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- Sometimes the best way to stop the Xenon is to keep them from entering your sectors. But fleets and defense stations are expensive so if you need to make a blockade on a budget this X4 Foundations 5.0 guide will help you with setting up your laser towers
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JK Ninja the X4 community needs you back for this 7.0 update
We love you JK Ninja, you are great.
Buy laser towers, deploy near xenon sector, buy manticore, sell stuff, buy more laser towers, hire pilots to fly manticores, harvest more, sell more.
Build your own scrapyard station in a safe spot close by. Deploy more laser towers.
There's your happy little xenon-cattle farm outputting delicous credits 😀
Wait, scrapyards can accept non-compacted scrap, i.e. destroyed ships hulls? I thought you need a pair - tug + compactor
@@LeonserGT compactors are only needed for L and XL scraps. S and M can be scrapped right away.
intil I jumps in
or few I's
Miss your content! Hope to see more with the release of DLCs!
Totally agree!
Love the continuing and irrational disdain of the elite vanguard.
It's completely rational! I mean, just look at one, it's so obvious!
Very timely, this video. I've recently discovered the utility of laser tower blockades as well, and like a fool I've been manually placing all of them. Thank you!
Tip: fly backwards, this way you deploy them in a neat line.
I found out this way works best with the M ships i use for this task, currently a Teladi Kea from a mod.
Would love to see new and updated videos to x4. Love the best for videos you do
I hope life is fine with you man, learnt a lot from your videos.
The protect area deployment method is genius
This may be the single greatest quality of life improvement for my game play. Thank you. I was expecting my mouse to explode with you manual hemispheres of towers in Hatikvah's Choice 1.
Best. Tip. Ever!
Thanks for this. I didn't even know "new behavior" was a thing, let alone spend any time exploring that menu.
Enjoying your X4 tutorials for their clear, concise information and dry humor. Subbed.
And with some ships that collect drops you can potentially make good money. As always thanks for your videos!
He missed this. Laser tower spamming a gate in the early game is my personal favorite way to make passive income.
Great video as always, love it!
How do you know if you're far enough to be considered OOS?
@@dbrowdy I believe the moment you no longer see the effects of the firing turrets.
In theory, after 50km it seems like you are already OOS, but to be certainly effective I would say that it is better from 75km upwards.
In my game I am +30 with Split, so I use their stations as a far point by teleporting in ;)
200 laser towers dropped above and 200 more below to hit the rear of the enemy will destroy pretty much anything. Overkill is when you drop 250 on all 4 corners of the gate. It turns the gate into a deathstar.
Wouldn´t be a real JK Ninja video until an Elite Vanguard blows up XD
I've recently been setting up turret blockades to deal with the Xenon and the HOP but doing it manually of course since I didn't know there was another option. Another tips video just in time. Thanks for another great video. PS my Graphene factory in the Reach is amazing I'm getting ready for a self-sufficient Wharf in Argon Prime and I'm building a trade station in Second Contact just to hold the excess Graphene and Methane. Might decide to put a Wharf and Shipyard on the player hq as well. Since I can't sell my Graphene fast enough yet.
Heck, my mass of 1000 Mk2 towers will erase a K, like, pretty fast. The K wanders around a bit, taking not particularly potent shots at towers, until the K comes into range ... ZAAAAAAP!
It's also not a big deal to send a ship to drop off more towers. Laser tower spam is my go to strategy to beat this game.
If you're still around, there's quite a few new players lately. Your content is still the best and we'd love some updates!
Yes, mines don't work OOS, their only use is in no-reploss station destroying.
To add a few things i've found out on my recent playthough (got the idea from AI actually):
Instead of placing turrets at the gate i recommend placing them around a station nearest to the gate, xenon tend to ignore turrets and focus on a station, giving your turrets much longer lifespan.
If you need this kind of defence really early before you can afford a ship to lay them, the free frigate from Boso questline will do nicely.
And if the random placement of protect position is too unpleasant to look at, same effect can be achieved with movement commands forming a nice triangle or other geometric shape (preferably around a station). The free osprey from Boso's quest works especially well given how slow it is.
