Auxiliary Ships Guide - X4 Foundations - Captain Collins

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[@CaptainCollins]

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[@SergeyPupkoMusic]

Me after watching this video: I need to get a. Auxiliary ship... Also me after watching this video: I don't even have a fleet.

[@NeoAcario]

IMO aux ships work as better carriers... since they can print missiles from cargo materials. Just keep them a touch further back from the front line. Also, launch tubes on the Honshu means it can launch fighters faster than the Tokyo... it just carries 10 less.

[@jasonruff1270]

I don't even have the game

[@cumunist2120]

If it’s not possible it should be to just take control of a aux ship park in a war zone and get paid for repairing the faction of your choice

[@LeonserGT]

Then get a fleet with three easy steps... 1) go to faulty logic and get free destroyer and sell it 2) for that money, buy shiyaku freighter in argon prime, fill it entirely with marines, NO GUNS OR TURRETS 3) board argon nomad in that same sector without rep loss, don't kill fighter escort - they will calm down eventually voila, you now has a boarding aux ship to capture any other ships and repair them to assemble your fleet :P

[@SergeyPupkoMusic]

@@LeonserGT nah... Faulty logic, done, but, I have bigger problems on my hands. I have a 75 Katana fleet garding savage spur II to Getsu Fune gate, and 2 Asgard, 1 Tokyo, 4 Sys and and a Terran auxiliary (always forget what it's called) along with 80 Katanas and 40 kalis guarding Savage Spur I highway. I built them all myself (except maybe one or two capitals)... So that's sorted. 😂

[@cnewtonc]

*X4 is my favorite game of all time and I have been playing video games for more than 32 years* Since the days of PONG. Great Contain on this Channel. You have a new subscriber.

[@Ironbuket]

Hmm, something is not quite right here. Pong for home use started in the 1970s. If you were a bit late and waited for the Atari 2600 that would be the very early 80s. That would make it 40 years or more. 32 years ago, you would be playing something like Mario Kart, Super Star Wars, Sonic the hedgehog, Dune 2, Ultima Underworld etc. Even if you were playing Pong 32 years ago, it was not the ‘days of PONG’ (they had long passed by then).

[@Scorpio159]

@@Ironbuket He said more than 32 years.

[@Ironbuket]

@@Scorpio159 You are so right. Whenever someone says more than 32, I automatically think more than 40.

[@Shanjaq]

note: unless you tell the Aux's Traders to "Dock and Wait", they will float idle haphazardly around the sector looking for trades, and they're range limited just like a station so they won't find anything if you're in enemy territory and just get picked off. I've found that the Traders will go dormant if you use the "Fly and Wait" command to park the Aux in a high trade system, so if you want to go on "shopping trips", you have to remove the Aux from your Carrier's fleet and create a separate fleet headed by any other ship. I keep a Frigate in my fleets dedicated to this, just remove them both and assign the Aux to "Supply Fleet" on the Frigate to create a new fleet, then send the Frigate to the trading systems and let the Aux do its thing when it arrives.

[@ZephyrusAsmodeus]

Knew that one, wanna guess how I find out lol

[@dusk1947]

Thank you. I don't think I've ever actually used one of these. I will be after this though. My initial and limited impression was they were used to resupply ammo and deployable's (which I found confusing). But, I did not know about the repair and re-crew features. Those details make this ship class so much more desirable.

[@patchieseec]

Great video. All of my combat fleets have an auxiliary ship. for combat offensives, its great to repair any incidental damage sustained by a cap ship fleet during battle. also makes sure all turrets/modules are at full health so you don't have to wait for service crew to repair. As mentioned, great for repairing boarded ships and/or abandoned ships. One thing that I didn't see mentioned that is an option is to set the auxiliary ship to 'supply fleet' which can be done when assigning it to a fleet. This will allow all ships in the fleet to automatically repair when needed. or set it to a station defending hostile space and all ships defending said station will automatically repair after battles. The supply fleet option isn't good though if you need to move fast, aka trying to take down an enemy wharf/shipyard to stop new ships being built. as the auxiliary ship can fall behind while it is repairing the fleets capitals. You can also set it to auto resupply a sector as a default behavior, I do this in my owned systems so ships that take damage defending my space can auto resupply/repair with little intervention. This does require the setup of the global resupply on ships you want to do that, but handy to keep your space running autonomously.

