Everything costs a crazy ammount

[Lord Bungo]

I am not sure if this is a bug or something. I have been playing on a friends copy just to see if I like the game before buying it, but I have run into an issue. Everything costs alot. The most basic ships that are barely better than the starter ship cost about 2,500,000; with most ships costing around 10,000,000 - 15,000,000. Even the very first gun that you find in the story line costsseveral million. Basically I am having trouble just progressing right now, and would like to know if anyone else has encountered this.

p.s. My friend can look at the same ships that cost me around 2,500,000 and it only costs him around 400,000.

[Stormfox]

Ships have always been in that price range, more or less. It opened up a bit towards the top end (they break the 100 million mark nowadays, while before they went to about 50).

Good Multitools cost about a million, which might be more than before but is not a problem because:

It is very, very easy to get a few million together nowadays. Finding a bunch of Gravi Balls or Korvax Cubes or Albumen Pearls, plundering one of the big chests, getting better rewards from missions, strong scanner reward bonuses, guild gifts...

Really, after the tutorial and a bit of exploring, you are likely to have a few million.

[vandal_vanir]

Ship cost is based on Class and slot size. Cost also factors in the trade-in value of your current ship. 2.5mil is not that much in this game, I had that within 2 systems of exploring. With the starter ship you can make about 4 mil to buy a class C ship with 25 slots, and be fine for most of the game, until you save up for the 15-20million ship.

[Cipher]

So stack on 3 scanner upgrades and make quater of a mill per scan :) I made 11 million lastnight in 20 min of scanning with some realy good scanner upgrades. Money becomes easy after that.

[Frostbringer]

Originally posted by Ｓ巳Ｖ:

I am not sure if this is a bug or something. I have been playing on a friends copy just to see if I like the game before buying it, but I have run into an issue. Everything costs alot. The most basic ships that are barely better than the starter ship cost about 2,500,000; with most ships costing around 10,000,000 - 15,000,000. Even the very first gun that you find in the story line costsseveral million. Basically I am having trouble just progressing right now, and would like to know if anyone else has encountered this.

p.s. My friend can look at the same ships that cost me around 2,500,000 and it only costs him around 400,000.

Unless its different for other players, the first gun upgrade is from an NPC as you progress thru the quest-line.

I didn't have to pay for it, I exchanged my original 5 slot for a 16 slot with maybe half its slots broken, but easy to fix, plus a few tech upgrades.

I am curious about how ship prices could look different between two players; is racial Rep a factor for pricing?

[Scyris]

Originally posted by Grampy_Bone:

Ship cost is based on Class and slot size. Cost also factors in the trade-in value of your current ship. 2.5mil is not that much in this game, I had that within 2 systems of exploring. With the starter ship you can make about 4 mil to buy a class C ship with 25 slots, and be fine for most of the game, until you save up for the 15-20million ship.

I got ~2 mil in goods before I even finished repairing my ship. Raided a egg nest at a abandoned building. had 20 larval cores or so, and they sell for I think 95k base price a piece. Think I had 22 of them, came to over 2 mil units when I sold it on the space station after repairing my ship.

[Demerzel]

Originally posted by Ｓ巳Ｖ:

I am not sure if this is a bug or something. I have been playing on a friends copy just to see if I like the game before buying it, but I have run into an issue. Everything costs alot. The most basic ships that are barely better than the starter ship cost about 2,500,000; with most ships costing around 10,000,000 - 15,000,000. Even the very first gun that you find in the story line costsseveral million. Basically I am having trouble just progressing right now, and would like to know if anyone else has encountered this.

p.s. My friend can look at the same ships that cost me around 2,500,000 and it only costs him around 400,000.

Just flow with the game.
Soon you will discover many exploit in order to get huge amount of units. I don't recommend to you to ruin your experience by looking up various exploits.

[Scyris]

Originally posted by Geek:

So stack on 3 scanner upgrades and make quater of a mill per scan :) I made 11 million lastnight in 20 min of scanning with some realy good scanner upgrades. Money becomes easy after that.

Yeah, I can see that getting nerfed as thats way to easy. I almost feel its cheating so I refuse to use them.

[Vidicus]

Originally posted by Scyris:

Originally posted by Geek:

So stack on 3 scanner upgrades and make quater of a mill per scan :) I made 11 million lastnight in 20 min of scanning with some realy good scanner upgrades. Money becomes easy after that.

