Money making?

[Phantom]

am fairly new to the game and only got about 3-4days worth of playtimes and wanted some tips on moneymaking.
Right now am mostly running a Scrapyard/ Recycling centre buisness which seems to be making me the most money since there close to Exnon fronts, Minus the huge amount of energy cells needed which is why i have my yard built in the Reach with its 316% sunlight boost, are there any other good money makers other then the future ship manufacturing

[T600_Mod]

claytronic production or hull parts IN MASS.... near friendly sectors filled with stations

[Phantom]

might set a hullparts first probably easier of the two since i've finally got my Ore and Gas refineries running

[Geist]

You can make a lot of money doing anything (well, except maybe refining ice...), so it really just depends on what you want to play.

For example, right now I play a mining company, so I only do mining stuff with big mining fleets that go from sector to sector and mine for the one that offers the best price. Maybe later on I will expand the company into a steel producer with metal refineries, but I don't think so.

My last big safefile with about 500 hours was a Terran (Segaris) based medical company, and I produced medicine (and drugs ahem...) with many small stations all around the gate network.

Before that I was a pure trading company with trading stations in strategic places and big fleets of trading ships, trading goods all around and I didn't care about mining or military ships at all.

Before that I was a shipbuilder (because everyone wants to own a shipyard at least once, I guess).

It really depends on what you want to play and what you enjoy the most, you don't always have to do everything or look for the best way to make money because in the end you will be stinking rich no matter what you do.

[Azunai]

If you have the terran dlc, the best moneyprinter is computronic substrate. It's basically claytronics and hull parts rolled into one and it's easy to set up since the fabricator directly consumes huge numbers of minerals and gases and spits out the finished product without needing 2 or 3 tiers of intermediate products.

The fabricator itself is relatively cheap and you can scale up the scope of the operation by simply adding more and more miners until the fabricator runs at full capacity - then you add another fabricator and again add miners etc.

[Phantom]

not to sure what i want to do really i started off with mining ships then bought a few manticores and selling ship wrecks saw the money and went into building more manticores and made my own Recycling centre soo guess am a glorified shipbreaker then XD

[Geist]

Originally posted by Phantom:

not to sure what i want to do really i started off with mining ships then bought a few manticores and selling ship wrecks saw the money and went into building more manticores and made my own Recycling centre soo guess am a glorified shipbreaker then XD

Sure why not. You can even set up shop in Averice to benefit from the 1300% sunlight there. And if you make the questline you can become their savior by providing cheaper protection from the sun floods

[Phantom]

Originally posted by Geist:

Originally posted by Phantom:

not to sure what i want to do really i started off with mining ships then bought a few manticores and selling ship wrecks saw the money and went into building more manticores and made my own Recycling centre soo guess am a glorified shipbreaker then XD

Sure why not. You can even set up shop in Averice to benefit from the 1300% sunlight there. And if you make the questline you can become their savior by providing cheaper protection from the sun floods

didnt know that, thanks am gunna get on their questline asap XD

[Phantom]

wouldnt i also need that station shield generator aswell??

[Geist]

Originally posted by Phantom:

wouldnt i also need that station shield generator aswell??

Yes ou need the shield and buy the "protection" condensate to run it, but well obvious spoiler: if you follow the questline you gain access to the stuff yourself for free and then you can be the one providing it instead.

[Phantom]

Originally posted by Geist:

Originally posted by Phantom:

wouldnt i also need that station shield generator aswell??

Yes ou need the shield and buy the "protection" condensate to run it, but well obvious spoiler: if you follow the questline you gain access to the stuff yourself for free and then you can be the one providing it instead.

AH i remember now i think i put that line on pause cause i couldnt get a ship fast enough for the engine mods, think i should beable to now with a upgraded katana i hope

[Geist]

If not get yourself a Pegasus S class. Those are very fast

[Phantom]

Yep Terran Katana with Arg travel engines was more then enough time to move onto the advance engines and resume that tidebreak dlc

[DragNod#]

In some sectors, there are abandoned ships. In the sector "The Void," there is an abandoned mining ship.
If you take it over, you can assign it a pilot who will automatically mine and sell the resources to stations in the sector.
So, look for sectors with silicon asteroids and stations that buy silicon.
With the money you earn, you can expand your mining fleet and establish new ones in other sectors.

Once you've earned enough credits, you can build your own stations. If you have the TER DLC, buy or steal everything you need for a Computronic Substrate factory. There is no faster way to earn credits in X4.
Otherwise, supply the NPC shipyards and docks with everything they need.

[DragNod#]

Another tip, place a satellite at each shipyard and dock to keep the trade data up to date. Scan at least 50% of the station in scan mode (Shift+2). This will show you how much of a specific commodity the station has in storage.

[climbingeastofwinter]

Computational substrate from the Terran dlc is so good for money making that it feels like cheating. The blueprints are a fraction of the cost of what you would need to get Claytronics, Hull parts, etc production rolling, and because they're so widely used theres rarely a shortage of demand for them. After a few days of play time without cheesing anything, I had 200 million credits in my account and something like 5 million credits an hour from 3 energy cell factories and a medical / food supply factory in Argon prime. In my last play through with a computational substrate build I was in the ballpark of 500 million credits in the bank with 25 million an hour coming in from a computation substrate factory near Segaris.