thanks for this insight

I sailed through the Xenon Crisis with 100 Kats and a support ship. When its end game and moneys no object, huge fleets on M class ships are as good if not better than slugging about in asgards

I use L traders in 6.x just because a giant trading ship with that much cargo is cool. I'm very happy they are getting some love to get their performance on par with the M traders, at least for non-highway routes. If the M remains better for highway areas, that's great because it adds depth and purpose for both!

Honestly S ships have way too much firepower in this game.

Good short tips, love it !

Thank you for this. As a new player its a bit confusing. :)

Good idea to test missile on destroyers.

Great content once again. Thank you.

take the control point from humanity first and that will shift things to be better for you. you want that control point anyway.

extrem interessant danke für die detailierte analyse !

Love you videos, thanks!

I have two death stars in my fleet. Those Raptor carrier are ships armed with many heavy dumbfire mk2 missiles, , the will destroy anything, i happen to have a monitor and small fleet of traders to resupply missiles. Lots of fun clearing sectors with it. Thank you for the information and analysis.

Sure.... why have an encyclopedia in game, if you can put all the actual useful information on a Website 😐

I use the interceptor missiles on my M turrets of my personal Asgard combined with Terran L Beams. I learned to love this missile @multiverse beta test. Btw nice Video❤

La verdad solo uso misiles con los mods , uno salen dinero, dos el daño no es nada del otro mundo , tres el alcance tampoco , solo los misiles contra las naves s/m me parecen útiles.....como extraño los novadrone de x rebirth esos si que eran poder de fuego y podias con dos o tres reducir en mucho el daño que una nave capital te podía hacer

I've always just gone for the heavy dumbfire mk2 missiles and never considered the miss rate compared to the light version. This video was very informative and has given me much to consider. Thanks Immi.

If I try to sell you 100 empty holes and you don't buy them, those empty holes is worth nothing... If no one is buying Smart Chips, smart chips is not worth money. So the only thing worth money is the one thing that your part of the universe is short. Without an universal demand, you can't say that there is a high profit on empty holes, when everyone is buying filled holes that day.

So what happens to public opinion for any unbound Control Point? I guess it does not change at all, does it?

Please more Terra Invicta if you like. I think both beginners and experienced players can learn a lot from this. (heck, sometimes I think even the devs themselves no longer know everything about their awesome game)

This is awesome, thank you so much! With many hundred hours into this game, I would think I knew about this already. However most of my knowledge actually stems from intuition rather than knowledge about the games mechanics (i.e. "unity is not as good when I am not controlling all CP") I was aware of the ideology matrix before, but not how it would affect unity. When controlling 2/4 CP I would have expected to gain twice as much PO as the other two factions. Thanks for the enlightenment. :)

So, don't run Unity for public option unless you own all the control points. Thanks. I was somewhat aware of this, but wasn't sure how it would steer public option towards an average value.

-When Unity decreases public support That happened not so long ago.

Oh my God this so much more complex that I thought. Thank you for explaining this ❤

Thank you.

Thanks for your Video It helps a lot

Dealing with pirates? Same way you deal with khaak, destroy their installations, pirate bases spawn pirates so destroy their bases.

The output bonuses can compound too. Raw resource to refined gives a bonus, then you get another bonus turning it into intermediate products, then again turning it into final products. A 120% bonus at each step equals 172% final product volume, from 100% input resource. Get more from the same number of miners!

all 3 ship material fabs from Terran and Commonwealth generates massive profitssssss

Once all of your S hangar space is full, adding M ships is more ships on the carrier. This is all bonus (except money). I think survivability in small scale, prolonged skirmish engagements is where M ships really shine. Kha'ak, pirates, sector security, etc. I'm glad you made a drones shout out! Having a couple frigates deploying last towers to control the battlefield while the S ships deal damage is fun too

My first factory is always hull parts, claytronics, energy. With closed loop i can build stations for free. Also all of these wares are always in need. Another cheese i found is building a shipyard, allowing all factions to buy. The hostile ones will kill eachother and the wrecks get turned into hull/claytronics for me again. Basically they pay you to recycle them

I also played a bit with the M turrets, I am playing right now a mercenary group helping against the xenons, I have a bunch of Peregrine gunboats (7 at the moment). Flak is indeed the most impressive by far, particularly because it melts M class just as well as S class ships, where laser turrets are useless against M class ships. However, I am using full laser on my Peregrines, 2 mk2 beams in front, and 4 argon laser turrets. First, because I simply like them like that, I find them cool lasering right and left :p And also because of accuracy. With the flak I tend to have a lot of friendly fire, particularly as my ships are bunched up (I have them all as wingmen with the order to attack my target). Now of course if I have to fight a Xenon K I have to replace my lasers by plasma, otherwise I will not dent the thing.

Nearly all my medium military ships are for myself and not AI pilots. The AI can't make effective use of their features. However, I do jave one fleet of traders entirely comprised of captured Minotaur Raiders, which I use in low security space. Whenever I get an alert in those secotrs I can just select the raider fleet amd have it attack enemies in range of the alert. Perfect for cleaning up Kha'ak incursions or swatting down small/medium pirates.

