What to do with abandoned ships

[Majickthyse]

Hi All,

I am finding abandoned ships and the dialogue box suggests either disassembling them for the tech, or using them in my fleet.

I'm assuming that repairing the ship will bring it into my fleet, but I'm reluctant to do that because if I upgrade it to my latest equivalent I might actually make the ship worse.

How do I disassemble it for the tech?

[SpoiledKiwi]

Just retire it. That is what they mean by "disassembling".

[Gromov]

Captured ships usually do not seem to autorefit unless manually commanded to. I have several and none of them have refitted on automatic single ship or fleet behaviour.

Once your Contructors have repaired the ship and you have it in your inventory you can either keep it, retire it or refit it.

Select ship and right click on target starport to see retire option or there should be retire at button in action icons.

[Gromov]

...oh, and "scuttle" means explode it now. You might want to avoid that one.

[Majickthyse]

Originally posted by Gromov:

...oh, and "scuttle" means explode it now. You might want to avoid that one.

Lol!

Thanks very much for the replies everyone.

[Midas]

What should be mentioned, you can send it near a spaceport, and then scrap it so its getting scrapped at a spaceport, which is way faster than the nerbyest planet!

[Kalisa]

keep in mind when its being retired, it will take up a construction slot at the spaceport its in, and the larger/more advanced the ship, the longer it takes to break down, i suggest at least avoid totally clogging a spaceport.

[starbuck310]

There’s also a chance that when it’s repaired or upgraded that you make a discovery

[RED-Life]

I wish we could use the ship design from the abandoned ships as our default and build more ships like it. The hardpoints of some of the abandoned ships are just so much better than the default ships

[Kalisa]

Originally posted by UgotThat?:

I wish we could use the ship design from the abandoned ships as our default and build more ships like it. The hardpoints of some of the abandoned ships are just so much better than the default ships

this, let us select the design as our new default or something and start using it if thats what we want, as long as we have the tech for that ship hull class.

[MachinegunMagpie]

Is there some crucial piece of info you folks are leaving out?
I found a whole fleet as well as a single ship. yet I cannot interact with any of these abandoned ships other than to attack them with my fleet.

[Dray Prescot]

IF they are damaged, you have to repair each ship with a construction ship, before you can make them operational. This can take a LONG time, to do those repairs. The bigger the ship and the more damage it has, the longer it will take.

Select an available Construction Ship, put your mouse cursor on a damaged ship, and do a right click, this will pull up an order tooltip for the construction ship and you can left click on repair (or build) the other ship.

[Nitro]

I kind of would like the captured then upgraded star bases and mining stations not to lose their original designs. Too much sameness. Maybe just change the colors to match your empires other structures. Might as well scrap it and build your own.