Please continue with this series it's so important since there isn't much information out there. Also Logistics of managing stations and miners would be such a great resource!

I am floored by the depth of detail in X4. I was so focused on Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen that I completely ignored X4. Thankfully I heard about the the Star Wars Interworlds mod and just had to dive into this game. Now ED and SC are collecting dust. Your explanations of the mechanics are so useful to understanding how this game works. Many thanks!

For those confused about the rotation....just imagine a tube/line coming from your face into the piece you want to rotate. hopefully that helps someone cuz boy i had so many rage quits before i realized it was dependent on the direction you were looking.

This video is a game changer for x4 newbs. Got extremely frustrated with station building, enough where I uninstalled the game. Watched this vid, re-installed the game and I'm making forward progress. Thank you!

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Important note: If you intend to take control of a sector or the sector youre buildin in may have its ruling faction be destroyed, make sure to place an Admin building first. This will allow you to claim the plot once the ruling faction is destryed. The same applies with unclaimed sectors. if you wanna claim the sector yourself, you need an Admin building and must place it first, before any other modules.

my man, the station cam, you just changed the game in an entirely new way for me. thank you.

Thanks for your work on X4 videos, I use them as a manual for the game. Great content, great presentation. Thanks for the thorough narration as I listen mostly while doing other things. 10:48

I've been reading/watching station build tutorials for years and this is the best I've seen so far.

Thank you so much! I'm back into X4 after a hiatus since v3.0, and stations are something I felt like I never fully understood.

Thank you so much for this guide! I was so lost on building my first station and now I know how. Thank you!

Thank you Captain Collins, just what I needed at this time, having mastered other aspects of the game Station building is my next objective, very helpful.

Oooh, this video was worth it just for the free-look thing! The part I've hated the most about station building is how horrible the default camera is :) It's something that should be in the ingame options :) After 275 hours I'm FREEEEE!

Wow! Very impressed with your video on the basic building of stations. Awesome job!!! Thank YOU! Your explanation of the process was spot on easy to understand. Subscribed and looking forward to more of your videos as I move through the game. Thank you so very much!

Loved the 1st station build video and this one is also amazing. CC; Thank you for all the videos. Just so very very helpful. Cheers all.

Exactly the information I needed, at a good pace. Thanks a lot, great content.

Thanks Captain so much mate, getting into the game and really enjoying it but so much to take on board and this really helped me.

700hrs in game, yet learned new tricks! Excellent work on video production, clear and tight info package.

Thanks for the information with the freecam, it make it so much easier to build Stations 👍

Thank you for the videos, they have been a huge help in my X4 journey. Wish I could support more, but I do watch a lot of your content. Hope you keep doing these when the next X series game comes out. Take care man, keep up the awesome content! 🙃

Thank you for the time and effort you put in to helping people learn to play this game. The information you provide is very helpful...in this video I was very thankful for the advise to change the camera control, and tips on how to rotate/move modules. Thank you for your time and assistance.

Thank you so much for this video - really helpful for me, a struggling newbie.

After not having played X4 since Split Vendetta, this video is very nicely done and informative! Thank you!

Dude, that free cam tip! I saw this video when I first started playing the game, now, after 200+ hours of playing, and after many hours of frustration in the station planner, I remembered this tip. I tried googling it, but it was nowhere to be found, so I had to hunt down this video again xD

Just got back into this game. Thank you for this video. Game is super overwhelming

Vielen Dank für die super Erklärungen. Es wurde ein Abo dagelassen !

Thank you so much Captain, very helpful.

New knowledge again.... Got put a reminder to experiment with this.... Many thanks

Great explanations. Thank you!

Now that I have a better PC - and I know where tio start - I guess I give the new universe a try. Thanks a lot!

These are super helpful!

Thank you so much in your good information. I just asked that how to allocated plots in other sectors.

Thank you, your guides have been great for an x4 newbie.

I just started getting into X4 (late to the game, I know) but your videos are extremely helpful, and I love your vest!

Great video, thanks so much for this.

X4 is such amazing game, I already made 48 hours in the game and still don't know much, having tons of fun at every discovery, Even found a Star Wars mod... So incredible, Thank you for these videos, they helping a lot

Thank you, very well presented.

Amazing video. You have gained a new fan! In adittion, your diction is so good that i managed to understend all the lessons without tradutor and no captions. My english is intermediary and i'm brazilian. See ya!

Best beginner help I found so far. Thank you!

Amazing, thank you 😘

You can also hack blueprints with emp bombs if you don't want to buy blueprints ( only s/m, L and XL bays aren't hackable). But you need the player HQ for that and research it. (Talking about Getting blueprints part in your video) Thanks for showing rotating camera settings for building stations. Didn't know that you need to change the value to true for free camera in the configs. You learn every time new things in x4 . Thanks for the informative beginner guide

Thanks bud. Was easy to follow.

This is great. Very insightful should merge building stations and meeting supply and demand of sectors I always found that I had to go between several videos before I understood the hexagon demand indicators with the trade filters.

