Boarding reward percentage?

[pizza dog]

Is there a statistic which indicates how much more rewards you get in general if you board and kill crew on a ship instead of destroy it?

There's a lot of talk about how boarding gives more rewards, and anecdotes about boaring in AE giving less scrap than boaring in vanilla but I've yet to see a real numerical answer.

[nepenthes]

i think about ~15%

[anarcher]

Sometimes you get special reward for removing crew instead of destroying the ship.

[Biohazard063]

The reward tier is higher when boarding/removing crew.
Checking the data files shows that.
But even within said tier rewards can vary.
You could get 15 scrap for blowing up a ship whilst getting 14 if you boarded for example. But more often then not, you'll get more scrap by killing the crew, not to mention the special rewards mentioned above.
The same goes for excepting surrender "always" giving less scrap. Not talking about possible augments and such, just raw scrap. They've got different reward tags.

[DarkTwinge]

I've been estimating it at about a 15% better reward than destroying the ship.

It's difficult to quantify exact amounts, because it varies a lot and includes a lot of useful rewards that aren't a direct scrap increase. Some fights will give you the same reward whether you kill the crew or the ship, some simply give a direct higher tier reward ('high' scrap versus' medium' scrap).

Most, however, give you a random reward that can be: identical, higher tier, extra fuel, free weapon, or free crew.

At some point I might do some more testing to try and determine something more accurate, but I think "about 15% better" is a reasonable estimate. (Notably, it was also higher before Advanced Edition, where I was estimating it to be about 25%.)

[QC]

what about fire and the bio beam?

[QC]

ok thx i thought i was missing out with my fire bomb with fire drone loadout or what ever you want to call it

[QC]

i thought the hull damage would give me less scrap (L.O.G.I.C.)

[QC]

it will? im confused

[QC]

ok *get hacking max lvl and sells all fire wepeons*

[QC]

hid in teh medbay http://gyazo.com/c24e1006137a2b5e667392f086dbb7b9 (this has nothing to do with this topic)

[KazaaakPlethKilik]

Originally posted by Sol:

i think about ~15%

that sounds right. At one point, boarding got a littel nerfed b/c it was jsut too strong. Still, its a good high-risk high-reward build for a ship. boarding + some way to mimize damage makes a pretty strong ship.

course , you nned actual dmg weapons to winthe game though (w/ the boss "auto-pilot". I distinctly remeber that one boarding game i had, and that popped up on the screen. yeah.)

[QC]

dont kill the laser guy in the flagship

[DarkTwinge]

To be clear - damaging the enemy ship is reelevant. There are only two final results: the enemy ship is destroyed, or the enemy crew is destroyed.

[Skinny Pete]

Originally posted by (SC) |G4P| spaz_marine:

it will? im confused

There isn't a direct relation to hull damage, and you don't get less scrap so long as there is any hull left at all (i.e. you killed the crew instead of destroying the ship). And of course you can't kill unmanned ships (or the flagship) by killing off its crew.

[QC]

ok *sells bombs* thx