Do you build your Armillary on your ship or build it in an Outpost? (spoilers?)

[Check Six]

In "High Price To Pay" mission you are asked to rebuild the Armillary either on your ship or in an Outpost. What is the best choice? Apparently, you will be attacked often where it is. I have read a post saying what a PITA it is to get constantly attacked on your ship, but I don't have an Outpost. I suppose I could build one, and then build the Armillary there. Will the game wait until I build an outpost (need to collect materials and buy supplies etc)? Will I be forced to return there often to respond to SOS calls from a crew? Do I need to recruit crew and defend with turrets etc in the Outpost? That seems to be too much hard work. What are your experiences and recommendations please?

[Gipsy Dragon]

I just got to that same part earlier today. I spent the rest of the day going to at least 2 dozen more planets. I think I might have been attacked twice, and not even by starborn. If it raises your liklihood of getting jumped, I'm certainly not seeing it.

[♥ Beepy ♥]

I initially built it at my outpost and deleted it deciding to keep it on my ship. Though I never physically built / placed it in said ship, it completed the quest anyways. I might see more Starborn ships landing near me when on foot but haven't noticed any major change as even "Elite" Lv90's get shredded.

[dot]

Nowhere. I just carry them.
Not much of starborn bothering me. They some times pop up in space, you start seeing the screen flashing I guess from the grav jumps, but only once they chased after me and it was the first time when I went to the flashes to see wth was that.

[Mismagius]

i chose to have it in my ship. the ship i had was quite strong so i didn't have much of a problem. but if you do decide to build it at the outpost, be prepared for the first and only time for the outpost to be attacked. yes you heard me right, this is the ONLY time outposts get raided. also keep in mind that you can't really build it inside buildings for some reason and the game wants you to build it outside

[DANEDANGER]

I build it in the ship, mainly because i did not want to go back to that outpost to save their sorry @ss*s.

[Akkarin]

I kept mine on me so starborn turn up more. Was gonna steal one of their ships but now ive seen how ♥♥♥♥ they are im not gonna bother with that.

[Dahak]

Originally posted by Akkarin:

I kept mine on me so starborn turn up more. Was gonna steal one of their ships but now ive seen how ♥♥♥♥ they are im not gonna bother with that.

You can't steal them anyway, at least before NG+

[Akkarin]

Originally posted by Dahak:

Originally posted by Akkarin:

I kept mine on me so starborn turn up more. Was gonna steal one of their ships but now ive seen how ♥♥♥♥ they are im not gonna bother with that.

You can't steal them anyway, at least before NG+

You actually can if you get to one quick enough.

[Sifer2]

Originally posted by Mismagius:

i chose to have it in my ship. the ship i had was quite strong so i didn't have much of a problem. but if you do decide to build it at the outpost, be prepared for the first and only time for the outpost to be attacked. yes you heard me right, this is the ONLY time outposts get raided. also keep in mind that you can't really build it inside buildings for some reason and the game wants you to build it outside

That's lame it can't be built inside. I guess it might interfere with Starborn pathing to attack it or something. I'm also wondering whether that's a bug if it really only gets attacked once. I know some articles online about it talk about it being raided no matter where you are so you have to invest in defenses or assign NPC's to guard it.

Also you don't have to actually build it at all after the quest is done but keeping it in inventory is supposed to make Starborn spawn to attack you anywhere more often.

[fauxpas]

Even an upgraded Frontier can handle the occasional attack on normal so I just keep it on my ship.

[Check Six]

Thanks for the input. I guess the posts I'd heard about were mainly just guys worried their new toy was going to get taken. I'll keep it onboard the Mantis ship and let them try to take it. From what was said above, they will only come for it once. I was a bit worried that it would not be ship-to-ship space combat, but that they would board by teleporting onboard and often.

[Jaggid Edje]

I keep it on my ship, just to make it more convenient for adding new artifacts. In my current playthrough, I've been "attacked" by Starborn starships 4 times, just this morning, as I jump into a system. I haven't bothered to even fight them though, seeing as I was just passing through. I just grav jumped out.

Those attacks stop once you complete just a few more missions of the main story as well. They offer a temporary cease fire while you collect the rest of the artifacts.

[LiquidDisease]

Keep it on your ship as it won't get raided or damaged by Starborn landing next to you.

[Vanguard]

Originally posted by Mismagius:

i chose to have it in my ship. the ship i had was quite strong so i didn't have much of a problem. but if you do decide to build it at the outpost, be prepared for the first and only time for the outpost to be attacked. yes you heard me right, this is the ONLY time outposts get raided. also keep in mind that you can't really build it inside buildings for some reason and the game wants you to build it outside

Just as a point of order, your outpost can get attacked without this. CAN CONFIRM firsthand :)

I came here looking to see results of building it at an outpost but doesn't look like many people do it. Guess I'll just have to see for myself. I've already defended the outpost before, wasn't difficult. I've got about 60 hours into building it, so I'm gonna be top level pissed if they level the place lol

[coffeenebula]

Originally posted by Akkarin:

Originally posted by Dahak:

You can't steal them anyway, at least before NG+

You actually can if you get to one quick enough.

But you can't sell it, so keep that in mind!