Freighter price reduction?

[Ѧrky]

It seems as if they did nothing to change frighter prices, im wanting a cheap freighter to help me get around but i cant. as the cheap freighter is 88 million units. I thought it would be a good idea to check out whats on the freighter after the patch but now im dissapointed that they made them super expensive. (The frieghter is a class C 16 slot, short body) why do dang expensive?

[Jhonny G]

88 million is darn cheap for a endgame utility if you ask me.. The prices seemed excessive at first, but once you got a desent base the millions just start rolling in and suddenly it's a drop in the ocean.

Freighters, S class starships and weapons are supposed to be stretch goals.. Not something you pick up after a few hours of casual farming.

[Haunt Fox]

Raid manufactories.

[Ѧrky]

I dont really want the freighter that i saw in my system. as I wish to turn that into a mobile base for easy travel money. Overall im lookiing for a capital freighter. (class 1 to be specific)

[Muppet Head]

If you do a lot of farming you can make that much money pretty quick. Look online for guides to set up circuit board, liquid explosive or living glass farms.

As an aside, my wish for the next patch is other courses of making decent money aside from farming. Perhaps more extensive mining equipment, and definitely a more in-depth economy.

[rhuntington]

I bought an A class freighter with 19 slots for 80 million. Just keep looking.

[Galactic Starman]

Just remember that if you set up a farm on a freighter then the next freighter you purchase will mean destroying your farm and rebuilding it on the new one. In that scenario you had best dismantle stuff before the purchase otherwise you will not get back all the plants you farmed. Only half will be returned. I think that's what happens and it can be quite a lot of 'work' sorting out space and recovering things on the new freighter.

I'm not certain about this, but if you defend a freighter defeating the pirates then when you see the Captain offer to buy the freighter without accepting rewards. I think it can be cheaper depending how quickly the battle was ended and the less destruction the freighter took.

A couple of tips:

Use as much freighter and or 48 slot haulage storage to buy and sell trade goods between different economies to gain profits.

Build your scanner analysis recipes to gain hundreds of thousands of units for flora/fauna scans on every planet you land on.

Search out crashed ships to increase storage and repair slots instead of buying fully functioning ships to 'save' units in the longer term.

[Jhonny G]

Originally posted by Johnny in the Clouds:

I'm not certain about this, but if you defend a freighter defeating the pirates then when you see the Captain offer to buy the freighter without accepting rewards. I think it can be cheaper depending how quickly the battle was ended and the less destruction the freighter took.

The whole concept seems very bugged to me.. Warped into a new system and found this badass freighter under attack by pirates.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1136757340
I tried my best not to hit the frieghter, but I must have hit it at some point. Because after saving it, it remained in lock-down and kept calling for sentinal support against me. At first I flew into the nearby space station and waited around 30min, but as soon as I left the freighter just called in new backup. Then I destroyed around 10 hostile starships, flew down to a planet and an hour later when I left it was still hostile. After reloading the entire fleet had just disappeared

WTF is up with this game mechanic..?

[Jhonny G]

Update to my previous post. So I managed to reload an old save and redo all steps necessary to encounter the freighter again and actually save it from pirates four times in a row.

As far as I can tell saving it had no effect on the price and neither does the choices you're presented with afterward.
Accepting the gift awarded a random amount of units and warp cells.
Declining the gift awarded +1 reputation with the dominant faction.
Asking to directly buy the freighter strips you of all rewards without any additional discount.

No matter the choice the price was locked at 214 million for this C class 28/4 freighter.

Update 2: Got to save the exact same freighter from pirates a second time and the price is still the the same. So I'm starting to doubt if it makes any difference at all.