Fly-By Boarding in X4 7.1: Post-Nerf Space Crime

In this video, Captain Snuggles stoops to a new low as he tries out the forbidden art of fly-by boarding.

00:00 Intro & Disclaimer
02:35 How-To
06:20 Boarding Clips
10:10 Tallying Profits
11:11 Summary & Conclusion

[shietinghd]

1:Steal ship from Terran.
2:Terran build new ships.
3:Steal ship again.
4:Sell both ships to terran.
4:repeat to lv marine
5:Board asgard
6: you win 🥇

[jtvice]

Honestly, you shouldn't be able to board unless the shields are down, imo but it's whatever. I just roleplay with my own set of rules

[thumb-ugly]

I have recently toyed with wrecking supplies at wharfs and shipyards by buying advanced sats & equipment low at one and selling high at another.

It only works for a little while but it doubles as a way to stall production. Unfortunately this is only possible with neutral or positive factions and that limits it greatly, but its a way to stack 100 Million or so in an hour.

After Scanning Arrays are depleted from Adv.Sats, Weapon Components tend to go, for weapons & mines. Then Drone Components for drones and towers, etc.

If you already have production built to resupply these places, its an insidious loop. I'd patted myself on the back for not cheesing rep with single sales anymore, but here we are.

Cheers all! o7

[josephprins]

Fly by boarding made me regret one of my saves, I felt like I cheated myself out of a good game and restarted a new save. This was ages ago. I think the Barbarossa is a pretty good pirate ship, it carries less marines iirc but it's pretty quick, has pretty good turret placement and looks cool as hell.

[Diarmuhnd]

*I never left enemy territory, hells even friendly territory, without trying my hand at capturing something.*
Its one of the first things I learned how to do. lol
edit: Nice changes actually, thanks for the info, have a great week.

[xizzard]

You can farm always, without loosing rep, SCA Phoenixes and Behemoths. In my instance they spawn one after another in boron sectors or close (Ocean of fantasy, Great reef, barren shores, watchful gaze, heretics end). For the moment I keep them because of Xenon/Khaak Crisis missions. SCA can be found in any other sectors but did not really bothered searching or moving my ships after them. You will need an S with Burst Rays and 2-3 M TS because those 2 don't hold much crew, I see somewhere between 14 and 24 total crew. Easy-peasy! Now I use 1xBarbarossa and 3xShih (w Burst Rays), is OP just for this job. But is a different approach to boarding. Erlking for me is just a very good trade ship :) Have fun.

[det]

Tip 1, if you mess up a boarding and have some pods trailing, just quickly catch up with the ship at the gate and ram it. Keep pushing it around, it wont go, pods will eventually catch up. But I avoid those situations by saving just before I board.
Tip 2, Get to a neutral system like Napoleons Fortune, and farm those builders, 30m a pop.
Tip 3, you dont need to fly by freighters or builders, you can pass by them slowly so pods make a better contact. Their guns are harmless to your ship, but bad for pods far away.
Tip 4, you can shoot them to stop travel mode, but if you destroy a surface element its -1 rep. Keep guns disabled all other times.

[Zael_Moonblade]

What's funny about it though... is that fly by boarding would be a tactic used in space to claim ships....

[MavicAir]

It's a great space sim. Always on the hard drive..

[Hatzi]

Stole my 4th asgard yesterday, its working just fine for me, all you need is an erlking and some decent marines

[ThePsiclone]

Funny what you said about the Terran economy. Just set up a small micro-lattice factory and the terrans buy all you can make. I have one with 35 ML production (it started as 1 ML Production and has grown) and its always out of stock when I need some. Its constantly spewing money into my account and I don't have to do anything. You can er...help yourself...to mining ships to supply it. IDK how anyone with 2000 hours couldn't make money at it...its so easy it feels like cheating. Must have spent 1900 hours in the office with SETA running methinks.

[tickletyger]

Never used flyby boarding.
I board most large ships with 1 marine using a Moreya and Terran tier 2 Lasers. 4 guns makes it easier but I have done it with 2&3 guns.

You just have to pick your target, low crew and 1 to 2 tier 1 or 2 large shields and 1 tier 1 XL shields are manageable using a Moreya.
I have captured large ships with a Kukri and Theseus but it is a bit harder. Most targets are targets of opportunity because I'm a pirate after all.
Different ships have differing tactics and blind spots where you can sit and not get hit by weaponry. Know your prey!

Moreya's are easy to pick up in the first couple hours of the game. I have farmed up to 15 Moreya's and 5 Kuraokami in Segaris sectors early game.

I boarded a CUB split tiger Battleship in Brennan's Triumph using a Moreya and 1 marine about a week ago. Why it was there I don't know? Target of opportunity! It had low crew and only 1 x XL tier 1 shield. Bailed it's 5 escorts and captured the Tiger. It was too easy. It takes a while to get the shields and hull down and all the crew to bail just leaving the captain. I did not even have to take out the engines or any guns. I just sat at the back of the ship out of gun sight as it flew around in circles trying to attack me. It took about an hour or so.

I boarded a SCA Behemouth with the free starter Persues that you get in Silent Witness XII as it came with a shield penetrating weapon and a plasma cannon. I thought the weapons were a bit useless for the ship but proved myself wrong. All done within an hour of starting the game.

I mainly capture Terran ships in Segaris systems or Antigony Memorial as they don't care if you attack them.
If you fly way out you get miners large and small and you can get their shields down and bailed well before they can get to a gate. Heretics end is also a great place as it is neutral.
I have never gone after the Erlking so there is a 1 marine challenge capture for me! I love the challenge of the game.

I never buy a ship that's just boring and I love the challenge of capturing ships with smallest ship and weaponry. I used to bail all my small and medium ships using an Argon Discoverer. Hit hard run faster before your shield dies.

[hlriiiviiiv]

First time I ever fly by boarded a ship it was a magnatar miner, I was in a Barbarossa and had two fighters in the hanger. When it sent up the distress beacon I just sent a fighter after it and got away scot free right in the middle of second contact flashpoint. I should have had arg patrols all over me but I guess they were too busy fighting hop.

[johncoursey]

If you board the Erlking while OOS it wont aggro anything. It has such crap turrets that it should only shoot down a pod or two. I used two freighters but one probably would have gotten it done. I didn't even get the dialogue for capturing it until hours later.

[therealsovietbear]

Separate from my other comment, what are some good targets?
For example, would a good target be a Terran in an ARG/ANT be a good target?

[vankoska]

What do you mean by farming veterans? Im not experienced in boarding, as it seemed almost impossible with even with enemy marines outnumbered 2:1 i would loose most of my marines who would barely get any experience.

[viborabr]

Hi Captain, I would love to see a video about the best MODs for X4. Since I am a little disappointed with Timelines, MODs might spice up my gameplay a bit. But I don't know much about them. Thank you!

[Roman_S]

Love the boarding
Hate how cheese it is
I'm only boarding when I'm completely disabling target in proper fight, and if it won't survive in process, oh well too bad
Otherwise it's just exploiting
Have 3 billion networth and spent millions on blueprints just to star getting millions per hour, and whole industry to make asgards or whatever, or simply take right away
And making industry literally takes dozens of hours, and there is no way to make it faster

[Thaumogenesis]

Homeboy probably had one courier ship piloted by a 0.25 star pilot running auto trade for 2000 hours SETA and called it an economy.

[therealsovietbear]

I have 580 hours and I know that Terrans are OP. I have a save I've been playing on and off since Cradle of Humanity released. Whoever this 2000 hour guy is needs to sit down.