One last thing, turrets will aggro military ships from -10 factions and are bound to cause rep hits. It's well worth it anyway, one in-sector K kill will bounce back that rep to positive in an instant.
The -10 aggro on laser towers is already fixed in beta 5.10. But yeah until then either make sure you are -9 with all the factions you don't want to go to war with before using this tactic.
What free frigate? I've played through Mass Teleportation I and haven't seen a free frigate from Boso.
Good tip on the -9 thing, I'll look out for it, thanks!
@@dbrowdy When Boso asks you to help him escape from the split (after you docked with your HQ for the first time), there will be an abandoned frigate near the point where you meet the decoy freighter. It is not shown as abandoned on the map, but if you select it, you can see that it has no owner, so you can simply pop over in your space suit and claim it. I think the equipment on it is semi-random, with the weapons usually being some combo of bolt repeater and plasma for the main guns, and bolt or pulse turrets. The cargo can be really random, my current one had like 40 mines and a bunch of drones on it, while at other times i found them with lots of missiles, or a full hold of laser towers. One time, back when X4 had just been released, I found a cerberus with a full hold of nividium.... that was a fun little money infusion ^^
@@dbrowdy When you get the mission to rescue Boso Ta there is an abandoned frigate near the empty space you reach before the transports dock to the station.
Easy to miss if you don't know, but now that you know it will be hard to miss. If you haven't picked it up it probably still is there but you will have a harder time finding it due to no waypoint to the spot close anymore.
Your videos are by far the best of all the X4 tutorials wish you could do more, like the Boron. Thanks for the great info!!
Hope everything is ok, your videos are great.
I've looked since launch for a way to deploy mines in a convenient way. Thanks man. Never even thought about that.
THANK YOU!!!
I was recently looking for a way to place many towers, back in the day there was a AI script on reddit which allowed you to place and order for a turret/mine field, but its broken since a few versions and i was placing them by hand since then! Never thought of your method, its awesome!
So i have been trying this for two days now, and i came to the conclusion that it works well when you just place them in a line by simply flying BACKWARDS.
I usually start with an Advanced Satellite (to keep an eye on the area) and then the 95 Laser Turrets i have with me.
First one line until the counter is down to 50, then i fly downwards to make a second line with the rest. Right in front of the gate. Well, a few kilometers.
With this i have a fairly decend Anti-Xenon wall that can be easily deployed at every single Jump Gate leading to Xenon sectors.
I started X4 maybe a week ago and these videos helped me so much, I wish he would come back to making them >.>
I will use this exact tipp, at the exact same spot, with the exact same method... Thank you! :)
Your welcome! And feel free to make you own video about this if you wish, the more people that know of this method the better!!
@@JKNinja Consider making a part two showing how you can make millions with this strategy early game. You can turn a gate into a for profit cash generating death star. Then you order a ship to "collect drops." This turns the blockaded gate into a business. And best of all this X4 business is scalable to other gates. An early game investment of 12-25 lasertowers is all it takes to earn massive credits.
Yay, you're back! :3
Unfortunately I'm simply running out of mechanics to cover, but whenever I come up with a fun idea I'll of course pop back in
@@JKNinja
Well, you still haven't covered :
1. War mechanics
2. "My top 10 OOS anti-xenon ships!"
3. How to scrap outside of borked-sun-space
4. SETA - how to, when to, should you?
5. Were xenons influenced by gene stealers? The last screenshot will shock you!
6. Factions (lore -> teach us to give a damn about them)
7. Aux ships
8. Fleet mechanics
9. What I like to do in the sandbox
10. How to properly make use of your kh'aak
Tons of stuff to cover :3 - to be honest I spend too much time in SETA creating supply chains that make no sense ^^ ... Sure, omni-factories all over the place make for huge profits, but once you have enough money to buy the universe and yet keep going... Eh. I feel like this is going to have me restart yet another save
Very helpfull video! I restarted playing X4 again after wachting some of your videos! They make life so much easier. I'm gpnna use this trick for sure! Thanks!
