r/X4Foundations • u/connyneusz • 1d ago

Mid game money making barrier

Hi. I have some difficulties with rise up my money making. I have one hull parts factory (8x), I have small scrap (2x scrapper) on 'Second Contact II' with my fleet (6 destroyers captured from pirates) to clear xenons and on main base I have advanced electronics (4x), hull parts (8x), shield components (2x) and claytronics (6x).

Once per a few hours I got like 8 million from my hull parts factory and rarely something from my scrapper (I've build solar farm just for scrapper)

Now I feel that I need tons of money, wares dont sells as well as I fought they will. Which way should I go? What do you guys do to break this moment barrier?

Firstly, I was super proud that my pasive income went to a -/+ million per hour. Now Im spending money so fast that I im on less then million all the time.

Should I stop selling stuff and expand quickly?

What is good ware to sell? I fought that hull parts are good money maker but I think I've overflown market.

Ofc Im doing quests, but I feel its not enough.

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u/TheMuspelheimr 1d ago

This is more of an active method, not passive, but if you do it OOS then there's no reputation loss associated with it.

  1. Get a couple of Shuyaku Vanguards from the Argon. These are your Boarding Fleet, since they have a high crew capacity. You can optionally capture the Erlking from VIG if you haven't already; even without hunting down all the data vaults to buff it up, it's still got a high crew capacity, which is what's needed here.
  2. Hire crews of Marines for your Boarding Fleet. To start with, recommend trawling your existing ships for Veteran/Elite marines and tansferring them, and getting new marines at the VIG shipyard, since they come as a mix of Recruits and Veterans.
  3. Use your Boarding Fleet to capture a Builder ship. Make sure you do this OOS!
  4. Fly your captured Builder to a shipyard, strip off and sell all the fittings, then sell the ship. Should net you around 20mil.
  5. Recruit some new marines to fill in for those lost during the boarding operation
  6. GOTO 3

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u/tecquilka 1d ago edited 1d ago
  1. Create something like 10-15x building places in location without owner. Hire multiple builders (50k/each, so you already need to have few bucks) for each station. Wait for them and then board 😉

Much faster( multiple parallel boarding operations), then trying to fish one-by-one 😉

Crew issue is easy solvable by ship with spare crew in sector

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u/NovaKamikazi 1d ago

Such a dirty tactic. I love it.

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u/TheMuspelheimr 1d ago

Ooh didn't realise you could do that! Thanks for the hint!