is the ships progression meant to continue between missions?

[SarahPalin]

so playing a few missions with friends and anything we built or put on our ship would be gone when we started the next mission? so had a fight found some alloys and stuff put some different cannons on and then jumped out the mission and started the next mission and none of our upgrades were present is this as intended?

[Skid]

As you level you unlock new ship loadouts, your existing ship is lost when you finish the mission.

[Valdyr]

This is why mission chains are good to take. Each mission that you complete unlocks the next in the chain plus a bonus mission you can run that is low intensity with a decent amount of loot. Running the side missions gives you a chance to recover a bit and upgrade before the next fight. My crew and I tend to avoid the single round missions when possible because of this. I wish we could start with more materials though, some of those opening missions are brutal when your ship isn't fitted at all (looking at you cleanse).

[Eczeman]

It would be great if you kept the same ship and everything in it from the last mission like Barotrauma and going back to the station is just for a rest and to choose the next mission/ change cosmetics.

[MedicinalPsycho]

Originally posted by Eczeman:

It would be great if you kept the same ship and everything in it from the last mission like Barotrauma and going back to the station is just for a rest and to choose the next mission/ change cosmetics.

then everyone would have fullly loaded ships with tier 3 moduals and no reason to change anything, no planning, no working with what you have, just shredding everything

[MedicinalPsycho]

a minor story mode or infamy mode,
you have a clean ship, prebuild it as you want and you fight through 3 missions at a time before you go back to base to restock, then fight 3 more each set of 3 missions gets harder and harder
base repairs 20-30% of your ship and you can deposit resorces incase you die in the next one

the farther you get the more xp you get,
might need some tinkering but would be fun to get a stronger and stronger ship
but just make it permanent