Laser tower spam is the cheapest way to beat X4. You can also make millions by sending a minion to "collect drops" from your kills.
I once wiped out the Borons in X2 using laser towers and dumb fire nuclear warheads, the most overpowered assets in the game. Cheap, long range, hard hitting, and able to be spammed on the battlefield.
Very clever. Thank you. Also, loved the sacred geometry joke. So good.
I, good sir, do indeed enjoy myself a nice geometric deployment. Thank you very much for the tips and tricks, as god knows how long it would have taken me to figure all this out on my own.
That super death defense station looks familiar :)
And yes, it was "a tad" expensive!
Your video it what introduced me to the concept. I admit I havent yet built so extensive a defense station as it is extreme overkill but is fun to watch
@@JKNinja Absolutely overkill and built just for fun, as you say. I made it during lockdown in 2020, plenty of time on my hands. The laser turrets gate blockade is a concept that was already in use since X2 times, back when a defense station wasn't even a concept. Weapons platforms are so efficient and easy to set up in X4 that I didn't even think of trying shenanigans with laser turrets!
Your content is great. Come back!
exactly the video i needed for my new playthrough. thanks m8!
Holy crap. Fantastic.
I think we have a different understanding about what a "nice sphere" is. It looks more like a "bunch" to me. Or a "heap". Interesting idea though.
Correct. It more closely resembles a Weierstrass elliptical with center point oscillation. I admittedly should have done a better job representing the internal spherical volume. Good advice for next time 👍
Miss your videos they were very well made and informative. With these new dlc the ship and equipment guides have gotten a tad outdated and never got that L and XL video.
nice trick with the patrol :)O
MISS YOU
When I asked you post something, I figured maybe a month or so, certainly not the coming weekend; Huge thanks. and Due Props. BTW I love the protect Position trick thats just kind of Amazing. : ) | It is kind of Amazing or Devious I'm not sure which that mines don't come with some sort of Safety, you know do not blow up with-in 5-10sec of being deployed, to avoid blowing up the mine layer.
Since 5.0 mines wont detonate anymore by the ship placing them. But if you place a minefield you do have to worry about another ship hitting it and causing a chain reaction so it's still not completely safe. But these are fragile balls of explosives so some level of danger is expected 😁
@@JKNinja Yeah working on a mine sweeper is a bit outside my comfort zone.
Make a new weapon guide for 6.0 pls Your explanation is really easy to understand.
like always good informative Video!
Sweet, didn't know you could protect position and deploy from the menu. sweetness and great catch!
I hate the fact that this is a necessity, but I did love the video. Thanks!
Dude Miss your X4 videos, which you can keep updating
New video pls! One of the best x4 youtubers
Lasers are also great to defend your traders and miners. Put some into them, and when they get atacked, order them to drop laser towers while they flee.
Don't they do it automatically, when they have Laser Towers in their inventory?
@@MagiconIce not on my game o.o
Miners drop resource probes automatically and that is all I've seen done so far
@@STG113 Wait what? Are you playing Vanilla?
I'm playing Vanilla with all Expansions, no mods and my miners don't drop ressource probes automatically and they have some in the inventory.
However, I've seen them mine far from a ressource probed area, as long as I have atleast one ressource probe in that area.
So I don't know, if they drop it for a few seconds after starting a mining trip and then immediately recollect it.
I see AI ships from other factions drop laser towers, when they have them in their inventory, so I always assumed, that if I give my own ships laser towers, that they would drop them on their own discretion if under attack, just like the AI.
@@MagiconIce I do have an AI mod but it should not affect mining probes. It only affects AI decision to atack or flee from targets considered too much for them to handle.
When I set a miner to advanced automine, the first thing it does is drop a probe if there is none in the sector.
Enemies drop laser towers but so far I have yet to see my own ships doing that without my help.
I always put around 13 to 15 laser towers on them and set global to flee. Whenever I get the warning that they are fleeing, I manually frop the towers behind them. It always works to send enemies away.
Any advice for if laser towers won't cut it? They've taken about 1/3 of the map so far and there are capital blobs and gate camps everywhere - I'm only 4 days in!
