I have more than 3000 hours in this game, and i didn't knew about this commands! Thanks a lot friend!

Thanks :) And yes, the basics carry you a loooong way.

Same, not going to say how many hours I've play buuuut I think they have added features along the way that are easy to over look.

You're welcome :)

Mission accomplished :)

STRG ?

@@timmyingelbrecht6977 CTRL. Sorry, german keyboard. Thanks for pointing out.

Thanks! :)

Thanks for the inspiration. I try not to talk much about strategy so there's enough left for new players to find out by themselves. But it seems like people are interested, so I've put it on my to do list. :)

@@WatchMysh Like I say, I managed to get about 40 hours in, got some mining going etc and then I was "what should I be thinking about now?" so some pointers would be great - I realise that every game is different, and your personal aims dictate your strategy but I imagine there are some basic principles.... I think the weakest part of the game is that it has a steep learning curve (which I'm fine with) but poor tutorials. I'm from the generation that remembers when games came with a proper written manual that explained how things worked and how to do things. I suppose that I'm just a dinosaur!

@@malcolmrose3361 nah. I come from the same ancient time of gaming and I feel the same. Well there are lots of strategies like you said. I personally like the "giant solar power plant" strategy. It's stupidly simple. Sometimes there are sectors with a lot of stations and not a single power plant. Preferably at the ring highway. Build a solar power plant with a pier and a dock there and like... 32 solar panels. Set the price to 11 credits which should outbid everyone else. Doesn't earn a fortune like for example an advanced electronics factory. But it's a steady source of income and requires no resources to run. Maybe attach a trader or two. The plant builds itself. I start with 2 panels and then I slowly install more over time. If you pick the right spot it's almost always sold out. If not, reduce the price to 10.

Agreed 👍

Thanks :) Mission accomplished.

You're welcome! :) If anything still gives you trouble just ask.

@@prodmyxi appreciate it, thanks! 🤗

This! Please give us some next steps. Great vids!! Keep it up

Thanks! I was on vacation for a while. Will start recording once I get back in a few days. :)

Thanks! :) That's what I always try to do: make complex stuff easily understandable.

Thanks :)

Thanks and welcome to the community! More videos incoming - I'll be back from my vacation in a few days. :)

Thanks! :) Happy to help. The goal was to make an entertaining to watch tutorial which doesn't waste anyone's time.

@@simond.455 Let's gooo :)

You're welcome! :)

Thank you :)

Glad it helped

I'll be back in a week. Will start recording immediately then. :)

Have fun! I'm on vacation rn but back in a few days. :) Will start recording immediately.

@@WatchMysh Sounds great. I tried the advanced tutorial, but it wasn't a help in regards on how to start a station, eg. refinery :D Enjoy your vacation

Thanks! :) Hf! :)

It's random. :) I'll be back at the keyboard in a few days. Will start recording immediately. :) What do you mean by no revenue? You don't get money when your miners are selling?

@MYSH I just had to be patient! Takes time for it to hit the ledger while they work. Your videos inspired me to make an x4 video. Great stuff, and thank you!

@@staybussin happy to help :) Nice video, by the way! :)

Can't fall in love with everything I guess :) For me it took weeks to get a grasp of the X-series way back in the days with its first installation. It's an unwieldly beast...

@WatchMysh I'll get in the mood for a 4X game again and we will see if it works for me then

Thanks for the appreciation! :) Hm. This sometimes happens if there are not so many reosurces in a system. Or if your ore storage is full but you already checked and it's not. Hard to say. Sometimes the AI just has a stroke also. Maybe let one of your miners mine in another system? Just to see what happens?

Thanks :)

I always fly around exploring, clearing some mines, destroying criminal station traffic (gets rep up, too), collecting stuff from killed Xenon and so on... all while I roughly check out the most important sectors. I usually have enough money for 1-2 M miners within an hour or two. Sometimes quicker if I stumble over some crystals. I don't salvage abandoned ships early on because that's too easy and they always are at the same position. Or I just do the Hatvikah plot where you get the free ship. Sometimes I sell it to get the Miner quicker.

