A handy tip for getting ships AND paid.

[Maxwell Sinclair]

Ok so I found this one out completely by chance and I couldn't help but laugh at it. I recieved a mission to retrieve an abandoned pegasus sentinel and return it to its owner. I did not own the pegasus sentinel blueprints yet so I decided to jump in my mammoth, load the pegasus onto that and jump it back to my HQ. I docked the pegasus and added it to the reverse engineering que. I then recieved a mission fail and this message.

"I have recieved word that my ship has been destroyed, how unfortunate. I can only pay you (I forgot the exact number, it was a small chunk of the pay for returning the ship) for the attempt.

Basically I got a free blueprint AND some credits for pretty much minimal effort. I would imagine you could do the same with the recycling que, enabling you to get free parts at your HQ and get paid some credits for it.

[mmmcheesywaffles]

It will have hurt your reputation. So you need to be careful. I suggest before doing this again save your gaem and record you reputation level for all races ... do your dastardly deed ;) then look again at your reputation.

[Maxwell Sinclair]

No it didn't hurt my rep at all. I did however hurt my rep when I sold one of the ships instead of returning it. The difference was. When I RE'd It.

"I have recieved word that my ship has been destroyed, unfortunate. I can only pay you (this) many credits for the attempt."

When I sold the ship the message I received was "You have destroyed my ship, the authorities have been informed." Followed by the AI female notifying me with a "You have lost recognition."

[CTHOMP]

This is also something you can do early game to get some cash... get a mission to find an abandoned ship, then return it to a shipyard and sell it for profittssss. You take a little rep hit but can make some good money.

[Maxwell Sinclair]

Yea selling the ship WILL hurt your rep. But it does give you some decent money. You can also keep the ship too. If you choose to keep it the police will show up and try to destroy it, and they'll ask you all about its tags and stuff. It is quite humorous to watch. I prefer to sell it, allowing me to avoid the police all together.

I just found it really hilarious that I didn't loose rep for reverse engineering his ship AND he gave me a small chunk of credits. Sort of an "Eh I appreciate you trying, I will miss my ship but here is money for trying.) But I was not going to return either of the ships... Because one was a demeter and the other, the pegasus I needed the blueprint for. While returning the pegasus from grand exchange to Zyraths domain would have been as simple as loading it into my mammoth and jumping the mammoth into zyraths domain I did want the blueprint... As for the Demeter, no way in hell was I gonna even attempt to get it into zyraths domain, oddly both of them were abandoned in grand exchange, but with a Xenon sector in between that I had just run in a kestrel... I was not gonna be sending a half health slow demeter through there... I REALLY need an M7C or an M1 that can dock ts/tp ships. I read somewhere the boron guppy can, but have not confirmed this.

[mmmcheesywaffles]

As soon as you can - buy a ship [or cap one] that will let you carry a jumpdrive and a few credits worth of Energy and a transporter. Claim your wreck then transfer the jumpdrive and energy over to it and tell it to jump to a safe sector.

If you ran the gauntlet of the Xenon you can run back. Or you can leave the smaller craft with instructions to find its own way home. That can open up new sectors you might not have visited. Providing you don't mind teh risk of losing that little ship

[Maxwell Sinclair]

I didn't feel like losing it to the xenon, because it would count as enemy activity and I would not earn quite as much money as selling it. The rep is easy to fix, because it was with a boron living on a split ore mine. I actually downloaded the rebalance script, and am thinking about taking a look at it.