Can you not simply "buy" ships anymore?

[Oahkery]

I've seen a couple ships recently in space stations that I wanted to buy to add to my fleet, but I don't want to exchange ships because I was in my ship that I have tricked out with a ton of S class hyperdrive updates, but the only option it gives is to exchange, not to just buy it. I've done that before, where I bought the ship without giving up my own one, so why can't I do it now? Did they take that option out? Or is there a limit on the number of ships you can have? I have 5, which would seem like a random number to be the limit since your freighter has 9 slots to park ships. This is really frustrating that the only time I can get a new ship is when I specifcally fly around in one I want to trade, which I never do since, obviously, I don't want that ship if I want to trade it.

[[-iD-]]

if you don't have the option to add to fleet then you are at your ship limit.

[LoboFH]

The limit is 6 ships.

You can spawn any of your ships, hop in and it will be the active ship, this will be ship used in the trade. You can't do it in space stations though, only in planet outposts.

[Oahkery]

LoboFH님이 먼저 게시:

The limit is 6 ships.

Ug, super dumb that there's nothing at all to indicate this is the case either before or after you reach the limit, or on the trade screens. For all the improvements, so much of this game is still terrible, especially UI/quality of life stuff.

[Cipher]

Oahkery님이 먼저 게시:

LoboFH님이 먼저 게시:

The limit is 6 ships.

Ug, super dumb that there's nothing at all to indicate this is the case either before or after you reach the limit, or on the trade screens. For all the improvements, so much of this game is still terrible, especially UI/quality of life stuff.

When you summon your ship it tells you how many you have cause you can choose the ship lol.

[MeltedButterz]

Not to long ago you could only have one ship...

[LoboFH]

Oahkery님이 먼저 게시:

LoboFH님이 먼저 게시:

The limit is 6 ships.

Ug, super dumb that there's nothing at all to indicate this is the case either before or after you reach the limit, or on the trade screens. For all the improvements, so much of this game is still terrible, especially UI/quality of life stuff.

You can know how many ships you have simply clicking some keys to open your other ships summon tab.

It's not such a terrible problem. You just need to understand the mechanics of the game, it's all there.

EDIT, you don't need to hop in the ship, as soon as you summon it, it will become your active ship. This was changed in one of the last patches.

[Oahkery]

Geek님이 먼저 게시:

When you summon your ship it tells you how many you have cause you can choose the ship lol.

LoboFH님이 먼저 게시:

You can know how many ships you have simply clicking some keys to open your other ships summon tab.

It's not such a terrible problem. You just need to understand the mechanics of the game, it's all there.

EDIT, you don't need to hop in the ship, as soon as you summon it, it will become your active ship. This was changed in one of the last patches.

How does any of this help the problem I was having? Firstly, you can't summon a ship on the space station, so that does nothing for my original issue. Second, I've summoned a ship like 3 times when I've been playing because I never have a reason to. Why would I? And finally, how is it good design to bury a fairly important piece of information several menus deep in an unrelated area? It's just one more in a series of terrible UI decisions.

Information in this game is not surfaced in any sort of logical or useful way. Want to check what system you left your freighter in so you can teleport to it after you've been warping around trading and exploring? Well, get back in your ship, fly out of the station, open the map, find your freighter, land back in the station, and then you can use the teleporter. What to see how much inventory space you have left when buying something from a trade terminal? OK, exit out of the terminal, open your inventory, manually count all of the slots, close your inventory, and go back in the terminal. Want to see if you have some particular material in the inventory of one of your other ships? Sure, just fly back to your freighter, get out of your ship, and, one by one, get into your other ships and open your inventory to check those out.

I could go on and on. The UI is complete garbage in terms of functionality. It looks cool, but it is trash, and nothing you can say will ever convince me otherwise.

