SELL FREE SHIPS ? or Keep ?

[dprijadi]

Ok i got 2 free ships on my hangar bay , the ship that given by my father and the ship given by mantis ..

do you all modify or sell these useless ships ? my Class B ship already outperform these ships even if modded

[tkwoods]

If your not going to use them then sell them.

[Kinzie Kensington]

Upgrade the mantis it`s the best ship ingame and you get some awesome extra lines fighting pirates :D

[HeyYou]

Originally posted by Kinzie Kensington:

Upgrade the mantis it`s the best ship ingame and you get some awesome extra lines fighting pirates :D

That is IF the pirates decide to stay and fight. :D I was always disappointed when I was flying that particular ship, jump into a system, and all the bad guys panic and run away.....

[momopovich]

Originally posted by dprijadi:

Ok i got 2 free ships on my hangar bay , the ship that given by my father and the ship given by mantis ..

do you all modify or sell these useless ships ? my Class B ship already outperform these ships even if modded

I can never bring myself to sell "unique" ships like the mantis one or the star eagle, but that's just completionist OCD.

If you don't want to use them you can just sell them.

[wesnef]

Originally posted by momopovich:

Originally posted by dprijadi:

Ok i got 2 free ships on my hangar bay , the ship that given by my father and the ship given by mantis ..

do you all modify or sell these useless ships ? my Class B ship already outperform these ships even if modded

I can never bring myself to sell "unique" ships like the mantis one or the star eagle, but that's just completionist OCD.

Yeah, I kept the Mantis and the Frontier on my last playthrough, and used the Star Eagle (Rangers questline) for most of the playthrough. Eventually my skills got high enough to build something better and I tried making a couple custom ones. But I still kept the uniques.

[dprijadi]

is mantis really worth it ? i dont want pirates to go away when i want to kill and board them

[dprijadi]

so far i am saving the Frontier (in it's modded form but still have the general shape of original FRONTIER) , Dad's useless ship (from Kid Stuff trait) and MANTIS ship..

i heard the Star Rangers quest will give free ship later but currenly i am using heavily modded Class B captured Pirate Ship with everyting i need for combat and cargo haul so i dunno

hopefully ship ownership is not limited by number

[RadCon One]

The one your father gives you comes way too late to be any good sadly (and ship parts can ONLY be sold, not stored, so you can't even keep the spare parts), so there is no reason at all to keep it unless you are RPing and don't want to just sell what your dad gifted you.

[mister_lobos]

well, currently if you are not using mods there is little reason to keep ships.... besides "role playing" which if it helps you enjoy the game is certainly a good reason.

that being said, i do for some reason keep the frontier and mantis.
you (unless you use mods) can have 10 ships, and ONLY 10... if you get another ship when you already have them all, it makes you DELETE one, not even sell it, just remove one.

i really wanted, and still do, a GOOD reason to keep others, and maybe have them work for you somehow.. or at least, maybe a reason for a hauling ship and a combat ship.

there are however free mods / creations that let you keep as many as you want, and some that give a reason to keep others, like having a fleet of them following you, and even fighting with you in space, no idea why that's not a regular feature.

[dprijadi]

Originally posted by mister_lobos:

well, currently if you are not using mods there is little reason to keep ships.... besides "role playing" which if it helps you enjoy the game is certainly a good reason.

that being said, i do for some reason keep the frontier and mantis.
you (unless you use mods) can have 10 ships, and ONLY 10... if you get another ship when you already have them all, it makes you DELETE one, not even sell it, just remove one.

i really wanted, and still do, a GOOD reason to keep others, and maybe have them work for you somehow.. or at least, maybe a reason for a hauling ship and a combat ship.

there are however free mods / creations that let you keep as many as you want, and some that give a reason to keep others, like having a fleet of them following you, and even fighting with you in space, no idea why that's not a regular feature.

i dont like mods thats over the top and will break the save game sooner or later like those you mentioned of having fleet of ships following you

tried to be MOD free for 1st playthru

[Ihateeverybody]

There is only one encounter while flying the Mantis that leads to ships Running away. Thats the 3 spacers and the Merchant encounter. The trick is to destroy at least one of the spacers ships before they say "Please Please don't kill me" If you hear that its likely too late (but I am not 100% certain).

If you do kill one before that point the encounter breaks and the remaining 2 will turn blue and stay. Shoot them to make them red again. DO NOT SHOOT THE MERCHANT (or do, I don't really care).

The Merchant will not treat you as the Mantis so the whole ego stroking part of the encounter breaks also.

Any other encounter where they shout (Pirates, Spacers and Bounty Defenders (who are spacers)) about the Mantis don't run away (in my experience).

Val Ruhn and Ecliptic don't care (don't have the voice lines). UC and FC don't care either.