Clear out Gecko main compartment?

[RyuKajiya]

Wonder if there is an easier way to clear out the main room of the gecko. Had a transporter and that room was filled with like 40 or so seats... once I stripped the hull off the only way I found was cut away some floor tiles and pick them up one by one to shoot them down. Took me 2 full shifts to just clear out that one room.

Have not been on a gecko much, so not sure yet about the layout of it. In the smaller ships it was easy to remove the floor. Wonder if there is such a thing on the Gecko too?

[Regicide]

So far I can say: No. Removing the floor like you allready do is the fastest way I've found.

But since they "only" sell for 15k per seat, so even by removing them all in one shift, it's not a big income, I skip them and focus on computer terminals and Airlock consoles. Both are very valuable. Also every kind of small controls, like flush control etc. Don't underrestimate that stuff, it's a nice and easy payout.

[Wallourdes]

Make it easy for yourself, shoot the chair section into the furnace with a boatload of tethers, screw those chairs.

[Regicide]

Originally posted by Wallourdes:

Make it easy for yourself, shoot the chair section into the furnace with a boatload of tethers, screw those chairs.

Last time I did this, game crashed. Everyone hates those seats!

[Hoki]

Originally posted by Waaaghboss Smashface:

Last time I did this, game crashed. Everyone hates those seats!

dont look at the facility you're filling with large units at once. the dynamic destruction that takes things appart in the furnace is only running when visible

[Regicide]

Originally posted by Hoki:

Originally posted by Waaaghboss Smashface:

Last time I did this, game crashed. Everyone hates those seats!

dont look at the facility you're filling with large units at once. the dynamic destruction that takes things appart in the furnace is only running when visible

Ah! Will try this out, thanks :)

[Ranusk]

Cut open the roof above where you open the floor, it gives you a better vantage point to get things out.

[MCpl Green]

I've taken to splitting the hull into two or three chunks with the cutter, and sending them off to the furnace that way.

There's a loss of potential income when you compare barging the seats vs scrapping them, but I think most people would agree that your income per minute is much, much higher in the furnace. I get in, get my WOs done, green the reactor, ECU, fuel, coolant, generators, cells, thrusters and nacelles, blue the outer hull, red the interior. Rinse repeat.

[RyuKajiya]

Still havent figured out what the ECU is. Thought I stripped everything clean, but when I send one of the parts of the inner hull into the furnace I got the workorder failed message.
Also for some strange reason workorder was to salvage a class II reactor, but the gecko only had a class I reactor, or at least it said it was class I when I targeted it and threw it down in the barge.

[Cormac]

Originally posted by RyuKajiya:

Still havent figured out what the ECU is. Thought I stripped everything clean, but when I send one of the parts of the inner hull into the furnace I got the workorder failed message.
Also for some strange reason workorder was to salvage a class II reactor, but the gecko only had a class I reactor, or at least it said it was class I when I targeted it and threw it down in the barge.

it is the main cooling - electronic(?) cooling unit -
(edit) the console you are supposed to pull out the 3 cooling items you can collect yourself)

but for the main topic: if my work orders calles for furnitures, i'll fullfill them, if it is fullfilled, just put the whole block where the base of it should go.

even if you throw 1 seat into the barge every 10 seconds (pulling the off, aim for the barge and shoot), you are only able to earn 105k per minute, doing that 10 minutes on a shift gives somewhat around 1 million, but you waste so much time doing it. sure, you make more money per ship that way, but it is far easier to just call it a day and get another ship 1 day earlier.

[Regicide]

Originally posted by RyuKajiya:

Still havent figured out what the ECU is. Thought I stripped everything clean, but when I send one of the parts of the inner hull into the furnace I got the workorder failed message.
Also for some strange reason workorder was to salvage a class II reactor, but the gecko only had a class I reactor, or at least it said it was class I when I targeted it and threw it down in the barge.

The ECU (Emergency Cooling Unit) is in the room left of the reactor control room. It looks like a big black box. You can shut it down if you find a key to stop coolant flow. But I always skip this and just cut the coolant pipe on the outside of that room. It's easier and the coolant leak does not damage anything important.

For the Reactor: It's tricky, I didn't got this myself the first time. But the reactor on the Gecko is INSIDE of that what looks like the reactor. You can pull it out and then remove the outer plates with your grabble. Then you will se what I mean. And sometimes, there are more than just one reactor inside. If you just throw the whole thing to the barge, it sometimes work and both reactors count towards the work order. But sometimes, it stuck and only one counts.

So the make sure you get both reacotrs when the work order tells you to do so, dismantle the hull and move both reactors seperatly to the barge.

Hope you understand what I mean, my english isn't very good.

[MCpl Green]

So, going back to my seats vs panels argument. I thought on this last night, and finally broke out my spreadsheeting this morning. I have a lot of confirmation left to do before I say the following numbers are definitive in any way, so keep that in mind reading this.

Aluminum panels are worth $12 / kg. Structure's about the same. So if we take a typical panel, and say it's 600kg, that makes it worth $7200 in the furnace.

A single seat, is $15 000.

This does, however, mean you need to weigh that profit against the amount of time it will take to put those seats into the barge, and whether or not it's more profitable over time to scrap them and move on to the next ship faster. That three million dollar class 2 reactor is still a lot juicer than a hundred seats. I'm still going to furnace them for scrap, I'm just a lot more inclined to do the X many furniture workorders I get.

[Maushu]

Open the ECU (the panel that has arrows) and you should see some coolant mist, remove the small coolant containers (pull them out and F to grab them), do this until the mist goes away. There is no need for key.

You can then cut away the pipe at the back. I generally do this, cut away the floor and then tether the ECU down to the barge.

Before this I find the key (using the scanner, object mode I think?) and turn off the console near the reactor. Just in case the coolant is really needed.

[Empiro]

I remember that I removed the roof and positioned myself high above the seats so that I had a view of both the barge and the seats. Then you can just pull each one and only have to move a small amount to aim into the barge. You can pull each one very quickly. I got all of the seats in just a few minutes.

For the main cabin. I also just cut away each of the walls so that I could toss in huge pieces at a time.

[Konsaki]

Cut out the 1x2 sidewall and float outside the ship. Grapple the seats to you, point down and fire the chair into the barge. Rinse and repeat with the computers. Get it all done in 7 minutes.

[Azraile]

Yah i get in, cut almost the whole floor into one big segment and tether it into the furnace with most of the seats intact. Makes getting in there to get stuff way easier. Never thought to get rid of the roof because of the computers on it, but thinking about it you could proably just cut it so you avoid cutting the the middle computers and just yank out the whole middle of the ship