Looking for a way to get trading licenses without having the required reputation

[bitmapkid]

I don't really enjoy the early game phase where I have to drop satellites everywhere to be able to trade. I know this can be automated but overall I prefer not seeing every single ship in the galaxy. It makes space a bit more scary when I can't tell what's happening. 😅

Right now I use the Cheats mod to obtain all licenses for a given faction because it includes the trading license which allows me to trade without satellites. But it also gives me all the other licenses (e.g. capital ships) so it's a bit OP.

Is there a way to only get the trade licenses? (I might look at the source code of the Cheats mod over the weekend to make my own mod, but if it already exists, it would save me some time 😁)

[Heisenquark]

I would go one step further and activate it for everyone by default without losing a license in the event of an attack.

Of course, not everyone likes that, and a mod would be much more complex.

[Shadowfox]

The Famous Cheat Mod-does anything you want. Or as little as you want

[Heisenquark]

Originally posted by Shadowfox:

The Famous Cheat Mod-does anything you want. Or as little as you want

Its as OP already pointed out to much hassle

[bitmapkid]

Originally posted by Shadowfox:

The Famous Cheat Mod-does anything you want. Or as little as you want

The problem is that it gives me all the licenses, including the capital ship license, whereas I only want the trading one.

[Wraith]

Cheat mod a bit of money.
Cheat mod rep.
Buy trade license then play how you like, it not like 20 rep does anything major.

The biggest climb of reputation is 25-30 anyway

[Afro Luigi]

Unfortunately like others are the licenses are tied to the reputation no picking and choosing unlike in XR where you can purchase specific licenses once your Rep gets to a specific point

I will point out though now that with the Creative Game (not the Budgeted one) starts you don't need the Cheat Mod to get that stuff. You can just start however you want (you can even change the Xenon rep if you don't want them attacking you)

[Heisenquark]

Originally posted by Afro Luigi:

Unfortunately like others are the licenses are tied to the reputation no picking and choosing unlike in XR where you can purchase specific licenses once your Rep gets to a specific point

I will point out though now that with the Creative Game (not the Budgeted one) starts you don't need the Cheat Mod to get that stuff. You can just start however you want (you can even change the Xenon rep if you don't want them attacking you)

But you lose license on attack, even when youre still friends

[bitmapkid]

Based on the answers, there doesn't seem to be any mod that does this at the moment.

I think I am going to look at the source code from the Cheats mod and make my own for just the trading license. I have 2 weeks of vacation ahead of me, it's going to be a good opportunity to get back into X4 mod development. 😊

[veryinky]

Yes. While using an EMP grenade on the station one of the signal sources will be a trade subscription for that station. The problem there is there are hundreds of stations.

[veryinky]

Yeah, sadly.