jpinard
4935
Ohhhhhh. I guess I will start messing with them too!
Yeah, you’ll need:
- Amplified Warp Shielding (red systems)
- Chromatic Warp Shielding (green systems)
- Temporal Warp Computer (blue systems)
Even with these installed, freighters can sometimes be finicky when you’re trying to summon them.
All this upgrading freighters is fairly new, right? Because I don’t remember any of it from the last time I was into the game.
They totally snuck that stuff in. (Recently.)
I’m working my way through the Living Ship quest, and didn’t anticipate that it would require some diving. So I set up a little outpost on an island, looked at the Nautilon and realized that it’s probably time to start the Abyss quest as well. Sure I could just unlock stuff without that mission, or just cheese it on one of the other exocrafts, but it feels super appropriately RP to do the quest now.
Skipper
4939
I very much enjoyed that quest line, at least once I committed to it, similar to you with a base just for it. I picked the worst planet for it. Above the waterline it was super cold with extreme freeze storms every so often.
jpinard
4940
I’m not sure I saw this answered before, but is there any cost to teleporting between space stations?
Skipper
4941
No cost at all. Once you have power to keep a teleporter online, you have the ability to use it. Also, something I found out waaaaay back, you can still port IN to your teleporter if it doesn’t have power. They may have fixed that though, so don’t count on it.
If they have a teleporter, you can also port back to any of your bases or other’s bases you’re online with (“join a friends game”,) and space stations you have visited. You cannot port directly to the anomaly, but you can port out of it. You cannot port in or out of your freighter, sadly.
Special note: If you want to explore a bit, use the teleporter at the Anomaly. The top row is frequently player community planets or special builds that are under display.
jpinard
4942
Cool I’ll do that!
Is there a way to step through planets? Like “next planet out”. Navigating to select and look at stars to find something good is really, really hard with a gamepad.
jpinard
4943
When you’re exchanging your main ship for a better one, do you all deconstruct all the items on the ship first? If you don’t, does that go towards trade-in value or do they automatically get deconstructed when you do the trade?
You can always teleport to a base, whether there’s a working teleporter or not. Even if there’s no teleporter at all.
The ship parts do not add to the ship value, so far as I know. You only get resources back from the parts if you salvage them yourself, but unless you’re very cash poor it’s is not worth the time/effort. Most people don’t bother.
Skipper
4945
Hey I did not know that!! Awesome info.
jpinard
4946
I am still resource poor so I will do that :)
What about all those larval eggs at the abandoned buildings you visited?
jpinard
4948
I couldn’t grab them because the enemies are too much.
BTW, I just need to confirm. You’re getting freighter add-on stuff from just shooting those little ships that carry one element like Copper or Gold? Is it a pretty rare event? I’ve taken out 10 and received just what was on the cargo ship.
Yes to the cargo pods, but I’m only shooting the ones I can see that contain Salvage Freighter Tech. I don’t know if you need an economy or military scanner to see what’s inside? But there’s usually one or two in an NPC fleet.
Nothing special needed to see what’s inside a cargo container. Just have to be close enough and at the right angle.
Also note that salvage freighter tech is essentially currency to be used for the upgrades at the freighter upgrade terminal on your freighter. So if you’re going for those three modules I listed above, I believe you’ll need a total of 24 salvage.
jpinard
4951
Yea! A good ship? I finally just started doing all of the same emergency cartographic data on each planet until it said “none” and I found a few ships including this one (but I don’t know if Class C is bad):
That’s a Tier 3, C Class Hauler you found. And it has 41+6 inventory slots (max for that class/tier/ship type is 48+8). It’s up there in that class, and Haulers are the most valuable C Class ships, money-wise.
Check this out:
Also keep in mind that when you use cartographic maps, there is a maximum number of sites of each type that can be identified but not yet visited at one time. (I think it’s per planet.)
Yeah, it isn’t a great ship, overall, but it’s a Hauler, and those tend to be worth the most, as value is mostly determined by slots, and they have a ton. So it’s a great base to build/trade off of. Fix it up, keep it for a while, make some money (but don’t use it for much combat), and when you see something you really like at a Trading Post or Space Station, trade it away, it’ll be worth a lot.
