I'm just going to say what we all thinking: people responsible for designing and making Terran station assets deserve a bonus. They really outdone themselves! I don't think you can one-up this :O
So I've been watching videos regarding the Terran economy, and I'm sad to say, every video I've found thus far doesn't really prepare you properly for the hurdles you'll face when trying to make money by trading and producing goods. So here are my observations after playing CoH for a good 30 hours instead of just looking at the module stats etc for a few mins or so. Terran trade ships are slow but have a decent amount of cargo space. Terran M class mining ships also have decent cargo space, but are much quicker than their cargo hauling counterparts. Another thing is that in the current version, the courier, the Frog, seems to have incredibly loud engines. I can zoom out all the way and still hear those bastards. I sold my Frogs for Baldrics not for efficiency, but for the peace and quiet. For mining, gasses are the most profitable to sell, as they seem to be quick to gather in the asteroid belt, sell well, and your gas miners have much more cargo space than your mineral miners. Starting out, I'd mine gas. For trading, the best profit margins seem to come from protein paste, which is always in demand. If you use the Tatertrade mod, you'll notice your trade ships sometimes exclusively hauling this stuff to Terran supply outposts. It's worth it. When starting out, the first couple of Terran missions involve fighting many, many Xenons. Keep your eyes open for valuable loot, and the automatic collection mods will make you rich quick here, at the start. SPOILERS Another early chunk of change comes from a free Gladius, found floating in Getsu Fune at the gate to Savage Spur II when your wingman goes missing there. You can sell this puppy for a good 300k for the chassis alone. SPOILERS END You'll note that the Terran ships are relatively expensive to build. This will be a common theme, as the Terran equivalent of claytronics is computronic substrate. The difference is, this computronic substrate is used in everything, not just station building; Ships, modules, stations, you name it, it uses it. Computronic substrate is extremely expensive, and has a very high volume, so not much can be carried at a time. This probably won't worry you now, but it will later. Why? Because, when you go into the station planning screen to design your station, you'll notice a dropdown on the right side of your screen. STATION-WIDE MODULE LOADOUTS Preset for all station modules: High Preset. This high preset, which the game DEFAULTS to every time you open this screen, will FUCK YOU UP if you don't pay attention. If you own station modules, such as shields and turrets, it will add them automatically. Everywhere. And they use a ton of computronic substrate. If you're not paying attention, this will increase the price of building your station by sometimes a factor of 7. When I realised this, the cost of building my little trading stations went from 6-7 million all the way down to 1.7 million credits. When I noticed this issue on all of my stations and went in and removed all the modules, every single station gave me an absolute fortune in computronic substrate back. I absolutely broke my back saving up for these stations, and didn't need to. Unless you specifically want an armed station, ALWAYS watch this dropdown. If you don't, you will suffer. Don't make the same mistake I did. Moving on. Sunlight. Every Terran system that is further from the sun will produce less energy cells. If you go to the info panel of a sector it will tell you the % of sunlight. If memory serves, Mars is at about 60%, Earth is at 100%, and Venus and Mercury are higher. I think Mercury is at about 630%. So, don't make the same mistake I did before I knew about this feature. My very first solar station was in Jupiter. Suffice to say I was very confused for a while before I had to dismantle the thing and convert it into a trading post. Don't make the same mistake I did. Another thing. The only mineral wealth in the northern Terran systems is the Asteroid Belt sector. Every Terran raw production station that I can remember uses a mix of gasses and minerals, and you will find both here. But you will only find gasses in Mercury, Titan, Neptune, etc. If you want to set up stations in the north, you do it near the asteroid belt. Preferably inside of it. You can also get minerals from Getsu Fune, but no gasses. Another thing. Metallic microlattice. From what I can tell, this is the Terran equivalent of hull parts. In my game, my and the Terran economy absolutely eats the stuff up. My silicon carbide mill, which now has about 16 production modules, gorges on this stuff. And yet there aren't many ai factories for it up north. In fact, I think there's only one. You may encounter the same issue. Be aware that you may end up being forced to produce this stuff to supply the area. But here's a mistake I made: When I was starting to get into production, I started with this stuff. It was cheap to produce, only requiring helium and ore alongside energy cells. I didn't realise my error until I looked at the prices. A single microlatice production module uses 1000 energy cells, 1000 ore, and 2600 helium to produce 3800 microlatice. The problem? This is operating at a loss. Microlatice sells roughly at the same price as ore and helium, around the 50 credit per unit mark. Throw in the energy cells and what you'll realise is that microlatice is worth less than it's components. If your aim is to make money, don't bother. It's only worth producing this stuff if the area is running short of it. Another thing that nobody on youtube seems to have noticed. You'll have seen by now that computronic substrate is expensive, but the high cargo volume and small price differentials don't make it that lucrative for trading. So you've probably considered that producing it must be hella profitable. And you're right. You've probably noticed that the blueprint for the production module is hella expensive. After that, you probably noticed that the production module uses a MASSIVE amount of resources. For 588 units? 