Crashed ships at known locations not showing up

[Zyriel]

I'm doing some ship hunting with locations given in youtube videos and such, but every one I've gone to the ship is missing. There's a million communication beacons and bases indicating other people have found and acquired the ship, but it's missing for me. In some cases, the pilot pod is there and in other cases not even that is there. Any idea on how I can resolve this? I'm going through a lot of mats to portal hop to these and really frustrated that they're all invisible or whatever is happening.

[jet4571]

If you use a save editor you can swap a ships seed and turn it into a completely different ship. Example a black and white Alpha Vector(Golden Vector style ship but with dorsal fin) seed is 0xF7E455A09B730BD8 and a white and gold swordfish exotic is 0x74A718D7D4A3A50B and a perfect matching mutitool is 0xAE3E68350EDF53B to go with the exotic ship.

You can turn any fighter into a black and white Alpha Vector, any exotic into a white and gold swordfish, and any exotic multitool into one that matches the exotic ship with those seeds. Take the NomNom save editor, open your save and select the starship tab for the ships, top left of the tab is a pull down menu to select the ship, last used before the save will be the default selected. halfway down is Customization and in the bottom of that section is Seed. Replace that seed code with a known seed, save the save file and in the game the ugly ship you had is now the one you want. Same steps for the multitool.

Since you went to the known location and there was no ship, it would not be cheating to just get another and swap the seed. You just need the seed for the ship you want. If you can find someone who has the ship you want they could get the seed for you.

What could be causing your issue could be a mod if you have any installed, I had one so that only fighters would go to space stations and it stopped other types of ships from spawning as crashed ships. My suggestion for ship hunting though is look for portal codes for ships NPC's use rather than crashed. Cheaper on the crafting mats and unit's are super easy to get making purchasing a fully functional ship cheaper than repairing one. You also only need to do the portal once because you will have the space station teleporter available forever after. Check the station and any trade locations on the planets until the ship arrives.

[The Knowledge Seeker]

The reason the ship doesn't show in multiplayer is because someone already got it before you did. Try turning off multiplayer and search again.

[Zyriel]

Very thorough, thank you! I think I'll do that.

I am not up to speed on best methods of gaining Units, but was gifted some so I can afford a ship or two without issue at the moment. When I couldn't see the ship at the crash site, I did go to the space station and hung out for a bit, but the ship didn't show. So I found a trade station in the system and did luck out there and just bought it.

Mods would make sense as the culprit, I do have a couple going.

[Zyriel]

Originally posted by The Knowledge Seeker:

The reason the ship doesn't show in multiplayer is because someone already got it before you did. Try turning off multiplayer and search again.

I had/have it turned off, though I didn't actually know why I needed to so that is helpful information.

[jet4571]

A good way to get units is have a freighter and 25 frigates in an even amount of all except for support and have none of those(low stats). Add 5 Fleet Command rooms to the freighter. Then talk to the fleet mission NPC on the bridge. You will have 5 missions available, fill the missions with frigates that go with the type, trade mission with trade frigates for example and balanced atleast 1 of each type except support. Then everyday go to the fleet command room and debrief them for 5-10m+ units per mission and valuables to sell. That could be up to 50 million or even more a day just by filling out 5 lists of ships and debriefing them when they are done in the fleet command rooms. Keep the rare crafting mats like activated indium(unless you have a full stack already) and sell everything else. You only get 5 missions per day and it takes 25 frigates to fill them so end you game on the freighter and the next day collect the rewards and start new missions.

Another method for getting units is put the mining beam upgrade that gives +50% more materials into a supercharged slot for +88% more and the other 2 supercharged slots fill with scanning upgrades. Then find a planet with salt found in rocks and scan everything you can and turn everything into crafting mats while looking for yellow markers with stars in them. Salt sells for more than any other common crafting mat and you will end up with a full stack quite quickly, scanning critters, rocks, and plants makes allot and the items you can get from yellow markers could be up to 10 million units. Then when bored with trying to find something to scan because all you have left is the rare flying critter that's only out during the day get in your ship and slow fly while low to the ground looking for yellow blips on the directional hud thing and find the planets plant groves such as star bulb or cactus flesh. Clear the yellow marked items and pick every plant in the groves. After visit the local space station and sell everything you collected and don't want to keep like crafting mats you don't come across often and always need.

Before you know it you will have more units than you will ever need and full stacks of every crafting mat. Also you can turn on the internet in single player, when you visit Nada and friends other players will be there and sometimes they gift some expensive stuff but you will never see anyone when exploring or doing missions 99.999% of the time even in core portal systems with dozens of player bases. I gifted ship scrap worth ~100 million to someone using the starter ship once but also some horrific sample thing from a random space encounter.