E8: The Erlking and building the Asgard (plus profiteering off Government Contracts) 

The Max Pichardo - named after the hero of our first Humanity First playthrough of Terra Invicta

Name them after Slavic Deities (since the Terrans name theirs after Norse ones)

The Vengeful Spirit

Yamato? It's got a wave motion gun after all. The 'humanity first' would also be fitting your roleplay

I would say name them after legendary weapons. Mjolrnir, Excalibur, Longinus, Durandal, Vajra, etc...

What the devil??

No no no what Terra Intended. But this is gold

You sir deserve every cup of tea on God's green Earth and a firm, but amicable, handshake.

TALLY HO

"ATF" what happened to the xenon dogs

This is a good one

Or "Top Rung," as in, of the escalation ladder.

Basically Triglavians in EVE Online Then again the three clades already took the names Perun, Veles, and Svarog

@@paulsd9255 Second should be Baba Yaga

there is a reason I did it off screen. huge endevour

@@PerunGamingAU You missed an opportunity to present the whole thing sped up 10x accompanied with Yakety Sax music.

Gives me Donnager vibes.

@@xaxas94yeh and the Sol system bgm gives me Expanse vibes as well.

Note: Civilians are less likely to call a battleship a boondoogle if their safety depends on it's ability to delete enemy capital ships and that ability is demonstrated. The Yamato only earned the sobriquet "hotel Yamato" after a period of non-warlike activity, even to the general public(construction was partially funded by public investment, war bond-ish stuff). With the simplified simulation of x4 and the reality of warp gate navigation, being able to delete an enemy cap emerging from a gate in a single shot is a tremendous combat ability in comparison to the Yamato's inability to engage anything more than a handful of destroyers protecting a small fleet of escort carriers.

There was a mod released fairly recently, called After the Fall, that starts with the Xenon in almost total control of the network, with every faction being reduced to a handful of their absolute most core sectors. Very difficult, obviously, but that might give you the experience you're looking for. If you want a more vanilla flavor experience there are other mods that just buff the Xenon without starting with Xenon overrunning the network, like Xenon Jobs+. It is true though that as the expansions released the Xenon became less problematic, my guess is this is primarily because there's just more Commonwealth and Terran weight to be thrown around while the Xenon are mostly similar in size. Also due to economic AI improvements over the years the AI became better at actually producing stuff without the player personally handling their entire economy, so the factions are generally better equipped to handle Xenon incursion, whereas the Xenon have almost zero logistical supply chain requirement, and can basically just turn raw ore and energy cells directly into ships. In other words it's less that the Xenon got nerfed and more that the other factions caught up to where the Xenon started.

and with that last sentence, my head had ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LwlFy5RGVYw.html churning

7.10 fixed some problems with Xenon economy. Even if you started a new universe back in 7.0 you should see the Xenon get back on their feet some.

I like to imagine all they were allowed to do was provide the new turrets without any further access to the ship - but you've bothered me enough from an RP perspective here that I'll get the blueprints so I can do the refits myself in my own yards.

@@PerunGamingAU I guess that's what you needed those 30 marines for

Refits were done with the recruited service crew. You can work on it but then you are quarantined to the ship.

That was like the Galactica shooting out at the cylons. Great visuals.

​ "What're all these extra signal processing cores for? What kind of anti-Xenon warship needs this much computing power? Who is this guy?"

I second this.

A Max Hans job.

He mentioned he did, yeah.

Yeah, he brings it up at 15:55.

Free food and healthcare too, but you do have to live on a space station.

@@1967sluggy yes.but not immediately.

@@PerunGamingAUfantastic, will be good to see when it happens!

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Asgards, shall not be infringed.

I don't really know any good tutorials, but I'm also an X³ veteran and found that the best way to learn the differences was to just go back to basics. Start small like you're a new player, and explore the mechanics as you naturally get the money for them, rather than beelining for something specific. I think stations are the biggest change (aside from the universe layout), but the learning curve isn't very steep because it's a much simpler 'design a station complex in one unit then set it building' system instead of the X³ building a dozen different stations separately and stringing them together.

@@_kalia yea the stations are particularily where i am blocking when i see these huge complexes.

@@sickbozo8152 I'd say that the station building is basically similar to X3, just easier to do since you don't have to build each station individually then build the connectors between them. And you get an in-game flowchart of the production instead of having to rely on 3rd party spreadsheets. There is some in-game tutorials which was enough to get me started on some of the differences and I could figure out the rest over time.

very short time to engage travel drive (important for all ships including AI piloted miners and traders) and don't consume as much shield when boosting (useful because the AI and player alike are big boosting fans)

@@PerunGamingAU I watched the first few videos of this series and decided to pick this game up a few days ago still learning but a lot of fun. Keep up the good work.

. . . . It has a 12k m3 universal cargo bay. Literally stores anything. If you were so inclined you could run an entire vertically integrated single supply chain off of it.

it's a setting you can change. I can't stand the default