[@rolokipp2113]

I do 3 other things with my fleet supply vessels. I have a 3x wing of scouts w/ 5x sats & 40x laser towers that expand my recon range and set a defense line around my op area. I also have a 20x wing of light fighters that fly CAP - so when taking a sector, for instance, the scouts drop LTs around the new defense station, the supply ship is set to protect it and the fleet protects area, instead of station. This keeps the supply ship out of the front lines but provides security in the rear of the fleet. One of my "Supply" traders is a drone carrier (Cerberus usually) that specifically carries replacement repair drones for my carriers & destroyers

[@CaptainCollins]

Thanks for that addition Rolo!

[@themajormagers]

After I started using one with my carrier it sped up the s ship repair and resupply time to be almost instant with almost no losses to xenon oos. Automatic repair and rearm is a must with 100 s fighters

[@halogeek6]

Oh God I'm having flashbacks tp my first playthru. Had w carriers and 500 fighter. Would just show up and wreck shit. Oh God the after action repairs were a fuckig nightmare to get thru. Then I "discovered" a free honshu just sitting un attended in Terran space. Wondering what the fuck it was I goigled why Terra has 2 carriers. Went from being a terror to shipping lanes once every three months to damn near round the clock strangle hold on trade thru a highway system. 500 fighters and 3 carriers supported by auxilerys can do some fucking damage. Noth8ng got thru till I decided to stop ot i lost enough fighters to warrant a tactical retreat. For some reason there just wasn't alot of destroyers in the game for that universe. Well let me tell you that fucking changed real quick when no one could ship anything into or out of that system.

[@rossglenn7600]

Good video. I also like using auxiliary ships for heavy Marine carriers/capture ships, especially against pirate destroyers. I'll load the auxiliary ship with 100 or so marines and four or so heavier fighters (Ares, Eclipse, or the like). If a pirate destroyer threatens one of my trade ships, I'll run it down in a Nemesis corvette while at the same time ordering the auxiliary ship to the same sector. While the auxiliary ship flies there, I'll catch the destroyer, disable the engines and heavy turrets of the pirate destroyer, then hang back. Once the auxiliary ship arrives, as part of the board action, the auxiliary will set its fighters to clear off the other surface elements of the destroyer, take out any escorts or deployables, take down the shields, and lower the hull to the right value without me having to do a thing. After the capture, the auxiliary is right there to transfer service crew, pull the marines back, and do the initial repairs.

[@kaiserdragon33]

I have found boarding extremelly easy but maybe is because of the early Moreya you are given following the Feynmann missions. That ship kills subsystems in a blink and with just a freighter with 30 marines i can capture any SCA destroyer. Also lots of minotaur raiders hace fallen to the Moreya

[@efxnews4776]

Something that i used to do is transfer marines from other ships to the ship i using to board other ships, you can do that with a Corvette, you just need to repeat the boarding operation several times until all resistance is dealt.

[@Talinoth]

A Zeus is a much better automated pirate ship for this purpose - it can carry enough ships (18 fighters) for the job and it's *much* faster than any auxiliary. The only downside in this case is that you can't use it to do the after capture repairs. What you can do, is chain captures with a Zeus/4 Falx frigates/your choice & combo of pirate ships, park the auxiliary near your favourite NPC shipyard, then fly your captured pirate destroyers to the aux to get them repaired just before sale. The captures will be much faster, but the turnaround will be slightly slower. That's okay btw, because there's often so many destroyers on the map that you can struggle to capture them all! The limiting factor is how many captures you can make, not how quickly you sell them after capture.

[@Talinoth]

@@efxnews4776 You can step that up and do one better. Falx frigates (M class) are fast for their 24 crew cap - my favourite setup for them is 1 pilot, 1 crew, 22 marines. 2 Falxes to capture a destroyer, 4 of them when you want to power-train marines by capturing freighters. It's quite easy to use multiple ships in a boarding op. Assign the subordinates to Attack role for a squad leader, then *just* select the squad leader's ship and order them to board the target. Now, in the Boarding menu, settings you change (how many marines are used, what the ships do during the boarding, etc) affect all of the ships in that squad, not just the leader! Multiple ships coordinate very well when it comes to blasting subcomponents off a target. I've even considered adding Blast Mortar Moreya escorts to my 4 Falx boarding squads to more efficiently blow up subcomponents without even having to do anything myself. I might test that later.

