Depending how quick we get set up and balance the fleet logistics, we might go for the mega conquest victory. CSA ally, take out ICG and colonise there systems then spread from east to west and take out all the other factions that won't become our vassals. The game does have an event where Kamino becomes a proper faction which would be good as I've never don't much with the Kaminoans before. And I want to take the Imperial research station in the Maw as I think we can unlock new ships through it now. So much to do.

It can be anything we want it to be in our magical land of make believe haha. But yeah, more of a confederation. But also no, because of how X4 works. We'll be more like Hapian mercs I spose...either which way should involve some explosions and big ships going boom boom.

@@captgumption 'Splosions? Boom boom? Mesa like!

As a matter of fact. I did buy a sword, its a beautiful hand and a half long sword and I'm very much looking forward to using it XD. It's just shy of 4ft and sings a very pretty tune.

@@captgumption "hey Siri" Remind me to not make Captain Jack upset.

Haha. Sounds about right. It's not far off some of the car park battles I've seen in the past.

I would love that. I still need to figure out how to get the mandos on side with me. If we go into there space, they'll shoot us down and they won't let us trade with them either. Good be a way to make friends if I can get a easy mission from them to get us a reputation point or two though.

At the very start of that series I did a custom start and gave myself the blueprints and all of the parts needed to build the ships. You could also do a custom start and set your reputation high enough with the Sith to be able to buy there ships and blue prints from them.

To get the mod you can join the Star Wars Interworlds discord channel. They post all the download files on there, plus it has many helpful people to get you started.

Well sir, allow me to retort. Where as the standard N1 is very much a well craft and artisanal piece of refined machinery, the modified one is not so. The modified one is very much a good Starfighter, but I think it would be lacking in atmosphere due to the removal of panels which would created fair bit of drag and have key components exposed to even smaller arms fire from the ground. It's main advantage is its speed, which would be ideal for scouting and hit and run tactics, but due to its lack of an astromech, you'd have to have Jedi like reflexes to hit anything on the ground at speed. The lack of astromech also means its got a big downfall in space travel too as you'd need to do most of the hyper speed calculations yourself unless its got a super computer in it like the Falcon, which I doubt as its a pretty small ship.

I'm thinking a Naboo house would be nice. Got access to some nice ships then as well and got some good trading opportunities.

I'm honest. One of our slogans is "We want your money, and don't want to give much in return". As for your proposition, I've not got $20 so I'll have to pass on this occasion...sorry lol.

@@captgumption obviously jokes, my point being, I'm salty from the Tinder scammers.

Here's hoping! As far as I'm aware all the fleet improvements have been ported over to the new version of the mod so everything should work fine...Although this is X4 so we shall see haha.

I thought I recognised it! Might have to grab one and the rest of the old republic ships and make a old republic fleet.

It's definitely got potential. Just got work out the faction logistics. We could potentially do a Hapes/CSA alliance and fight the ICG, try and trigger the Kamino event and get Venators and the CSA's XXL ship for our end game ship. The CSA have some systems that are unclaimed too. We shall see though, first thing first is get some income and stations going.

@@captgumption That sounds amazing to do. Please get on it.

Haha. Just pretend its the central exhaust bit or a some sort of oxygen spout for igniting the main drives.

It would be a major pain and I don't think it would even be possible. The set up for it wouldn't be too difficult to get the ships in technically, the last imperial play-through I did was the biggest pain in the backside I've had to deal with so far. It's weird because the game (X4 - not the mod) has some much potential to make a really good sandbox sim in the design, but then just throws up silly restrictions. It feels like something made by a bunch of tech wizkids who don't really care for the UI bits lol.

@@captgumption yeah I was hoping we'd gegt a better game engine with this game. Graphics look nice.

Which one, I make make so many ha...

I can live with Mud. I can be Harry Mud. One of my favourite Star Trek characters. The N1 is on the list for sure though. I fancy it as a personal fighter.

Fine! Leave me Matt...everyone else does. Jokes. Thats not a problem. Best way to enjoy a game is to play the game. What faction you thinking of playing? You going to post it up on Tubes land for us all to enjoy and watch? Any questions throw them up and I'll see what I can do.

@@captgumption I don't know, I tried to play it a while back and was GODAWFUL at it, got frustrated, and sat the game back down. On paper, it's a space game, open world, dynamic, gigantic, basically everything I would love, but thus far I can't get into it.

Well. It's funny you should say that. I was having a little play on the new update earlier to get a lay of the land and we might just be able to get something a long those lines. Let's just say I'm hoping for a Hape's Giga Alliance.

@@captgumption That kind of hope will ne coming along, Captain Gumption.

oooh yea, Both of those sound REALLY fun.

Cheers. Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for the kind words.

I'm thinking for the second play through of doing the Kuat trader start. Kuat shipyards has all but one of the new ACS ships and is a fairly solid start for a good trader playthrough. Bit reluctant to do another IMP campaign and I always find the ACS can get slapped pretty hard pretty quick. Had it before with the NRL taking out all the major wharfs for the ACS withing first 10 hours of play. Might be risky for a series as I'm expecting the new series to last a fairly long time. Have you done an ACS start yet? If so, what are they looking like strength wise?

