Sections:
Game Information
| Game Starts | Game start choices and how they affect your options |
| Game DLC | Adding expansions for the base game |
| Getting Started | Suggestions for what to do in a new game |
| Encyclopedia | The gold mine of technical details |
| Story Lines | X4’s attempt at “quests” |
| Kha’ak | The menace from the dark |
| Duke’s Bucaneers | The pirate duke? Isn’t he dead? |
| Scale Plate Pact (SCA) | We lost our home system, so we’re taking your stuff |
Game Concepts
| Map View | Get to know the tools… everything you care about lives here |
| Alerts | Have X4 notify you when dangerous or interesting ships appear |
| Blacklists | Applying rules to station and ship activities |
| Blueprints | Everything you need to build your own toys |
| Closed Loop Production | A different way to assemble stations and ships |
| Crew | Staff up and delegate the hard work |
| Friendly Fire | The easy way to undo your hard work |
| Inventory Items | This flight suit has so many pockets! Look at all this stuff I’ve picked up! |
| Illegal Items | You say “illegal,” I say “useful and valuable” |
| Piracy | There’s no High Seas in space, but there’s still plenty to plunder |
| EMP Bombs | Everything’s computerized… and vulnerable |
| Reputation | How to make friends and influence people |
| Ship Kill Credit | Friends help each other out (for credits) |
Player Activities
| Legal | |
| Missions | Odd jobs to earn credits and goodwill with faction governments |
| Combat | How ship equipment works and how it’s used in combat |
| Mining | What to do with mining ships, mining independently or for a station |
| Collectors | It’s amazing the valuable things people just leave laying around |
| Spacesuit | Getting up-close and personal with your surroundings |
| Illegal | |
| Piracy | There’s no High Seas in space, but there’s still plenty to plunder |
| Boarding Ships | How to board and commandeer X/XL size ships of friends and enemies |
| Capturing Ships | How to get gullible pilots to surrender their S/M size ships |
| Hacking | Messing with station defenses and production, just because you can |
Ships
| Buying Ships | Buying and selling the tools of the trade |
| Equipping Ships | Guns and shields and turrets oh my! |
| Weapons | Types and properties so you can pick just the right one to suit your mood |
| Missiles and Torpedoes | Sending your love across the stars |
| Deployables | So many useful gizmos to drop in your travels |
| Laser Towers | Let your enemies know you care, even when your ships can’t be there in person |
| Satellites | Your eye in the sky |
| Ship Modifications | “The fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy” |
| Ship Orders | Just do what I tell you, and we’ll get along fine |
| Ship Crew | Staff up and delegate the hard work |
Stations
| Station Building | Building the better mouse trap |
| Station Managers | Who’s in charge around here? |
| Station Defenses | Kill it! Kill it with fire! |
| Logical Overview | Just give me the big picture. Why aren’t we shipping anything? |
| Habitats and Workforce | Tap into the galactic job boards and hire workers for peanuts (and Scruffin Fruit) |
Trading
| Ship Trading | Using trade ships to turn time into credits |
| Station Trading | Everyone needs parts to replace those ships you just blew up |
| Automatic Pricing | Buy High! Sell Low! Wait… |
| Manual Pricing | Sometimes the market is just wrong |
| Buy/Sell Limits | Keep a little something for yourself |
| Trade Stations | The hard way to make money, and the easy way to handle logistics |