[@efxnews4776]

@@Talinoth you didn't get the idea... My tactic is minimal force for maximum efficiency. It takes a long time to capture a ship like this, but if you are careful, you can do it with a single corvette. But if you really want to play the game of, brute force, then the best way to go is use only a single syn. The only ships i know for sure that can't be pirated with a syn are the xenon ships, all the rest are easy prey for a syn. I don't waste s and m ships for most types of confrontations, jus for patrol and station defense.

[@billlyons7024]

Wow this is very useful information. This is how you can sustain a prolonged conflict in enemy sectors.

[@MrFrazer5800]

I wish aux ships could carry large amounts of missiles and Torpedos. So you would have to use them to use those weapons

[@teddyjackson1902]

There needs to be a medium class aux for smaller battle groups.

[@FirstLast-cc6cv]

I'm fairly new to the game, bought my first aux and thought "now what" only to be disappointed and debate selling because I've never really encountered a battle big enough to merit lugging that aux ship over

[@kwkcardinal]

I’ve been using mine for repairs. I had no idea it could result missiles for me away from station with the help of traders. Tyvm captain.

[@tellmewhenitsover]

Limited wares for a flying trading/repair station? that's a perfectly acceptable compromise for me. What a cool ship.

[@larryhorton8384]

This video helped me %100. Thanks man👍 keep up the awesome videos 👍👍

[@danabell145]

Great video. Educational, concise, factual, with added comments from experience & wisdom. Thank you. >thumbs up

[@1001digital]

I always got bored long before I had fleets and started over but recently I got to the point where I built my own wharf and even built a few Asgard. Thats the first time I got an auxiliary ship and I guess I'll try got get one of these earlier in the game from now on.

[@Zartren]

I haven't had an issue with paying for repairs. That usually beats engaging an enemy with an already damaged ship or having to travel a crazy distance to one of my own maintenance docks. But I do see their appeal in repairing locally in a long, far off campaign. It also makes sense to have a few of them around to carry large amounts of supplies on campaigns as well. I don't mind that their carrying capacity is close to that of large freighters despite being much larger, presumably since they also need to carry their repair and reload equipment in a way. It also forces you to secure your supply lines all the way to the auxiliary ships and have enough freighters on hand. We have all recently learned how important a good and large logistics system really is.

[@sergeyporivkin4530]

It’s basically a few mini-factories inside (for producing things)

[@KenshinPhoenix]

Thanks so much! I've only just started using an auxiliary ship and was so lost why things weren't working!.

[@baneblackguard584]

the problem with these ships is they don't carry anywhere near enough supplies to perform their function. and after each battle you'll need to sell everything it's carrying, and then tell it to go get supplies. if you don't sell first it ends up with a whole bunch of stuff it never uses and not enough of the stuff it does need. after a couple battles it can't rearm or repair anyone because it doesn't have the supplies needed, because it's filled with all the stuff it never uses. so having the support ship doesn't really help, you end up having to send the fleet back to resupply/repair/rearm anyway. in theory it's a cool idea, in practice in the game it just doesn't seem to work, just adds another ship for the enemy to go after (and boy do they) having multiple supply ships per fleet doesn't solve the problem either. my initial thought was while sending one back to sell/resupply supplies, the other one would be available to assist the fleet, but none of the ships of the fleet will use the other supply ship. you have to manually remove the old supply ship from the fleet and send it back and then manually assign the new supply ship to the fleet, leave the sector, come back to the sector, and do that after each large battle. easier to just not use missiles/torpedoes and send ships back to a station for repairs as needed. In order for them to actually do what they are supposed todo, supply ships would have to carry 20 times what they do AND ships would have to repair/rearm several times faster than they do AND support ships would have to resupply themselves according to what they actually are using AND fighting ships would need to carry several times more missiles/torpedoes than they do AND missiles/torpedoes would have to travel several times faster AND .... you get the idea. neat idea generally, but as implemented it's big ole fat NOPE

[@digins5533]

Yep, that’s exactly the point. Build up a group of 10 M-Ship with only torpedos. The supply ship didn’t have enough storage to supply them. It’s a bit useless.

