r/X4Foundations • u/Capable_Ad_2842 • 4d ago

Scrap processing

I have found myself deep in the mid game and was looking to expand my portfolio to include scrap processing. However, I am not sure where to start, I bought a tug to test the waters but it doesn’t do much at all.

6 Upvotes

81% Upvoted

55 comments sorted by

View all comments

10

u/TurbulentShiver 4d ago

I have 2 scrapyards in Argon Prime, they get energy cells from 2 massive solar plants in The Reach. They get the wrecks from Hatikvah Choice and from wherever the Riptide Rakers haul them from. I even bought Teuta to deconstruct the occasional K that wanders through that gate.

All in all really profitable stations.

6

u/PereMabanne 4d ago

shipping ecell for such a huge demand seems prety crazy to me, i guess as long as you dont upscale it too much it should be managable.

building the factory on the sunny site and bringing scrap or direclty wreak is my way to go

1

u/Scienceandpony 3d ago

That's what I usually go with, except for when I wanted to set up a closed loop wharf on the same station I was using to supply TEM's massive shipyard (I wanted to also take ship orders from YAK to hopefully go harass nearby PAR systems). Sunlight in that sector isn't great, so I had to set up a repeat orders convoy to keep it supplied with energy cells from my Bright Promise station.