Commonwealth economy never got off the ground, a K assassinated the Argon Prime Wharf on day 1. ZYA shipyard and wharf gone. ZYA & HAT are scattered remnants. Profit Center and its TEL shipyard and wharf just fell, it's a xenon sector now. FRF are holed up in the corner with a stalling economy, losing space with 3 Xenon sectors between them and the rest of the map, Argon prime is hollowed out and about to turn red... TER intervention corps are few, and die fast. Weirdly though VIG seem to be massing hundreds of combat ships in their tiny space. Maybe there's hope with the criminal underworld. ARG shipyard is badly damaged, would be dead if I had not been working miracles with my cobra skin dancing the Ks and Qs attacking it. There are Xenon solar and defense stations everywhere.
I think I got a bad roll with what stations spawned this game. But I'm gonna keep mounting a scrappy defence. Feels like some Rogue One shit, just waiting for that big Xenon not-moon to jump into Grand Exchange and FIIIARRR MAH LAZORRR my PHQ to dust
if you have Geometric Owl or something with burst ray, you can help destroy K and I very easily. They usually come alone.(if not, try kill M, N first) You destroy their engines, turrets then shield gens by order, then a small group of patrol can do the rest things. Or take a torpedo launcher, you can deal with it by yourself.
The tighter and more you mass your towers, the more effective they are. 5 towers won't do anything - try 500. To get them tightly packed, tell the ship to Fly and Wait, and once it has completely stopped, repeatedly deploy towers until you have as many as you want. The towers take a couple of seconds each to actually drop, so watch the "docked ships" count until it gets to zero at which point the drop queue has completed. Don't move the ship while it is dropping, you want the towers close together.
I think I find that being Out of Sector helps the towers drop, but that just might be interpretational voodoo.
It sounds like you are in a particularly bad scenario, so, um good luck?
If Terran sectors are untouched, start your economy there.
Silicon and gas miners should earn you a reasonable amount. First station, e-cells, in mercury. Make it trade with your faction only. Build a trade station in the asteroid belt (Buy from player faction, sell to all). Sell e cells. You should earn ~ 400k per ecell producer, per hour, up to saturation. I typically overproduce by 1-3 panels (10000-30000 cells), to also supply my stations as I spin up my production base. Purchase your traders outside terran space, if there are still safe paths from commonweath to terran space.
From there bootstrap up to protein paste/MRE, depending on demand. This will allow you to purchase the cheaper blueprints and avoid spending several hours waiting for the carbide and computronic substrate blueprints. Protein paste also only requires 1 gas and 1 solid, so no autominer micromanagement/trade station annoyances
One you have those blueprints, start making carbide and substrate. You can very easily earn tens of millions per hour distributing substrate. Whether you decide to use intermediate trade stations for the autominers limited to 1 gas and one solid each, or just use blanket automine behaviour is up to you. Blanket automine works 90% of the time imo, but when it fails, it fails spectacularly.
Ship loadout depends on mods. I run VRO, so my advice on vanilla isn't up to date. Based on what I remember from vanilla, L-bolts, m-pulses/bolts. As you are building your economy play through the terran plotline (the protectorate, not pioneers). Side with the terrans and recieve the syn, the strongest destroyer in the game. That will single handedly defeat pretty much any xenon ship/medium fleet. I don't believe it comes well equipped, so be prepared to drop 10-20 mil to outfit it to fight.
From there, you can probably push the xenon back. The Syn will shred anything up to a xenon-I, without contest. For the I, you may need some ship-mods, you may not, again depends on vanilla balancing (which I don't remember)
Some good information, thanks all - unfortunately Argon Prime has now fallen, my lone capital limping away barely as the shipyard exploded :D I am about to dig in at Second Contact Flashpoint's northern jumpgate, and drop 250 mk2 laser towers on that bad boy, I still need more time to get my self sufficient Mega HQ built so I can start producing ships to reclaim what has been lost
I have underestimated laser towers so far, this is great!
Much love - You solved my biggest problem haha
I did this at the start of my game and it's single handedly responsible for the survival of HAT. I held that damn gate to morning star for like five hours.
