.... so i sold my RCS control system.

[zantanzuken]

now hear me out, i was refabbing my ship (a police cruiser i... 'liberated' from some overzealous police officers...) and because it comes with the hydra i wanted to put it in a cool position... well while i was moving things around the ship while docked to the station, i decided to get some cash by selling stuff.... aaaand accidentally sold the hydra.

none of the shops sell an RCS control system to replace it, and while i can survive off of doing gigs. i cant go anywhere because when i sit in the nav chair the console spazzes out errors like i just tried to murder its son (likely because i'm missing any form of RCS.)

... is this just a restart moment?

[Blue Bottle Games, LLC]

That is an unfortunate conundrum! (And a little funny :)

I think if you were playing the game straight, it'd be a restart moment. There are a few tricks that might work, but they're long shots.

1 - The occasional gig in Gig Nexus involves transporting an RCS Intake to a client. You could get lucky and take that gig, making off with the cargo (and eating the collateral cost).

2 - The fixer has a 20% chance of selling an RCS distro during any restock event. It'd be a long wait, perhaps, but a possibility.

More realistically, there are some semi-cheating options you could use.

3 - If you get on your ship's nav, there's a Debug Quick Travel dropdown you can access by unscrewing the main panel. Clicking the Dock button there will insta-dock you to whichever ship is currently selected in the drop-down. (You'll need to do the "debug" action on your nav to get rid of that software error on its screen, if you want to select the target visually. And fly again.)

4 - You can use the debug console to spawn a new RCS into your inventory. E.g.:
spawn ItmRCSDistro01Loose
(The "spawn" command takes the name of a loot.json or loot_self_reference.json entry as a param.)

In the future, this might be less of a problem. Our next update, 0.12, will also include buying/selling ships, and it's possible that selling your ship and buying a new one at the kiosk would get you out of a pinch.

0.12 is may also include some sort of ferry/shuttle service to get you to and from other stations nearby without a ship. (We're still playtesting this to see if it fits the game.)

Hopefully, one of those tips helps!

[zantanzuken]

i had on me enough to buy a low tier RCS, but not the hydra that the black market sells, and in the same vein, i didnt have enough to even start the quest to get the hydra (though there were several on offer)

a suggestion: as a failsafe to ensure this doesn't happen, there should be a shop that allows you to purchase all of the (low tier, possibly even damaged?) parts to build-your-own ship.

or allow for a repurchase from the general scrap vendor for as much as you sold it for

i did end up restarting, and after running away with some keys, now have a large ship and plenty of money.

[Blue Bottle Games, LLC]

Since we're adding a bunch of new items in the 0.12 milestone, it has us wondering the same thing about maybe having more vendors to sell more ship parts (split by type).

So we'll be tossing that idea (a way to buy bare-bones ship necessities) around a bit!

[Thrice]

Isnt there a buyback option? Ive done this and thought there was a buyback.... Maybe Im wrong tho.

[zantanzuken]

if you sell it to the scrappers, yes, assuming they buy it. if you sell it to the scrap terminal where you buy your license? no, they don't sell anything.