24,000 energy cells. 12,000 hydrogen, 18,000 ore, 18,000 silicon. How can you possibly hope to supply it fast enough?! Well, the answers are simple. The production process on the module is longer than most other production modules that I've seen, so you will have longer to fill up resource stores. Because the product sells so well, it's actually worth it to buy from local ai miners. And lastly, snowballing. You will make so much profit from these things that soon your mining fleet will expand rapidly. My humble five miners expanded to more than fourty miners in a couple hours, and that's just the M class. I also ended up throwing out at least 8 L class miners. My biggest issue right now is the queues of my and Terran miners waiting to dock. And that's just because I'm too lazy to build another dock for them to use. Which brings me to another thing I noticed. Terrans only have the one kind of dock. Granted it's a good one, but if you want those big 8M dock modules, be prepared to travel to Teladi space - everyone else hates you. You'll have to grind rep, buy the blueprint, and haul the parts across half the galaxy. Meh. Let 'em queue, it's fine. Speaking of queues, here's another thing I noticed that nobody else on youtube seems to have. Notice anything about Terran pier docks? Take a close look at their tips. They use cargo drones. Their tips have in and out bays for cargo drones. You need cargo drones on your station or L class ships, or you may occasionally have issues moving cargo. Keep that in mind. That's everything off the top of my head, but I'm probably missing stuff. Remember, looking at the stats of things in the encyclopedia will only get you so far. You'll miss things, forget things, not realise things. The Terran economy requires you to stay on your toes when you're learning. And remember this: When you look back at your progress, at your silicon carbide and computronic substrate production stations with 20 production modules each, when you look down at the asteroid belt, which is almost totally obscured by the green icons of your mining fleet, when you look at the income that your stations are printing, an easy 40million every twenty minutes or so... Remember that the Xenon MUST die. Time to build a shipyard, and bring about a recycling genocide on their heads.
X4 Foundations players: "Huh, the Terran have their own supply chain? That's interesting." X3 Players: *Terran Economy Flashbacks* "GET THOSE TRANSPORTS TO THE STATIONS, NOW! Crash them into the damn docks if you have to, just get them in before G.O.D. starts deleting the stations again! GOGOGO!"
I feel like not being able to place other station modules inside the center of the Large habitat ring is a massive missed opportunity for really interesting and wonderful station shapes. A compact, highly vertical, jellyfish-like tower would be glorious, whereas the current appearance is akin to urban sprawl.
you can cram in the defence module tower into the ring section without problems. You might not be too limited in your design abilities as you think you are.
"JUST terran materials" is an understatement. When I look at the huge amount of resources needed to produce just one unit of computronic substrate and then see how many of them are needed for just one station module, it is overwhelming! I hope these numbers will change with the release.
@@CaptainCollins That's right but I think this is over the top. Idk the average amount of computronic substrate needed for a module but I reckon when I sum it up for a whole station (let alone a wharf where I need a sh*tload of those items for all the ship parts) it would almost be as much grinding as for a terraforming project.
@@Osmone_Everony Well, if the amount and time needed was any lower than for the other factions, some people might cry foul and call the Terrans OP from the get-go. Personally, I can live with the trade-off for having to come up with a reasonable economic cycle for only three intermediate materials instead of a myriad of those. :)
@@_vinterthorn First off I'm not talking about "lower than for the other factions" but quite the opposite. Secondly, such insane amount of resources is NOT reasonable economy. So wtf are you talking about?
Please don't get offensive here please. We're still looking at a not finished product, maybe it will change after people tried it or it will work out pretty well, who knows.
Fantastic video as always, my friend! Just built my new gaming rig and am enjoying the Terran Cadet campaign for now. I have been pirating ships from the ANT faction for quick cash, while my miners and trader make their runs with low returns, but I enjoy the new economy as I explore around. Can't wait for the next installment, will watch it later this evening. Keep up the great work!