[@dirtybeatfreak]

More info vids like this please good Sir, they are awesome.

[@ReinisIkass]

Thanks for the video and tips! Great timing, as I recently 'acquired' a Honshu. :)

[@CaptainCollins]

I like the wording ;)

[@machinech183]

Early'sh the aux ship is somewhat useful. Later in the game, paying for repairs isn't a problem and makes the aux ship more of a logistics hassle. I tend to circumvent them by simply planning around their use as money becomes absolutely irrelevant. I've been playing long enough I tend to plan for damage to some ships my fleet numbers reflect this making in the field repairs for those that do rather pointless as well. If you expect roughly 10-12 ships taking hits, you estimate 30 ships to do the deed I'll just send 50 and just rotate the damaged back home for repairs at my own wharfs.

[@CaptainCollins]

That's a different and totally valid playstyle.

[@rawzsadler6008]

I used the auxiliary ships like a strike carrier did not know then could strengthen my carrier with supplies

[@jx567]

Thanks for the info!

[@SPACE_GEKKO]

I have not used them for a long time, because I found no legit usecase in my gameplay. But the idea of using one als first aid repair dock for captured ships looks appealing to me. I will enter the next one that I run into, and try that out!

[@harvbegal6868]

Started using the Harbor in SWI mod. That thing has copius amounts of cargo space. Which is useful because Star Wars fighters use tons of missiles.

[@Thomas_Lo]

Atlas E - assign a captain and fill with marines - fly close by an Asgard, drop all marines (very strong/very strong) and float away with assist disabled. Brand new Asgard in your fleet a few minutes later.

[@CaptainCollins]

Video coming soon ;)

[@Dreez76]

The public has always thought of Aux-ships as a waste of time and money because they can't even supply a fleet with torpedos without having to resupply constantly. The opinion has been that Aux-ships should have A LOT larger cargohold.

[@kajarslibrary5404]

Meanwhile they completely miss the fact that it can easily repair your entire fleet right there in the front lines. No more travelling halfway across the galaxy to repair the turrets of your destroyers. Just hook them up the AUX and get them repaired instantly.

[@Nc-en9ce]

IMO you can always bring as many cargo ships as you want with your fleet, so the problem is missing auto material transfer not the cargohold size. Also, limiting the aux-ship cargohold size gives the opportunity that we can have XL transporter in future.

[@NeoAcario]

@@Nc-en9ce The Erlking is an amazing XL transport. Very fast, secure, and decently large cargo capacity. I wouldn't mind seeing a jump gate sized cylinder XL freighter tho. Gimme 100k m3 cargo ship!

[@Nc-en9ce]

@@NeoAcario didn't play ToA too much, that sounds great, gonna speed up my progress

[@AceShinkenGames]

New knowledge again.... Huge thanks.....

[@ThrottleFox]

BLUEPRINTS! Thank you! that was the step I was missing!

[@ubernagash]

Hi Great vids as awalys, I seem to be having an issue with rearming a carriers bombers, i have an Auxli ship on fleet it has the wares needed and global orders are set to high for respuly but... 1) they dont automatical resluplay. 2) if i high light all the fights in the group say 10 all the same fits to the Aux ship it wont let me select the consumable or added the 10 ships to the shoping basket, but i can do them indervidualy Am i missing somthing ?

[@Emanemoston]

Thanks for the video.

[@jakesnake5090]

Just capped a Monarch with 3 Marine filled Cobras. Was hilarious. But thanks Capt, I know know a few things I didn't about the Aux ships :)

[@ZlothZloth]

Oh sure, tell me just as I finish my play-through! Well, it will be handy when I play it again.

[@hittman782]

Good day Cap, great to see another video on here, hoping to see some more longer ones. I am thinking of investing into one of these, but just pulled the trigger on setting up a couple of complexes in SOL/Terran space, those depleted my funds, but i know they will pay for themselves pretty quickly. Now i just need to figure out which Aux ship to buy...

[@nexnexnex8261]

During fights, sieges or capturing the system, they play a very important role. The destroyer fleet (the commander should usually be an aircraft carrier), to which AUX is assigned - automatically docks after the fight for repair, which is beneficial when destroyers are sent for long military operations.

