The target is a military ship, and will fight you to the death (or bail) before reporting you to sector security. I Click/Select the Fighter, Right Click on the Freighter to Escort, Select DEFEND. New gamestarts introduce players to the identities and political stances of the Terran factions, and offer alternative perspectives on events in the story of X4: Foundations. No idea if anyone has more or even better ideas. In sector I personally like Beam weapons because of the accuracy, out of sector damage is king because weapons are 100% accurate. They are a good way of managing your trading and mining ships by grouping ships together in your GUI. the right-click menu). However decided I could have two types of Ares one specifically to deal with fighters and the other for. may be best not to be on either ship personally (may be better if you are out of sector). But they are harassed a lot so get good turrets and few defence drones on those. 0 and the very handy introduction of "Mimic" assignment in X4 4. I find really bizarre the difference between IS and OOS combat. The ship they where escorting was in another sector. Is there a setting that will permit the escort ships to attack something that comes near them while still having them set to escort?The ship which is supposed to be escorted spawns and just sits there. if you think of them as the Tank in a group of ships they are fairly decent in that role, if you think of them as frontal assault DPS (which is how most people think of destroyers) they are pretty bad. There should be a mod to reduce the moral of my crew each time i cowardly teleport out of a stuck ship or out of a tough fight 😅. (having the entire fleet set to defend means they wont help in a fleet fight until that ship gets shot). I wouldn't expect the boarding mechanics to be much different in X4, but the recovery costs to be far greater if you decide to cap ships this way. Now 5 Boa's means 100 marines. 0, you can have miners trade for station without the need for repeat orders. You can see this best when you finish capturing a ship. I mined manually for a bit but now I have an NPC mining for me and I. The official X4 subreddit. Any ideas ? thanksWhile it may not be blessed with millions of turrets, I've seen solo Asgards (their escort died in earlier battles) take out entire fleets and clearing whole xenon sectors, just by themselves OOS. Higher difficulty missions can have anywhere from 2 K L capships to 16 P M fighters. The discussion thread on the discord channel is endless so i thought it would be a good idea. Try to reduce their price and mass produce them for swarming. When enabled, Kuda changes this to their weapon ranges - like destroyers. And even policing or Patrol the ships dont respond to miners getting attacked (Its dumb police should respond to attacks in the sector). In this list we want to put the sector we are processing in, for example Silent Witness XII. i destroy the stations and they just build them a sector behind me and its never ending. If you want them to escort your ship, you need to place them as the ship subordinate, not the station. For the most part as long as you don't do anything dumb you are fine. Trying figure out best engine setup for "M" traders/miners and "S" explorers. When you order a fighter to protect one of your other ships, the game thinks you are assigning the fighter as a subordinate. Dr Bozo asked you to rescue him and take him to the station. Dec 18, 10:57. e. And I now found around 10-13 corvettes and around 7-8 traders/ miners. This can lead to full blown war. But a Rule of thumb for most of the time, Defense Platforms work well while in-sector , and Fleets work well while out-of-sector. 0 KE] The thick border around some sectors in both maps is to indicate that they form part of the same stellar system and connected by accelerators rather than jumpgates. Like 1/2 to 2/3 the speed of any other destroyer. 3. When your fleet is big enough to have some spare, do computronic factory in Mars and Segaris. Apr 20, 09:35. #3. First, with my Discoverer I go to a corner, then I order the pilot to make a spider web. Drones are the easiest but I don't think they deploy out of sector. Teladi are traders. Of course this means that the new ships will also be in the release version, as soon as the 6. Ships seem to joust in sector so the slower the ship the more firing time you get. Hive: The toughest (durability wise) AI stations you will face. Fighter - Gladius. In the previous version, the mission pointer switched between the ship and the ship and its destination depending on whether you're in or out of escort distance. Given coordinates are from the sector center, but just for the reference as they can't be seen in the game and it's hard to refer to sector center because of the sector dynamic scaling. You can highlight/left click the wireframe sphere to drag it around. Use blacklists to keep traders well away from "hot" areas. "Out of sector" (it is "out of zone" in X4 - basically 30+km distance of the player) you might want to have a fleet to deal with K's. Space Ships a. Silicon and Methane being the pain. Grand Exchange 1 is owned by the Teladi race. Wrong orders (having ships set to defend, and wondering why they are not assisting in the fight(IE you have 5 destroyers set to attack a target. i must mention, that this happened way back in 1. g. Escort ship out of sector. Picking up loot from friendly faction ship battles is easy money. Transition. The Takoba is a nice little ship, very sharp and fast. Wrong turret behavior. mmmcheesywaffles Apr 4, 2021 @ 6:33am. Any ideas ? thanksWhen enabled, Kuda changes this to their weapon ranges - like destroyers. do your homework as a trader. Best of all, if you lose the drone, drones are cheaper than a fine meal to replace! You can also use drones offensively. Go to behavior, select auto mine. Another really bizarre thing and I might be totally wrong but I've seem to noticed is this. It was manageable and a bit of a challenge in X3 but really good i thought. Last Update: 16 Jul 2023. Trinity Sanctum III: Has most mineables and what it does not have will be found 1 sector away. 1: Default Behavior, this is what a ship will be doing most of the time in a fleet. ago. You can specify faction and sizes of ships you are looking for. They are fast and durable but lack the powerful forward weaponry of other L and XL. Select Captain then confirm . 