From my playthrough right now, Terran seem to have a lot of waste and down time because of the massive resource consumption of their production modules, and the lack of really good mining areas outside of Asteroid Belt.
the way to out produce the limit in an hr is to setup multi of the same production module and have a fleet of at least 25 med class transports running needed supplies to the station and for ice have a fleet of 10 large mining ships to do runs set in groups of 5 so when one is on its way back full another is on its way out and always make sure your storage out does what you can make and close off trading to the ai to start with so you dont loss goods
Really not a fan of the vanilla capital ship designs, I feel like it was a huge step backwards after the sleek style of Rebirth. The Split ships are of course look great but the Terran ships and stations are bringing back the old XTC vibe. They look elegant and sleek I really like what they did with the carrier. Stations ofc look just as great and the S/M docking module is awesome. Can't wait to try them out.
these station parts look awesome, it's a shame though that the modules that produces ships as well as the construction ship are just re-skins of already existing modules/ships instead of newly designed ones
This new dlc is going to be a bit easyer I can’t wait to play I fill the power rising with the new battleship the big gun is one shot kill ( boom headshot )
i wonder if i teleport my HQ to Terran space... Will the Terrans's say. " hey! thats mine! " wonder if there's some story about us 'stealing' it from under their noses.. me: I didnt do it! it was him... /points at Boso :-)
make sure u make a save game first and u may need to make the logo folder yourself.i had issues myself adding my own.now i have over 400 logos from mods and such
Just create a new folder in "My Documents > Egosoft > X4 > (random number)" and call it "logos". Make it png with 512x512, that works great :) Easy as that ;)
I don't think that this is rust, since there is no oxygen in space, so metal can not oxidize aka. rust. That is probably just an other kind of metal used by argons and co.
So it sounds like they hugely reduced the level of complexity in what resources and production modules are required for Terran stations/ships, and replaced it with a much steeper quantity requirement for each individual ware. Not sure how I feel about that, in terms of balance, but I guess I'll find out in a little over a week. I am a huge fan of their decision to give each Terran module a unique appearance, though. My self-sustaining shipyards didn't really have a distinct racial aesthetic before, as most modules didn't have different racial variants.
Crazy how immersive and massive this game is and the economy details, I just wish there was diplomacy and WAR god how id love to see dozens of capitals killing eachother with 100 fighters
nice intro. have you thought on trying to put a set up where you re streaming from inside a splitt spacestation, flying in a x foundations ship or some montage of that sort?
Would like some imput if possable, I have the Terran expansion, but i am having issues the terran markit prices seem to have fliped. every ware is being sold for at lest 1 credit more then the buying. i understand the supply and demand of the game and the pips used to denote volum sold and or bought. but it does not make sense when a product is in high demand from the buyer their offers reflect this by being lower and if a seller has max capacity then the value is cheap normlay. But i cannot find a ware other then protian past that sells normaly, for example seller has 40000 its sold for 49cr, a buyer needs 40000 amount so they buy for 167Cr and as you fill the order the price for selling goes up and the price for buying goes down but this is the only ware that does this. Sorry for long post but i cannot find a solution for this any ideas? thank you.
Hello. Is it possible to start as a terran and then to build good relations to the old x-univers nation too? So that you have good relations with terrans and with the other nation as the same time? Or is there an story wise aggression between some nation like in x3? Thx
@@CaptainCollins If I had a computer I would be trelling instead of asking. I am thinking it would make it harder to move to a position where only a few can engage without shooting itself.
Hello, I got a problem with X4 after 4.0 update Every new game + old saves got problem with materials, I mean my ore probes discover max about 1.0/km3 ore or silicon I´m useing some mod like economy rebalance and others, but any mod which increses or decreses values of ores, so I´m want to ask if is there problem due to mods and other stuff or if that is a new feature of a game. Thx for a reply MoraviaKnight
Hi Delta, what a fitting name :) I don't have a guide for that, since carriers are useless in my opinion at the moment. The launch and docking of fighters takes ages.
@@CaptainCollins I am using Tokyo with some fighters. launch is fast. doking take ages that is true. but in the next path they will cahnge docking for tokyo. so i thougt it would be nice to have some carrier gide
Hi guys, started a only terran save, but having trouble mining. Manged to build 3 S miners, for Silicon... but unless i manualy send them to another sector to sell, i cant do automine... help?
Yeah, they will only sell to stations in the same sector. Either you advance your pilots and do advanced automining, or you setup a "repeat order" command with mining and selling.
@@CaptainCollins Thank you, Captain Collins. If i may ask another question, i have two e-cell factorys in Mercury, sunlught is amazing there, but NPC factorys sell it cheaper than me, and it only allows me to drop the price to 10cr, they sell at 8,87 cr. What can i do to sell my wares? Thank you, and keep up the good work, love your channel!