How does it deal with occasional Ks and Is? Or rather, do they feature precise enough turrets to destroy your laser tower cloud, do they stick around being aggroed by them or they move along?
Great
after 20 hours of playing and seeing the ppls of argon rollover I had to do something. Fortunately there is a abandon destroyer in one of the Xenon, I drift the destroyer that weight a planet to the gate while waving at five Xenon destroyers yonk. Then I process to slowly chip at Xenon bases the laser towers provide dam good coverage against massive drone horde that awakens after you hit the base nest. After a while I started to get good using the destroyer to the point where I just started dancing around in circles around Xenon k's. Yep I"m now heavily addicted to this game
with enough speed - raptor make a good laser blockade stripes.
whole 400 load in just 19 drops (under 2 minutes)
Shark is a better at rapid deployment, but some turrets end up in 200000km away.
Hey JK! I truly love your videos on X4 and I personally believe you are the best content creator when it comes to X4 comparing to the others. It's just much easier and more pleasant to watch yours. Are you thinking about making videos on the new version with Kingdom's End?
I'm literally on the same spot right now trying to block this xenon forces coming through the jump gate
I picked that spot for the video as I think everyone has had trouble with that sector 😄. The Xenon really like coming through that particular gate
@@JKNinja haha exactly!
Btw,I'm a new player,what will be your advice to block completely their efforts to invade the system?
The only way to completely block them is to use a defense station near the gate or send in your own fleet to destroy their wharfs/shipyards. Eventually the Xenon will send multiple destroyers and battleships and that's too much for laser towers to handle
More of those Tips and Guides please :)
Unfortunately I'm simply running out of mechanics to cover, but whenever I come up with a fun idea I'll of course pop back in
@@JKNinja Here some ideas:
- How to defeat Xenon K and I effectively / easy
- Tips for In sector and out of sector combat and other acitivites
- fleet build recommandations
- recommandations for best Player Shops and loadouts
- modding modules
They are also good for fighting against a superior fleet.
Thanks for the tip!
there's a mod that does this far better if you are cool with modding your game - lookup 'Waypoint Field' in either Nexus or the Steam workshop. Allows you to set the shape, density, size etc of your laser tower 'cloud'. Also it allows you to set helpers - I have 5x Falx's, 4 of them set to follow the fifth. I select the fifth, right click the place I want covered, and the 5 Falxs work together to cover the area in laser towers. you can also choose to create minefields if that's your goal, but I haven't bothered for the same reason in the video.
With the launch of 6.0, well you could come back, redo your videos about the best weapons, ships, turrets, your content was too good... I have learned a lot from you and it has been one year since your last video, sad
1:34 So cool.
Hi! I'm thinking about getting into X4, but I'm unsure if your prior tutorials are up to date. Have recent updates cheanged the game drastically or are the tutorials still relevant. Kind regards
Does choosing Mk2 towers over the Mk1s make a significant difference or is quantity the defining quality here?
in same amount mk2 kill them faster, but even with mk2 you want to swarm the gates with numbers ;)
Mk2 does more damage and has more health. also more expensive. they ARE worth the added cost, but trying to put a bunch of them at gates leading to xenon space is going to get pretty darn expensive, AND they will draw bigger xenon which will destroy them when the xenon notice that all their smaller ships are poofing at that gate. if you put enough of them even the bigger xenon will fall to them, but you'll lose quite a few towers so you'll have to replace them.
I genuinely miss this channel.
I just found out about this channel but these video's are awsome! Anyone know why he stopped making content?
@@2hard2break83 No, I secretly hope he comes back because honestly, he's the reason I was able to get into X4.
Sorry but I had to get a second job to make ends meet, much like a lot of people during these hard times. If I am ever able to get my finances in better shape I would love to come back but unfortunately making these videos takes up too much time
@@JKNinja i understand bro. I wish you the best. Hopefully you get things sorted out soon.