Thank you! This is a supremely useful tutorial! I just recently unlocked my PHQ in my game and was searching for something that would give me some pointers as to how to integrate it into my small mining operation to finally transition away from being so dependent on selling raw materials to the Argon Federation & friends and industrialize! Silicium -> Hull Parts Production -> World Domination!

Thanks that helped a lot !👍👍

A great tutorial for a complicated part of the game.

Thanks for the great guide. Perfect timing, as I am just starting with station building. Felt too intimidating beforehand.

Thank you so much !!

Great tutorial. Thanks.

Uff i say too danke dir! i didn't know that with the Station connectivitiy too and the Website i didn't know that too, very Handy! ☺

Very helpful. Nice one

Great video, thank you

A few things I hope they would create aswell 1. Have a pop-up menu when you are building a station. So that when you hover over an factory (ie hull parts) that you get the pop-up and you can see what you need in production. Maybe even if population can increase production 2. Have a extra slider with the buying/selling part. On that only applies to AI and one to player faction. So for example. The first slider is for the AI second for faction. In action, you set the normal slider to 100. The station will then always keep 100 in stock unless factory itself uses it. So all above can be sold off. We will place the second slider (faction slider) to 200. Now the factory will keep 100 and all can be bougt by faction. The AI can only buy parts if the factory has more than 300 units. 3. Have station icons for different factories. So we get set a hull icon of a waffler icon for that factory. The same should be applied to the ai station. Not only will it colour the map, but you can than see in one glance where to go when you need certain stuff. You can setup the trading window ofc to only show hull parts. But if you glance over a sector, this will increase speed. Plus I do not always want to limit my self to set the search for 1 or 2 units. Also I love blueprints. The make the whole process quicker. Plus the big plus is that you can already setup some stations when you do custom maps. Love it (in all games though) :) Cannot wait for 5 to go live and the new dlc. Not sure if i am going to buy the dlc. Depends on the price, since I am no rich man. However I am interested in a copy. Fingers crossed it will be in my budget :P The video was not for me, since I already new how to do all things. However I still enjoyed watching. Thank you. Also what happend with the video before. Earlier today I was watching this video and I was writting the above text. When I was done I pressed submit, but the video was gone?

Thanks for the video.

Thank you for the good videos.

Thank you. I play the series since years but never seem to make factories work

Great video! Thanks! :D

Great video, thanks a lot

Extremely helpful, thank you o7

Thanks

Very useful video. Thank you.

thx

the best advice i can give (as noob my self slabbering station up and having it look like womit at end less than week in x4) USE STATION PLANNER and save to plan -> use that plan for your plot... and use the station calculator to see its validity...

Nice video! Maybe you want to put in a reference to your video about blueprint hacking. I find the module licence prices to be very steep at the beginning of the game.

Nice to know. I noticed your factory did not have any workers. No habitation mods. How is it so profitable without any workers? Given that what good are the habitation modules then?

Once I got passed the majority of the learning curve which is rather large. And finally got my game pad configuration's consiting of only 14 button's which causes me to wish, the game provided a modifier button as they do for keyboard and mouse player's. I soon realized that though one can avoid any and all pew pew, the bulk of the game in which one wishs to become succesfull, evolves a considreably amount of management. So much so, that as one gets closer and closer to becoming more and more succesfull, they will spend more and more time managing, and though some take it as game play, I and assumably many other's don't. Using the various forms of editing via note pad++ and various quality of life mods available via steam. I now only own one ship; The Astrid. I invest any and all of the vast numerios hour's I play, simply flying around like an over the road, short and long haul truck driver's takeing and doing mission's without any regard to where they spawn or where I end up at when competing them. In the time since I first started playing the game which was nearly six month's prior to the newest release of recent DLC. I've adapted to playing the game that in real life one refer's to as a professional tourist. And in so doing, have accumulated the last time I looked and rememeber, more than a half a dozen billion of credit's. Which actually serve's me no purpose. Though I still have to spend my invested time, managing, it's only my ship I've got to manage. I leave the rest of the economy to be what it is. I don't care who's in control of which system or who gets control and who keeps control. Regardless of any of all that, they all have various mission's I can and do perform, which they need done.

Thank you thank you thank you for this excellent guide! Do you have a more advanced building guide?

Maybe I missed it, but for some reason I don't remember you mentioning that players can rotate the building plots on the "Manage plots" screen, too. At least before building of a station began. Other than that, that's the kind of video I could've needed back when I got into X4. ;) Nice one!

Great guide, but if you ever cover this topic again you might want to mention that you have an opportunity to rotate the facing of the plot and set its height in relation to the plane of the map around the 6:30 mark. I don’t believe it is possible to do this after this point once building has begun.

18:00 That line does not appear in the current config file, but you can simply type it in yourself, save the file, restart the game, and it seems to work.

Great guide, but what about removing existing already build modules? if I build 2 solid contains, and say these are full, can I remove one, and if so, what happens to the contents.

