Finaly found ALI Paranid Wharf

[Whatever0815]

Hi there.

Well, maybe to most of you this is common knowledge, but it wasn't to me, and I couldn't find any mention of this in the forums. In none of my X4 savegames I was able to buy ships like the Nodan, since I never found the ALI wharf -- just their shipyard in Sacred Relic.

Looks like it allways spawned slightly out of Trinity Sanctum VIIs bounds, so my scouts (running in a spiral towards the center) never found it. This time I decided to stand next to my pilot the whole time he was circling. And right on the 2nd turn I spotted stations outside of the sector bounds at roughly 11 o'clock. And one of them was the ALI Paranid Wharf.

I can now finally buy Nodans, and so can you, if you found this when looking for the ALI wharf

[CaptainRAVE]

It’s easy to find, but difficult to gain rep with.

[Whatever0815]

It’s easy to find, but difficult to gain rep with.

I was talking about the Wharf, which was rather hard to find due to being out of sector bounds, not the Shipyard.

[gorman2040]

It’s easy to find, but difficult to gain rep with.

If you have a lot of those hacking items, you can get the wharf or shipyard to drop some of their wares so you can supply them again.
Just hack the storage panel in the engineering section of the station.
It's not very role playing but that's one of the way to increase your reputation with ALI.

[alt3rn1ty]

Well, maybe to most of you this is common knowledge, but it wasn't to me, and I couldn't find any mention of this in the forums. In none of my X4 savegames I was able to buy ships like the Nodan, since I never found the ALI wharf -- just their shipyard in Sacred Relic.

Looks like it allways spawned slightly out of Trinity Sanctum VIIs bounds, so my scouts (running in a spiral towards the center) never found it. This time I decided to stand next to my pilot the whole time he was circling. And right on the 2nd turn I spotted stations outside of the sector bounds at roughly 11 o'clock. And one of them was the ALI Paranid Wharf.

Unusual, my current playthrough is about 2 years old, and previous playthrough was from when X4 Foundations was released. In both cases the ALI Wharf has always been in Sacred Relic https://i.imgur.com/Kxtjh62.png

Maybe at some point it was destroyed by someone and then rebuilt by ALI in Trinity Sanctum?.

[Alan Phipps]

Yes, also when in my game the ALI Shipyard in Sacred Relic was destroyed by PAR following a friendly fire incident while Split marauder ships were landing there, it was rebuilt close to the ALI Wharf in Trinity Sanctum VII where the PAR patrols now ignore them both. It is quite convenient for your ALI rep building to have their only two stations close together.

[jlehtone]

ALI Shipyard is in Sacred Relic and ALI Wharf is in Trinity Sanctum VII in my game too. They even got extra (defence) station(s) into Sacred Relic; do not give build missions to strangers -- you never know what you get.

[gorman2040]

ALI Shipyard is in Sacred Relic and ALI Wharf is in Trinity Sanctum VII in my game too. They even got extra (defence) station(s) into Sacred Relic; do not give build missions to strangers -- you never know what you get.

In my game, they even have a few factories. Looks like they might have a benefactor

[BitByte]

Rare but sometimes ALI offers station build missions.
Another way to generate reputation is fix / sell ships to their wharf and destroy SCA / criminal traffic near the station.

[Alan Phipps]

I don't think that I've seen criminal traffic around ALI stations. Still, when PAR was destroying the ALI Shipyard, I suppose killing the PAR attack fleet would have been good just then for big ALI rep increases.

[Waltz9]

Is there any benefit to get good Rep with such a small Faction?
I wonder what they actually do in the game. Beside their bases I never saw any of them in my game anywhere.

[chew-ie]

Is there any benefit to get good Rep with such a small Faction?
I wonder what they actually do in the game. Beside their bases I never saw any of them in my game anywhere.

The faction is important story wise or it was before the gates reconnected. For getting a good rep with them you get their paintmod.

[tero]

Is there any benefit to get good Rep with such a small Faction?
I wonder what they actually do in the game. Beside their bases I never saw any of them in my game anywhere.

And they have a ship (the nodan) you can buy only there.

[gorman2040]

The faction is important story wise or it was before the gates reconnected. For getting a good rep with them you get their paintmod.

Just got the paintjob recently, one of the best faction paintmod if you ask me. Too bad they don't offer it on their missions.