@@JKNinja i totally understand, and I can’t imagine how long these all took to put together. I hope that your financial situation gets better. Even if it didn’t mean you’d come back. As someone that spent most of my life doing it, nobody should have to work two jobs, it sucks.
If you do find yourself able to make videos again, you’d have at least one patron/subscriber waiting for you.
Excellent vid, absolutely using this method from now on. Could you make a video about what changes per each star/level of pilot experience? Would be handy to know at what point it'd be best to use your 4-5 star seminars and when to save 'em for later.
Unfortunately I don't know the exact specifics of what each star does. There was a formula released which is now outdated. Hopefully later the community will have the information available again
@@JKNinja I don't blame you, info on this topic seems pretty sparse. Here's hoping the info comes.
With the upcoming kingdom end DLC around the corner, will we be able to expect your return?
Capital ship review and OOS Fleet setup for dealing with Xenon would be awesome to see.
Sorry but I had to get a second job to make ends meet, much like a lot of people during these hard times. If I am ever able to get my finances in better shape I would love to come back but unfortunately making these videos takes up too much time
I can't deploy from the menu like that for some reason, the button is greyed out. Can't figure out what I am doing wrong. Edit: Figured it out, I'm dumb, you just have to click on the laser towers in the menu first lol.
I place them in "rays" from the Jump Gate in an arc of 180°. I start wit the 2 main arms: from the nacelles to the front. Then left and right from the gate, then up and lastly down.
Why do this?
Seldom the xenstards get out of the gate in straight 90° from the gate and fly aside. This totally tricks them out.
The problem comes when the destroyers kicks in.
How to laserdeal with it?
The solution is RINGS.
You get near a laser tower from the two front lasertower arms you placed from the gate and start deploying lasertowers in a circle (or, if your ship has lot of LT space and is maneuverable, in a spiral from the gate which is way better) like forming more "gates" in the front of the gate.
Why doing so? The lasertower will target all the subsystems of the xenon destroyers which doesn't have a lot of anti-fighters equip. The last onceswill be the xenon destroyers shields. Ok, I'm about to get an objection: "but LT does little damage? Can really 200 of them deal with a destroyer? What if some fighters kicks in?" Well that's not a problem: actually the turret AI *IS BETTER THEN THE XENON ONE* so what happens is that they disengage from the destroyer for a sec just to vaporize the fighters and then comes back on the surgery. Yeah, you may lose 6-7 in the process but hey... LT-MK1 are totally cannon fodder right? For the cost: who cares?
Hope it helps.
Hey brother, no comment section on your channel; but I miss your content.
@JKNinja hope your doing well.
I had always assumed turrets were timed once deployed and would self destruct after a while
They are persistent but can be destroyed so eventually the Xenon will grind through it if you dont replace the losses
How well does a ton of laser towers work out of sector?
They will still fire OOS, probably perform a bit better due to 100% hit chance but so will the enemy when shooting back at them
They perform perfectly fine OOS, in my experience. And since they are place-and-forget, you really can put your attention elsewhere for long periods, just occasionally looking back to see if anything has managed to wipe out the towers. And the more towers you place, the much less likely anything will be able to survive them. In my game, XEN seem to like to get close to the towers to try to attack them, and S and M class XEN get deleted in under 2 seconds when they come in range.
How can I colect them later? My game is really laggy
Hey JK, I've noticed that your X4 videos dont have the atrocious jagged edges that's plaguing my game. Can you share what graphics settings you are using please, and if using any reshades? I've got a 3080ti and no matter what AA setting I pick the jagged edges wont go away.
no reshade. I use FXAA High, no upscaling, Fullscreen, Vsync, and Photo color correction
I made my capital sector Nopileos Fortune VI and put a defense station right in the center of the gates....yet somehow Kha'ak keep getting into Nopileos II and causing mayhem.....sneaky buggers
Kha'ak can teleport stations into sectors. Check the edges of Nopileos Fortune VI, you might have a hive infestation
@@JKNinja you never cease to blow my mind sir
Are planning to make a video about better graphics permonace?
theres mods that add deployable shortcuts. i set deploy laser tower to control+2
Does the range matter? Can you place em right at the gate or do they need to be placed firther?
