The game has always been able to make NPC ships do things that the player cannot. The real trick is in using them where it doesn't really matter all that much, such as when docking, or when you can understand why the faction might design for and train to do them - Xenon example.

It is possible that the ZYA plot progress and the PAR loss of reputation may be unrelated. It may be that a ship of yours passing through PAR space at the time fired back at a pirate masked as someone that was not enemy to PAR, or at a faction or masked ship that had recently become enemy to you but...

To answer your first reply - It does not have to be a TEL ship. Any faction (real or as masked) that MIN is friendly or neutral to that you fire on in a TEL area will annoy MIN. For your second reply - Similarly to above, if PAR is friendly or neutral to ZYA and you fire on ZYA in PAR space for any ...

It's a catch-all text/voice that says station even when a ship in radar range of any station has been fired on and a MIN station doesn't have to be involved. It's most likely that a ship of yours in Teladi space has defended itself against a faction, or a pirate masked as that faction, that MIN are ...

The special tag is applied to that specific ship/ID and when you re-engineer you are reverting the ship (whether so tagged or not) to the basic ship type blueprint and any ships built from that type blueprint will have different IDs and no tag. Think of it as a collectors' challenge or bragging righ...

This has been asked for before , but I can't find any changes. I have a suspicion this may be more an OS sound device function than a game design decision. I asked a dev and they advised as follows: "There's a "-nosoundthrottle" command line parameter that does what he wants." That's the way you com...

@ user1679: X4 does/will not routinely require any online connection to continue playing unless a specified online feature (past or future) is optionally selected. Such a basic playing requirement can not be retro-added for sold games. Please don't worry about such 'what if' conspiracies.

Enough now thanks. Please discuss the game and not so much other players or posters. (Unless you're an X dev. )

As always, there might be some useful nuggets hidden within the comments that derailed the thread from the very start.

Needs some more explanation of post and title - or should I just put it down to a great night out?

There is a public beta forum for just such beta issues and this one is extensively reported there and well known to the devs.

If it keeps happening in vanilla but only to yourself (even if intermittently) then I'm afraid it sounds as if something is wrong with either your game installation or with the series of saves you are using. That's a hard one as whilst you can, if necessary, do a complete clean reinstall of X4, you ...

@ Socratatus: Another theory about that is that sometimes mass traffic ships fly very close together (sometimes similar ship types can be exactly superimposed!) and when you attack the criminal one you can also damage or kill innocent civilian ones - which the local security will react to. Still per...

It has been discussed before and with mixed player reception.

See if anything in this thread helps at all.

Think of an aircraft carrier deck - it cannot easily eject pilotless aircraft parked on it. However, if the carrier were sinking, you might expect active pilots of planes on the deck to notice and try to do something about saving their aircraft. I think the mechanism of ships dying if the NPC statio...

I think what is amazing is that the X games encourage real gameplay enjoyment in the immersion and playing, and (for me at least) not so much in the [speed of gaining] in-game achievements. They cater for so many different playstyles, end-goals and roleplaying preferences, and all in the same game v...

If it is literally just one or two frames as you say then it might be vsync preventing screen tearing - that theory is somewhat supported in your looking around quickly comment. Do you have vsync on or off, and does the issue change if you toggle it?

".. chants and whistles that were so loud you couldn't hear what they were trying to say to the press .." As an outside and uninvolved party to all this, I don't see that as a win for democratic process. I think it would be better to hear publicly what they have to say and then calmly and logically...

I would guess that build storages cores being invulnerable and not targetable is a game design choice. Constantly losing their resource contents to any passing enemy patrol would mean that their stations can never finish building or repairing properly and the game trade economy and faction system mi...

The sector map coverage expands as some player asset moves further from the sector centre. That often used to be the case where player drones or deployables such as satellites or beacons would inexplicably shoot off at very high speed away from the playing area. Usually though, they would leave a ve...