Destroyer Combat in X4 7.0: Notes & Tips for Automated Space Violence

FAQ: Q: Does your spreadsheet mean fleets are bad? A: No, it just means that fleet commander AI uses destroyers less effectively than individual captain AI during station attacks. Q: How were your fleets set up? A: Very simplistically, for experimental purposes. To see proper fleet compositions in action, check out my video "Earth's Last Stand", and stay tuned for future videos! Q: What about the Asgard? A: Check out my new video on that exact topic!

Between you and ragnos28 there is so much good testing being done on Destroyer behaviour I really hope Egosoft are watching closely.

Excel spreadsheets makes me feel warm and fuzzy. Thank you so much for your detailed analysis!

THIS is the kind of stuff I LOVE to see from a community. Watching every second, thank you for your effort.

Amazing videos. You have majorly helped me get back into X4. What an incredible game

Greatly appreciate the science players/fans do for the X series and the lore videos. ^^ Thanks for this no nonsense informative x4 7.0 science/tips tutorial video. Have fun and good luck, hope your channel grows quickly.

Thanks for your insight on X4 combat AI :) Especially on capitals ships!! Nice that you did this great analysis. Hope Egosoft learns a bit from your video

Thank you very much for all the testing. Very helpful information and I'll no longer attack stations using fleet formations. I've had enough of micromanaging them in-system previously.

Great work😊🎉

Just got into the game your videos have been really helpful thank you!

First of all, very cool video! Now, I do have some questions and feedback: 1. I'd love to hear more about the fleet composition and orders. Were the ships on Attack? Bombard? Something else? What formation were they in? 2. What decided the fleet composition? I'm curious about the Terran ships' performance as well as the Asgard with its Big Beam of Doom specifically. 3. Are fighters really worth it in low economy situations? Sure, they are great when I can pump out a hundred of them at a time but they die so easily to everything, even when just intercepting enemies, even to stuff like station module explosions. For the video itself: 4. Some of the fights got a little boring and the commentary was very... obvious at times. "Ship A now moves forward" yes, we are watching the same footage :P. Now, I understand that editing it down and making sure that everything important is still showed and said takes a lot more work, but something simple like speeding it up a bit could do the trick. 5. This goes back to my first question, having some explanation as to how the fleets and their orders were set up would not only be nice to know, but would also allow less experienced players to easier understand what's going on. I'm not saying make this into a tutorial, I'm saying give us something to work with. I did my fair share of messing around with orders and formations and I still have no clue what you used or consider the best. Again, great video, this is just my opinion, you can take it or leave it :)

Spreadsheet, numbers and even color. +1 subs. Welcome on board Captain!

Great video! Always look for logic in everything. Greetings from the Russian pilot ❤

I like the combination of words "improved violence protocols"

This video was a treat! Thanks & subbed.

Your observations on station attacks are spot on. I've seen that exact behavior with the Phoenix E slowing down in turret range for no reason when flying in a fleet. At least when used independently ships behave far better than in the past.

This is some great analysis. Really appreciate the effort that went into this!

top notch quality overview. I saw you linked on SWI Discord channel and just advised Reemergence community to go watch you too. Keep it up!

Brilliant overview, thank you so much for this info.

Thanks for the hard work! Great video.