Personally, I like the gorgons for spoecific roles. They're tanky. But they require micromanagement to get the most use out of them.

I gave my Ray 4 Dumbfire Launcher for their forward pointing M slots and it's simply obliterating Ks. As long as you got Dumbfire MK2 your Ray will a K even it attacking it head on

THANK YOU, I was having such a headache trying to create a supply chain that would carry goods from my production system down the line of several trade stations. My traders kept pointlessly running goods back and forth between trade stations and (and going out and selling to AI instead of moving my goods) and I was having to use tons of repeat orders to remedy it.

I have a good solution but i requires a little bit of micromanage, get a dumbfire missile destroyer with long range mk2 missiles, set missile turrets to fire only on your target...get your destroyers into a safe range 10Km or more...select each graviton turret an unleash hell with the long range missiles...I normally prefer using a raptor or two with rockets and do the same...still is slow, but works like a charm

I read not so long ago a long steam review of the role of crew. Pretty sure turret usage was not on the list. Appart from hull repair, I remember it could affect certain scripts, for example the fire avoidance script (boosting when attacked) alongside the pilot (and even in those cases, the pilot skill was making 70% of the total weight). But the crew was involved in less actions than the pilot overall.

This is just silly how easy and OP terran eco is. Later in 7.0 commonwealth is always missing Advanced electronics, Weapon components and Smart chips - lets say we want 4M/h profit station that will produce those + needed stuff. Cost? Around 25M in production modules + like 7 medium miners to supply (not counting blueprints) And now xenophobes - 1 computronic substrate module will give us around 4.5M/h Cost - 2.2M + ~10 medium miners That's fine.

Thank you Immi, I always appreciate your analysis.

Medical supplies also have unlimited demand after doing some terraforming projects, but that is a really late game.

Sheesh i knew Claytronics was bad but gosh that's TERRIBLE

I always had a hunch that energy cells are vetter then their reputation (far to many say they are not worth it).

Absolute amazing info. Thx u mate!

Great and informative content brother, keep it up!

KET Industries appreciates the effort put into showcasing any trade or profit related content. May profits be with you.

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I like the idea but your BO could be much better. Let me give you some tips: 1. Multiple families on the same building has atrocious efficiency, you should get 3 logging camps at first instead of assigning 3 families. 2. It took you forever to build a hunters hut, and you had 2 idle workers and it's free, you should have built it right after the first logging camp. On the same note, you can move the animals by ordering a free building (like a hunter's hut) inside the radius and then deleting it before actually building it. You repeat that until you get them close to you. Finally, your hut placement is bad. If you don't have a granary, the hut goes next to where the stalls will go, because it's better to transport 1 animal in a trip than to make 3 trips for 2 meat and 1 hide. You also get it built sooner that way. Once you have storehouse and granary, you move the hut next to the animals, because the handcarts of those buildings can move 10 items at a time. 3. You built a well, which cost you timber, worker time and makes your workers slack off by fetching water. There is zero reason to have a well before upgrading to lvl 2 houses, it doesn't cause loss of approval. 4. You built a market well before fixing homelessness. This tied up a worker from the hut, which is 10% of your workforce for no benefit at all. 5. You built a church before getting firewood, clothes and fixing homelessness. Cold, lack of fuel, lack of clothes and homelessness have worse penalties than church and are way easier to provide. 6. You did not get a tannery for clothing, opted for buying very expensive clothes instead. I guess you didn't know you can turn hides into leather. You place the tannery close to where the stalls will go. 7. You fixed homelessness without having firewood and clothing. Those penalties are harsher than homelessness, there is no reason to upgrade the workers camp before fixing that. You should have at least 5 meat, 5 leather and 5 firewood before upgrading the tents, and you create the marketplace at the same time you upgrade so they stock the stalls right away (but not before). 8. You built a sawpit, stonecutter and a church before 5 burger plots. Each house increases your workforce by 1, so you missed out on 50% increased workforce. 9. If the stone deposit is far away, build a storehouse before you build the church. They will transport the stone much faster with handcarts. Improved BO: 1. Logging camp and hunters hut (1 worker until at least 5 hides). 2. Two more logging camps (at least 1 worker each). 3. Woodcutter (1 worker until at least 5 firewood). 4. Tannery (1 worker until 5 leather). 5. Upgrade tents and build a 3 stall market. Then man the woodcutter, tannery and hunters hut until they have a stall with 5 goods each. 6. Build 5 burgage plots with space for house extension and backyard, 2 of them with massive backyard for veggies. 7. Build sawpit and stonecutter (in no particular order). If not playing in the experimental patch, assign worker to sawpit only if a log is in storage, until you reach 20 planks. Get also at least 10 stone if the stonecutter is close (i would aim for 25/35 if it's very far, for granary, granary upgrade and Manor). 8. Storehouse (if the stone deposit is not very close). 1 worker, only allow stone to be collected, wait for 10 stone. 9. Church.

Especially in fights with many enemies, Lanchester's square law applies.

The most outstanding analysis of X4 on youtube. Thx!

How do you go attack without any starting militia?