@Maxamar90
Thanks, you are the first YT'er that actually speak slowly clearly and gets straight to the point doing X4. have a sub
@herbertpocket8855
Awesome video! I didn’t know that’s how pilots rank up!
@Ficus117
Great video! While the X community is pretty niche, I think you've got great pacing and have a good mix of information and a little humor. Keep it up! Subscriber 297 :)
@majorplothole2620
thanks for this information. been playing for a while, still didn't understand anything about auto trading pilots though. this has been very helpful.
@real_sir_nebula
Thanks, very helpful! This game has more of a learning curve than I initially thought but I really like a bit of complexity in my games lately 😁
@wayneashton
Very helpful. I'm a late comer to X4. Like, commented and subscribed!
@Josivis
My scout went from 2 to 4 star pilot by trying to transfer goods from PHQ to build storage took 30 min. Transfering goods before removing my small storage replacing it with large storage.
@beafcake3385
actual help, thank you. if i search on reddit they tell me to mod the game. again thank you very much
@drsupergood8978
Auto miners do now need skilled captains. The information in this video might not be relevant anymore. Mostly you want to use trade stations (a skilled manager) for trade ships. Main reason you want skilled pilots now is Silicon mining. Traders that sell 1 -> 2 star seminars are rolled when the trader is rolled which is every time the trader enters high attention. It is not at all based on game seed and will change every time you revisit a station. I am not sure that the player can be in a guild with all the factions at the same time. Some like ARG vs ZYA seem mutually exclusive like you have to pick a side. Others like those involving HOP are not so you are free to choose all sides for the largest selection choice. ALI do have a representative. They sell the unique Nodan ship. Easiest way to get high rank pilots is to use construction ships to level morale as service crew, then shove them 100 at a time into your HQ when terraforming a planet you built a flight school on. This lets you level up 100 pilots to 4 stars very easily and cheaply. You can even do this at the same time as you raise their boarding skill using martial arts school if you want. 5 star pilots are more tricky as they need to be trained at the flight school individually, which makes them very micro intensive. You can perform both individual and group trainings asynchronously but the group and individual are shared between both flight school and the martial arts school.
@masterofthedeathwing2839
ive tried saving a bit of extra money to make all my miners faster with better drills, hopefully the increased speed and drilling speed will increase turn around. hopefully someone levels up faster. i got the callisto sentinel straight away, through the havitkah? quest and i put a captain on it and got him trading medical supplies. any time he stops i send him to second contact and do the same there, till theres no trades left then i send him back onto argon prime. pretty crap money, but hes improving rep fast and occasionally he does an ok trade.
@Josivis
4:02 that is why When I hear my ship is being attacked I pause and determine if fleeing will save my ship if not I drop all inventory into a lockbox transfer all crew to a nearby troop carrier like shukaku and choose a fighter to house my pilot as service crew, then leave the ship to be destroyed of I'm licky the enimy looses interest and my ship survives.
@Koshea69
You use combat engines on your cormorant, maybe a video comparing the different M sized engines types and race variations would be useful. I have always used travel engines on mine.
@drakekay6577
I love your style.... :D Do you write your scripts or improve on the mic?
@Berit-Cathrine
I'm 54 and my wife and I are VERY worried about our future, gas and food prices rising daily. We have had our savings dwindle with the cost of living into the stratosphere, and we are finding it impossible to replace them. We can get by, but can't seem to get ahead. My condolences to anyone retiring in this crisis, 30 years nonstop just for a crooked system to take all you worked for.
@edwardecl
I also only hire pilots less than 1 star then train them up to 2/3 and give them 2 seminars, then you can either do guild missions for 2 star, or you can dump them in a combat ship and get them to kill enemies for the last 1/3 of a star. Also if you have the split faction open to you, get Boa's, fastest trade ship can outrun most things. Don't even bother trying to level pilots to 3 star with trade of mining, the chance of levelling after about 2 stars is so low it's pointless. The game is written to give you a chance of levelling based on if the trade was "good" low buying price / high selling price for a ware (not the total sold). Mining gives you 2 chances, 1 for filling the cargo and a bonus for filling cargo to 50% in one pickup, and I guess a possible 50% again but that's unlikely. Also here is the number of interactions (on average) a pilot needs to do to level for mining and trading... 9 for a 1 star 110 for a 2 star 1,382 for a 3 star 17,378 for a 4 star 218,568 for a 5 star Good luck getting a 5 star 🙃
@K162KingPin
1:20 OMFG I didn't know I had a single 3 star. I checked this list, i have 49 of them LMFAO
@davecrupel2817
0:08 "Were it so easy" -Arbiter.
@TheTwober
Some background info that is crucial but missing from the video: - The effective piloting level is the average of piloting and moral. So a 5 star moral, 1 star piloting pilot has an effective piloting skill of 3 (5+1=6, 6/2=3). - Piloting itself does never level up and cannot be trained other than through books. Only moral can be trained. - The best way to train moral is to have service crew people on a build ship. So the best way to gain lots of 3-star (effective) pilots is to build stations with your own build ship, then 1-star train the service crew, and boom you got lots of (effective) 3-star pilots.
@varanzmaj
How far will Autotrade let the pilot trade? In one sector only, or will it allow him to go to further sectors (with more stars)?
@nahco3994