X4: Foundations, How to Start, Piracy

[@YukonJack88]

One Again Skillet Your guides allow us to leverage your experience to dial in game play. I'm currently 3/4s of the way thru a huge campaign style play threw, which has me interacting with the map mostly and is very abstracted as you know. Your Guide here has me thinking that I could run a stripped back, simpler start in which I could then spend a lot of time in a single ship learning to fly and fight, which would a much more intimate experience of the game. The 3d world in X4 is stunning and Im missing much of it .......

[@T-Skillet]

Have you seen the newest combat and bailing video? If you use that strategy you could remain in your ship while start sending the bailed/captured ships to explore and mine. Which gives you a great time exploring the combat system and your personal ship. I think personally being attached to a ship makes the game more personal.

[@YukonJack88]

@@T-Skillet Dude.... Imma gonna look fer it right now.

[@apachesurvival5440]

Best guide I've seen on Piracy. The reason I bought this game was to get a gnarly lil pirate empire going.

[@T-Skillet]

Thank you! How is that going?

[@apachesurvival5440]

@T-Skillet still learning the game at this point and doing missions. Did steal a minotaur raider last night from scale plate so think im ready to start my career in earnest

[@T-Skillet]

I typically start by pirating the pirates. Its a little easier and does not cost rep or anything. And sometimes if you get over zealous and kill them you can gain rep with the faction controlling that sector. I've typically used the Raider Minotaur as a boarding ship after i get a few. In the newest series i used the three i have as scouts then add them to a boarding fleet.

[@apachesurvival5440]

@T-Skillet nice thanks for the tip. I found a cobra last night just out in the middle of space. And stole a mamba from ZYA. And now I'm ready. My goal for my main ship is a dragon raider but couldn't find one last night, I'd rather steal it than buy it.

[@T-Skillet]

@@apachesurvival5440 Wait till you get a Katana.... Lots of work but worth it. Combra is one of my favorite M class.

[@Vegavalane]

i Love any and all discussion around x4, so il frequent this channel for sure!

[@T-Skillet]

I love discussions!! Stop by anytime!

[@Ack19771]

Hi your videos are great, I'm glad I discovered your channel! I see you searching for ships, if you click that tab in the top left it'll list off all detected ships and stations in a sector for quick location of objects you don't own.

[@T-Skillet]

I over look that all the time! I typically concern myself with just my vessels in a sector. Lol thank you for reminding me!

[@Ack19771]

@@T-Skillet I have been watching a lot of x4 players and picked it up from them, I can't take credit for it =)

[@T-Skillet]

You get the credit for reminding me! Lol I never use it to take a look at other ships though. I’ll have to keep it in mind for further videos though. Also thanks for stopping by! Hope you enjoy, there is more to come!

[@IRSbailout]

Hi TS I switched out my starter ship for a legitimately salvaged katana as the looter scooter in HC1works a treat, what with its speed, shields and turrets😊 I find the best cash in from this method is from progarmmable field arrays and making space fly caviar also if you can find a sca pirate base (silent witness)you can sell the xenon drops like processing units too. Anyway good profits to you😂

[@T-Skillet]

If you sell enough to HAT you will slowly gain rep…. Unless they changed that recently. Hope not. But the caviar can bring you big profitsssss!!!

[@blshouse]

In the map screen you can have it display all the ships that are on screen. You can even set a filter, just like the game does when looking for constructor ships for station building. That way you don't have to scan around for several minutes when looking for a specific type of ship.

[@T-Skillet]

I have been trying to use that for convenience sake. But I like the hard way sometimes 😂

[@ELXatrix]

i do alot of that scavanging at start, you get quite alot of those sinza parts wich sell for around 150k each, thats easy money for whatever you want to do next. i see alot of those vigor raiding partys fighting it out with the teladi, lots of wracks and containers there to pick up too... if you play with mods there are inventory colectors and loot magnets, i set up a scout on repeat order in those areas to just collect all those inventory items. kristals and loadstones can be made into bombs and emp, can be sold with enough reputation at black market agents or use the emp to steal blueprints of station modules (if you have researched it), no need to buy the storage, production and stuff ;) salvaging wracks is nice but i personaly think that recycler makes too much claytronic and too little hullparts but this one in a sector wich gets constant wracks from battls makes a nice ammount of those wares to sell to some shipyard wich produces new wracks for you to collect ;)

[@atreus_falcorth]

Its not getting down the shield to 1-2%, its removing the ships shields every now and then that makes the s/m ship crew bail out

[@brandongarrett2309]

Excellent.

[@T-Skillet]

Thank you!

[@atreus_falcorth]

You can just pirate m traders for your boarding fleet. As long as you pirate ships that are not related to the territory you're pirating them at, you wont get big rep reduction.

[@T-Skillet]

I know people use the trade ships cause they typically hold more crew. I’ve only used them once. I needed more people to take an Asgard. 😅

[@tpletcher87]

how do u start that story line for the buck

[@T-Skillet]

Once you have Dal Busta, he’ll prompt you to look into the Paranid schism. Once you start that you’ll come to a point where you’ll have to choose to unite the paranid or keep them divided. Regardless of what you choose the Duke’s Buccaneers will be a faction. If you choose to side with the Duke you’ll have positive rep with them, so your ships won’t get harassed by their pirates.

[@tpletcher87]

@@T-Skillet is there a video on this ?

[@T-Skillet]

So first you have to finish the HAT missions. Here is a link: X4 Foundations: Accomplished Scientist, Hatikvah Missions kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXfWpo15h8xjiLc That should lead you to the paranid videos after that. You should have the HAT mission in your mission tab btw.

[@T-Skillet]

Here is the first video of the paranid story just in case the first one doesn’t lead you here. This is all done within the most recent universe. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4XIfYmXm8iGoNksi=nDNHXF3H1Zsz70B8

[@diairairship2403]

This video would have been much better if there was less telling, more showing...

[@T-Skillet]

I understand that. But making pilots bail can be a lengthy ordeal. It has been something I had done recently in one of the streams as well. I didn’t want to be too repetitive.