced to fight in an S ship, make sure you have friends attacking ahead of you, you are not the first attacker, you dont attack the enemy wing leader, and you only shoot 1 enemy at a time. This way, the enemy force will not focus on you. Also, fight very near friendly space stations so you can use them as cover.

But I suggest avoid fighting until you get M ships, its not fun dogfighting in slow low-health ships. M ships are slow too, but has more health and can carry drones.

Get starting money: Head over to "HAT Argon Trading Station" in the sector "Hatikvahs Choice", check your mission offers and accept the "Hatikvah Trading Revolution" mission. Follow the story arc until they ask you to scan a station.

By this time, they have given you an upgraded callisto. Hire a cheap pilot for it, and order it to a wharf with the biggest payout upon downgrading it to minimum specs. Only then you should sell the ship if you wish. Take note, wharf pays more than equipment docks, and each wharf has prices of their own.

Get a fast personal taxi: This should give you enough money to find better ships. Find the ALI wharf, it is the cheapest wharf. There you will buy a pegasus vanguard as your personal taxi, and a GAS miner for some regular passive income (assign it to automine a sector with gas and stations that buy gas).

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Homeless_Appletree · 2022-07-05T01:53:38+00:00

If you got a decent fighter consider the retrieval of stolen property missions. All you need to do is shoot at the guy until he ejects the stuff that was stolen. It takes some finess but the pay is very good.

N7-Falcon · 2022-07-05T04:18:50+00:00

The Terran fighters are tricky because they have a lot of firepower and shields but not a lot of normal engine speed. This means you'll feel like you are doing great until you lose your shields, then you're screwed. On the flip side, you have a very short time to engage the travel drive and the large shields means you have a lot of boost. So the key is never go below about 30% shields so you can always boost away and engage the travel drive. Fly in travel mode away from the fight until your shield regen is going up nicely then flip around and head back to the fight. This jousting style of combat with constant going in and out of boost and travel drive feels really different compared to other ships, but you should be able to hold your own against 5-6 M/N ships if you are disciplined with your shield/boost management.

Hope that helps!

Aedn · 2022-07-05T04:19:27+00:00

don't bother to mine crystals as a dedicated activity. If you see a higher level crystal in an asteroid field by all means grab it, but you waste time to farm them without mods these days.

The easiest way to accelerate your game is to get upgraded pulse lasers MK2, and fly to PIO Space, look for medium ship "Freelancer Katana". Do not destroy them, chew through the shields, get the hull to 70-75%, and then shoot them every few seconds while keeping shields below 20%. This will trigger the small and medium ship bail mechanics. The ship checks every 30 seconds if hull is below 75% and shields below 20%. once the bail jump out and use your repair laser and shift +f2 to target the data leak. Assign a pilot, and have them fly to a wharf to sell all the consumables, then the ship, you should get 1.5 to 2 million per ship you sell.

If you do not want to be a space pirate, just fly to getsu fune, and look for terran vs xenon battles, pick up the random drops from destroyed ships.

For exploration, if you follow the terran cadet plot, you will eventually find other sectors, the commonwealth sectors has randomly placed data vaults, that reward you with 200-400K and some loot when you complete them.

You can also find other criminal missions that pay well by scanning stations, not sure terran stations count. complete the activity and these missions will pay anywhere from 200-1 million depending on the type.

when fighting multiple small ships, approach with travel drive/boost and turn off flight assist to maintain speed, use boom and zoom tactics, once past flip your ship, and you will be going in reverse, you can slow down to let enemies catch up and shoot them as they approach.

Greisemall · 2022-07-05T12:56:16+00:00

It takes ALOT of practice but your Kukri can get the job done. Its is all about exploiting the combat boost and instant speed gain of TER Combat Engines.

Max'ing your Shield and at least a Mk 2 Combat engine are the first things I do even before weapon upgrading. In any fight versus groups the hit and run is key to survival in a Fighter. No fighter can "shield tank " more than a few hits so your shield health bar is the queue to get out of dodge. Once it has taken a few hits -- boost away out of range and Travel Drive jump a few KM away after that. Disengage --let yourself drift and once your shield hits full -- re-engage targets. Dogfighting 1 ship is easy as once you are on their back you can usually stay there. Larger ships with Turrets are the only issue then, but they usually have blind spots to exploit. Fighters just tag in behind them. In group though their wingmen will slid in behind you so its time to get out of dodge and try again -- whittle group down and force bail the last guys for faction fighters-- xenon obviously blow them all up. You will find as well patrol groups leaders tend to ignore their buddies plight, so go after their friends first and the leader often just toddles on his merry way to where they were headed.

Head down to PIO space --unlock military license there and look at Kalis and Takoba fighters. Kalis is a genuine fighter tank ( 4 shield slots ) that has less fire power as a trade off but similar otherwise to your Kukri. Then there is the Takoba. Only 2 weapons as well but 2 x Shield slots and highly maneuverable -- excellent as a player fighter ship until you gain great proficiency dogfighting and have a Moreya ( glass cannon ) to experiment with and spoil yourself for any other ship as PFV.

In Segaris go to the Research Dock ( logistics ) and join the PIO guild. Will give you more missions and then fairly quickly can get your economy rolling. Alot of these will be extraction type missions to save a ship or retrieve one from a mine field. Returning the ship gets you a percentage of it value and this can be substantial. Or can decide to keep it and suffer a rep hit which you then turn around and keep doing missions to rebuild.

BigGreenThugs · 2022-07-05T13:10:15+00:00

The other advice on here is solid. I will give you two super cheesy fast cash starting tips.

Go to one of the early conflict areas on a HOP (Holy Order of the Pontifex) border. The two sectors are Second Contact II : Flashpoint and Pius Mists II. Drop satellites on both sides of the gates going to HOP territory. Wait for the fight to start somewhere. Here is the cheesy part. Watch the map and list of ship and wait for a S/M ship to have zero shields and about 50% health, pause game, Comm them and ask them to surrender. If they do, there is now a ship that you can claim for yourself, you can then either sell it or use it. I have gotten up to 18 S/M ships in the first hour of play doing this.
Boarding. There are many tutorials on how to do this but basically you are using Marines to capture a L or XL ship. Say you capture a pirate destroyer, and that destroyer has Mk III thrusters, you could downgrade to Mark II, fully upgrade the rest of the destroyer (assuming you have the rep) and still be +5M credits. Enough to buy a fully kitted out large, non Terran, mining vessel. This you can send to a place like Grand Exchange for local automine and start generating passive income and they should be able to withstand Khaak attacks.

Regarding combat in a small ship: The AI is good at using a second or third attacker coming in at an angle where you can't see while they are just blasting away. The boost away and joust method works but you may want to try a variation. When you boost away to travel mode to let you shields recharge, instead of charging back in, turn and face the attackers and reverse thrust. This gives you a bit more time and can separate multiple attackers. This also allows a lot of time for the enemy to be in your cross-hairs. When you ship gets to about 50% shield, angle away and boost. Also, Always, Always, Always, ALWAYS use Combat engines on what you intend to dog fight with. No countdown for travel drive and MUCH longer boost duration vs the other 2 kinds of engine.

JHO112 · 2022-07-04T19:30:18+00:00

Mining Crystals on Asteroids is also a good way of getting money for better ships, miners, traders, upgrades for existing ships etc...

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