[LoboFH]

Oahkery님이 먼저 게시:

How does any of this help the problem I was having? Firstly, you can't summon a ship on the space station, so that does nothing for my original issue. Second, I've summoned a ship like 3 times when I've been playing because I never have a reason to. Why would I? And finally, how is it good design to bury a fairly important piece of information several menus deep in an unrelated area? It's just one more in a series of terrible UI decisions.

Information in this game is not surfaced in any sort of logical or useful way. Want to check what system you left your freighter in so you can teleport to it after you've been warping around trading and exploring? Well, get back in your ship, fly out of the station, open the map, find your freighter, land back in the station, and then you can use the teleporter. What to see how much inventory space you have left when buying something from a trade terminal? OK, exit out of the terminal, open your inventory, manually count all of the slots, close your inventory, and go back in the terminal. Want to see if you have some particular material in the inventory of one of your other ships? Sure, just fly back to your freighter, get out of your ship, and, one by one, get into your other ships and open your inventory to check those out.

I could go on and on. The UI is complete garbage in terms of functionality. It looks cool, but it is trash, and nothing you can say will ever convince me otherwise.

You got all the info that you need to solve your problem, if you want to make the big drama against the UI then so be it, but you are simply exaggerating the issue.

When you want to trade ships with some flexibility you go to planet outposts, period. This way you can summon exactly the ship you don't want.

If an interesting ship lands in an space station you know the pool of the ships in the system, so you go to a trade outpost and sooner or later you will get the same kind of ship. There is an important thing called planning, you know the type of ships in every system: explorers for korvax, haulers for geks and fighters for Vyken.

You can know how many ships you have with your tools in the fast tab, stop complaining about a non issue.

My God, if you play other space games like Elite Dangerous you would cry, everything is way harder.

[Oahkery]

LoboFH님이 먼저 게시:

You got all the info that you need to solve your problem, if you want to make the big drama against the UI then so be it, but you are simply exaggerating the issue.

If you will point out a single thing I exaggerated, I will happily change my opinion. Until then, I will not act like this game is perfect (or has anywhere near a good UI system) just because overall I like it.

[FredEffinChopin]

I have not reached my limit but I'm having this problem. I own two ships total. Does anyone have any advice?

I first noticed it when I was trying to repair an abandoned ship. I was able to claim the ship and move back and forth between that ship and my current one as my main, and I was going back and forth that way to repair the abandoned ship. Then, at the point where I returned with the last of necessary materials, it wouldn't let me switch between mains anymore, and required that I abandon my current ship to claim the abandoned one anymore. Now when I see traders that I can make offers to for a ship, it only offers me the option to exchange. I believe I own two ships total.

I saw other threads that suggested that this is a bug that can be worked around by emptying my current ship of items before trying to add to my fleet, but that solution isn't working for me.

[Shalmaneser]

I have three ships and can't buy any more. Trade only. And yes, I emptied the old ship out. There was some sort of "shield energy" item that wouldn't delete or move to the new ship. Wonder if that's a problem.

[Jalore]

There are only three ships inside the hanger of your freighter? Or only 3 ships you can summon?

[tkwoods]

Shalmaneser님이 먼저 게시:

I have three ships and can't buy any more. Trade only. And yes, I emptied the old ship out. There was some sort of "shield energy" item that wouldn't delete or move to the new ship. Wonder if that's a problem.

You don't need to start a new thread and then necro on old one on the same topic.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Cipher님이 먼저 게시:

Oahkery님이 먼저 게시:

Ug, super dumb that there's nothing at all to indicate this is the case either before or after you reach the limit, or on the trade screens. For all the improvements, so much of this game is still terrible, especially UI/quality of life stuff.

When you summon your ship it tells you how many you have cause you can choose the ship lol.

Yet somehow you found out...maybe not being able to buy a ship is the message.

[Kobs]

If we had 2 or 3 freighters it would solve a lot of problems, more ships (18) more storage (a lot more) and possibility to make tons more money.

Even if we wouldn't be able to have all 3 on the same system (only 6 ships at a time) you could warp out to your next freighter and pick one of those, bring it back and play with them like that It wouldn't screw up the game too much