X4: too easy to make money

[Senternit]

Buying Advanced Satellites on Equipment dock for 46-50k and selling them on Wharfs for 64k is very easy way of making money. 1mil per couple of jumps. Why bother with trading ships when fighters make you rich in no time. I don't like it=)

[GCU Grey Area]

Biggest downside is it can't be automated. Requires continual involvement by the player since each ship can only have a single upgrade order at a time. Really not something I can be bothered doing. Still vastly prefer to use a manually operated trade fleet to get my early game cash. A few minutes setting up queued buy/sell orders at the start of a session keeps them profitably busy for many hours, while I get on with doing more interesting things.

[Starlight_Corporation]

X4 credit earning really ramps up when you reinvest your money. Make money & invest the money in even more profitable ventures; be it traders, miners, stations or any mix of it. Watch the credits soar.

[Nanook]

Buying Advanced Satellites on Equipment dock for 46-50k and selling them on Wharfs for 64k is very easy way of making money. 1mil per couple of jumps. Why bother with trading ships when fighters make you rich in no time. I don't like it=)

And how many jumps would that be to buy a 200+ million credit destroyer? That kind of gameplay gets boring real fast, and is therefore self-limiting. It's much less boring to set up a couple of M-class miners and let them do all the work while the player does the fun stuff.

[Killjaeden]

And how many jumps would that be to buy a 200+ million credit destroyer? That kind of gameplay gets boring real fast, and is therefore self-limiting. It's much less boring to set up a couple of M-class miners and let them do all the work while the player does the fun stuff.

The path from dish washing guy to Billionaire in X4 is really accelerated compared to previous games. Which is unfortunate, as the early game was a lot of fun in X3 - surviving against the odds (if you play the harder starts where few people like you), salvaging bits and bobs, feeling vulnerable. Arguable even more fun than late game, because at lategame you know that nothing can stop your snowballing wealth.

[Raevyan]

To be fair, there are way faster methods of making money than trading adv sats in the early game.

[Jeraal]

To be fair, there are way faster methods of making money than trading adv sats in the early game.

Like trading Katanas.

[ahostofissues]

I don't like it=)

Then… don’t do it?

[Imperial Good]

There is roughly 10M worth of free ships people can claim that always spawn in fixed locations at start.

[jlehtone]

I don't like it=)

Then… don’t do it?

That is one option and might be feasible for this specific case.

Usually, "feels like cheat" action tends to have "side-effects" that one cannot afford to refuse.
For example, X2 Xenon Invasion Mission had off-the-charts reward, but also had a jolly good fight. One had to ask whether the kills were worth the too many credits, rather than simply skip those missions.

Does the "Sat transfer" have side-effects? Does it affect reputation? Does it transfer materials from NPC Equipment Dock into NPC Wharf, or does it merely drain ED's storage?

[EGO_Aut]

I don't like it=)

Then… don’t do it?

Blabla...........

For example, X2 Xenon Invasion Mission had off-the-charts reward, but also had a jolly good fight. One had to ask whether the kills were worth the too many credits, rather than simply skip those missions.

Blabla..........

Ohhh, how do i miss this mission. Good old days are gone.....Now i feel sentimental