Dismantling ships for storage expansion?

[King DaMuncha]

This is not the only way, infact I would highly advise against this. This is a loooong expensive proceedure. Instead you can do easy missions for the mercenary mission guy on every station and I have seen the storage upgrade as a reward a few times already. Doing it this way you dont waste money, and you dont waste time waiting for a high grade ship to spawn.

[Icewolf]

...or you can get a freighter and frigate fleet and let them do the job. Right now i have about 180 storage upgrades in a container on my freighter.

[King DaMuncha]

Im still using the free freighter, ill upgrade the storage once I get a better freighter

[Icewolf]

No need to do that. 180 storage upgrades only need 3 slots in the container. It's much more important to send out your fleet every day.

[Galadhlinn]

Originally posted by Icewolf:

...or you can get a freighter and frigate fleet and let them do the job. Right now i have about 180 storage upgrades in a container on my freighter.

180 storage augs all from freighter fleet missions? Wow! I send out all five missions every day, and I don't get a storage aug every day. I got one today, but none yesterday. My main save has all frigates at S-class, and I get maybe 3-4 augs a week. Share your trick, please!

[Icewolf]

I accumulated them over the entire gameplay. They are maybe not all from frigate missions, but most of them are. I don't get much more than you a week. Also i didn't use them for my first 3 or 4 starships. For those i used the upgrade station before i noticed that it's more easy and much cheaper to be patient and use my fleet.

[King DaMuncha]

Well the OP post was about Starship cargo expansions.

[Galadhlinn]

Originally posted by Icewolf:

I accumulated them over the entire gameplay. They are maybe not all from frigate missions, but most of them are. I don't get much more than you a week. Also i didn't use them for my first 3 or 4 starships. For those i used the upgrade station before i noticed that it's more easy and much cheaper to be patient and use my fleet.

Gotcha. Well, you briefly got my hopes up because ever since HG eliminated scrapping ships as profitable endeavor, I've been searching for ways to increase getting storage augmentations. If you buy a ship, throw in two storage augmentations and then scrap it, you make a profit, but HG has storage augs so screwed down (hard to get) that it is not practical.

[Galadhlinn]

Originally posted by King DaMuncha:

Well the OP post was about Starship cargo expansions.

Frigate missions do give you ship storage (cargo) aumentations.

[babyseal]

Missions are pretty slow going, now you get more missions giving exosuit upgrade maps than ship slots. Credits are easy to get once you get past early game, have some trade routes, can build resource bases for mining, and/or your ship is strong enough to go to a pirate system and farm freighter pods...you can do that endlessly. Build up bank account, buy/scrap ships, rinse and repeat.

[babyseal]

Originally posted by Galadhlinn:

Originally posted by King DaMuncha:

Well the OP post was about Starship cargo expansions.

Frigate missions do give you ship storage (cargo) aumentations.

Not reliably at all. Can go days on end without getting any...then get 3-4 at a time.

[Jaggid Edje]

I use buying/scrapping ships for storage augments as a money-sink in the late-game. Units have a pretty low cap, so you need to spend that money somewhere if you don't want to hit the cap.
Money in your pocket has no value unless you spend it, and money earned when you reach the cap is the same as no earnings at all.

In the earlier game, when I still feel that I need units, I get my storage augments from salvaging crashed ships. I'm exploring planets anyway, for scanning fauna, etc., I may as well pick up a crashed ship or two on each planet while I'm doing it.

[Galadhlinn]

Originally posted by babyseal:

Originally posted by Galadhlinn:

Frigate missions do give you ship storage (cargo) aumentations.

Not reliably at all. Can go days on end without getting any...then get 3-4 at a time.

I agree.

[Jaggid Edje]

I agree as well.

There are only 4 encounter types that have any chance of giving the ship storage upgrades, and 3 of them are Industrial-type encounters (the other one is diplomatic). What that basically means is on days where you receive no industrial expedition options you have almost 0 chance of getting a storage upgrade.

Mind you, you 'can' get different types of encounters than what the expedition type is, but you're still chasing really long odds at that point.

[NZ.Zero]

its usually easier to go back to where you got your ship from and wait for a version with more storage then switch it over.

[babyseal]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

I use buying/scrapping ships for storage augments as a money-sink in the late-game. Units have a pretty low cap, so you need to spend that money somewhere if you don't want to hit the cap.
Money in your pocket has no value unless you spend it, and money earned when you reach the cap is the same as no earnings at all.

In the earlier game, when I still feel that I need units, I get my storage augments from salvaging crashed ships. I'm exploring planets anyway, for scanning fauna, etc., I may as well pick up a crashed ship or two on each planet while I'm doing it.

Exactly same as I do. You're exploring, making units scanning/nanites for all species, looking for curious deposits to farm, basically hoovering up anything of value (units or nanites) you come across along with the salvaged tech you have to have. With that new trade rocket being the best thing since sliced white bread for that type of game play since it helps alleviate having low suit/ship slot counts immensely. I generally don't leave the starter system (unless it sucks) until I've got a decent MT and an S-class shuttle (cheapest for the slot count).