I have been playing this DLC for one week. Terran's industry chain is too simply which makes it hard to make money by trading or building factory. The bad relationships with other races makes it impossible to improve the poor industry chain. The ships are great but I'm have to earn money to purchase it 😂
It might be too early to say but this whole "totally separate terran economy" thing doesn't sound very fun. I recall X3: Terran Conflict having a similar setup and it always felt frustratingly tacked-on to the rest of the game.
Ich habe das spiel lange nicht gespielt werde es siche rmit dem neuen update wiederstreamen, wie ist das wenn ich nen normal start mache also keine spezialle geschichte, ist dann traotzdem alles drinnen und ich kann alles erleben je nach dem wann ich was erkundet oder freigeschaltet habe oder wie soll ich mir das vorstellen?
@@Ketraar so once I download it it will just add them to my regular game? If so that's amazing, I've put so much work into my stations and just added the Ossian raider mod having massive wars breaking out FINALLY with random battleships popping up. It's the first time since I started playing the game I've ever experienced any actual real challenge/threat. I've never had even a remote threat from any factor or xenon or found a mod that made the xenon or any factions threatening at all until now
@@Rysdad1 Mods are a different thing though. You would need to ask the mod author if there are some issues, it will depend a lot what the mod does and what it changes. Chances are many of the new fixes and updates in 4.0 update may require mods to be updated too.
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I'm just going to say what we all thinking: people responsible for designing and making Terran station assets deserve a bonus. They really outdone themselves! I don't think you can one-up this :O
So I've been watching videos regarding the Terran economy, and I'm sad to say, every video I've found thus far doesn't really prepare you properly for the hurdles you'll face when trying to make money by trading and producing goods. So here are my observations after playing CoH for a good 30 hours instead of just looking at the module stats etc for a few mins or so.
Terran trade ships are slow but have a decent amount of cargo space. Terran M class mining ships also have decent cargo space, but are much quicker than their cargo hauling counterparts. Another thing is that in the current version, the courier, the Frog, seems to have incredibly loud engines. I can zoom out all the way and still hear those bastards. I sold my Frogs for Baldrics not for efficiency, but for the peace and quiet.
For mining, gasses are the most profitable to sell, as they seem to be quick to gather in the asteroid belt, sell well, and your gas miners have much more cargo space than your mineral miners. Starting out, I'd mine gas. For trading, the best profit margins seem to come from protein paste, which is always in demand. If you use the Tatertrade mod, you'll notice your trade ships sometimes exclusively hauling this stuff to Terran supply outposts. It's worth it.
When starting out, the first couple of Terran missions involve fighting many, many Xenons. Keep your eyes open for valuable loot, and the automatic collection mods will make you rich quick here, at the start.
SPOILERS
Another early chunk of change comes from a free Gladius, found floating in Getsu Fune at the gate to Savage Spur II when your wingman goes missing there. You can sell this puppy for a good 300k for the chassis alone.
SPOILERS END
You'll note that the Terran ships are relatively expensive to build. This will be a common theme, as the Terran equivalent of claytronics is computronic substrate. The difference is, this computronic substrate is used in everything, not just station building; Ships, modules, stations, you name it, it uses it. Computronic substrate is extremely expensive, and has a very high volume, so not much can be carried at a time. This probably won't worry you now, but it will later. Why? Because, when you go into the station planning screen to design your station, you'll notice a dropdown on the right side of your screen.
STATION-WIDE MODULE LOADOUTS
Preset for all station modules: High Preset.
This high preset, which the game DEFAULTS to every time you open this screen, will FUCK YOU UP if you don't pay attention. If you own station modules, such as shields and turrets, it will add them automatically. Everywhere. And they use a ton of computronic substrate. If you're not paying attention, this will increase the price of building your station by sometimes a factor of 7. When I realised this, the cost of building my little trading stations went from 6-7 million all the way down to 1.7 million credits. When I noticed this issue on all of my stations and went in and removed all the modules, every single station gave me an absolute fortune in computronic substrate back. I absolutely broke my back saving up for these stations, and didn't need to.
Unless you specifically want an armed station, ALWAYS watch this dropdown. If you don't, you will suffer. Don't make the same mistake I did.
Moving on. Sunlight. Every Terran system that is further from the sun will produce less energy cells. If you go to the info panel of a sector it will tell you the % of sunlight. If memory serves, Mars is at about 60%, Earth is at 100%, and Venus and Mercury are higher. I think Mercury is at about 630%. So, don't make the same mistake I did before I knew about this feature. My very first solar station was in Jupiter. Suffice to say I was very confused for a while before I had to dismantle the thing and convert it into a trading post. Don't make the same mistake I did.