@@captgumption I have started the new playthrough and NRL does not stomp the ASC mainly because of Bellator, they only lost Chardaan but holding onto Yag'Dul and going back and forth. NRL killed at least 2 Bellators so far, and they seem to have at least 2 Home One type MonCal ships (with headhunter mod there is a leaderboard of most wanted ships and once there were 2 home ones on it). NRL is starting to get the upper hand but my economy got to a level where ASC is starting to revive. ANO is helping a lot too when it seems to be a bad situation (they provide much needed fighter support with Quasar carriers and have some L ships to distract the masses of NRL ships). So at the moment Pax is under pressure and Foless is under attack by ASC. I use the replenish missiles mod, Headhunter and, better kill credit so there my be some differences in experience. I might be in favour of NRL because of the sheer amount of missile capable fighters. I am at 1d 17h in, so I doubt that ASC is dead by the 10h mark. I think the new ships are not utilised to their fullest like Fulgor is a carrier with long range ion support but there seems to be not enough things to support it. Vigil is basically like a Nebulon-B but it has no real anti-fighter weaponry (except the missiles, it is the saving grace of the ship) so it just gets overwhelmed and squishy like Nebulon-B, but I beleive it can destroy a Nebulon 1-on-1 because it can punch above its weight with many light torbolasers (XX2 turbolasers I beleive have the highest DPS after Heavy Turbolasers, yes I have not seen any M turret with higher DPS, but thes struggle to hit anything smaller than L ship). Velox is kind of like a small Enforcer without the missiles, it is not strong enough to go up against most L ships alone, but it has decent arcs of fire with the S size turrets so I made a kind of picket ship of it, with having all lasercannons insted of light turbolasers. So ASC have lots of support ships in L category, so the only problem is the Procursator XL ship, It would need to tank in front of the Ls but they keep this weird behaviour of sniping with the 3 Heavy Turbolasers and keeping range while the Ls just get killed. And I noticed that most XLs are Procursators and only big fleets have ISD. Bellator is a nice tank on the other hand and when there is a L fleet with Bellator they shine. So the AI is just too stupid to get the most out of the ASC fleet comp. ASC became too reliant of having different ships work together and one their fleet gats separated it brakes apart fast. They do not really have anything other than the ISD and 546 that can work alone or with any other ship type (Velox is versatile too but not tanky enough). The loss of the Vindicator (and Enforcer) as a second line tank and brawler kind of hurts. Oh and I do not know if it is a result of replenish missiles mod, but fighters and bombers seem to rule everything, that is mostly the reason ASC loses, they run out of fighters lot faster than NRL.

@@nr0760 Cheers for the Info. I'm glad I've gone for the Kuat trader for my second playthrough. ASC solo sounds like a grind, a fun grind but a grind none the less. Kuat have 3 of the 4 new ASC ships (minus the Belator) plus some Imp ships and access to the NRL ships. Figuring for the playthroughs I do on here the Hapes majority of ships and a Kuat trader/working towards a mixed fleet approach. Gives me a rest from full on gearing up for war every episode.

Hapes seems to not be at war at the start (might have some scripted event like Anoat), but looks like they hate every Major Faction except the Manalorians. And I do not know if it is a bug on my side, but the Nova Battle Cruiser of Hapes is missing medium shields for engines and turrets.

Reported the missing shields, it is said to be fixed, but I do not know when the fix will be available.

It's a shame its not seen more. It my preferred X-Wing variant in the game.

Excellent news. Still not decided yet as waiting for the Hapes info. It's so hard to decide because we've got so much new ships. Going to both be small start series though I think because of the new maintenance mechanics. ACS seems logical, might be a ACS only campaign + a Hapes alliance if the game lets me. Might be nice to do one of the set starts for a change. As always open to suggestions.

@@captgumption Are you thinking about standard or advanced starts? Do not know if there will be any Hapes one, but I am surely going to start as the standard ASC start when the patch hits. It is kind of a zero to hero start. The Kuat trader could be interesting, if you want to skip a lot of the starting grind. But I do not know the starting relations of that one so you might need to check it out if it meets your needs. Personally I think any of the advanced starts would be interesting to watch, they have a hard starting position and a custom quest.

Glad it helped. I'm the same. I get really frustrated when I can't get to where I want to be.

@user-lf2cd9us7g you need to change the version of X4 to 6.20. You do that under the betas tab on steam.

I have no idea! They must not get out much or they aint worth bothering. Everyone else seems mega angry (bit like real london haha). At the moment we are playing on normal...Imagine how bad it would be if we cranked it up to the hardest setting haha.

More like isolationists, they do have weapons they just don’t go looking for trouble

Yarrrrr!!!

I'll give it ago and see what happens. I've tried mimic for traders and miners in the past and it sometimes work well. Like a lot of the orders in this version of X4 some of its just a bit janky at times. I think we are starting to push some limits in the game too lol. Last episode I recorded is resulting in many frames being killed.

Just interworlds at the moment. Might be a crew leveling mod installed somewhere but pretty sure that stopped working.

@@captgumption Thanks for the reply! Wanting to start playing it too. Good to see a lot of stuff is already included in the mod.

Thanks. I always welcome new fleet suggestions. What were you thinking?

@@captgumption i run a mc40a with 4 crusaders and 4 lancers. Then filled up with arc 130s. The turret squad. Use them as an anti fighter screen squad or just to harass small fleets. I call the mc40a the Righteous Indignation. Noc Fisto Nautolan cpt at your service