Hey buddy how's it going ... I have heard that you can download pre-made station that other players have built but have no idea how to go about doing it was wondering if you could do a short video guide on how to go about doing that? Thanks! ✌️😎
Check out this link in the egosoft forums: forum.egosoft.com/viewforum.php?f=195. You can find a lot of community uploads there!! You can then place the .xml file into the directory: Documents -> Egosoft -> x4 -> (random number folder) -> constructionplans
Please come back
Well, I feel like an idiot. I've always queued up dozens of deploy laser tower orders to spread them around gates. Never occurred to me to just use the protect position behavior to have it move about in a sphere as I click deploy, even though I use protect position all the time. Seems much less tedious.
Mines seems pretty useless. Their encyclopedia page shows that all mines do the same amount of damage. Regular mines don't track, tracker mines track everyone, and F/F mines only track hostiles. You're actually just paying for the ability to not friendly fire stuff. Regular mines never hit anything, and tracking mines are too slow and their radius too small to hit S or M ships. The only thing you can reliable hit with a minefield are L and XL ships, and then you realise that they don't do enough damage to be worth deploying. Fifty mines are not gonna kill a K. I dropped a minefield and then dropped laser towers inside it to lure the K in, and when it barged through the field it was hit by practically every mine and didn't even lose half it's shields. I am not gonna invest in 400 mines and pray they all hit just to kill one K.
I did get a couple of kills on Xenon resource ships by dropping F/F mines near their build storage dock for one of their stations, but that's about it. Is there any reason to invest in mines? I don't think there is.
I think mines are pretty good for economic warfare (i.e. ambushing freighters and miners, like you already did).
Pay attention to the routes the AI freighters take, and then drop like 50 or 70 mines in their path, right at the point they drop out of travel mode. (preferably do so with an expendable ship that you aren't flying yourself). Sit back, and watch the fireworks unfold. (There's a reason there are always "clear minefield near XYZ station" missions :-) )
Sure, you could do the same with laser towers, but those will get the attention of sector security, while mines won't.
If you want to be sneaky, mines are what you want.
I agree, but in the lategame mines and towers can be fun for lols. Towers to save a ship, but mines are wasted credits. Maybe mines to destroy something without getting reputation loss, this worked some times ago.
@@egoaut Like I said in my previous comment: If you want to be sneaky: use mines 🙂
Another good video. Can laser towers give you money with the police licenses?
Unfortunately you can't use towers for passive income, that only works for your personal kills. It will count towards kill missions though
@@JKNinja that answered another question too. Thanks man
Explain how ships are modified in turn
Thank you for your videos! Very informative! I have a request though, could you make a video to explain police license and using the police scanner to find pirates, criminals, and contraband? Thanks!!!
a police license will give you extra money when you destroy a ship near a station, police scanner will give you more information about that ship and crew. But is there something specific about it that you would like explained?
@@JKNinja Thank you! Yes, I would like to have tips on how to hunt for and/or target ships that are likelier to be pirates or smugglers carrying contraband, if there's any way to spot them before doing a scan.
Yo JK, dunno what you got going on in your life, but I hope that someday you will return!
Have you ever considered doing ship reviews?
I have two videos where I do a quick overview of the small and medium ships. Saving the destroyers for when all the enhanced versions are released
i have done it before watching :) i actually have my fleet fly in formation than deploy....just it didn't work very well so nice tip. wonder is there any quick tip on how to repair them? just put in bay and re-release again seems do the trick but its too much labour work. personally don't see any reason to use mine....
I don't bother with repairs, just replace when enough of them are destroyed
just a suggestion for a video, any chance we could see you compare the best scout ships? u did the best small fighters but would love to hear your take on the scout ships as well, or overall best mission runners.
The Pegasus is the fastest scout and I think that the Nodan is the best mission running ship, at least in the beginning until you can afford a medium class. I'm not sure if I could stretch that into a video though, but if I can put together a script I'll of course release it 👍
@@JKNinja perhaps scouts and courier review then, the strengths and weaknesses of the different races versions, best fast cargo runners, ect, just some ideas
I recently was choosing a scout for actual scouting (by NPC). In the end, I chose Mamba, because whatever is labeled as the 'scout' is not really fast and for some reason has much bigger cargo, than fighters. Why does a scout needs 600-700 cargo, while having inferior speed? No clue.
