X4 Timelines 7.00 Should you upgrade from 6.0?

one major note is that I've heard stories about how Xenon and Khak would pretty much decimate most regeons of the galaxy leaving entire spans of red sectors in their wake prior to 7.0. What I've found in 7.0 though is you can pick a spot in the galaxy, set up shop, and live there for days to even weeks without being bothered. When you're all set up and ready to explore you'll find that the majority of sectors haven't been taken by the hostiles. They'll still have snagged a system or two but ultimately the AI is better and more capable of putting things up to a stale mate so that it requires player intervention to break.

I've been playing the X series games on and off since X2: The Threat came out. After all this time with all the updates, expansions, new titles and long developer support which have all been consistent features of the series, Egosoft are still yet to figure out how to do a decent job in character modelling. If you compare the ones from X2 to the ones in X4 it is difficult to say that there has been much improvement on that point at all. They have managed to make the audio lines recorded for Boron characters ever more annoying though!

Only reason you wouldn't in my opinion is lack of mod support or waiting for mods to be updated e.g. interworlds, Other than that 7.00 working great for me. The fact i can type a few letters into the search bar and it brings up all the options without you having to remember everythings exact name is game changing.

Did they nerf Fly by boarding? Ive heard they did.

It would have been much better if you were showing examples of what you're reading, at the very least some of the key changes that you felt made 7.0 worth while. podcast format on YT isn't my cup of tea