Great video captain. Is it possible to expand that station at a later date?

I have my silicon wafer station in morning star IV it has 6 production modules so i have a little problem no one needs the silicon wafers anymore. LOL

Thank you for the guides. Does anyone know how to contribute bought trade wares to to a build to help speed it along? I have a transport filled with hull parts but have no idea how to contribute to my own project.

If you put a silicon wafers factory in Second Contact 2, how to get the miners to go to Second Contact VII to mine silicon and bring back?

Captain Tutorial Collins ! :D

* You can see where everything around the station is located. That can be very handy when placing large docks, so you know where ships are coming from. Sometimes, though, it can be awful because a planet or nebula makes it hard to see. There's an option (under the gear icon?) to switch to a neutral background if the real background is too bothersome. * Control-Z will undo the last thing you did. * Remember you can walk around on those S/M docks. Give'm a good view! * If you don't want to mess with all this, you can always just drop the modules you want anywhere then tell the game to connect them together. P.S. I haven't played since version 4.Something so I could be off here.

Very helpful, thanks! Question: I have read from multiple long-time players who recommend just pushing your miners to sell raw resources to the NPC factions instead of selling products that you build yourself on your stations. Something about the way AI makes use of raw mats versus finished components, I believe. Can you comment on that? Have you noticed that AI factions do better (or worse) in economic terms (which leads directly to performance against xenons) if you just sell them mined resources directly versus building stuff fro mthem and then selling it? Thanks.

I have a question. I have now also built my first production stations and have the following problem. My Stations Manager can only manage one type of miner at a time. So either I can run the gas or the mineral miners over the station. For the other material I always have to switch a trading station in between. Is this a bug or can the station manager only do it with enough stars or is it always like that?

I have a question regarding the beginner station layout you discussed here. Do you need to supply the silicon yourself? Or will it make profit by buying silicone itself too? Is it even better to mine it yourself, if silicone is far away, or may it be better to trade for the silicone? Also, do you have to distribute the wafers with a trader yourself?

Awesome, thanks a million, Just one question, How do you move a plot above or below the sector plane?

Sunlight is also lower in windfall. right click blank area in sector, select encyclopedia entry and you can see the levels. he is right, every other area i checked besides terran are 100%.. except windfall which is 13% which is horrible, the avarice area, have 1390% which is great for supplying stations in windfall but needs to be protected from the tide, so cant build that until you do those missions

Question: What happens if you do not pay the license fee for the station you are building? What if you are building an illegal drug den and don't want to pay anyone? What are the actual in game consequences and are there ways to mitigate the problems presented? Really appreciate your vids man.

hmmm i did not have the station editor free cam option. I added it in anyways.

Do you still need a license for the first base you start when you do the mission?

Question: Would it be possible to build a small station, basically a defense platform that would also resupply my S/M craft with Torpedos as I am a good bit away from 22M to spare for the baseline Argon Auxillary ship and just having refitting done locally. And if you could just a lil guidance as to what that would look like, not a full blown Wharf, just a place to perform a pitstop for want of a better word.

I was trying for a long time to get a plot to rotate so the flat side would line up better with a gate for aesthetics and it just wasn't saving the rotation, until i realized i had to save the whole game and reload it before the rotation change would take affect. OCD Saved.

Hi, do you have a tutorial about station building but in terran sectors? Asking because you said that most of these production modules wont work on terrans.

I'm having problems with my player HQ.😮 it should be self sustaining for microchips with a food and medical supplies but it's just not producing for the crew

I started playing the game from the beginning, I wanted to capture the sector from the xenons, and I ran into one problem, where can you buy blueprints for heavy shields, a destroyer flies in and destroys my infrastructure.

Newer player here, Does anyone know if the station freecam is still there in the config (version6.20 latest)? Having a hard time in the station building screens.

I know it’s an old video, but how did you change the layout of sectors?

IF anyone knows of any actual key controls for rotation etc while trying to manipulate the modules I sure would appreciate any info. Sometimes the right click and move around just is wonky as all hell . I finally learned the camera view perspective which can still be frustrating. ALSO how to make the damn module move like vertically (think moving fleet in Home World how you can hold the shift or ctrl while mouse moving to change the z axis instead of x and y )

Where can we find bases already built? I looked in the wookshop but having problems finding it.

Since every factory requires hull parts, claytronics, and energy cells to make ... why not start with those? Boot strap in to making those, so that the rest of your stations are cheaper and quicker to plop down.

I don't seem to have the stationeditor_freecam in my config file. Am i supposed to add it manually?

Do you have to have all dlc to have all those sectors open

Captain Collins, you are.... the bees knees

Anyone happen to know if there is a tutorial on how to best assign miner/tradeships so that the production station gets the resources it needs and does a good job of selling it? Or is it enough if non-player traders are buying directly from the station? Thank you for this tutorial!

i dont have freecam option in my config odd my one is fairly new installation so wonder if its part of the older config