A good way to level up service crew?

Please post any spoilers for X4: Foundations here.

Moderator: Moderators for English X Forum

Post Reply
Damian Swift
Posts: 228
Joined: Tue, 2. Mar 04, 21:36
x4

A good way to level up service crew?

Post by Damian Swift » Mon, 4. Jul 22, 00:36

I have the Paranid destroyer and read that service crew help with repairs/turret shooting so it's important to get some good service people, but have no clue how to level them up?

Would taking the destroyer into Xenon space, letting it get badly damaged, retreating and letting the crew heal back up level their service stars? or is there a faster/simpler way ?

Caedes91
Posts: 178
Joined: Sun, 22. Aug 21, 17:23
x4

Re: A good way to level up service crew?

Post by Caedes91 » Mon, 4. Jul 22, 03:45

You can use Asgards to train 360 service crew at once by having it guard a Xenon entry point. This is the fastest way to level up. It does not matter, if they repair anything. Participating in battle alone increases skill and most importantly, morale. The reason to use an Asgard, is because, when fully equipped, is nearly unkillable in OOS, while simultanously killing entire swarms with ease.

If you don't want or can't get an Asgard, you can also use your own builder to train service crew:

Make sure, your builder has at least 30 building drones. Create a station full of simple connection modules. No need for anything else, because the station only exist to train your service crew of your builder. Once they completed the station, move it around or deconstruct its modules, just to restart the building process. You won't lose any materials. They completely go back to the build storage.

Your service crew levels up by completing modules. The more modules they build, the more and faster they level up. That is why we use cheap connection modules with low build time. Value of the modules doesn't matter for leveling. This method, once set up, doesn't cost anything and is completely risk free. You only occasionally restart the building and switch max level specialist crew out for noobs.

User avatar
EGO_Aut
Posts: 1906
Joined: Mon, 2. Dec 19, 19:40
x4

Re: A good way to level up service crew?

Post by EGO_Aut » Mon, 4. Jul 22, 07:59

Damian Swift wrote:
Mon, 4. Jul 22, 00:36
I have the Paranid destroyer and read that service crew help with repairs/turret shooting so it's important to get some good service people, but have no clue how to level them up?

Would taking the destroyer into Xenon space, letting it get badly damaged, retreating and letting the crew heal back up level their service stars? or is there a faster/simpler way ?
Take a ship, and shoot and destroy all modules of the destroyer-and wait until its repaired-repeat

LameFox
Posts: 2250
Joined: Tue, 22. Oct 13, 15:26
x4

Re: A good way to level up service crew?

Post by LameFox » Mon, 4. Jul 22, 11:40

For my personal ship, since I do a fair bit of boarding, I will just use those guys to repair the ships I capture. They board it as marines, then I promote one to captain, and turn the rest to service crew. When it's in better shape they fly it to a shipyard, strip everything off, then transfer back to my ship before I sell it. Not the fastest way but it happens naturally while playing.

For other purposes I would use the constructor method since it's very hands-off for the quantity it trains. I use these guys for station managers later because they get such high morale.
***modified***

Imperial Good
Moderator (English)
Moderator (English)
Posts: 4750
Joined: Fri, 21. Dec 18, 18:23
x4

Re: A good way to level up service crew?

Post by Imperial Good » Mon, 4. Jul 22, 17:34

Use construction ships. Get them to build interconnect modules repeatedly. Once a series of them are built, for example a thousand or so, then you deconstruct the station for a full parts refund and repeat the build. This levels up the service crew on the construction ship very fast, all the way up towards 5 star Elite. You can use transfer crew with such construction ships even while still busy with a build and from anywhere on the map allowing you to swap in and out service crew to level up as required. These service crew have high morale as well so make a good base for marines, especially if sent to a martial arts school terraforming project.

Nanook
Moderator (English)
Moderator (English)
Posts: 27829
Joined: Thu, 15. May 03, 20:57
x4

Re: A good way to level up service crew?

Post by Nanook » Mon, 4. Jul 22, 18:48

Or, if you're into them making credits while earning their advanced degrees, use L-class mining ships. I've currently got one, a Hokkaido, that started out with all basic crew members and are now on the verge of becoming specialists while earning over 15 million credits, in about 12 game hours. And as a bonus, those miners are also earning rep for me with the locals. So use your 'more efficient builders' :roll: for leveling up your crewmembers, or make them earn the privilege. :eg:

Multiply that by however many miners you want to set up, and you've got yourself a horde of fire-and-forget credit makers, that you can draw on for highly skilled crew whenever you wish. :mrgreen:
Have a great idea for the current or a future game? You can post it in the [L3+] Ideas forum.

X4 is a journey, not a destination. Have fun on your travels.

User avatar
grapedog
Posts: 2398
Joined: Sat, 21. Feb 04, 20:17
x4

Re: A good way to level up service crew?

Post by grapedog » Wed, 27. Jul 22, 07:43

I have a couple L traders, and service crew are mostly un-used on them... but they still gain experience as the trader does its job. So i just move the crew from a trade ship over to my new capture and give an order to the trade ship to restock at the nearest Argon shipyard or equipmemt dock which it will do after its current trade. Ill cycle through the crew on my different L ships as needed

Imperial Good
Moderator (English)
Moderator (English)
Posts: 4750
Joined: Fri, 21. Dec 18, 18:23
x4

Re: A good way to level up service crew?

Post by Imperial Good » Fri, 29. Jul 22, 18:22

Nanook wrote:
Mon, 4. Jul 22, 18:48
Or, if you're into them making credits while earning their advanced degrees, use L-class mining ships. I've currently got one, a Hokkaido, that started out with all basic crew members and are now on the verge of becoming specialists while earning over 15 million credits, in about 12 game hours. And as a bonus, those miners are also earning rep for me with the locals. So use your 'more efficient builders' for leveling up your crewmembers, or make them earn the privilege.

Multiply that by however many miners you want to set up, and you've got yourself a horde of fire-and-forget credit makers, that you can draw on for highly skilled crew whenever you wish.
Usually the reason you want high level service crew is because you need them for L solid miners... A good service crew can be an extra 60 units of silicon per tick, if not more.

Nanook
Moderator (English)
Moderator (English)
Posts: 27829
Joined: Thu, 15. May 03, 20:57
x4

Re: A good way to level up service crew?

Post by Nanook » Fri, 29. Jul 22, 18:56

That's one reason. However, I buy all my 'service crew' as marines first. Then after getting several levels of morale, I convert them back to marines for my boarding ships and then train them up on boarding ops. The progression from Recruit to Elite is much faster this way. For me, mining is a secondary money earner. Boarding ships comes first.
Have a great idea for the current or a future game? You can post it in the [L3+] Ideas forum.

X4 is a journey, not a destination. Have fun on your travels.

Post Reply

Return to “X4: Foundations - Spoilers”