X-BTF: Mysterious yellow squares

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Nethog
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X-BTF: Mysterious yellow squares

Post by Nethog » Mon, 14. Dec 20, 00:00

Ok I give up, what are the small yellow squares I see on my navigation map just above the symbol for each Station? I have seen none, 1, 2 and 3 squares.

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Re: X-BTF: Mysterious yellow squares

Post by Alan Phipps » Mon, 14. Dec 20, 15:46

Probably the same as in X2. Although that was not always agreed upon as further shown here. Take your pick, either showing factory tier or just a differentiator. :D
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Re: X-BTF: Mysterious yellow squares

Post by Nethog » Tue, 15. Dec 20, 16:19

Thanks Alan. Haven't not yet played any X series game yet except XBTF, and having only explored 2 sectors (Seizewell and Profit Share) it appears that the number of squares help differentiate stations with the same letter code on the nav map. Here are my observations where this rule is valid across the 2 sectors:
n:
1 square: Flower Farm
2 squares: Teladianium Foundry
3 Squares: Dream Farm

F:
1 square: Sun Oil Refinery
3 squares: Bliss Place

M:
1 square: Ore Mine
2 squares: Silicon Mine

Here are results where there is only 1 data point, so no conclusion can be made until I explore more of the universe:
L:
1 square: Beta I.R.E. Laser Forge

R:
3 squares: Space Missile Factory-> Silkworm Missiles

S:
1 square: Shield Armor Production Facility-> 1 MW Shields

And finally, there are NO yellow squares for Solar Plants, Space Equipment Docks, Trading Stations, and Shipyards, so I assume that there is never more than one station type for the symbols associated with these facilities.
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Re: X-BTF: Mysterious yellow squares

Post by jlehtone » Tue, 15. Dec 20, 23:07

Based on those I do predict that you might find:
n:
3 squares: Dream Farm



The Missile and Shield Factories ... what is their product?
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Re: X-BTF: Mysterious yellow squares

Post by Nethog » Wed, 16. Dec 20, 16:34

jlehtone wrote:
Tue, 15. Dec 20, 23:07
Based on those I do predict that you might find:
n:
3 squares: Dream Farm



The Missile and Shield Factories ... what is their product?
I just built a Dream Farm and confirm that 3 yellow squares are displayed.
The Missile Factory produces Silkworm Missiles and the Shield Factory produces 1 MW Shields.

I will update my original post with this info.

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Re: X-BTF: Mysterious yellow squares

Post by Cursed Ghost » Wed, 10. Nov 21, 01:28

hi

you should probably read the manual it has a table in the back that explains this but basically the little yellow squares denote the factory level for example

a level 1 missile factory makes moz missiles
a level 2 missile factory make wasp missiles
a level 3 missile factory make dragonfly missiles
a level 4 missile factory makes silkworms
a level 5 missile factory makes hornets

and this holds true for every other factory in the game for example

a level 1 shield factory makes 1mw shields
a level 2 shield factory makes 5mw shields
a level 3 shield factory makes 25mw shields

knowing this it allows you to quickly identify factories by looking at your nav map/radar

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Re: X-BTF: Mysterious yellow squares

Post by Alan Phipps » Wed, 10. Nov 21, 10:11

@ Cursed Ghost: I'm not sure that completely explains things.

Why would an Ore Mine have one square and a Silicon Mine have 2?

Why would a Silkworm factory have 3 squares if it is a Level 4 factory, while a 1 MW Shield Factory has one square and it is a Level 1 factory?
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Re: X-BTF: Mysterious yellow squares

Post by Thurhame » Sun, 27. Mar 22, 21:10

In my game the Silkworm factory looks like it has 3, but it's different from other 3's like Dream Farm and HEPT Lasers. I figure it's actually 4 that overlap with each other.

And it only represents "levels" on equipment factories (shields, missiles, lasers). For resource factories it just helps differentiate them. So since there are two types of mines, Ore Mines are [M] with 1 yellow bar and Silicon Mines are [M] with 2 yellow bars. Also different races are separate, so [N]-1 can represent a Teladi Flower Farm, a Boron Plankton Farm, an Argon Wheat Farm, etc. while [N]-2 can represent a Teladi Teladianium Foundry, a Boron Bio-Gas Lab, an Argon Cattle Ranch, etc.

The Teladi Bliss Place is weird in that it's symbol is [F]-3 even though there's no [F]-2. I assume it's because it uses the resource from [N]-3 (Dream Farm).

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