Yeah, I can see that getting nerfed as thats way to easy. I almost feel its cheating so I refuse to use them.

Consider some things cost in excess of 300 million. So good luck scanning your way to getting that. You can also make farms, do expeditions, work for the guilds.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

A fully updated C class ship should have no troubles playing the game.

The better models are just there to have something to spend credits.

[Duke Flapjack]

Originally posted by Frostbringer:

Originally posted by Ｓ巳Ｖ:

I am not sure if this is a bug or something. I have been playing on a friends copy just to see if I like the game before buying it, but I have run into an issue. Everything costs alot. The most basic ships that are barely better than the starter ship cost about 2,500,000; with most ships costing around 10,000,000 - 15,000,000. Even the very first gun that you find in the story line costsseveral million. Basically I am having trouble just progressing right now, and would like to know if anyone else has encountered this.

p.s. My friend can look at the same ships that cost me around 2,500,000 and it only costs him around 400,000.

Unless its different for other players, the first gun upgrade is from an NPC as you progress thru the quest-line.

I didn't have to pay for it, I exchanged my original 5 slot for a 16 slot with maybe half its slots broken, but easy to fix, plus a few tech upgrades.

I am curious about how ship prices could look different between two players; is racial Rep a factor for pricing?

There seems to be some variables between one game and the next. Personally, I can only net about 300k for my starter ship. In my game, C-classes (apart from haulers) are rarely above 2 million.

I suspect the game inflates and deflates values depending on the economy of the system you are in. You can get more $ selling stuff in a rich system than in a poor.

[maeve_shadowfae]

Are you playing in Survival vs Normal mode? Survival is a lot harder and things cost more.

[AzureTheGamerKobold]

Originally posted by Ｓ巳Ｖ:

I am not sure if this is a bug or something. I have been playing on a friends copy just to see if I like the game before buying it, but I have run into an issue. Everything costs alot. The most basic ships that are barely better than the starter ship cost about 2,500,000; with most ships costing around 10,000,000 - 15,000,000. Even the very first gun that you find in the story line costsseveral million. Basically I am having trouble just progressing right now, and would like to know if anyone else has encountered this.

p.s. My friend can look at the same ships that cost me around 2,500,000 and it only costs him around 400,000.

5 whispering eggs give 475,000 or something like that and you can get around 30 eggs around one building so about 2-3 million a building. I had a new ship before i left the first system and i've never played this game before >>

Edit: to be clear i had a ship worth 8 mill before i left the first area, it was class C but a haulder with 25 slots it wasn't to bad but saving up for a decent hauler, i also have a rank A fighter--- cause haulers dont work in multi-player....

[SniperWolfMGS]

Unless you and your friend was exchangingnthe exact same ship for the exact same ship from the exact same NPC, there is going to be a difference in pricing.

Ships vary in type, class, slots, and modifications and all of those factor into the price. You really have to pay attention to the details. I saved up the 20mill for a 38 hauler only to find that the price had changed to 112 million when I found it again. Same NPC ...BUT now he was flying around in a class A hauler that looked exactly the same and had 48 slots.

[AzureTheGamerKobold]

Originally posted by SniperWolfMGS:

Unless you and your friend was exchangingnthe exact same ship for the exact same ship from the exact same NPC, there is going to be a difference in pricing.

Ships vary in type, class, slots, and modifications and all of those factor into the price. You really have to pay attention to the details. I saved up the 20mill for a 38 hauler only to find that the price had changed to 112 million when I found it again. Same NPC ...BUT now he was flying around in a class A hauler that looked exactly the same and had 48 slots.

They ships are totally randomly generated so yea example

I found a 25 slot hauler on the first world worth i think was 6.5 mill but moments later another one landed was like 36 mill it's really dependant on the number of slots it has. The more slots the price seems to sky rocket. A great example is... the fighter i have right now has around 20 slots i think, and i barely paid 2 mill out of pocket for it. But was a fighter that had LOWER stats that had 36 slots and it's price waslike 46 million or some bull lol, so yea the ships are totally random but if you wait around a trade post long enough you can get decent ones. Heck my co-op buddy has an S class exotic and he didn't even pay 10 mill for it.

[Xilo The Odd]

some freighters cost 111 million at the top end of things. these are typically max slot S class freighters. and getting one is essentially end game buying stuff.

fear not though, some commodities you can create with some effort sell for up to 18 million.