x4 foundations - Economy guide - how to become the Emperor

x4 foundations is a massive 4x sandbox type of universe management game at it's core and this guide will teach you about how to become rich fast and how the AI behaves in this universe in order to help you judge about your Plannings for your own universe. this goes out before the diplomatics update hits the game and may very well change in the future. p.s. thanks for the comments i added some timestamps for you because of it ;D Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 2:59 - Step one free destroyer 8 -12 billion credits kickstarter = Autominers, lootscouts, satelites 3:48 - carefull with khaak less than 8 mineral miners per sector 4:35 - step two: Argon discoverer for pio Katana farming (1,2- 2,8 million per ship, no rep hits) 7:30 - loot pick up fighters (use repeat orders in order ot have one fighter pick up loot at multiple places, once they have inventory, you can tell them to autodrop it at your playerHQ (they have to have picked something up first if they have: my belongings, rightclikc fighter, scroll down click on "drop inventory" it is counterintuitive and not managed by waypoints on the map.. state 23.05.26) 12:20 - this is outdated, there now spawns khaak in the timelaps dlc sectors, no xenon though + beginning of tactical mapframing (boron eco abuse - prep before opening sectors) 15:05 - starting a pirate fleet with destroyers = sector control / answere to xenon raids (experiment with ships, new dlc´s introduced barbarossa and hyperion.. a hyperion, the "Trinity" and an auxilary ship, paired with some burst ray lasers falcon venguards, is my new gold standard since they survive one argon plasma l class bullet to the face even better than a nodan.. plus their thrustergroupes allow for the smoothest anti turret hover stabilitie frame in the game) 20:30 outdated, auxilary ships no longer are gifted as easy as it was before.. some has been added.. but they no longer stay still while you´re capturing them.. and their location has been changed, found one in ZYA area.. still : get auxilary and station builder ship work on asgard from there 23:15 - start with emp bombing.. use lootfighter inventory to craft.. 28:02 - prepair for Terran tec, or crash your eco.. 31:09 - energycell planning for the galaxy 35:00 - Trading network + Xenon Gate defense 36:14 - opening the borons with the Eco to support for high water and hullpart profits ( +24 billion credits for free) 45:20 - end of dry theorie.. mapping the galaxy tradestations 47:50 philosophical goals in x4 foundations 53:44 Konfuzius says, built small stations for higher performance in the late game also says, most efficient energycell production = most efficient cpu usage = more Ram for Fun 57:40 MIN Teladi = 16k storage Miners, forget normal teladi.. take MIN xD 59:55 The Xenon Eco Defense reign chaos, do not restore peace xD peace is expansive, says egosoft :3 im sure there´s a hidden israel reference in there.. but lets not poke into this nest. 1:00 inactive sectors..? 1:07:50 a Pirate problem.. + can you wipe out a faction besides of xenon? test results 1:14:00 consequences of warzone collapse - true sight