Stealing ships, I don't get it.

[Masked]

So I steal a lot of ships and I mean A LOT of ships.

What I don't get is this.

Half the time, no one is around some landed ship and I just take it. No one inside, no alarms nothing. Many times there are people outside the ship, like colonists, etc. I take the ship and none of them panic, no one tries to stop me.

The only time I get into battles for ships is when its some crazy evil faction.

Surely people would leave robots, have some immobiliser or something to stop me from stealing ships. Sure I am not making a lot of money from doing this, but I can't help myself.

I just wish it was A LOT more difficult to steal a ship and A LOT more rewarding financially.

I would imagine a new type of lockpicking thats always MASTER lock, to just unlock the ships control. Robots guarding outside the ship. Then if you are successful you might get chased down the road, maybe the ship has a tracker, maybe you can find a way to search for the secretly placed tracker and disable it.

I also would expect this to happen to me too. To have my ship stolen, and finding ways to get it back sounds so fun to me. If you only own one ship and have it stolen, you could just have a feature to call for a "taxi" ship.

Any other ideas people want to add about ships. I might collate them and make a mod for it all down the road.

[Masked]

Oh another idea would be to totally strip a ship into parts, painting said parts and using it on your other ships or just selling the stolen ships at your own shipyard.

Possibly even being forced to change serial numbers on parts of ships that were registered to someone else.

[Akkarin]

For me it would be selling stolen ships at the pirate base without needing to register them, it seems kinda silly to me.

[Harpyrider]

It would be nice to bank ship parts.

[Alex]

Dunno about the inside of the ship, there should be someone there. But I know ships land patrols that move around the map, so sometimes you'll find a ship with no one next to it.
There was this one time I stole a crappy ship that had nobody in it, then I changed my mind and reloaded, turns out the owner of the ship was walking around, I just didn't see him. So I don't know for sure.
I'll tell you that ship boarding is wonky however, I boarded hostile ships and security guards appeared inside, they were hostile and shot at me, I shot back and my companion got upset I killed them. So who knows, bugs, intended, I sure don't.

[Akkarin]

Also being able to save ship designs, its was painful going to ng+ and loosing the kickass ship i built :(

[Harpyrider]

Originally posted by Alex:

Dunno about the inside of the ship, there should be someone there. But I know ships land patrols that move around the map, so sometimes you'll find a ship with no one next to it.
There was this one time I stole a crappy ship that had nobody in it, then I changed my mind and reloaded, turns out the owner of the ship was walking around, I just didn't see him. So I don't know for sure.
I'll tell you that ship boarding is wonky however, I boarded hostile ships and security guards appeared inside, they were hostile and shot at me, I shot back and my companion got upset I killed them. So who knows, bugs, intended, I sure don't.

I currently have a security detail in the last ship (Va'Ruun) I stole.

[David Davidson]

Head canon:
All ships in the future are made by KIA

[Langkard]

If you are, have been, or will be playing the game without companions or crew, then it really isn't any different than when you would leave your ship. Luckily, NPCs can't do it to us. I probably shouldn't give Bethesda ideas like that, though. Whoops! Too late.

[Oubley]

Originally posted by Masked:

Oh another idea would be to totally strip a ship into parts, painting said parts and using it on your other ships or just selling the stolen ships at your own shipyard.

so I'm not missing something then? I was like, where is this stuff that you just mentioned lol.
seems like it should be in base game for how long it's been and this isn't the first rodeo for the company.

Originally posted by Akkarin:

Also being able to save ship designs, its was painful going to ng+ and loosing the kickass ship i built :(

Like where the hanger where we are working on our falcon, and it's half build, but just being able to save a design seems basic. The interface for what is needed/missing seems clunky

there probably should be a taxi service, because the entire steal ship/home ship thing was clunky for me, much rather have to catch a taxi where I left my other ship after I stole one. Even have some risk that it could be stolen but using a transponder could track it down and could have a bunch of side events based off of that. wait xxx days, have it at risk for being stripped for parts, like what comes around goes around, karma sucks.

[alanc9]

Interesting. I haven't actually bern able to board a civilian ship like that. All the ones I find on the ground are either simply flagged inaccessible, or require a key to open (which I guess means there's someone to take the key from.)

[Sprocket66]

Interstellar chop shop.

[Masked]

Originally posted by alanc9:

Interesting. I haven't actually bern able to board a civilian ship like that. All the ones I find on the ground are either simply flagged inaccessible, or require a key to open (which I guess means there's someone to take the key from.)

Yeh the one I got was near a supply train. I am guessing it was their ship as a lot of people around. A lot of the ships I can just unlock the door using digipick. I don't have any mods that change gameplay, so maybe you are just getting unlucky.

[Masked]

Saving and sharing ship designs online would be awesome!

[ToJKa]

Pro-tip regarding registering: you can do that anywhere from the ship menu, and it's a bit cheaper than with a ship service technician.

[japp_02]

"No one inside"

I wasn't ever that lucky yet. Your timing must have been very good, I once boarded a ship when the supposed occupants were busy fighting outside - and still: there were 3 NPCs onboard.

But I need to add: Contrary to the PC port, the XBox version comes without notable bugs.