Ahh that brings back memories. The stardust in XR was especially thick considering all you wanted to do was view the gorgeous backgrounds of many zones. A gajillion police patrols if you hovered around a station with those lights and sounds every two seconds.Roger L.S. Griffiths wrote: ↑Thu, 14. Feb 19, 09:12I believe the civilian traffic is not as useless as you are implying, if I am not mistaken while they may not directly transport wares but I gather their flow does have an effect on station performance and the economy.BrasatoAlBarolo wrote: ↑Thu, 14. Feb 19, 08:56It's nice to see civilians, but it's problematic for performance.Roger L.S. Griffiths wrote: ↑Wed, 13. Feb 19, 21:18
There were known performance issues relating to civilian traffic and X-Rebirth, it would not be surprising if that was also at least part of the issue.
One "slider" I'd like in game settings is to lower civilian traffic, that is the only "useless" thing for the game economy. Nice for immersion, but not "really needed" for gameplay.
That being said, there was at least one mod for X-Rebirth that allowed reconfiguration of mass traffic. Given X4 is using the same engine, it could probably be adapted for X4.
Station Designs (Build Plans & Screenshots)
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Just a quick update, I have started to maintain an index in the OP and as people add their contributions to this thread I will add their links to the OP.
Should we go beyond the limits of a single post I will link to a continuance index later in this thread.
Should we go beyond the limits of a single post I will link to a continuance index later in this thread.
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Thanks for starting and managing this thread. It's very interesting to see what other people came up with.
I'll add pics of my little claytronics complex when time permits.
While not the biggest station ever, I'm quite happy with the design.
I'll add pics of my little claytronics complex when time permits.
While not the biggest station ever, I'm quite happy with the design.
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Thanks for the work you put into this, hope many more designs will be added soon.Roger L.S. Griffiths wrote: ↑Fri, 15. Feb 19, 21:32Just a quick update, I have started to maintain an index in the OP and as people add their contributions to this thread I will add their links to the OP.
Should we go beyond the limits of a single post I will link to a continuance index later in this thread.
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Gives new meaning to Space Operapref wrote: ↑Fri, 15. Feb 19, 23:16Finally work allowed me to finish the thing, you can take a look here:
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Claytronics Production - Nothing special, common design
Station Cost Total: 433,051,776
And this is final build plan for Megaplex in PHQ. Build plan for now, building this complex take a long long time . I don't recommend to build this monster. You need a lot of patience. I had really low fps at the end of the building, around 1-3, graphical glitches, it was really pain to place cross connection structures because of that green "pointers" (hundreds or maybe thousands of them) and at last, i can't open logical overwiev, it just not working (guess too many factories?). I wanted to add "some" defense platforms, but it was impossible at the end of building.
Some interesting info:
- 1571 production modules
- 305 L Habitat/Dome/Biome
- 680 docking places (L/M/S)
- Total cost without docks and connection structures 5,517,893,034
- 100 Claytronics Production, 183 Microchip Production ....
- My guess about supply fleet is 100 L miners and 100 L gas
Full station list (without connections and docks. Prices like profit and cost are /2, i don't know why)
Build in progress (low detail)
Annoying graphical glitches:
PHQ project canceled. It's too big ... game itself need more sectors and i practically disabled one of them ...
Station Cost Total: 433,051,776
And this is final build plan for Megaplex in PHQ. Build plan for now, building this complex take a long long time . I don't recommend to build this monster. You need a lot of patience. I had really low fps at the end of the building, around 1-3, graphical glitches, it was really pain to place cross connection structures because of that green "pointers" (hundreds or maybe thousands of them) and at last, i can't open logical overwiev, it just not working (guess too many factories?). I wanted to add "some" defense platforms, but it was impossible at the end of building.
Some interesting info:
- 1571 production modules
- 305 L Habitat/Dome/Biome
- 680 docking places (L/M/S)
- Total cost without docks and connection structures 5,517,893,034
- 100 Claytronics Production, 183 Microchip Production ....
- My guess about supply fleet is 100 L miners and 100 L gas
Full station list (without connections and docks. Prices like profit and cost are /2, i don't know why)
Build in progress (low detail)
Annoying graphical glitches:
PHQ project canceled. It's too big ... game itself need more sectors and i practically disabled one of them ...
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A secondary station of mine - work in progress. Now sports a full self contained production chain:
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Construction of EBI Space Station One is awaiting the ship construction/refit/repair stage once V2.0 is released but for now it is complete and Photos have been added to the Album shared via Google Photos. Not the best of pictures but due to frame rate issues I limited myself to the External Camera view, should be good enough for now though.
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"May god stand between you and harm in all the dark places you must walk." - Ancient Egyption Proverb
"When eating an elephant take one bite at a time" - Creighton Abrams
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Looks great if i may sayRoger L.S. Griffiths wrote: ↑Sun, 24. Feb 19, 07:50Construction of EBI Space Station One is awaiting the ship construction/refit/repair stage once V2.0 is released but for now it is complete and Photos have been added to the Album shared via Google Photos. Not the best of pictures but due to frame rate issues I limited myself to the External Camera view, should be good enough for now though.
Its a problem if you don´t have any problems.
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Where are these plans are? (I mean, in filesystem).Roger L.S. Griffiths wrote: ↑Sat, 9. Feb 19, 14:54To kick things off - here is my current primary station build project (XML shared by Google Drive):
I cannot locate them neither in save_xxx.xml-s, nor in game folder or somewhere near save folders...
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Try looking in:-Shadowman2012 wrote: ↑Wed, 27. Feb 19, 20:06Where are these plans are? (I mean, in filesystem).Roger L.S. Griffiths wrote: ↑Sat, 9. Feb 19, 14:54To kick things off - here is my current primary station build project (XML shared by Google Drive):
I cannot locate them neither in save_xxx.xml-s, nor in game folder or somewhere near save folders...
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[My Documents]\egosoft\X4\<Number>\constructionplans.xml
The save folder should be in the same place.
Lenna (aka [SRK] The_Rabbit)
"Understanding is a three edged sword... your side, their side... and the Truth!" - J.J. Sheriden, Babylon 5 S4E6 T28:55
"May god stand between you and harm in all the dark places you must walk." - Ancient Egyption Proverb
"When eating an elephant take one bite at a time" - Creighton Abrams
"Understanding is a three edged sword... your side, their side... and the Truth!" - J.J. Sheriden, Babylon 5 S4E6 T28:55
"May god stand between you and harm in all the dark places you must walk." - Ancient Egyption Proverb
"When eating an elephant take one bite at a time" - Creighton Abrams
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I forgot to post the design xml here, even though that was the point of the whole thread..
So here it is.
Name is "Ergosphere final" or "Ergosphere final xCont" - latter has 36 more L container storage.
So here it is.
Name is "Ergosphere final" or "Ergosphere final xCont" - latter has 36 more L container storage.
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That's it, thanks!Roger L.S. Griffiths wrote: ↑Wed, 27. Feb 19, 21:12Code: Select all
[My Documents]\egosoft\X4\<Number>\constructionplans.xml
I didn't know, that modules plans (loadouts.xml) and stations plans (constructionplans.xml) saved in different files
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Wharf, WIP
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This is madness.. poor logical station overview.
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Loneshade: Beautiful, i love it
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