[@hittman782]

@@nexnexnex8261 So, funny thing, just liberated a Monitor from ZYA last night :D, along with 2 FAF Snakes. Too bad they had no equipment, and i don't have the FRF rep t get the main guns yet.

[@halogeek6]

An over powered custom start is to start with a barely fitted aux near the capital of whatever faction makes it along with a small fighter. Just one. Set faction relation fot that faction to very negative. Thrn start taking ships from them till either you have become there new king or have finally been killed. Also set one other faction taht routinely goes to war with that faction at 15. Implying they funded the heist on the condition any military ships you steal gets sold to them. Wether you follow said condition or back stab said faction is up to you. The backstop is your an ex marine who became disillusioned by the military and stole an auxilory from dry dock while it was being refitted to act as your mobile pirate base. Chaos endues. Clear seas and terrible might fellow travelers.

[@Duvoncho]

Great video, plenty here for beginners and veterans alike. While I had figured some of this stuff out myself through trial and error I still learned a thing or two. Still learning after thousands of hours!👍

[@Yolo_Swagins]

Great video

[@MrX-fu5sp]

Hmm I was fairly sure one could change loadouts on the ship provided you have the blueprints

[@SilasCole88]

I use two auxiliary ships per fleet. Damaged ships automatically repair themselves at the auxiliary ship and if one auxiliary ship is damaged it can use the second one to repair and vice versa. My fleets guarding xenon gates last virtually indefinitely when having auxiliary ships assigned to them. I've also noticed that if you assign an auxiliary ship to a station it will automatically repair all ships assigned to that station that gets damaged on return back to said station. Like when miners get damaged by either xenon or kha'ak raids they will get repaired when they have arrived back to the station to unload.

[@dusk1947]

This is great to know, ty

[@CaptainCollins]

That... is interesting and I will try that auto-repair feature.

[@SilasCole88]

@@CaptainCollins I find that my manticores come back to the station damaged all the time and so the auxiliary ship helps to keep them repaired, that way I don't have to order them to go to a shipyard. I've tried to assign the auxiliary to just a location where my drop box collector ships are and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

[@pioneerkallo5952]

which command do you give your aux ship to join the fleet?

[@SilasCole88]

@@pioneerkallo5952 The supply fleet command. Do the same with a factory and it will do the same thing for all the ships assigned to that factory.

[@arniespace]

I've been using Aux ships in my fleets quite awhile for repairs. All the ships in my fleet, from fighters to Asgards, will automatically use it to repair. I could never figure out how to get the supply ships attached to the Aux to do anything. After watching your video, I think the problem is the lack of blueprints. I was expecting the supply ships to go get missiles or drones, not the wares needed to make the stuff. It's funny that I have stations producing all these wares, but I never bought the blueprints for say, a type of drone. My wharf and shipyard can produce these things without blueprints as well, so long as they have the raw materials. I have blueprints for all the turrets, engines, etc of course. I never had to purchase blueprints for repair drones or a certain type of missile before. Thanks for the insight, I'm off to gather more blueprints!

[@eveechoes5024]

Hey, just wanna say that you speaking perfectly well. I’m able to understand everything :). A french guy 😂

[@CaptainCollins]

Merci beaucoup!

[@jackmion]

Like before watching!

[@iCatCloud]

So, countermeasures... I've never seen the need of them? When and against what will they be used for?

[@mickeymariager64]

i thought they ware big trading ships after you'r vidio i vill use them det right way thanck you , i like you'r vidios so motch

[@al8405]

And what about near 100 defense drones capacity? AUX - great drone carrier, helping me in attack an in defense.

[@1024det]

I just started playing a week ago, I’m at a point where I have 7 fighters, 2 corvettes, and 1 frigate. Next ship I’m trying to decide on destroyer so I can complete some Xenon quests or the auxiliary ship. Which will of course save me money in the long run and my fighters can auto repair. Both seem to cost about the same 12-16 mil.

[@pupattolino75]

Hi captain, I just realized that after updating to x4 5.0, I can no longer play the game with my laptop that mounts a 780M (yes a laptop version). With 4 version I was able to play the game, I wrote to egosoft sending the crash files logs but I'm afraid nothing can be done. Do you have any suggestions? I have a desktop with 3080 but when I am away from home I would like to play. (I am trying to downgrade with 4.20 beta to see if it works). regards I love a lot your live terran series that you did on 2021.

