Mining

[Dragonlord1975]

It's been awhile since I have played and I've been see that the ore and silicon amounts have been reduced big time. When was this done because I'm having a hard time getting enough ore and silicon to keep even 1 station operational.

[Sirus5]

Don't know that's true -
Where are you mining - what with and what's your station setup?

With X4, there are many factors to take into account but there is plenty of ore and silicon to be found.

I have my HQ (in it's starting position) and have about 10-15 miners - it has about 5 Silicon wafer modules
and about 3 Ore refinement modules.
In total - I have 4 claytronics, 4 Hull Part as a basic setup - with the associated things necessary such as
QT, Microchips etc...

[Alan Phipps]

Mining yield is much less and collection slower in sectors close to the ring highway than in those further away. You can trade mining efficiency/speed for increased risk to your miners to give you a few different gameplay options: eg slow and safe versus faster and riskier.

[dtpsprt]

It was done with the 4.00 release, which also included a Silicon mining bug!!!

The bug was fixed in 4.10. The yield reduction also affects the Xenon who are real pushovers now...

[Sirus5]

Xenon .... Pushovers.....

Hmmm, I am obviously doing something wrong....
My Nodan is having a hard time against more than 2 Xenon at a time -
Poor "Noddy the Nodan" has to escape using boost and travel drive quite a lot
now the Xenon seem to be targeting him a lot...
In Hatikvah, and indeed some other sectors - there seem to be lots of Xenon
pouring out of the gate sometimes - many P, M, N (don't see "T"'s a lot)
And every now and again get a K or I coming through which I have to go
and take care of it's engines with the Katana before I am confident enough
to risk my Ody attacking it.

[dtpsprt]

Xenon .... Pushovers.....

Hmmm, I am obviously doing something wrong....
My Nodan is having a hard time against more than 2 Xenon at a time -
Poor "Noddy the Nodan" has to escape using boost and travel drive quite a lot
now the Xenon seem to be targeting him a lot...
In Hatikvah, and indeed some other sectors - there seem to be lots of Xenon
pouring out of the gate sometimes - many P, M, N (don't see "T"'s a lot)
And every now and again get a K or I coming through which I have to go
and take care of it's engines with the Katana before I am confident enough
to risk my Ody attacking it.

They can only mildly intimidating. The Nodan is not that much of a good choice IMHO. Try something with 4 guns (bolts of course for maximum damage) and 2 or 3 shields (Eclipse, Ares etc). Never mind their slow speed, just give some "drag" mods and, of course, "recharge rate" ones for the shields the more advanced the better... With a ship like that you don't even have to use the Katana to tale out engines and turrets of ships to be captured and they can even take down K and I XL shields if you are patient enough...

[SirConnery]

As was pointed out, mining yields close to the center in safe sectors are lower now. You can still get both safety and yields in Terran sectors though.

I like the change personally. But something truly needs to be done to make the Xenon more intimidating so there's more dynamic gameplay going on.