Making Money From PHQ Guide
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Rupert Hound
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Making Money From PHQ Guide
Anyone actually making good money from your PHQ or other station setup? Fancy sharing your setup here plz?
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Rupert Hound
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Re: Making Money From PHQ Guide
Either no one is making good money or peoples are being secretive? 
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SirDeity12
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Re: Making Money From PHQ Guide
I remember there was a really great website I used for X3 where I could build my station and it'd calculate the input and output so you could plan ahead and balance everything out properly, but I forget which website it was exactly. I'm hoping they have something similar for X4. If you planned your complexes in X3 properly, you could build entirely self sufficient stations with a lot of profits. I had a complex with hundreds of stations connected to it. It was HUGE!
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Rupert Hound
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Re: Making Money From PHQ Guide
Yes i remember that one i dont remember what it was called, i know Roguey has been hard at work on his site but tbh its the economy in general thats weird for me. I remember in X3 you could have a massive spaceweed complex and rake the money in but there just doesnt seem to be a big enough demand for anything other than raw mats like ore and silicon.
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ryansims91
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Re: Making Money From PHQ Guide
I make okay money. Mine has a production line that makes hull parts, refined metal, silicon wafers, graphine and it makes money well enough. It also has 25 freighters trading for it.
Re: Making Money From PHQ Guide
I strapped on 2 Silicon wafer plants, and a solar panel - i make decent money out of it with 3 traders (1 M 2 S) and 3 (M) miners. Went away for an hour yesterday afk, with seta i made about from 200k to 11 mil.
I'd share screenshots but i am pressed for time. I highly recommend getting a habitat too btw to gain workers.
I'd share screenshots but i am pressed for time
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Re: Making Money From PHQ Guide
Well, how much money do you have? How long are you willing to grind twinklies(crystals)?
I would if I were you go across the entire superhighway loop and satellite every station on the way. Look at every station check whats missing make that. Alternatively if you are willing to play a lot with the twinklies then go for claytronics. It is the only material the AI will always buy. Cause they AI builds stations while it can buy the resources FOREVA~(I have UI lagg thanks to this when I try to open my map). You don't even need to supply yourself you can just buy the stuff from the AI. Though it does make your bottom line better if you become self reliant. My first go is always food to stockpile workers, then I go for Hullplates and Microchips then into Claytronics. Do not bother with ship materials, unless you want to build a fleet yourself cause then you will have to supply the materials, usually at a loss, cause shipyards price mats even when they need thousands at -20% and stuff. Same goes for weapon and drone mats too, worthless. Unless you need them yourself.
Other than that make sure you have a lot of landing pads - like around 6-10, preferably the 6s3m types. You can also buy lots of trading ships like 10 or more so they can disperse your produce to other stations. NPC traders including yours use order placing in your satellite network, so the more you have the more sell orders they can place at any given time.
You could do the nefarious thing and Hack/EMP bomb the stations you compete with to make sure you can sell your stuff. Eventually I have gone into Hullplates and Claytronics to make my station building cheap and ended up making billions.
I would if I were you go across the entire superhighway loop and satellite every station on the way. Look at every station check whats missing make that. Alternatively if you are willing to play a lot with the twinklies then go for claytronics. It is the only material the AI will always buy. Cause they AI builds stations while it can buy the resources FOREVA~(I have UI lagg thanks to this when I try to open my map). You don't even need to supply yourself you can just buy the stuff from the AI. Though it does make your bottom line better if you become self reliant. My first go is always food to stockpile workers, then I go for Hullplates and Microchips then into Claytronics. Do not bother with ship materials, unless you want to build a fleet yourself cause then you will have to supply the materials, usually at a loss, cause shipyards price mats even when they need thousands at -20% and stuff. Same goes for weapon and drone mats too, worthless. Unless you need them yourself.
Other than that make sure you have a lot of landing pads - like around 6-10, preferably the 6s3m types. You can also buy lots of trading ships like 10 or more so they can disperse your produce to other stations. NPC traders including yours use order placing in your satellite network, so the more you have the more sell orders they can place at any given time.
You could do the nefarious thing and Hack/EMP bomb the stations you compete with to make sure you can sell your stuff. Eventually I have gone into Hullplates and Claytronics to make my station building cheap and ended up making billions.