[Closed] X-TRA POLLS Round #12 | What are your LEAST FAVOURITE activities in the game? (vote multiple options!)

[Tomonor]

Greetings, Members of the X-Community!

We are closing this poll thread due to a correction in the options. If you've already voted, please bear with us and vote again in the new thread, which includes even more options.




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Previous Polls:
Which main weapons do you prefer to use on your player ship(s)?
Poll #10: What are your favourite methods for gaining quick money?
Poll #9: In what way do you modify X4: Foundations?
Poll #8: Which factions do you usually consider your adversary?
Poll #7: Do you leave your game running when you're Away From Keyboard?
Poll #6: Have you played multiple gamestarts?
Poll #5: What type of ship do you primarily use?
Poll #4: Which is your favourite race of the playable races?
Poll #3: How long have you been playing your current savegame?
Poll #2: Which phase do you enjoy the most in X4: Foundations?
Poll #1: In your opinion, which X4: Foundations expansion was the most worthwhile?

[birdtable]

I dislike doing quests, storylines, missions .. in fact anything that takes me away from a pure sandbox game ... Just started a new game and I "think" every time I pass a jump gate somebody comes through discovering the way home or scavenging or something of no interest to me ... No matter what I try some storyline insists on " meet me at the jump gate" .

[BitByte]

It's little bit hard to decide which of tasks is the least favorite because they all have way or another important place in the game depending the age of playthrough.
At the begining (auro/personal) trading, (auto/personal) mining, exploring and missions (plots, public, hidden and guild) have place to open galaxy map, gain reputation and get credits. You need items to sell, craft and complete missions so lockboxes and looting is more or less must to do.
To make your empire more bigger and profitable you need bigger ships (and reduce piracy) so boarding comes to picture.
When game goes forward then designing and managing stations becomes more important. And maybe also salvaging.

Pirates and other enemies (Xenon and Kha'ak) are always pain in the galaxy so you cannot avoid fights. This also gain reputation, credits and loot to collect.

Empire gets bigger, resources are needed all around so managing tradings and mining via map and finetuning your stations requires time to do.
When you have steady income from stations, decent reputation with factions (atleast most of them) and resources in personal inventory to satisfy possible modding / mission needs you don't need anymore do missions or open lockboxes so actively but can more choose what to do.

Bucaneers satellite destroying ships are annoying because first 5-10mins from the load of the game you need concentrate to those (mostly via map). This part starts feel boring when need do everytime you reload the game (no matter if you managed destroy them before saving or not as them are autogenerated).

[GCU Grey Area]

Thoroughly enjoy almost everything on that list. Was worried I'd have nothing to gripe about/vote for until I spotted 'salvaging personally'. I don't do this primarily because of the ship requirement - only the Manticore tug can do it & it's pretty much useless for almost all of the other activities I enjoy doing. Furthermore it's an M ship & I have a strong distaste for flying most ships large enough to have an M dock (lack the patience to put up with XL steering), so even in the case that I did spot something I might like to salvage it's most unlikely I'll have a tug on hand to do it. There are also no faction missions that I'm aware of which provide an incentive for me to do any personal salvaging.

[Sutopia]

The poll is missing terraforming.

I hate the paranid plot as it
- removes at least four war guilds if you go unification
- removes the honour guards regardless of path
- cost banks for nothing
Some other plots are repetitive and mandatory due to custom start skipping them also skips the rewards (except for grandma and erlking, those are properly delivered).


Locked box rewards are way too poor for the work and time it takes not to mention surprise mines.


Automating stations is also one pain point as the templates saved does not include the trade rules. It’s less of managing multiple stations (I assume it meant setting up supply chains so you need to set up traders between stations), but operations don’t scale well.


Boarding is either too easy (non xenon) or too hard (H).

[Tomonor]

The poll is missing terraforming.

Ah, I knew something slipped my mind. Thanks for the tip!
I'm restarting the poll, sorry for the inconvenience.