Another thing. The only mineral wealth in the northern Terran systems is the Asteroid Belt sector. Every Terran raw production station that I can remember uses a mix of gasses and minerals, and you will find both here. But you will only find gasses in Mercury, Titan, Neptune, etc. If you want to set up stations in the north, you do it near the asteroid belt. Preferably inside of it. You can also get minerals from Getsu Fune, but no gasses.
Another thing. Metallic microlattice. From what I can tell, this is the Terran equivalent of hull parts. In my game, my and the Terran economy absolutely eats the stuff up. My silicon carbide mill, which now has about 16 production modules, gorges on this stuff. And yet there aren't many ai factories for it up north. In fact, I think there's only one. You may encounter the same issue. Be aware that you may end up being forced to produce this stuff to supply the area. But here's a mistake I made: When I was starting to get into production, I started with this stuff. It was cheap to produce, only requiring helium and ore alongside energy cells. I didn't realise my error until I looked at the prices. A single microlatice production module uses 1000 energy cells, 1000 ore, and 2600 helium to produce 3800 microlatice. The problem? This is operating at a loss. Microlatice sells roughly at the same price as ore and helium, around the 50 credit per unit mark. Throw in the energy cells and what you'll realise is that microlatice is worth less than it's components. If your aim is to make money, don't bother. It's only worth producing this stuff if the area is running short of it.
Another thing that nobody on youtube seems to have noticed. You'll have seen by now that computronic substrate is expensive, but the high cargo volume and small price differentials don't make it that lucrative for trading. So you've probably considered that producing it must be hella profitable. And you're right. You've probably noticed that the blueprint for the production module is hella expensive. After that, you probably noticed that the production module uses a MASSIVE amount of resources. For 588 units? 24,000 energy cells. 12,000 hydrogen, 18,000 ore, 18,000 silicon. How can you possibly hope to supply it fast enough?! Well, the answers are simple. The production process on the module is longer than most other production modules that I've seen, so you will have longer to fill up resource stores. Because the product sells so well, it's actually worth it to buy from local ai miners. And lastly, snowballing. You will make so much profit from these things that soon your mining fleet will expand rapidly. My humble five miners expanded to more than fourty miners in a couple hours, and that's just the M class. I also ended up throwing out at least 8 L class miners. My biggest issue right now is the queues of my and Terran miners waiting to dock. And that's just because I'm too lazy to build another dock for them to use. Which brings me to another thing I noticed. Terrans only have the one kind of dock. Granted it's a good one, but if you want those big 8M dock modules, be prepared to travel to Teladi space - everyone else hates you. You'll have to grind rep, buy the blueprint, and haul the parts across half the galaxy. Meh. Let 'em queue, it's fine.
Speaking of queues, here's another thing I noticed that nobody else on youtube seems to have. Notice anything about Terran pier docks? Take a close look at their tips. They use cargo drones. Their tips have in and out bays for cargo drones. You need cargo drones on your station or L class ships, or you may occasionally have issues moving cargo. Keep that in mind.
That's everything off the top of my head, but I'm probably missing stuff. Remember, looking at the stats of things in the encyclopedia will only get you so far. You'll miss things, forget things, not realise things. The Terran economy requires you to stay on your toes when you're learning.
And remember this: When you look back at your progress, at your silicon carbide and computronic substrate production stations with 20 production modules each, when you look down at the asteroid belt, which is almost totally obscured by the green icons of your mining fleet, when you look at the income that your stations are printing, an easy 40million every twenty minutes or so... Remember that the Xenon MUST die. Time to build a shipyard, and bring about a recycling genocide on their heads.
I just can't get over how good the S/M dock looks on the inside! Very refreshing to see a dock that's different from the other factions :)
X4 Foundations players: "Huh, the Terran have their own supply chain? That's interesting."
X3 Players: *Terran Economy Flashbacks* "GET THOSE TRANSPORTS TO THE STATIONS, NOW! Crash them into the damn docks if you have to, just get them in before G.O.D. starts deleting the stations again! GOGOGO!"
:D
Sigh, happy memories.
I feel like not being able to place other station modules inside the center of the Large habitat ring is a massive missed opportunity for really interesting and wonderful station shapes. A compact, highly vertical, jellyfish-like tower would be glorious, whereas the current appearance is akin to urban sprawl.
you can cram in the defence module tower into the ring section without problems. You might not be too limited in your design abilities as you think you are.
