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X4: Foundations (PC)

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Boost, shields and sell a ship

Tip 1: Remember that hitting boost (tab) drains your shields. It also drains your opponent's shields, so consider making an effort to chase them down if they've just boosted away.

Tip 2: To get missions you have to use the map screen, you don't talk to people on a station. There is a tutorial for this. It details some requirements for accessing plot missions.

Tip 3: Sometimes you will overhear police radio type stuff. If a tiny ship gets marked as an enemy, for whatever reason, it seems to be safe to shoot it. You get a small bounty and a small boost to relations with the local faction.

Tip 4: Longscanning and scanning can be used to find secret stuff. On longscan, look out for purple pings in the world (not on the map) which are invisible to radar.

Tip 5: When trying to hire people on a station, click the ship you want to add them to, then right click it and click 'select' in the popup menu. You can then assign them a role in the right hand hire dialogue menu.

Tip 6: To sell a ship, Open the map then select the ship you want to sell, then right click on a shipyard or warf and select sell ship in the drop down.

Display mode: Borderless Window

To have X4 continue running when it loses focus or is minimized, you'll have to go to your graphic settings and change the display mode from Fullscreen to Borderless Window. You will not notice the difference, because the borderless window will look just like the fullscreen. The advantage is however, that you can leave the game now with your mouse and do stuff on your other monitor (if you have one). In this display mode, X4 will also keep running while minimized.

Unlimited Money

Follow all steps below:

Step 1: Get onto the Game.
Step 2: Go to in game settings.
Step 3: Go to Game Options.
Step 4: Make sure Compress Save is Off.
Step 5: Open your Folder/File Explorer.
Step 6: Click on Documents.
Step 7: Click on EgoSoft > X4 > # File > Save File.
Step 8: Right Click on any of you save files you want to edit.
Step 9: If u have WinRar or 7-Zip.
Step 10: Right Click to extract File / I extracted it into the save file faster way X3.
Step 11: Right Click on the Exracted File then Use Notapad++ to open file.
Step 12: Then on Top Left area Find Search then left-click it then hit FIND.
Step 13: In Find Search for these Account Id= / Player Name= / Stat id="money
Step 14: In each of those put how much u want i put 999.999.999 and in game i got 999.999.999 Cr.
Step 15: Then Finaly to Left again Find Save or Save all then close everything then go back to game load that Save File u edit and happy Shopping everyone.

Various Gameplay Tips

Tip 1: Buy a docking computer for quicker docking. The Mk1 works if you are near the docking area and in the right orientation. Mk2 is super nice - You just have to get near the docking area and can be at any speed or orientation.

Tip 2: Be careful not to upgrade your only ship at a station that doesn't have enough resources. You could end up sitting there for hours.

Tip 3: To get a quick lay of the land, ride a super highway (the strips of blue that look kind of like rivers in space). You just have to fly in to it to get on. It will take you on a giant loop of many sectors. The easiest way I've found to get off is to use stop engines.

Tip 4: An easy way to get to max travel speed is to hold down boost for a bit and while still holding it down, switch to travel mode.

Tip 5: An easy way to make money at the very beginning is to go to a trader, buy bandages, needles and seditives and use a crafting bench to create first aid kits. The same trader will buy the first aid kits back for a large profit. Going to just a few stations will earn you enough to buy a better ship or upgrade your current one.

Various Steam Achievements

Complete the indicated task to unlock the achievement.

Achievement	How to unlock
A Good Investment	Join a trade guild.
A Significant Bit	Destroy 128 Xenon ships.
Adblock	Destroy 20 Ad Signs.
Answer the Call	Sign up for a war subscription.
Back Home	Have a ship successfully return from a venture.
Bling Bling	Apply a paint modification to your ship.
Bug Fixed	Destroy a Kha'ak ship.
Can't Shoot This	Destroy 100 turrets.
Capital Punishment	Destroy a Xenon capital ship.
Captain of Industry	Achieve trade rank Entrepeneur.
Combat Pro	Achieve fight rank Colonel.
Crash Course1	Pass the Flight School.
Data Mining	Acquire a module blueprint through hacking.
Double Agent	Sign up for a war on opposing sides.
Explorer	Discover all sectors.
Finders, Keepers	Force 50 pilots to abandon their ships.
Friends in High Places	Reach highest reputation with any faction.
Have to Start Somewhere	Build the first module of a station.
Historian	Find all timeline entries by accessing data vaults.
In a Galaxy Far, Far Away	Send a ship on a venture.
It fell out of a ship	Pick up 99 containers in space.
It's Just Business	Join the Scale Plate Pact.
Let's Build	Construct 10 stations.
Liberator	Claim ten ships.
Meet Your Mentor	Come face to face with your head of research.
Miner's Luck	Mine the most valuable crystal node.
Nailed Down	Destroy the engines of a capital ship.
Nice Pile	Get one billion Credits in your account.
Piggyback	Dock at a ship that is docked at a capital ship.
Rising Property Values	Licence the biggest available plot for your station.
Science!	Finish a research item.
Ship Breaker	Destroy all the surface elements on a capital ship.
Ship Collection	Own at least 20 ships.
Something Strange in our Neighbourhood	Help investigate the strange readings.
Space Odyssey	Travel through a superhighway in your space suit.
Space Taxi	Finish 20 passenger transport missions.
That's No Moon!	Discover the mysterious installation.
Tinkerer	Apply a modification to your ship at a workbench.
Treasure Hunter	Find and open 33 lock-boxes.
Turning the Tide	Complete 20 war missions for a faction.
What Just Happened?	Travel through an anomaly.
Where am I?	Teleport to a different location.
X-Treme Fighter	Achieve fight rank X-TREME.
X-Treme Trader	Achieve trade rank X-TREME.