Don't forget about the training seminars for pilots AND managers, early game they can make a good bit of difference if you place a station within 2 sectors/jumps of your customers needing those resources your miners are busy grabbing. And I love The Reach and Silent Witness I for my main station building sectors. Great video series, as always RG! Keep 'em coming, Brother!

5:20 One number is the Ware amount, the other is the Volume amount, since Ore and Silicon have a Volume of 10, 100k Ore will require 1M Volume storage. Ice has volume of 6.

The reason why it shows both, and the reason why the number is different for Ice to Ore, is because everything in the game has a volume it takes up for one unit. Ore takes up 10 meters cubed. That is why one million of meters cubed gets occupied by 100.000 Ore. But Ice takes 8 meters cubed for one ice unit. That is why 333.328 meters cubed "fit" 41.666 Ice, because 333328/8=41666

Thank you man for creating these guides! I learned SO much from your mining outposts video - now I am getting 30- 100 mio credits an hours - you are a godsend ! Looking forward to your videos about fleets ( would love to learn more on how you wage war in you 1000 h save ;-) that you mentiond in your interview with CEO of egosoft !

Cheers for this. Used to have an awesome trade station network set up back when X4 first launched but that was years ago and I need a refresher to remind my old fart brain how the hell I managed it!

Thanks for this gread guide (and all your others). Hope you continue to provide this type of content! So, at earlier game stages, the benefits are: you can start with low level captains that will not run idle, you have a fixed distance to a (almost) guaranteed buyer and you have more and centralized storage for bulky goods. But I wonder what the opportunity costs are: If you buy a miner for 1 Mio and a trading station for 1 Mio, you can buy a second miner and have both of them sit idle for 50% of the time, which they probably won't. Where do you see the break-even point and how much does a basic trading station setup actually cost (hiring a builder, buying/shipping resources, construction time, etc)?

You cant add production module to a trading station, the manager will not work properly as a trading station manager. Unless this has been patched, its bugged...

Isn't there an auto loop for you're traders to setup the same amount of buying and selling things?

Question: What does it mean to "buy" from your own faction? Is there any exchange of actual credits when one of your miners goes and "buys" from your trading station?

You could have researched how automatic storage works, we do know, it's not a new game, we have every single detail in the game nailed down and even dev verification for it.

Great video! one question i have: how do you perfectly align all the satelites in a system?

If I wanted my trade station to sell to only me then I could set the sell restrictions to my faction just like the buy or would it be better to set it in the trade rules for that individual station?

Fresh start and 4 years rusty for me. All the dlc missions are bogging me down and my adhd assed brain doesn't help, but damned if i don't love this instalment of the franchise. I didn't mind Rebirth after a year of debugging and patching tbf.

How do you get that perfect satellite coverage in your systems?

How do you set your Sat's like this. They are nearly in a perfect range to each other... The other thing is, why do you not just put your miners on "mine for station". The same for selling. It makes no sense.

You have so many resource probes. I find my miners will try to find ore in empty spaces even tho there are probes on areas with a lot of ores in the same sector, wasting minutes until they make it somwhere with ore by accident. AI in this game is so dumb in about every section.