X4 Resource Maps
Learn the relationships between areas better!
Sector map graph.
If it looks a bit tangled when you load it, just refresh the page, the layout is randomised every time you reload it and will often start up nice and tidy. It is possible to move things around so theres only one overlapping link on the whole map.
Click and drag to move sectors or the whole map around. Mouse wheel to zoom. Mouse over nodes to view sector resources. Grey lines are gate links between systems. Dashed blue lines are sector links. Dashed yellow line is the highway.
Graphical view of resource locations below. Larger nodes are larger resources. These are the resource regeneration rates.
For more detailed charts - the amount of each resource available within the nearest 1-5 jumps, the initial stockpiles, the amount of neighbours within 1-5 jumps and variants of those where you avoid Xenon sectors, check out the resource pages below.
Detailed resource maps
How many sectors in your neighbourhood?
Finally, a bit of an experiment this one, will take longer to load. This shows a group of nodes for each system, one for each resource it has. It's an attempt to show all resources on one map, to see if its obvious if part of the map is more resource rich than another, but its a bit of a mess.
X4 Trade Tool
Searching for nearby trades or the most profitable trades in X4 is kind of awkward.
So I made a tool that lets you do it more precisely! Download X4Trade here.
Search for stations that buys or sells a ware within a certain number of jumps of a location, find the max % profit you can make on a trade, the max profit per cubic meter, the maximum available profit on a route, the max profit per cubic meter per jump, and more!
To use, extract the zip files contents to a folder and run x4trade.exe. It will prompt you for your save file location. This is normally somewhere like C:\Users\yourname\OneDrive\Documents\Egosoft\X4\25145978\save\quicksave.xml.gz
The way the tool works is it takes a copy of your save file locally, unpacks it, rummages around in the xml inside, finds the buy and sell offers from stations, saves them to a local file called "processed-save.data" and then cleans up its working files to save space. The initial processing takes a minute or two as the save files are huge, but then all searches after that are very fast. It remembers where your save file is in a local file called "preferences.data", and every now and then you should select the "Reload latest save" option to update the local processed save from your save file.
It makes lots of result tables, like this -