Just love the Terrain ship and station design.
Thank you Captain
The Terrans where always the best. But this time the design is even more awesome! Really good continuation from X3
Was listening to this in the background and kept hearing Metalllic Microlettuce ;) Keep up the good work, great vid :)
Thank you so much for your x4 videos and guides. I would have never gotten so much iut of the game if it wasn't for you!
Sooooo nice :) Thank you for these words!
I gotta say, I really love the overall station module design of the Terrans.
"JUST terran materials" is an understatement. When I look at the huge amount of resources needed to produce just one unit of computronic substrate and then see how many of them are needed for just one station module, it is overwhelming! I hope these numbers will change with the release.
Never said it would be easy ;)
@@CaptainCollins That's right but I think this is over the top. Idk the average amount of computronic substrate needed for a module but I reckon when I sum it up for a whole station (let alone a wharf where I need a sh*tload of those items for all the ship parts) it would almost be as much grinding as for a terraforming project.
@@Osmone_Everony Well, if the amount and time needed was any lower than for the other factions, some people might cry foul and call the Terrans OP from the get-go. Personally, I can live with the trade-off for having to come up with a reasonable economic cycle for only three intermediate materials instead of a myriad of those. :)
@@_vinterthorn First off I'm not talking about "lower than for the other factions" but quite the opposite. Secondly, such insane amount of resources is NOT reasonable economy. So wtf are you talking about?
Please don't get offensive here please. We're still looking at a not finished product, maybe it will change after people tried it or it will work out pretty well, who knows.
I wish i could build those habitat rings in vertical instead of horizontal, like a bee nest, that would be so aesthetic
You want to build a giant space dice? :D
So excited to play Terrans!
Next week I will be very tempted to abandon my current playtrough and start as a Terran, just so I can experience the ship and station design.
God these are impressive
Fantastic video as always, my friend! Just built my new gaming rig and am enjoying the Terran Cadet campaign for now. I have been pirating ships from the ANT faction for quick cash, while my miners and trader make their runs with low returns, but I enjoy the new economy as I explore around. Can't wait for the next installment, will watch it later this evening.
Keep up the great work!
From my playthrough right now, Terran seem to have a lot of waste and down time because of the massive resource consumption of their production modules, and the lack of really good mining areas outside of Asteroid Belt.
the way to out produce the limit in an hr is to setup multi of the same production module and have a fleet of at least 25 med class transports running needed supplies to the station and for ice have a fleet of 10 large mining ships to do runs set in groups of 5 so when one is on its way back full another is on its way out and always make sure your storage out does what you can make and close off trading to the ai to start with so you dont loss goods
when in the X universe and you buy a product that says Made on Terra
ya know its a good product!
Wait for someone to recreate Babylon 5 Station by using all races components.
Really not a fan of the vanilla capital ship designs, I feel like it was a huge step backwards after the sleek style of Rebirth. The Split ships are of course look great but the Terran ships and stations are bringing back the old XTC vibe. They look elegant and sleek I really like what they did with the carrier. Stations ofc look just as great and the S/M docking module is awesome. Can't wait to try them out.
Elegance... yes, that's it! That's what the Terrans introduce in X4.
Can't wait to get back into X4 and buy these 2 new DLCs, going to be a lot of time spent building a terran shipyard.
Have fun :)
these station parts look awesome, it's a shame though that the modules that produces ships as well as the construction ship are just re-skins of already existing modules/ships instead of newly designed ones
my god i just wanna play it!!!!
I'm trying to decipher where your accent is from :) Thank you for the video!
Try it at least once, before I answer :D
@@CaptainCollins I'm gonna guess Norway
@@CaptainCollins Love your series on X4 CoH, but I also am trying to figure out your accent too! Thanks for all of your informative X4 videos!!
This new dlc is going to be a bit easyer I can’t wait to play I fill the power rising with the new battleship the big gun is one shot kill ( boom headshot )
A bit easier but very slow process building stations and money to and I cannot. Found many crystals
i wonder if i teleport my HQ to Terran space... Will the Terrans's say. " hey! thats mine! "
wonder if there's some story about us 'stealing' it from under their noses..
me: I didnt do it! it was him... /points at Boso :-)
there is
Captain, Could you do a logo tutorial? It would be helpful since i've been trying to add a custom it doesn't appears on custom logo list
make sure u make a save game first and u may need to make the logo folder yourself.i had issues myself adding my own.now i have over 400 logos from mods and such
Just create a new folder in "My Documents > Egosoft > X4 > (random number)" and call it "logos". Make it png with 512x512, that works great :) Easy as that ;)
Ich bin schon richtig gespannt auf CoH. Die Designs rocken ziemlich, auch wenn der Pseudo-Pegasus schon ziemlich aus dem Rahmen fällt.
