Xenon Crisis Question

[stooper88]

As a relatively new X4 player, please accept my apologies for my ignorance and needing to ask some silly questions.

While reading about the new 7.50 beta, I stumbled across older threads discussing the 7.0 betas, and I just learned about the "endgame" Xenon Crisis incursions. Is this still a real thing? Can someone direct me to a good source of info or offer some firm details? Because much of the material I've found was from beta testers, I'm not sure how much of it remains accurate or relevant.

My general impression is the event triggers once the player reaches ~500 million worth of "military assets" but I'm not sure what that entails. That doesn't even seem like a sufficiently high "end game" level to me. Out of curiosity, I grabbed most (but not all) of my presently owned destroyers and sold them to the Teladi at their shipyard receiving 494.8mm credits in return. I'm pretty confident that my other destroyers and S/M ships would push the total over 500mm. (The other destroyers were in the midst of upgrades and couldn't be sold.)

But, more to the point, I don't want to trigger any Xenon Crisis. Not now or any time soon. I really don't think I'm anywhere close to end game level, and I don't have 500mm spare credits laying around to bribe Boso Ta to avert incursions. I really hope I'm not in for a rude shock soon. So can anyone please give me assurance or direct me where to find out more? Thanks in advance.

[hobi]

Hi there,
this question might be better answered in the spoiler forum.

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The 500m military ships are a approximate minimum condition. You will get an offer for a special research topic coming with a warning. Only after this research the real crisis starts. Reading your post, I would think you are not ready for it now. The crisis will attack your assets, a good protection would be good. I have plenty of Asgard's for this... On the oter hand I can manage so far an attack with a single Asgard in another sector.

[stooper88]

Hi there,
this question might be better answered in the spoiler forum.

Understood, thanks for the reply.

Mods, please move this thread to the spoiler forum.

[jlehtone]

IIRC, the "Existential Crisis" was opt-out (automatic, can at most be delayed with cash) in the 7.0 beta, but changed to opt-in (you must research -- "ask for it") by the release.

[chew-ie]

In a way, the crisis was averted.