How to get new tech slots for the starship?

[Dies Horribly]

For the exosuit it's clear, but for the starship? Currently it tells me that a new cargo slot would cost me 40M, but would I be able to chose to get a tech slot instead?

[Ydyp]

I guess starship upgrades still work as before, so yes cargo upgrades should work on tech slots as well.

[Dies Horribly]

Yeh... 40M for one tech slot is a bit steep... It should have different costs for cargo vs tech, like the exosuit has... not sure what the intention was

[Ydyp]

Originally posted by Dies Horribly:

Yeh... 40M for one tech slot is a bit steep... It should have different costs for cargo vs tech, like the exosuit has... not sure what the intention was

Well you can also get upgrade modules by scrapping other ships you don't need. I my old saves I never spend money on the ship upgrades.

[Lindy Bomber]

Try picking an unlocked slot in the tech area.

Good news is cost seems to cap out at 75 mill a slot, it was 300 before. You can try scraping ships for ship expansion modules or do frigate expeditions.

[Dies Horribly]

Yeh... scraping ships is the way to go apparently
Managed to find a better ship too in the end, so yey!

[Dewi Morgan]

How to grind your ship to max slots for free (not tested whether it works in 4.0):
1) Go to space station
2) Find cartographer, and trade a bunch of those Navigation Data that you've collected, for emergency beacon maps.
3) Go to a planet; a nice one with life on, preferably no hostile sentinels, and either a pirate or rich tech economy (not sure if this affects the quality of ships spawned, but it can't hurt!)
4) Use one of the the maps; or if you've run out, go back to step 1.
5) If it's a crashed freighters, abandoned building, or anything other than "emergency beacon" (red exclamation mark), then ignore it and use another map. You only get one of each thing at a time, and those aren't things you want to visit right now. Go back to step 4.
6) If it says "can't use the map, you've already got one of those things", great, you just saved yourself from using up a map on something useless. Go back to step 4.
7) It's an emergency beacon! Fly to the beacon.
8) If there's an NPC visible walking around the ship before you land, maybe fly on and go back to step 4. (NPC emergency beacons and abandoned craft emergency beacons count as different types, I think).
9) Otherwise, land and claim your ship.
10) If you have fewer than 9 ships, go back to step 4.
11) Go to your base, change ships to something that's not the ship you want to keep, and teleport to a station.
12) Destroy the ship for scrap.
13) Check what ship loaded in place of it.
14) If you don't want to keep that one either, go to step 12.
15) Now the painful bit: if the next one that loaded in the station is the one you want to keep, but you still have ships in your collection to destroy, go back to step 11. You can avoid this by making sure that your desired ship is in slot #9, but that's a pain in the ass without the savegame editor.
16) If you've ground up all the ships you didn't want to keep, then the one left at the station is probably the one you want to upgrade (if not, return to your base and swap to the one you want to upgrade, then come back).
17) Install your upgrades. I seem to get about one inventory upgrade for every 3 ships I scrap.
18) If you still need more slots, go to step 2.