Gooooooood! thx man.
I don't think that this is rust, since there is no oxygen in space, so metal can not oxidize aka. rust.
That is probably just an other kind of metal used by argons and co.
So it sounds like they hugely reduced the level of complexity in what resources and production modules are required for Terran stations/ships, and replaced it with a much steeper quantity requirement for each individual ware. Not sure how I feel about that, in terms of balance, but I guess I'll find out in a little over a week. I am a huge fan of their decision to give each Terran module a unique appearance, though. My self-sustaining shipyards didn't really have a distinct racial aesthetic before, as most modules didn't have different racial variants.
Crazy how immersive and massive this game is and the economy details, I just wish there was diplomacy and WAR god how id love to see dozens of capitals killing eachother with 100 fighters
You can declare war in v4.00 ;)
You’ll be constantly threatened by xenons often 4 destroyers and ton of small ships. Hard to defend the whole galaxy so just focus on specific areas.
nice intro. have you thought on trying to put a set up where you re streaming from inside a splitt spacestation, flying in a x foundations ship or some montage of that sort?
I did that for the Egosoft interview :) Was at a Raptor bridge :D
An entire civilization run off of mirco lettuce 🥬
They just like all the small things :)
Love Elite Dangerous but This game, X4 is like Elite should have been ! Hope someday they will do also planetary landing.
That would be phantastic!
Dzięki 😁
and don't forget they're f*ing expensive to build over 6M for a Solar Power Station with 4 panels, 1 dock, 1 T pier. its insane
Could we talk about terraforming? What do you terraform here? Theres no planet landing, right?
There's a "drones fly off to the planet" mechanic.
@@CaptainCollins oh gotcha!
@@CaptainCollins oh and foolish question i know.......but how do i go about firing the asgards main cannon? The main batteries i mean
How to haul wares between your own stantions?
Very good video. The background music is distracting though.
just have to mention most of us claimed MRE = meals ; rejected by enemy
Would like some imput if possable, I have the Terran expansion, but i am having issues the terran markit prices seem to have fliped. every ware is being sold for at lest 1 credit more then the buying. i understand the supply and demand of the game and the pips used to denote volum sold and or bought. but it does not make sense when a product is in high demand from the buyer their offers reflect this by being lower and if a seller has max capacity then the value is cheap normlay.
But i cannot find a ware other then protian past that sells normaly, for example seller has 40000 its sold for 49cr, a buyer needs 40000 amount so they buy for 167Cr and as you fill the order the price for selling goes up and the price for buying goes down but this is the only ware that does this.
Sorry for long post but i cannot find a solution for this any ideas? thank you.
L Living Quarters are half as effective, storing 500 workforce instead of 1000 for Argon Habitat.
but, depending how you build it, you can place a structure that pass through the hole in the middle.
Hello,
They really did a good job for this new faction. Self production... 🤩 and the design 👍
Thks captain for this video
See ya
_Waric
Thank you Waric :) Nice as always ;)
do I go to supply stations to sell my crafting wares?
Hello. Is it possible to start as a terran and then to build good relations to the old x-univers nation too? So that you have good relations with terrans and with the other nation as the same time? Or is there an story wise aggression between some nation like in x3? Thx
As always in X4: almost everything is possible. You just need to invest time.
NEW SECTORS PLS
LOL of course CoH comes with a lot of new sectors!
Would a more vertical design give you more guns on target while defending instead of a flat plane spead?
Could be, yeah.
@@CaptainCollins If I had a computer I would be trelling instead of asking. I am thinking it would make it harder to move to a position where only a few can engage without shooting itself.
Hello, I got a problem with X4 after 4.0 update
Every new game + old saves got problem with materials, I mean my ore probes discover max about 1.0/km3 ore or silicon
I´m useing some mod like economy rebalance and others, but any mod which increses or decreses values of ores, so I´m want to ask if is there problem due to mods and other stuff or if that is a new feature of a game.
Thx for a reply
MoraviaKnight
No idea about rebalance mods, some in discord maybe do.
turn down the music a little bit. It's kind of distracting.
mmmhmmm Micro Lettuce
Hello there. I was looking for a gide about carriers, how to work with them, with fighters are better for use with carrier, do you have any?
Hi Delta, what a fitting name :) I don't have a guide for that, since carriers are useless in my opinion at the moment. The launch and docking of fighters takes ages.
