Hey Egosoft - how about live stream? and Q & A?

[mr.WHO]

Now that we're done with 2.5.
3.0 beta will probably come not earlier than August, so it might be a good time for live-stream.

How about having some footage of Split DLC in the live stream?
Maybe give us some more insight about 3.0? The roadmap for 3.0 was very vague.



We also had Q & A topic before X4 release. It might be good time to reactivate it - the pre-release X4 Q & A was rather nice experience, so it might be good way to find out how the things are going.


Like many X4 fans I could put a hundred questions and probably have answer to none, so I'll self-limit myself to 3 questions:

1) Will you reveal the topic/race of 2nd DLC before release of Split DLC?

2) In X4 pre-release live stream you mentioned you considered having fuel for boosters, yet for X4 release you went for shield drain boosters.Why you decided to go that way?
Despite obvious that AI will be too stupid to use it. Additionally it could be also another nice factor for stats diversity and more ship upgrades (like additional booster tanks, better boosters).

3) Why the crew NPC management GUI is neglected (not even since X4 release, but since X-Rebirth!), yet since every patch you added more AI logic limited by crew rank? It's like building the house, but omniting "foundations"( ) and staring from roof. Many things need that juicy 4 and 5-star rank, yet managing and transfering more than 5 crew members is not a chore, it's a torture , see here - 15 actions to transfer single crew member:
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[Greenhorn]

I have a few questions. if anybody would post these ideas to steam video Q&A..
I don't have the game yet egososft,/players,but maybe end of this year.

(1) After split and boron dlc .Will there be a terran race dlc?. .
(2) Will there be a teleport, for capital ship L /XL .something like in the movie- dune?.tho had teleport for stations.
(3) Is there a ship trackter beam.cant get large floating crates in my small s trader ship.
(4) Do pirates have a economy.factories?.and have there own sectors like in x3.
(5) Is there cloaking for ships?.
(6) Will Nividium be used, also as a rare resource for something.Not just limited selling to few stations.
That's all for now.

[Falcrack]

2) In X4 pre-release live stream you mentioned you considered having fuel for boosters, yet for X4 release you went for shield drain boosters.Why you decided to go that way?
Despite obvious that AI will be too stupid to use it. Additionally it could be also another nice factor for stats diversity and more ship upgrades (like additional booster tanks, better boosters).

Agreed, I would prefer a boost bar separate from the shield for boosting. Too often AI are unwise in their use of the the shield-draining boost, and it is even more infuriating when it is ships I own using this "tactic" and making themselves shieldless.

[Panos]

I have a few questions. if anybody would post these ideas to steam video Q&A..
I don't have the game yet egososft,/players,but maybe end of this year.

(1) After split and boron dlc .Will there be a terran race dlc?. .

No more humans. Argons have taken over the universe too many times.

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Regarding the thread, yeah, I would like a Q&A, with technical things also.
Like if X4 simulation engine would benefit from the new Ryzen 3900X/3950X, or if it can run better with 32GB or more ram.

[mr.WHO]

I have a few questions. if anybody would post these ideas to steam video Q&A..
I don't have the game yet egososft,/players,but maybe end of this year.

(1) After split and boron dlc .Will there be a terran race dlc?. .
(2) Will there be a teleport, for capital ship L /XL .something like in the movie- dune?.tho had teleport for stations.
(3) Is there a ship trackter beam.cant get large floating crates in my small s trader ship.
(4) Do pirates have a economy.factories?.and have there own sectors like in x3.
(5) Is there cloaking for ships?.
(6) Will Nividium be used, also as a rare resource for something.Not just limited selling to few stations.
That's all for now.

1 - in one of YT podcast they said "it's most likely".
2 - they stated that this was intentional to not having a JD in X4, but who knows? JD was added later in X-Rebirth, but in X4 we have personal teleporter instead of JD.
3 - There is no no tractor beam in X4.
4 - pirates have several pirate ports and several drug/alcohol factories, but no "real" economy (ships still spawn out of thin air).
5 - there was never any cloaking ships in X-game other than some story cut-scene super-alien ship in X3. No cloaking in X4 too.
6 - for now it's only useful for player to make a quick cashin. NPC do not use it in X4.

Some things you're asking "might" come in later release or DLC, but I wouldn't count too much on it. With roadmap coming to a close we don't know what direction X4 will come other than coming Split race DLC.