Which is better to replace the starter ship? Salvage or purchasing?

[Asher]

I'm slowly but surely beginning to amass money. I've hit half a million and I'm still having trouble getting enough cash to get a decent upgrade to the Starter ship.

However, in my travels I did stumble across four units of nav data. I know it's no gaurantee to actually find a crashed ship anymore, but is it worth my while to save a worthy ship and bring it back to my freighter?

[Ason]

Repairing the ships is much more difficult and costly now. Its much better to just buy new now IMO.

[RubyCante]

salvage the broken ship,bring it to the station,switch it with the non broken one..
if your salvaged ship's value is higher,you can switch it for free even if you don't repair it

[TangOscar]

I suggest, travel to trading outpost, space station of different Stars and trade in or buy a working ship. It is a pain to repair crashed ships and not worth the time.

[Diviance]

Find a Hauler with a decent amount of slots as a crashed ship, fix the engines so you can get it to a trading post or space station and then trade it for a ship you like of near equal value. A little more time investment but you can get a decent ship early on that way.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by •҉ Ason:

Repairing the ships is much more difficult and costly now. Its much better to just buy new now IMO.

It's actually cheaper than it used to be. The unit cost got steadily higher in the past, now you can repair them for free with some mining, but if you buy the mats to make the items yourself, it still costs less. For instance, to repair like 5 slots would be 2500 Chromatic metal, it would come out to around 350-400k depending on the system. Slots in the past would of steadily increased to over 300k at that point, so yeah. I like the new way, even though I mainly use them for tradein value.

[DeadSlash]

Originally posted by RubyCante:

salvage the broken ship,bring it to the station,switch it with the non broken one..
if your salvaged ship's value is higher,you can switch it for free even if you don't repair it

This. If you finbd one of those really expensive ones, even wrecked, you can swap it out for a good ship.

[Cythal]

Originally posted by Diviance:

Find a Hauler with a decent amount of slots as a crashed ship, fix the engines so you can get it to a trading post or space station and then trade it for a ship you like of near equal value. A little more time investment but you can get a decent ship early on that way.

Agree. Costs Time and resources to repair salvaged ships. However I got a 32 slot hauler that was worth about 4.2 Million, however a similar hauler is worth about 42 million so I am assuming that unrepaired ships are prized less. But I used it to find me a 16 slot A class ship, a big upgrade to the starter ship.

If they could implement a way to sell ships within the market, you could become a Scavenger. Hunt Derelict ships and sell them.

[Dragonsblade]

I found an S class freighter with 39 slots, crashed, after about 5 hours. Swapped it for my 18 slot, as it had 15 slots undamaged. There is no way I would have been able to buy 1 with 5 mil in the bank, but now I can just unlock the slots aa I go. With +50% shields, and around 10% on the other 2, it was a no branier.

[Wrothbog]

scavange a good hauler and trade for ships you want. or hell just use the ship you found if it's a good find. my first ship was an A-class hauler with 38 slots. not bad for a starter. i traded my still broken starting fighter for it. cost just as much to fix either of them

[Sandkat]

Found a crashed A-rank fighter with 29 slots and have been using that while slowly repairing the slots which the mats I collected myself as I go along. Saved me a ton of money I instead put into buying frigates which also generate money. I'll probably hold onto my A-rank fighter until I can afford a nice S-rank ship.

[Drowhunter]

i just started playing 20 hours ago. i didnt know the game too well so i found a crashed ship. It had a couple more slots but wasnt really better than the starter ship, I thought i could own multiple ships so i took ownership of the busted one. To my surprise my old ship was gone and I had no choice to fix up this old clunker. I wish there was some warning that you would lose your old ship.