Skirmish mode or 100% peaceful play through you decide

With the two essential mods you are able to create your own combat playground without pirates or khaak.
You begin the game with nothing but an S class ship of your chosen faction and its up to you to claw your way up in the universe and be its saviour or its ultimate destruction
You could if you wanted only have two factions on the map fighting it out or everyone vs ZYA ( for example)
There`s always plenty of resources and this will be purely a combat skirmish as there are no stories to follow and no HQ but you get all the research at the start.

Split & Terran DLC Required

Random Galaxy tool[forum.egosoft.com]
Direct link to website although the top link will give you extra information about how to use the galaxy creator tool, it is very straight forward to use https://x4-random-galaxy-tool.herokuapp.com/
Very straight forward and very cool.
read the instructions and create your own universe.
My advice with this is give the factions 5+ sectors minimum and check the box to link them to give them the best chance at survival but play about with it and see what works for you.

You start with all research and in a S class ship of the faction you chose.

I didnt create this mod so all credit to General Vash

DeadAir Dynamic Wars

This is essential so that you can manipulate the universe without it there will not be enough conflict and skirmish mode wont work.

All credit to DeadAir

Sector Explorer

This will be very useful but not essential.

All credit goes to Assailer

Have a 100% combat free experience and have an economy only play through by simply not adding Xenon and not being aggressive to other factions.
You can sit back and watch everyone else fight while you make profits, by using the Dynamic wars mod to pay to influence other factions.
Ive never considered a non combat play through but as it was asked on the forums if it was possible i thought id add this section.

You can use any other mods that will not conflict with the two essential mods i listed, i personally have 50+ running without issue and ive sunk 500+ hours in to my skirmish games without crash or any problems.

This is my first guide and ive made it for those people who like me have done it all and just want to keep playing but with some variety.
Any issue`s please let me know and ill do my best to help.