Can't sell ship

[geochaben]

When I sell my ship, I do not receive the amount agreed on. I just sold a ship worth about 92 million units, and after the sale, there was no increase in my units. It is as if there was no sale, but the ship is gone and I didn't get any money for it. Is this a glitch, or am I doing something wrong????

[Tykero980]

Usualy when you sell a ship you get a bunch of garbage parts you have to sell to a vendor to get the full amount.

[stvlepore]

Like was said. You scrap you ship and get stuff. You sell the stuff for units.

[jonnin]

if you exchange and the new ship cost 0, you lose the excess value as well.

[Solitary]

Originally posted by RockNRollRebel:

Can't sell ships. You must have traded or scrapped it. Are you 4+Billion dollars rich? There is a limit to how much money you can accumulate.

I learned that one the hard way :). Sold 1.6 billion worth of items at one time, got no units.

[Captain.Jartyk]

I summarize a bit.

The maximum amount of money you can have is 4,294,967,295. If you are there, you can not get more.

You can not sell a ship. You can scrap it, or leave it as a replacement.

When scrapping, you get no money, you instead get the scrapped parts of the ship that correspond to the ship's value, these you get money for, if you sell them. Problems that can arise there, are if you do not have room for all the parts you get, what happens then I do not know, maybe it will be an error, maybe they are lost..

If you leave the ship as an exchange, when buying a ship, you have to pay the difference if the new is worth more, but if the new is worth less, you do not get back the difference, in that case the money is lost.

You should also remember to remove installed tech and material you have stored in the ship, because that material will be lost, if you forget it.

You should always make a saving point before doing the deal (jump in and out of the ship), so if something went wrong, you can easily restore.

[stvlepore]

Originally posted by Captain.Jartyk:

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You should also remember to remove installed tech and material you have stored in the ship, because that material will be lost, if you forget it.

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Upgrades do not add to the value of a ship? I assumed, w/o actually looking, they did. I also tend to repair any easy damaged slots, if I have the parts on hand. I also assumed they added more to the value than the cost of the materials.

[Evil Tim]

Originally posted by stvlepore:

Originally posted by Captain.Jartyk:

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You should also remember to remove installed tech and material you have stored in the ship, because that material will be lost, if you forget it.

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Upgrades do not add to the value of a ship? I assumed, w/o actually looking, they did. I also tend to repair any easy damaged slots, if I have the parts on hand. I also assumed they added more to the value than the cost of the materials.

Storage and class upgrades do (a ship's value is based on inventory size and class), but not tech upgrades. Damaged slots count as not existing when you sell a ship, and so bring down the storage size and thus the value, so you're right to repair them if you want a high value.

[Johnny in the Clouds]

Repairing a crashed ship and upgrading it before selling can give you more items in return when you scrap them. It does also I think increase its sale value marginally if you trade it.
If you swap to a lower value ship you do not make a profit. If you trade up to a more expensive ship you only pay the difference.

Before you accept the final exchange transfer any items from your old ship to the new one and dismantle any tech you can (including any in the technology slots) to get back resources and also transfer them. You can then rebuild tech on the new ship a little more easily.

If you do not own a freighter yet I think you may still be able to own six ships but you will not see them all together until you collect your first freighter. If you do not have a freighter it is entirely possible your previous ship will be available to you when you own your freighter.

Making a manual save before trading any ships is always helpful if anything unexcpected happens. You can then restore your game and start the process again.

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by stvlepore:

Originally posted by Captain.Jartyk:

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You should also remember to remove installed tech and material you have stored in the ship, because that material will be lost, if you forget it.

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Upgrades do not add to the value of a ship? I assumed, w/o actually looking, they did. I also tend to repair any easy damaged slots, if I have the parts on hand. I also assumed they added more to the value than the cost of the materials.

But you never get back full cost. You only get back a percentage. I never fix a crashed ship.

I have seen examples from others that claim adding storage slots to ships that you've gotten will increase the return go get but I've not done that.

[Evil Tim]

Originally posted by tkwoods:

But you never get back full cost. You only get back a percentage. I never fix a crashed ship.

I have seen examples from others that claim adding storage slots to ships that you've gotten will increase the return go get but I've not done that.

Yeah, you get something like 70% of the ship's listed value for scrapping or trading. But if you've got a freighter full of materials and a load of repair kits from doing derelicts, it can be well worth fixing up, especially if you find something like an A-rank hauler where the sell price is very high.

Adding slots does increase the return since the slots are what the price is based on (that's why S-rank tier 3 haulers with 48 slots cost 126 million units, and why a 16+4 Exotic costs like 6.1 million but values at 172.5 million when you 48+21 it), but I'd personally keep the upgrades and throw them on a ship I actually want.

Also, for proof that installed tech makes absolutely no difference to a ship's value:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2372920117

My Exotic Grand Lancer with a large collection of S-class mods. Value: 172.5 million.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2372918199

Right before she was scrapped, with everything dismantled that could be. Value: 172.5 million.

Oh, also:

Originally posted by Captain.Jartyk:

(...) if you do not have room for all the parts you get, what happens then I do not know, maybe it will be an error, maybe they are lost.

The game won't let you scrap the ship if you wouldn't have room in your inventory for the stuff you'd get from it.

[geochaben]

The amount of units I had before selling the ship was around 53 million. After selling the ship, it was still 53 million, exactly the same amount as before the sale. I was able to sell the scrap that was added to my inventory, but the sale of the ship had no effect on my units balance at all. I repeated this with another ship to be sure, and it was the same, no units received, not even a percentage of the amount of the sale. Has anyone else done this and received the units they were promised in the sale?

[Lindy Bomber]

Originally posted by geochaben:

The amount of units I had before selling the ship was around 53 million. After selling the ship, it was still 53 million, exactly the same amount as before the sale. I was able to sell the scrap that was added to my inventory, but the sale of the ship had no effect on my units balance at all. I repeated this with another ship to be sure, and it was the same, no units received, not even a percentage of the amount of the sale. Has anyone else done this and received the units they were promised in the sale?

If you are getting scrap in your inventory then you are using the Starship Outfitting Terminal in a space station. You are not selling the ship you are scrapping it. You are not supposed to get units just scrap, tech modules and some times Storage Augmentation modules The system is working the way it is supposed to. The scrap you obtain should be worth about 70% the buy price of the ship.

https://nomanssky.gamepedia.com/Starship_Outfitting_Terminal

https://nomanssky.gamepedia.com/Storage_Augmentation

[geochaben]

Thanks, that helps explain it.