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Update 1.50 to X4: Foundations introduces the Venture Feature. The Venture Feature is an optional Online Feature linked to your Egosoft community forum account.
Please note that this new feature is considered to be in Beta at this time with plans for future iterations. In this case the "beta" tag refers to how the Ventures operate online behind the scenes - it isn't a risk to save games in the way that participating in a beta for game updates might be.
Participating players are able to construct a station module that sends ships into the game worlds of other participating players, and of course 'welcome' them into theirs as they see fit.
Opting in or out of Ventures
This is done via the in-game Online Features menu. After you have logged in and registered your game (see the Online Features page for details), two options are available (see the following image).
The first option is for opting in or out of the feature. The second lets you choose whether to see the forum account names of owners of ships that visit your universe.
What are Ventures?
The Venture Feature can be turned on or off. When turned on, we can send and receive ships.
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