what have you found to be the easiest way to get a new ship?
I got lucky and some colonizers were asking for help so I helped them out, then just out of curiosity I lock picked to get into their ship and was able fly off without consequence.
I tried doing the same thing with other landed ships but then it just says I’m not authorized
Jump around to different planets and get encounters with Crimson Fleet ships. Take out their engines, board, and steal their ships. Just be aware that once you pay the registration fee on the ship, you’ll only net maybe 2k credits upon selling it. If you’re interested in stealing ships for credits, there are many more lucrative options (though you definitely could score a decent amount of contraband with the aforementioned strategy).
This, but you can only reliably take out the engines if you put a skill point in targeting. Then there is a trick to sell them for a bit more. First find all contraband on the ship or you’ll get caught when you enter most systems. Then sit in the chair to take ownership. Press Tab or whatever controller equivalent for the menu is, and pick Ship in the lower left corner. There should then be a key to press to register the ship and for some reason it’s cheaper there than at dealers. Then the ship can be sold.
Oh also you can’t fly some ships without upgrading your pilot level to B or C. I boarded a really nice pirate ship and couldn’t fly it, had to leave it. :(
Without flat-out telling me “Go to X place and do Y”, what are the better options? Am I just getting bad ship spawns or is it something to do with selling unregistered ships to a location I may have not yet found? Or is it just me needing to go full space pirate and embrace bad decisions?
You can accept missions from the mission terminals to take out pirate ships.
Bet, I’ve largely avoided the terminals cause I’m usually doing faction quests. I’ll keep this in mind.
Put a point into the targeting skill. Use your lock onto shoot out an enemy ship’s engines during space combat. Approach within 500m and dock with their ship, shoot everyone on board, then sit in the pilot chair and quick travel with it.
Once you get to a system with ship services, you’ll have to pay to register the ship before you can sell it. However, registration price is lower than sales price so you’ll make a profit.
There is a trick on that, if you go to the Ship screen from the menu there will be an option at the bottom to register and it’s much cheaper there for some reason.
Ok I unlocked that last night but couldn’t figure out how to actually target the engines, I just kept moving side to side from system to system but didn’t know if I need to use missiles or what to actually hit just that system
I walked into a va’ruun ship by cydonia and killed everyone in it and just flew off with it. Was pretty easy.
I’ve had the most opportunities to get new ships from spacers/pirates/etc. when they land.
