So I tried to salvage that x4 save and I made some progress.
I figured out roughly what the problem is regarding how the enemy station spawns and how you have to destroy it to stop the raids…

I battled with searching for it all day, but the sector is one of the largest sectors in the game and the variability on the spawn location “outside the sectors edge” just causes too much ground to cover for locating the hive…
So I have given up and installed a long range scanner booster mod…

I found a mod that doubles the base scan range, which feels decent enough that it’s not going to demolish any sense of exploration but also remove all my tedium finding this station
I also found another mod that lets you set scout vessels to permanently explore a sector in a proper pattern, so I can just leave a very fast ship running around in the future for if they build a second station.

Yes… I finally gave in and got mods for the game I refused to mod.

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I started playing X4 again today.
My last save was almost three years ago…
I resumed it…

I am being demolished by three years worth of updates applying at once.
I have a massive trade empire but it’s in the middle of crumbling due to the changes to enemy spawns and trade route networks.
The hardest hitting part is the new enemy raid system which I have no active defenses against currently, the heart of my industrial production is being constantly attacked because the older version of the game favoured large static defenses instead of mobile reactive ones. I’ve lost so many mining vessels it will take me a long time to recover the losses, and I’m still losing more because I’m having to learn on the fly how to counter the ways the new systems are exploiting gaps in my setups.

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