@@CaptainCollins I am using Tokyo with some fighters. launch is fast. doking take ages that is true. but in the next path they will cahnge docking for tokyo. so i thougt it would be nice to have some carrier gide
Me: OMG terrans look so damn awesome!!!
Also me: huh, their builder looks exactly the same like everyone else's. 😟
noone:
everyone: what you wrote
What about yaki? Is it there? If yes, what ships they are use?
New video for that tomorrow :)
What about products like drone parts? Terran don’t even sell these production modules, do I have to buy them from other factions still?
No, Terran mats only
Please tell us about the new factions? is there a Terran civil war? or are they like the Argon two similar allied factions?
Video for wednesday ;)
@@CaptainCollins Great :)
Hi guys, started a only terran save, but having trouble mining. Manged to build 3 S miners, for Silicon... but unless i manualy send them to another sector to sell, i cant do automine... help?
Yeah, they will only sell to stations in the same sector. Either you advance your pilots and do advanced automining, or you setup a "repeat order" command with mining and selling.
@@CaptainCollins Thank you, Captain Collins. If i may ask another question, i have two e-cell factorys in Mercury, sunlught is amazing there, but NPC factorys sell it cheaper than me, and it only allows me to drop the price to 10cr, they sell at 8,87 cr. What can i do to sell my wares? Thank you, and keep up the good work, love your channel!
Are terran modules compatible with other races? Can you mix them up?
Yes, you just need the different materials. Same with ships and equipment.
Quick question. How do you work out / find out how much workforce is required for the station please?
When you build the station, it tells you how much at the right hand side menu. Scroll through it a bit.
@@CaptainCollins Thank you Sir. Keep up the good work.
why is there no patreon? i would like to support this guy!
TH-cam, Twitch, Paypal... choose your weapon of mass support :D I don't have Patreon, because I can't provide extra content for it.
okay, I made one:
🤖 NEW: www.patreon.com/CaptainCollins
I have been playing this DLC for one week. Terran's industry chain is too simply which makes it hard to make money by trading or building factory. The bad relationships with other races makes it impossible to improve the poor industry chain. The ships are great but I'm have to earn money to purchase it 😂
Will my old saves be compatible with the new dlc?
Yes
It might be too early to say but this whole "totally separate terran economy" thing doesn't sound very fun. I recall X3: Terran Conflict having a similar setup and it always felt frustratingly tacked-on to the rest of the game.
It's very on point for the Terrans, though. They are way more advanced and don't want to have anything to do with the other powers.
Ich habe das spiel lange nicht gespielt werde es siche rmit dem neuen update wiederstreamen, wie ist das wenn ich nen normal start mache also keine spezialle geschichte, ist dann traotzdem alles drinnen und ich kann alles erleben je nach dem wann ich was erkundet oder freigeschaltet habe oder wie soll ich mir das vorstellen?
Ja, auch ein normaler Start lässt dich (irgendwann, mit genug Ruf) alles erleben.
Pretty please show the next video of the sector map 😍😍
2pm CET, got you covered ;) th-cam.com/video/yfENfvK_9To/w-d-xo.html
Any idea if we apply the Terran faction to our game do we have to restart or I'll they load into an existing game?
You can just continue any vanilla save you had just fine.
@@Ketraar so once I download it it will just add them to my regular game? If so that's amazing, I've put so much work into my stations and just added the Ossian raider mod having massive wars breaking out FINALLY with random battleships popping up. It's the first time since I started playing the game I've ever experienced any actual real challenge/threat. I've never had even a remote threat from any factor or xenon or found a mod that made the xenon or any factions threatening at all until now
@@Rysdad1 Mods are a different thing though. You would need to ask the mod author if there are some issues, it will depend a lot what the mod does and what it changes. Chances are many of the new fixes and updates in 4.0 update may require mods to be updated too.
@@Ketraar oh OK ya your right I honestly didn't really think about it that way. I see what you're saying :/
Boron expansion left and we have the perfect game(it already is don't get me wrong).
Next (paid) DLC maybe? ;)
@@CaptainCollins 100% next dlc is boron, has to be. I think they're the only race missing?
Hi CC, just pause the game, no announcements anymore...
I just muted all sounds now :) Don't wat the "GAME PAUSED" text on-screen ;)
Привет , слушай а с мси автобёрнер можешь сделать тест всей системы.? Скажем так обновить данные.!))
I don't understand. And it's not because of russian :D
Still trying to grep with the terrans but they seem to hate alot if people