Get Rich Early With Nividium - Quick Tipp - X4 Foundations - Captain Collins

[@CaptainCollins]

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[@TrueXyrael]

Another get rich quick scheme is head to Split space, camp on a defense station near a Xenon system, and pickup the spacefly larva that get dropped. Make caviar. Sell at a Split trader for 1 million credits for each caviar.

[@jcataclisma]

Man, I´ve been so happy since that update they´ve made Nividium always desired in at least a few stations throughout the entire game. Cheers!

[@ragtop63]

Old video but it's worth mentioning that early game miners can't jump sectors so the sector you place it in has to have both a trading station and Nividium to mine.

[@Misimpa]

But you can use “repeat orders” early

[@simonbrett40]

Thank you for the help on the asteroid depletion question I mensioned

[@sergiugrigorescu]

I really needed a tip on how to kick start my game. Thanks a lot Cpt!

[@CaptainCollins]

You're welcome Whenever you need some more info, feel free to jump into the discord server for more individual help Double discord info, but whatever

[@MrMichaelBCurtis]

They nerfed Nividium, my miner cannot find much of it anymore even with the whole sectors covered in probes

[@oleandrummer]

I like the buy advanced satellites from an equipment dock then sell them at warfs. It starts off only making you a small amount but the more you buy the faster you will profit. Eventually you can buy a trade ship or mining ship and make some serious $$$$$. Combine that with nvidium mining and your on a fast path to tens of millions real early

[@Woodlerx]

Yeah those pesky adv satellites are cool! My best routes are buy in teladi Equp docks and sell in paranid wharfs. With 100 satellites per run you could easily make 6M creditsss 😉👍

[@razenburn]

@oleandrummer Dare I ask, how does this work so well? Besides the obvious "buy low, sell high" answer, is there something specific about this link in the production chain of the galaxy's economy that makes the mark-up between equipment docks and warfs(waves?) so good?

[@onkelulissendung7785]

Thank you @Captain Collins for this video without advertisments from YT. Sub+1 ThumpUp+1

[@KaijuAKD]

My favorite is build defense station missions. 10-17M for just 2M invested.

[@CaptainCollins]

Station building mission (with all the blueprints already in your pocket) = best missions ;)

[@KaijuAKD]

@@CaptainCollins yes, but defense stations need few blueprints, and they are cheap... if you are willing to build a cheap station 😅

[@KaijuAKD]

M Pulse Laser Turrets, Dumbfire and mk1 shields

[@CaptainCollins]

You really need to jump into discord xD

[@川島統徳]

Thanks!

[@kevinh3238]

Does this still work 2 years later?

[@davestigter4291]

I love to start this way with small miners and then build up to medium miners.

[@TheT0nedude]

...and then don't tell me....large miners? XD

[@c0de99]

Wait wasnt nividium nerfed? I remember reading something about this, you cant make as much money as you could in the past, trading stations only buying a very small amount or something?

[@chimera7441]

Wait, does this mean the sector ONLY needs a trading station and not actual asteroid fields (red zones on the map)? Also, you don't need to scout for Nividium with resource probes?

[@udoarndt1430]

2 Jahre später. Funktioniert es noch mit 6.2`? 2 year later. Does is still work with 6.2 ?

[@Nzchimeran]

Strange I didn't get option for this sector even though I am friendly, what did I do wrong? Do I need resource probes?

[@caiusarcher849]

Quick question I have found the trading station buying Nivdium is only around 2K -4K amount, one round of M miner can deliver 1K, ....... how to get more stations to buy Nividum?

[@caiusarcher849]

or how it is consumed?

[@CaptainCollins]

It's not consumed, it will just disappear and only Trading stations are buying it. There is no use for nividium. It's just a money maker

[@bob12474]

I'm assigning miners to mine nividium in the locations provided in the list of sectors when I tell them to auto-mine. I also deployed a bunch of resource probes all over sectors. But it seems like my miners will only be looking around for hours searching for nividium without ever filling their storage. No transaction in their ship log. I must be doing something wrong. Please help me out Captain.

[@haakoncesar]

Maybe the version of the game?

[@HalkerVeil]

I've never once got this to work in any play-through for the last 2 years. The miners spend days, real days, trying to fill their storage and never find enough.

[@BL4ckViP3R]

In my universe from all trading stations only one sector has Nvidium ore, all others have zero... Also, reading all the other comments here, it seems to me this tip is no longer working.

[@Maarb_h]

Awesome. Thank you. Just have a few problems with miners, where they move all the way upwards away from rocks or downwards. This prevents from further mining. Any tips to set it right?

[@CaptainCollins]

You're welcome :) This is just the weird AI. There's not really anything we, as players, can do about that.

[@theslay66]

Use ressource probes. They help your miners find the appropriate spots to mine.

[@cmdt.brezonte9023]

Apparently my miners are with full cargo holds but they have nowhere to sell the nividium, I must order each ship to sell at a certain station and repeat the order :(

[@crimson5664]

o yeah baby 10kk in 2 hours of gameplay. thx man.

