S Class Exotics

[Altaira]

has anyone found an S Class exotic or an exotic at all I have looked everywhere and I have not seen one yet, before the Next Update, I found them everywhere, did they lower the chance of finding one?

[CaptainRAVE]

I have sat for around 4-5 hours on a station in a wealthy system and have not seen a single one.

[Lost ODST]

Originally posted by Mosey:

Originally posted by SCP 3507: Sans Undertale:

That's the whole point. You can own 6 ships total, you will never need more than one explorer or fighter so the other 4 slots are for various haulers or exotics. A hauler can hold a lot but damn an exotic may look really cool. If they looked really cool /and/ had top tier inventory there'd be no reason to use any other type of ship, haulers would just be irrelevant. It's like a fancy sports car. You own it to show it off and look cool not be practical.

The problem with that is that multiple starships can cause a number of game glitches, so until HG can get that working consistently (and they haven't in two years, mind you) editing a ship with a save file editor is a legitimate option in my mind.

It's cheaty, especially if you crank the bonuses, but it's dumb that we can't modify looks or add slots to ships that we like the look of. That, to me, is fixing a shortcoming of the game and it's something the community have had to fix ourselves.

ship stats will increase with yours, if you like a style of ship just remember the system you found it in and go back to it later

[CaptainRAVE]

Haven't seen one in about 7-8 hours in a wealthy system now. Bet they have screwed this up in a patch too. Saw a few before the giant nerf.

[Masquerade]

I managed to find one at a Korvax system, I believe the economy was "comfortable".
While you can technically speaking find them in any system, the chance is better in a rich system - affluent, wealthy, comfortable and opulent. I think promising is also a "rich" system.
Aside from that, I don't think anything else matters. Either take your time exploring and keep your fingers crossed or start save-scumming at a trading outpost. My suggestion is, bring a save point and land your ship next to the station, don't take up any of the parking spots.

From there, just save in a position where you have a good view of the spaces while keeping close enough to make a sprint. Reload if you don't see an exotic with the first wave of ships. It's faster than just waiting for the ships to take off but if you're feeling lazy, just watch the ships come in.

Also, some of you seem confused about what an exotic is - an S rank ship is not an exotic. An exotic is a type of ship. The classes of ships are exotic, hauler, shuttle, fighter and explorer. A system can have many S rank ships but will only ever have one exotic.

While this might help some of you find an exotic, don't get your hopes up - it's still procedurally generated so pray to RNGesus and park your butt in front of your monitor with some good eatings. You'll be here for a while.

PS - All exotics have very few slots. If you see somebody saying they have an exotic with 40 slots, they're using a modified save file. Exotics have good bonuses to all stats but always low slots, that's the point of the exotics.

[Keldrath]

I've seen 6 so far with 3 different styles all of them either ugly or too low on space so I passed on all of them.

Don't see much reason to get one either. They look neat but that's about it really. I feel like I get more from my A 38+12 Fighter.

[SickTag]

I got one right out the gate on Permadeath and haven't seen one since. Opulent systems, the trade posts there have a high chance for them. There are also a lot of S class any type of ship there.

[Rashala]

best place to find em stations and tradign posts in Oppulant and higher eco level systems..

They usually ADD a new exotic in the updates so....lets see if we can find it

[Wrothbog]

the first i saw looked like a tooth, most of them were metal tennisballs. i assume the wiki has images of the various available exotics

the tooth looking one wasn't in the wiki.

i swear it had the two tear shaped down thrusters and a fuselage that matched with a round front window. it wasn't an explorer but i didn't think to screenshot it. it was exotic because i checked it out but was way too poor to buy it outright and not in any way ready to trade an A class hauler with 38 slots for an s class exotic with 17

[Rashala]

well there is the Ball one with foldign wings and Squid ship

[Gamerfss86]

Originally posted by SickTag:

I got one right out the gate on Permadeath and haven't seen one since. Opulent systems, the trade posts there have a high chance for them. There are also a lot of S class any type of ship there.

yep best place to sit and watch to see what shows up. i have 3 exotics but they all 3 mostly looks the same

[Gamerfss86]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1463401127
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1463401056
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1459108663

[EMCM Magellan]

Originally posted by MiD-AwE:

I have an exotic S+48+48 "squiddy" I found in an opulent GEK system. I nearly s**t my self trying to get to it before is took off. 175.000.000.000

1) You changed the save game file, or you used a mod. One or the other. That ship doesn't exist otherwise.

[ｓｔａｒｓｋｙ]

i need ship 48

is why i no lose time hunt exotics i have my Hauler 48 slots im happy

[Qiox]

Here's 2 of them at a trade post at the same time!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1467177473