Takoba would be another great choice, but a bit expensive and it's my personal ship at the moment
Since MK1 laser towers place instantly would you recommend spamming MK1 over MK2?
Mk1 is good for gate defense if you want to get the ship to drop out of travel mode as all you need to do is hit it, so need a fleet there to do the real damage. You can still use only Mk1, just more of them, but remember that every ship/deployable will add extra load to your CPU and towards the end game will slow things down
@@JKNinja I see that explains a lot haha. Also I just claimed my first sector and I don't know what to build in it because there's nobody else there. I noticed that you said your in a rut with X4 right now. Maybe do a small video on how to configure your own sectors for profit? I saw someone mention banning ore or hull parts to create a monopoly or something about space weed? Idk but it would be nice to have a video on what to do at that point. I love your videos!
are the turrets there till someone kills it?
Usually they should, but with 100 of them, chance is they will kill anything so quickly, taking even one out will be a challenge.
That is, until the large ships come into play. But even those can be killed if just enough towers shoot at once.
@@sim.frischh9781 Would you say that beside 100 lasers, it would be good to have one extra destroyer, or maybe 1-2 corvettes? Just in case a bigger ship appears. Not sure it wouldn't get destroyed by friendly crossfire, huh.
@@cmdrgogen3203 Enough turrets will kill a K no sweat. I haven't actually had a chance to try with an I, but the answer there is probably just Moar!
@@cmdrgogen3203 If a bigger ship DOES appear, those would be lost together with the towers.
The towers are meant to be an INEXPENSIVE solution.
@@sim.frischh9781 i've never thought of them as being an inexpensive solution. it gets expensive pretty fast. they are effective short term solution. as a long term solution they cost too much to keep replacing and chews up too much time. once you are able to field a fleet of destroyers, that is way superior long term solution, and it doesn't really take that long to get a fleet of destroyers. just take them.
where are you mr. jk ninja :/
I can barely afford miners, im currently running 3 scouts and a Perseus. Feels like I need to be making money money
My first few ships are always miners for that passive income. When you are starting out missions and data vaults are a good source of money to build up your fleet
@@JKNinja I've never seen a single data vault in this game outside the data vault tutorial, completely forgot about them until I saw you mention them. Do they even exist in the game.... lol?
I put down 250 mk2 laser towers on the gate trying to hold the Xenon back - they'd taken Argon Prime and were threatening Second Contact II Flashpoint. I went away to do station build planning for a while. When I looked back, all the towers were dead. The Xenon pushed in with 4x I, 3x K and 1x Q. Looks like the towers killed one of the K. They are now laying waste to the sector. JESUS CHRIST.
what a shame that argons are helpless
I have found another blockade option:
I place 200 gladius on that gate.
DO NOT DISTURB MY CIRCLES !
A Large transport can load up 250 laser towers at a time I think. Deploy them by a gate from out of sector in a big blob. You completely missed how these laser tower blobs can be used to make millions early game by picking up loot in a small ship. You must not know. You can set up a blockade and just sit by it raking in 10s of millions an hour. You can also send a small ship to "collect drops in sector." So while good your guide is lacking. It needs a part 2. "Profit from laser tower spam." Also you are missing how carrying a few lasertowers is a good getaway strategy for you if you get jammed up eject a few laser towers and run away. Laser towers are also great offence because of their long range you can use them to distract the enemy while you shred them. So yea your review is missing lots of things to help the new players. You also completely missed how you can load up a cheap or captured ship with mines, fly it into a competitors docking port and eject the mines. Many laughs ensue. You missed how you can blockade stations, shut them down, especially the terrans by ejecting laser towers inside their saucer shaped docking ports. This move single handedly cripples their empire.
using them to get away has never worked for me. if they have started shooting your ship they just ignore the laser tower.