[@datsiqreaper5943]

Greeting's captain i have a question. Is there a easy and simple way to get my hand's on the Elrking by any chance as the sector is heavily guarded and i do not have the funds for a larger fleet.Also how do i get my hand's on the Asgard i have the dlc and yet i don't seem to have access to it.

[@CaptainCollins]

Asgard is only possible to get through building it yourself (with the blueprint at your own shipyard) or you board them. Boarding will also get you an Erlking. Video coming soon ;)

[@wasteland-werewolf]

Noob question. Will the Terran auxiliary ship only use Terran supplies or does it matter? I really love the way it looks.

[@ethanforster]

You can change the build type from Closed Loop to Universal and vice versa so it can either be restricted to use only Terran supplies or it can use the usual supplies.

[@EVE_STNB]

Sure Aux ship is a must have addition once you step into L/XL fleets. One Behemoth repairs bill is around 1m after a good fight so soon Aux ships would pay for themselves

[@KaijuAKD]

Haven't played in a while, but the problem with having AUX supplying a carrier was that the AUX went to close to the combat area. Used to have two AUX in my fleet, but as soon as I arrived to the conflict sector, I unassigned both AUX and left them supplying the sector, parked between the gate and the combat area. I see that changing buy orders it's still not possible. That sucks when you want a squadron with torpedo/missile launchers

[@CaptainCollins]

You are still in command and have to micro manage your fleets. Full control needs some extra effort :)

[@Zer0Affex]

I was thinking about buying an Aux for trading since they seem like the only XL ships in the game we can use for trading.. I gather from this video, that's not possible? Are trade ships stuck to L class only then? Kinda a bummer if that's the case. I wanted something that has a ton of cargo but more hull/shields/weaponry than L class ships. Hopefully there's some way to get XL traders in this game if we can't use Aux.. Would be a bummer! :D

[@TotalyRandomUsername]

Captain Collins is there are way to build a self repairing defence plattform? And if add in a few rocket launchers will the station automatically fill up the rockets?

[@musclesvf]

Fill it with max drones in the logical overview. And i believe when you add missile turrets it will need a trader to go buy missile components and whatnot.

[@danielmatthiesen1717]

I was ising them as defense drone carriers since they hold 100 drones

[@sulljoh1]

It all makes sense now

[@CaptainCollins]

finally :D

[@MrVazsholik]

Hi. So what start would you recomend for a new player. Bought every expansion, but never rly gotn in to it. Tried some as the terran cadet. But wana start a new game so i can remember everything you know. But dont know what start to choose, dont wana miss anything🥴

[@RevengA4]

You can play all campaigns / plots with every gamestart. However IMO the terran plots are much better than the other ones. On the other hand the tides of averice gamestart "stranded" is very useful for new players because you learn all methods of being a pirate. You can simultanously follow the other plots of course. So you would never "miss" anything :)

[@Etheralking]

I want to use one just because it's cool. My game is modded to the wazoo, so money isn't scarce.

[@Sniper4760]

my fleet is just stuck at change equipment at auxiliary ship? aux is full of everything

[@Streifer]

only use this ship as a mobile repair station still having problems building missile with it as its too slow since my ships need thousands of them.

[@williamburroughs9686]

I already do use them.

[@MrDice347]

I spacesuit repair like a man, lol

[@CaptainCollins]

"Stand still Asgard, I need to heal your wounds (for the next 36 hours)!" :D

[@DreadX10]

Like an 'Old man' by the time you're done..... ;-)

[@GiveMeMarw]

I dislike how we cannot assign the amount of storage for each trade ware the axillary ships hold. I have an axillary sheep in each of my fleets and their main use is to restock the fighters with missiles and torpedoes. However there isn't enough storage space assigned to missile components to fully restock 10% of the my fighters, making it a very frustrating time to send them else ware.

[@digins5533]

Same here, learned it to late. At least I beginn to build up Defence platforms in some Sektors with storages and a dock. And send my torpedo fleets to them to supply.

