Mining, trade and action questions

[Browser_ice]

Hi, started playing X4 2 days ago and I have a few questions.

1) In one game session, I had bought a mining ship and when I faced an asteroid, I could not fire the mining laser. I tried first and secondary weapons + rotating weapons and ammo. How do you manually fire the mining laser? +how do you tell the drones to go pick up the resources?

2) In X3 you could find out what current actions any owned ship was doing. I can't find how to do this in X4.

3) How do you list the current queued up trades ?

4) When an owned ship is selling wares, shouldn't we see the cargo drones working on it? I was parked on one and it happened too fast. It was like it stayed parked for 1-2 seconds then moved away (passing through the station structure!)

5) I do not understand the explore command. I told an oned ship to go explore at one pont, but once he got there, he just seamed to stay and wait.

6) Again on mining, seams when I tell a ship to go mine, it will stop once it extracted something. How can I tell it to keep mining the whole region until its cargo bay is full?

[pvarn]

I can only help with a few of these just to get the answer ball rolling...

Hi, started playing X4 2 days ago and I have a few questions.

1) In one game session, I had bought a mining ship and when I faced an asteroid, I could not fire the mining laser. I tried first and secondary weapons + rotating weapons and ammo. How do you manually fire the mining laser? +how do you tell the drones to go pick up the resources?

2) In X3 you could find out what current actions any owned ship was doing. I can't find how to do this in X4.

3) How do you list the current queued up trades ?

4) When an owned ship is selling wares, shouldn't we see the cargo drones working on it? I was parked on one and it happened too fast. It was like it stayed parked for 1-2 seconds then moved away (passing through the station structure!)

5) I do not understand the explore command. I told an oned ship to go explore at one pont, but once he got there, he just seamed to stay and wait.

6) Again on mining, seams when I tell a ship to go mine, it will stop once it extracted something. How can I tell it to keep mining the whole region until its cargo bay is full?

2) and 3) I have tried to find out but also do not know. You can get an idea what the selected ship's next task is by following the path (blue-grey) traced on the map. With auto-traders, they will work to sell their cargo. With ships engaged in combat, their current target has a line and an X.

4) Small/Medium ships dock to trade so the short traveling through station structures is bad path finding on poor rated pilots and you might have missed the docking phase which is short on small ships.

5) I have not had problems with the explore command. If you see a circle with a target in the middle as a result of your command, they will shortly start wandering around as long as there are no other conflicting commands. A confusing factor in this game which makes sense and works but often catches me off guard is orders STACK. I'm not sure how deep.

I don't do mining (leave that up to AI which seems to do that just fine.)
-Pv-

[graphicboy]

1 - I haven't seen this issue myself. Haven't tried drone mining yet though.

2 - Hit "M", select it in your assets (2nd button), then hit "I" (info), then go to the 2nd tab. You can see the current and future orders there.

3 - Same as previous.

4 - Probably removed due to all the XR bugs around it.

5 - Explore sucks, so does the mod, and it's not queue-able.

6 - Automining. Follow my instructions on 2, then set the default behavior on that screen to automine (assuming you have the stars for it).

[RodentofDoom]

Hi, started playing X4 2 days ago and I have a few questions.


2) In X3 you could find out what current actions any owned ship was doing. I can't find how to do this in X4.

3) How do you list the current queued up trades ?

5) I do not understand the explore command. I told an oned ship to go explore at one pont, but once he got there, he just seamed to stay and wait.

6) Again on mining, seams when I tell a ship to go mine, it will stop once it extracted something. How can I tell it to keep mining the whole region until its cargo bay is full?

#2 - Right click the ship, select information , then select behaviour .. queued orders are listed there

#3 - As above

#5 - Explore is sector based .. ie it will explore the sector you give it the order in.. sometimes the order queue works, sometimes it doesn't. know idea why/why not.

#6 - Automining changed
Sector Mining is the lowest skill level requirement .. You can only assign 1 ore and the ship mines/sells in that sector
Advanced/Expert Miner are the higher skill level requirements … you can assign multiple ores and max gate distances for mining & selling