@@WatchMysh yes, crystals... You haven't mentioned those in your videos

@@DmytroBogdan yes, I try to teach basic controls and game dynamics and still leave room to explore and find out stuff on your own. So I decided to explain the mission system in my basics tutorial because you need to know where it is and how it works for the story missions, too. :)

@@ShaftyMegee :D

@@WatchMysh reassigning my miners made me realize I literally exhausted the need for silicon in a sector. I'm constantly learning new things 😌. Thanks for the vid

@@ShaftyMegee X4 is a hole without a bottom. In a positive way.

Only problem from what I've heard is that the Mimic command only works with combat commands and not transport or mining this is as of 7.0 not sure when it was changed though I don't remember it working in 6.0 either. But still a great video for new and old players. I've got more that 3000hrs in game and still learning stuff or getting new ideas from these videos.

@@robertstretton3347 Thanks! And yes, it worked in 6.0. Else I wouldn't have put it in the tutorial. Doesn't work with 7.0 now? Didn't play a lot lately. Have to re-check and put a correction in the sticky... thanks for pointing out there's an issue! :)

If you have the money to spare get them all and you'll have a lot to discover. But the base game still has it all - except the Recycling from Avarice.

Bro - also found my way to X4 from star citizen o7

Yes

Did I? Of course you shouldn't. Wasn't on purpose.

Minerals are indicated by colored areas within the sectors. The sectors themselves aren't marked as mineral rich. You shouldn't be able to mine by yourself if there's no ore present ... that's weird. But you can always crack open asteroids for other resources.

You're welcome :)

No. It's just for the tutorial. You can get the same result with gas miners.

Set guidance appears when you're in control of the selected ship. It you want to set waypoints, get up from your chair and let the pilot take over :)

@@WatchMysh ahhh okey dokey. Thank you.

@@fictitiousnightmares np. Hf! :)

@@WatchMysh Hmm, to be honest, I took you at your word as I had not hired a pilot yet. Now that I have, and I get up from my seat and he takes over I still only get the same 'start guidance to position'. I have no idea what I am doing. I thought I was getting the hang of this a bit, but the sectors are divided up into parts of the sector and I can't even navigate to the black part of the sector. the highway jumps from one little area to another then dumps me off, there is no loop. I can't set waypoints. I'm obviously a total newb, but man, come on.

@@fictitiousnightmares I am having the same problem. First my crew information is different than what is shown in the video. I hired a captain, but he is shown as a relief pilot. There is no list of crew at the bottom. I also can't set way points, just "start guidance to position" whether I'm piloting or the other captain is flying.

AFAIK - no, it has to have 3 stars too to mimic advanced, otherwise they would sit and remain confused what to do

Thanks. If it was mentioned in the video i must have missed it.

Forget to mention that. Yes, it won't work and you'll get a "mimic impossible" error.

@@WatchMysh ooh nice, they added an actual error instead of just sitting weirdly in one place, taking ages before you notice that :D

@@LeonserGT Don't know if that's true, though. Just checked on reddit. Post was from 2022. So maybe they've actually added the error message. I can't test it because I'll be afk for a while.

I'm afk at the moment but will return in a week. I'll start editing new videos then :)

You're welcome! :)

I'd wait for a sale, too. But you can already try out the improvements with vanilla.

You can. Select the ship, than right click on the wharf. Select dock and upgrade. It should just stay docked and the upgrade screen opens.

That's weird. All guides are recorded using a vanilla game. Did you install some interface mods and forgot about them by any chance?

@@WatchMysh I don’t have any UI mods installed. I don’t know if it’s because of keybinding being different since I can’t find the way to set it up the way you described in part 1.