[@Herbertti3]

Soo this no longer works? Got 14 nividium and no available resources. Same location as in video.

[@Misimpa]

You can google “x4 resource map” and mine in that sectors. Also place resource probes not in sectors “normal size” but some space more

[@scroungergaming6317]

I tried this. My mining ships just idle about in the Trade Station sector. I even tried it with several mining ships in several different Trade Station sectors. Same result every time. The ships just idle about. They have the mining icon, but they just kind of wander about. I even cleared their to-do list, so automining was the only thing they had going on. And still they just idled around. In fact, the behavior they displayed is the same behavior a mining ship displays if you attach them to a station that has the buying turned off. Mining icon but no actual mining.

[@CaptainCollins]

You could maybe fix this by placing some resource probes around nividium asteroids. That way they should know where to go mining.

[@scroungergaming6317]

@@CaptainCollins Actually, I just figured out what the problem was. I tried to do this in the mid to late game. All of the stations had already purchased their maximum amount of nividium. So the mining ships would just be confused as to what to do. Yes, the X4 universe will only buy just so much nividium, and then that is it, you will never be able to sell nividium again. I just tried this in a fresh universe. I had 12 ships mining nividium, 3 ships in 4 locations. Their current locations/stations stopped buying. I then divided them up into two groups sending them to the remaining 2 stations. I finished selling their cargo and now no station anywhere will buy any more nividium. Now there is only one purpose for nividium in my game, the story mission research projects. I have now switched my mining ships to other resources, resources that will always be in demand, sometimes more demand, sometimes less demand, but always wanted somewhere. This was pretty handy though for the early game. Note: I am not using any economy mods. And thanks for responding. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. (Edit) As a special note here: Using the profits from the nividium sales I was able to purchase 14 discoverer vanguards to explore all of the sectors in the game except for xenon sectors. In addition to that, I also got 14 drill(mineral) vanguards and 6 sunder(gas) vanguards and still had 2 million credits left over. So the nividium mining did, indeed, give me a jump start.

[@TENGILL]

Thank you!

[@CaptainCollins]

You're welcome!

[@1000mjf]

Captain collins use some advice im with the split and i set miner ship to grand exchange 3 however theres a lot argon traders going to the teladi trading station im worried about a fight breaking out between my miner ship and argon

[@CaptainCollins]

In my "ZYA only" run which we do weekly now, this would be a problem... for ARG ;)

[@1000mjf]

@@CaptainCollins well today i was in paranid space and accepted a mission delivery 5 different things it instantly completed so i got 300,000 credits for no work ?? i was happy, but confused must be bugs in missions

[@jurisbaranovskis4915]

danke shoon ! :)

[@CaptainCollins]

[@MARTINGOLDING96]

The Drill miner for me cost's almost 400k with the low preset

[@jurisbaranovskis4915]

yep, but they anyway dont buy my nividium.. :( Stations dont ask for nividium..

[@CaptainCollins]

Trading Stations are the only stations that buy nividium. If you auto-mine it, take the Trading Station sector as your anchor

[@jurisbaranovskis4915]

@@CaptainCollins yep, but request is "0".. Time after time maybe some few.. :(

[@J.D.Vision]

The behavior button totally disappeared on my game (I can't get ships to do automining)... do you know what that's about? I'm playing with GeForce Now Streaming on my phone.

[@Somesortadog]

I never understand these tutorials, early easy money...need 300k. Bruh, I started with 5k. I need to figure out how to get to the 300k. No one ever posts that.

[@Misimpa]

Lol, finish 1-2 mission shooting mines or loot crates from xenons that rapidly send their ships to death from defense stations. You can make 10-40 millions in 1-2 hours at least (if you loot all crates or just buy small scout, set to auto flee when in combat)

[@azurazdandaridae9158]

There are very few trading stations in my game with available Nividium.

[@stephymink]

Paranid Trade Stations don't buy Nividium :(

[@stephymink]

But this is my go to starting. Missions enough to buy first Nividium Miner, then let it go to earn me the cash to buy more.

[@scroungergaming6317]

They do. At some point they stop though. So if you attempt to use this in a game that is already in progress, it is possible that they have already purchased their maximum amount. All stations have a maximum amount they will buy. After that, nothing, ever again.

[@stephymink]

@@scroungergaming6317 Those are both wrong. Paranid never buy Nividium. Ever. And the stations that do, refresh their demand for it every 30 minutes. (The last part was added in a patch some time ago, one of the 3.0 to current patches, I forget which)

[@scroungergaming6317]

@@stephymink Yes, they do buy nividium. Both of the Parnid trade stations were buying nividium from me. *_YOU_* are wrong, I know that for absolute certain.

[@joeyeve2643]

This is NOT early in the game. total fail video.

[@CaptainCollins]

It is! You just need 300k credits to start and you can get that really fast with crystals.