[@Rakshasa84]

The auto-repairing is handy but I've personally found the rest of it is pretty useless. Destroyers assigned to defend the aux ship don't seem to go for repairs when they are damaged, only ships that are part of the main fleet do which is disappointing. Assigning a trade ship to trade for the aux ship is dangerous for the trade ship. Once the trade ship completes their job, and no other trades are found they will sit in the sector looking for more work. Guess what happens to it in a hostile sector? It really needs to dock with the aux ship on its own and wait for a new job so that it's at least protected until more work is found. I kind of wish trade ships with no work did the same thing with stations come to think of it.

[@kajarslibrary5404]

Doesn't matter if your ship is assigned or not. Any S and M ship will automatically go to repair at a carrier / aux if one is in a sector. Doesn't matter if its independent, assigned to fleet or assigned to station. My station miners that got damaged by khaak regularly run after my Raptor when i move through their sector, trying to get repairs. Dunno about larger ships but they usually aren't numerous enough that giving repair orders forms a problem and having repairs on hand at the front lines is crazy powerful. Repairs is literally the only thing i use AUX ships for.

[@Rakshasa84]

I'm definitely going to try and observe that behaviour but that is a neat tip! I usually try to blacklist Khaak invested sectors though because of how the "Patrol" order doesn't have ships respond to threats. I just end up losing any M miners or traders in those zones because I don't know how to protect them. An aux is expensive but might be worth having it just sit in a mining sector with a small wing of fighters.

[@kajarslibrary5404]

Khaak are no problem, simply take out their hive stations and then they will stop bothering you. Takes up to 96 hours for a hive to respawn. Make sure to remove the smaller raiding outpost as well, those spawn the attacks on your miners. Hives spawn the raid outposts within 3 jumps of them.

[@Rakshasa84]

I wasn't totally aware of that relationship. Outposts do the spawning, hives spawn the outposts. Neat. Still though, it takes a little bit of time to find them so in the mean time they are hurting the M ships. It's cool to know I could send an Aux ship to keep them healed and give them a place to flee to.

[@kajarslibrary5404]

@@Rakshasa84 Luckily the hives spawn in a number of predetermined locations. So once you know those spots, you know where they will spawn.

[@danielsantos6437]

In my opinion carriers should already serve same purpose of supply ships as that's their purpose, to carry and maintain smaller ships, they should allow to give traders to carriers and instead of adding supply ships they should give us more destroyers as there's only two in the game (Asgard and Elrking)

[@DarkWatcher-Gaming]

Hi Buyed this game with all dlcs a few weeks ago, never understand how to play it.

[@playerone2424]

Aww wish i knew this before I sent Naughty AI Genocide Fleet Alpha into Xenon space.

[@ThanksIfYourReadIt]

It only trade for him in adjacent sectors. So you must not ever be more then 1 sector away from a trading hub that has ECERYTHING you want to trade to your axuliry ship.

[@evelbsstudio]

I have several in my main battle fleet crushing the xenon at the moment, later the tal will be crushed

[@pioneerkallo5952]

i bought one to repairr the pirate destroyer i like to capture. but sadly the repair costs the same as if i would use a station...and nothing gets repaired automatically :(

[@CaptainCollins]

It only shows the same price, but nothing is being taken away from your account 😉

[@pioneerkallo5952]

@@CaptainCollins ohhh awesome, ty

[@kaiserdragon33]

Just bring that destroyer to a shipyard and make it buy 2 repair drones. It will repair the ship in a blink and u then sell it full price

[@dbrowdy]

I watched the whole video hoping you'd explain the difference between "Low", "Medium", and "High" in the auto repair menu. :(

[@dirtybeatfreak]

was wondering this as well

[@Gakusangi]

A nomad has less storage space than a incarcatura (29,000 vs 45,000), so they can't really act as super-sized transporters.

[@hymenfiesta]

They don't work for me. They just hold my ships captive in docking failures.

[@baneblackguard584]

if it's happening alot, remove the ship from the fleet, manually fly the supply ship to a different sector, reassign it to the fleet and then let a npc captain fly it back to the fleet. don't ask me why, i have no clue. i only know that doing this resolves whatever was causing it. i'm guessing something gets fouled up in the queue for ships trying to resupply.