Thanks! :) I didn't make 7 mil this quick. I already had them and then made the video - so I don't have to play for hours until I can record the next chapter.

Hard to tell. It just sits in the middle of an ore field and doesn't mine? Is it missing equipment? Does it have a mining laser? Cargo hold maybe full and it cant sell?

@@WatchMysh Cargo hold is empty, and it mines if I move it into a sector with little to no resources, it just wont mine in the area i want. It keeps moving to the same red tile and just sits vertically and spins there without doing anything. I tried setting it to mine in zones manually using right click and same thing, it just travels, stops then moves on until it can get back to spinning in place.

@@fritta129 This is strange. The fact that it mines in other sectors is weird. So it just spins in place and you don't get any error message in the behavior tab?

@@WatchMysh No issues or errors in the behaviour tab. It is now moving between 2 different tiles on the map in the Second Contact II Flashpoint sector (if this helps). It will go to one area, sit vertically for a while then move to the next and repeat infinitely. It appears as though there are 5 other AI mining ships stuck in this same loop however every now and then they will drop ice containers with 400-500 materials.

@@fritta129 super weird. Could be a bug or sth. Post it on the official forums if you can be bothered. Either you get a solution or the devs get a bug to fix.

You don't need to. That's an automatic behaviour which is triggered if you tell a ship to go somewhere. It's a state the ship is in and not something you specifically tell it to do.

Should be. But if you cant find anything in Argon, then go somewhere else. The principles of this tutorial apply anywhere. :)

Thanks :) Yes, I'm just showing the mechanics and how things work. Wanted to keep things simple and video length short. There are missions that pay more - I think people can find them on their own.

@WatchMysh could you do another for a better way to make money for get to 3mil asap to then be able to start the auto mining?

@@Just1Ace I will look into it

@@angel_machariel no you can give the scout some probes and let it drop them. Same with satellites.

@@WatchMysh But it won't do it automatically when lucrative resource are found? Then what do I need to look for when it's exploring? I'm in the system Asteroid Belt: there's resources everywhere.

@@angel_machariel you need to check for high density resource locations. Think of it as an area rather than a certain spot.

@@WatchMysh Ah I see, and then I have to order the AI pilot manually to drop a probe there I suppose.

@@angel_machariel Yes. You can queue multiple commands and you might also pick up a probe again if the results weren't satisfying. If you hover your mouse on the probe you see its range and yield.

X4 is very different. It starts out as a pilot sim and transforms into strategic economic just as you approach midgame. Absolutely no need for a HOTAS or dual stick as it's best controlled with m/k. Still a great game, just a different approach to "space gaming".

Thank you for that quick response, appreciated !@@WatchMysh

@@MrFreewillsacrifice np! :) Ask away if you want to know anything else. And notice that my tutorials are a series. The 1/4 is a beginner's guide to X4 and shows you all of the basics.

Thanks for the Input. It's a nice way to scout very early to map one or two sectors. As I said: use the standard explore command later. Had to keep the tutorial at a digestable length. I'd call what you just described as "advanced scouting" I reserved for a later tutorial. I'd be happy to hear what you have to say about weapons. Did you already thorougly test the Boron arsenal?

@@WatchMysh Yeah, i can see it being slightly advanced. Especially with the higher cost of multiple ships. And yup, i did do a proper examination and testing of boron weaponry. I got all the numbers and funky mechanics.

@@kajarslibrary5404 nice :) what's your conclusion?

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@@garushkahn5857 lol. Yes... The ingame tutorials are still a bit hard to follow. EgoSoft featured my video series on top of their tutorials list, though. So a lot of people find their way here. :)

I think I know why, I have the commander set to mine the sell for the order and the behavior is set to repeat. since the fleet will only mimic the behavior, "repeat" isnt a good behavior to mimic.

Ooh that makes sense! Thanks for posting the solution after you found it!

I took a little break because of the broken economy. Will continue once they get over their greed.

Yes

Coop would be really cool