3: Make some repeating patrols and Defense Bases to hold the Pirate activity low and life with the looses. Missions provide short term (or sometimes rather long term) goals for you to achieve and rewards for doing them. and don't want to escape the sector. However, it does have a little structure in it. Generally speaking the game is designed for the player to build stations within the factions sectors. Why is their 200 freaking Ka,ak ships in one stop. by gifred. Moderator: Moderators for English X Forum. Fighters with beam weapons seem to destroy other fighters easily in sector. . -out of sector or at ranges greater than maybe 100 km from the players position the combat mechanics change vastly. by jlehtone » Mon, 1. SageOfTheAether Dec 1, 2018 @ 1:22pm. This forces all the drones to be out the ship so you have your full force at all times. Can someone give me a quick rundown of how to set up a “carrier” properly (I say carrier, but it’s actually a frigate I am flying that I want to have 4 fighters assigned. then the Squadron Designation (usually Delta). some of their native engines are not suitable (god awful in fact) for civilian operations. and don't want to escape the sector. Pilot your ship yourself. MFG. Because when you give ships the order to defend order ships. (4) Destroying other ships in area. For a fighter, that might be 2x faster than the transport it's supposed to be escorting. Each one. In this universe, you can grow from being the lone pilot of a fighter ship, to managing a vast empire, commanding your fleets and designing colossal space stations. Working on laser towers and F/F mines to remedy it. No MIN will not go hostile with you for killing SCA ships. During the visit to the faction representative (i. Now fly to it and eject lasertowers every so often. If, like me, you're relatively new to the game and finding it hard to really get into I heartily recommend checking out the interworlds mod. . . ) 2. (interception is the best for defending miners) Last edited by Wraith ; Apr 11, 2022 @ 3:58pm. Is also positioned near the highway ring so trade is efficient. Of course nothing will because its slow af. ago. But why not use the protect ship command/sector command. X4: Foundations > Spoiler Discussions > Topic Details. There are ship settings and menu commands to order drones to defend ship, attach other target or return and land. 3 frigates for interception, 2 frigates for defense. The expansion brings the X series back to Earth. (3) Ignoring ship to be protected. For your miners if it really is pirates, then you need an armed escort. This is all from skirmishes in Hatikvah's Choice, fleet set to defend area, with 1-3 Ks and a bunch of smaller ships coming through the gate every now and then. Finally, you can cheap out on equipment for your early M miners. the ship is in the "inside" dock, so i cant even teleport to it and fly it myself. This forces all the drones to be out the ship so you have your full force at all. Some M ships (with S land pads) can also carry and launch 6-8 defense drones. I assigned one Quasar fighter to each of my transporter and I constantly see them flying off, but this is just proposterous - my trader complained about pirate approaching, I checked the map - and his escort was happily flying towards highway lane ignoring the trader. Max range: 15 sectors. I have a monitor with trade ships assigned to it that do not want to supply the monitor, which is also the fleet commander. How you outfit these might change depending on if you'll be mostly in sector or out of sector. I blew up every part of a xenon shipyard in a Matrix sector. X4:Foundations Map with all DLCs. By using a Task force structure and keeping your subbordinates contained within their specific roles the. #2. I use sector resources. 0 gameplay. Dark Version [6. Re: Best sectors for superfactories. Earlier I had a couple of followers tag along while I explored a sector. Ive had it spawn next to the gate i entered from and next to the station. 2 déc. I like using the Helios ships because they are pretty agile and carry an adequate amount of cargo, but I have a lot of the. . The ship they where escorting was in another sector. Likewise you could change the engines on the escorts to one that. That is how you protect traders. Ok i get it now. accept the inital mission after building the dock and when the Boron asks you to come and help him with his task, he requires a fast escort ship. Hey all,i have no success in destroying xenon stations OOS/IS without manually moving every ship into range of the main battery or plasma turrets. efhunter Dec 2, 2018 @ 12:20am. It flies far ahead of ship B to the place ship B is going. If you want factions to assist you then you have to build up their economy to where their fleet is strong. They had followed me for a bit, and it's not the first time I've seen the police express interest in my ships. e. AFAIK assigning wings is just a bad idea in its current broken state. Lucius Confucius Mar 18, 2021 @ 11:04am. The asteroid will obliterate your ship. So I am on the PHQ quest as a Terran, and I am supposed to escort a ship out of a sector. Using carrier type AI. Dec 19, 21:22. You can get an ai pilot to drop the satellites while you are out. All I have is a plenty of defence platforms in my sectors. Engines + scout question. No fighters dying but they are there too, flying around. Unfortunately this also makes the ship less likely to escape if fleeing from a threat. Then when you land you might see people come running out. and those 5 destroyers each have 2 Medium ships to defend them. My problem was trafic jam on gate, it was expensive to change all miners to "biggest cargo". To see missions being offered, press M to bring up the map. I am searching for these small mods that make the Game a little better. If you notice it happening, just move their destination slightly. So I am on the PHQ quest as a Terran, and I am supposed to escort a ship out of a sector. The only thing I need to update is how long the large ship needs to jump, this part. ago.