[@hymenfiesta]

@@baneblackguard584 Sadly, it happens so often that it's usually better for me to just not put the Aux ship in a fleet with other ships. I think the issue stems from a mod I used called reactive docking, but that's just me guessing. Either way, I think Egosoft needs to massively upgrade their docking AI and auto piloting. Somehow, I never got these problems when I played x3 TC/AP. Like.....how did the AI get worse?

[@Woffieee]

Huh... I mean, I miight get one? I'm not sold on it yet, but then I focus more on the economy side rather than the piracy side... And if I do want to pirate something, I just get my Erlking to sidle up next to it and release ALL the pods.

[@mauriziocorradi1598]

Combatants win battles...logistics win wars...

[@VicRaptor2589]

I may get one just because lol. Also can someone point me to a video where I can learn on how to patrol sectors. I have a small fleet and I put them to patrol a sector but they don't engage xeno, they just move and chill...... Thank you!

[@nexnexnex8261]

Patrol circulates around the center of the sector. The effective range of the ship's radar is 40 km. Only enemy ships and installations (depending on the settings) that come into the radar range and can be caught up will be attacked. If, for example, you are patrolling with destroyers, it is worth assigning wingers to them in the intercept mode. Interceptors (durable, with accurate long-range weapons). The Kalis fighter is a good example. A docked 1-2 is enough for each destroyer. They will stop the enemy until he comes within range of the destroyer's weapon. If you know that there are a lot of enemies in a certain place, order instead of patroling the sector - to guard this place, e.g. around the entrance gate to the system. Then the fleet will fight all the time and not wander into the void of space. Remember to assign the AUX ship to the destroyer fleet commander in fleet supply mode so that the fleet can automatically repair itself after each fight :)

[@VicRaptor2589]

@@nexnexnex8261 I have watch my ships literally wave at the xeno without attacking them, maybe the game was bugged and needed to re-open. What I ended up doing was to give them manual instructions on what to attack... there is not alot of activity, my ships are mining on Napoleon II and my engage capts are 3/2stars, 4 ships on the sector with one destroyer being leader, 3 as intercept(small nova figthers) Thank you for taking the time and respond.

[@nexnexnex8261]

@@VicRaptor2589 If the problem of passivity towards Xenon applied to the whole game, then probably by setting your aggression preferences, you set the Xenons peacefully. Then even direct attacks are ignored. You could also activate such AI only on the commander of this particular fleet. It happens. I gave permission to useful allies only for a military counterattack. I ignore civilian objects, even when they are aggressive. Such settings help in the event of unwanted npc clashes and prevent too much loss of standings.

[@VicRaptor2589]

@@nexnexnex8261 I will definitely look into that, do you think maybe the setting "flee after pirate harrasement" had something to do? I get alot of those so I change the settings for my miners to flee in stead of them waiting for me to tell them what to do... thanks again.

[@nexnexnex8261]

@@VicRaptor2589 The setting run after attack and run away from pirates is my default, because I have a lot of civilian stacks that do not fight, because they will lose. However, when I build a navy, I pause the game and change the default game settings for a moment to "attack", then on each war stack in the fleet I deselect the settings field so that the "attack option is activated individually permanently. Then I go back to the game settings and restore the general settings. preference for "escape." I am canceling the pause. The military fleet is aggressive, and the civilian fleet is relatively safe. Sometimes I also set options for military interceptors to run away, because they are not supposed to fight until death, but to catch up, attack, stop, and leave the killing force in case of problems to larger ships.

[@nou8257]

So you can practically treat these ships as mobile staging bases for your operations like piracy

[@epsilonxvi5675]

yes

[@ArthurOseven]

o7. Good video. Good content. Good streamer. Good day. Good good.

[@jh5kl]

good comment, good grammar, good vibes

[@ArthurOseven]

@@jh5kl Good answer, good friend.

[@jh5kl]

@@ArthurOseven good people, good world, good food, good belly, o7

[@skegniknak]

i didn't realise they gave free repairs 😕

[@jtvice1862]

Well this is akward. I use mine as a budget carrier with 75 defense drones on escort . . .

[@samiel992]

That ship looks sexy and where do I get it

[@rolphalinerodriguez5960]

First

[@Arthur_Revan]

Enough. NO ONE cares.

[@Designsy-wl9nr]

I still care!

[@ArthurOseven]

Arthur is right :P

[@dakota48]

This is the most useless ship class, considering ammo and fuel isn't a thing for ships.