Free Freighters?

[Knightmage Bael]

Saved so many freighters from attack now its puzzling how each one of them never offer to hand it over for free. They keep asking for like 7.5 million units for them instead. Where are you guys getting your free frieghters from?

Would be really nice lol.

Also having a rough time farming the millions needed for better equipment and what not.

[Evil Tim]

Did you choose "accept payment instead" for the first free one? That removes the ability to claim a free one later. Or are you in a system where the "rescue freighter" option just happens randomly? IIRC it's only the ones that trigger when you jump into a new system that offer you a free one.

[Knightmage Bael]

Originally posted by Evil Tim:

Did you choose "accept payment instead" for the first free one? That removes the ability to claim a free one later. Or are you in a system where the "rescue freighter" option just happens randomly? IIRC it's only the ones that trigger when you jump into a new system that offer you a free one.

Nope. I most certainly did not.

ANd yeah, been to multiple systems in the last hour with the "rescue freighter" option happening right out of jump. They specifically thank me, and the game has even said on a number of occasions the commander wants to offer the freighter, but the next option is literally the "pay for it" screen.

[Daeomyn]

Originally posted by Evil Tim:

Did you choose "accept payment instead" for the first free one? That removes the ability to claim a free one later. Or are you in a system where the "rescue freighter" option just happens randomly? IIRC it's only the ones that trigger when you jump into a new system that offer you a free one.

I chose that option for the first freighter I saved and still got my free one. The only free freighter you get is the first freighter you get and you can choose the 'accept payment instead' option as many times as you like. Once you have a freighter, then you have to pay to swap freighters and the price depends on the class/inventory slots. An S-class with 32-34 slots will cost around 140 million. You can only have one freighter so make sure you dismantle everything on your freighter before swapping for a new one.

As to farming, go to a T3 system by A and S class ships with small inventories for cheap, usually 2-5 million and scrap them. After you've collected enough storage augmentation modules, increase the inventory of one of them to max and sell it off. Do not worry about the tech inventory as that does not increase the value of a ship, just the main inventory.
Make sure you dismantle any upgrades the ship comes with before scrapping it for extra materials to sell off and go to a trade terminal or use the intergalactic trade terminal you'll hopefully have already installed on your freighter to get the best prices in the system when you sell off the components

[Evil Tim]

Originally posted by Daeomyn:

An S-class with 32-34 slots will cost around 140 million. You can only have one freighter so make sure you dismantle everything on your freighter before swapping for a new one.

As I recall it's closer to 200 million, but there's a cost reduction for saving it.

[jbbuzz 2]

You can accept payment instead as many times as you want without affecting your choice for a free freighter. Once you you accept a freighter, there will be no more free offers, and you will have to pay. You can only own one freighter.

[Evil Tim]

I was told accepting payment lost you the free freighter, so eh, live and learn. I lost the free freighter through the more conventional method of buying one.

[Daeomyn]

Originally posted by jbbuzz 2:

You can accept payment instead as many times as you want without affecting your choice for a free freighter. Once you you accept a freighter, there will be no more free offers, and you will have to pay. You can only own one freighter.

Entertaining to see those that don't read the other replies and just repeat information that's already been given lol

[Knightmage Bael]

Originally posted by Daeomyn:

As to farming, go to a T3 system by A and S class ships with small inventories for cheap, usually 2-5 million and scrap them. After you've collected enough storage augmentation modules, increase the inventory of one of them to max and sell it off. Do not worry about the tech inventory as that does not increase the value of a ship, just the main inventory.
Make sure you dismantle any upgrades the ship comes with before scrapping it for extra materials to sell off and go to a trade terminal or use the intergalactic trade terminal you'll hopefully have already installed on your freighter to get the best prices in the system when you sell off the components

Interesting. How much do you get for scrapping ? Is it just the upgrade modules or do you get units, too?

Considering it costs like 25 million units to upgrade one potential slot, I imagine this is far cheaper.

That still requires grinding enough money to afford that, too, and beyond just normal farming methods its kind of a slow grind to get several million units enough to do that.

[Evil Tim]

Originally posted by Archmage_Bael:

Considering it costs like 25 million units to upgrade one potential slot, I imagine this is far cheaper.

Ehehehe, just you wait, the last few are 300 million a pop.

Scrapping it's 70% of the list value of the ship in scrap materials, but ships have a huge jump in value every time you complete a row or column of their inventory: you can flip a 6 million unit Exotic for 120.75 million if its inventory is maxed.

[Daeomyn]

Originally posted by Archmage_Bael:

Originally posted by Daeomyn:

As to farming, go to a T3 system by A and S class ships with small inventories for cheap, usually 2-5 million and scrap them. After you've collected enough storage augmentation modules, increase the inventory of one of them to max and sell it off. Do not worry about the tech inventory as that does not increase the value of a ship, just the main inventory.
Make sure you dismantle any upgrades the ship comes with before scrapping it for extra materials to sell off and go to a trade terminal or use the intergalactic trade terminal you'll hopefully have already installed on your freighter to get the best prices in the system when you sell off the components

Interesting. How much do you get for scrapping ? Is it just the upgrade modules or do you get units, too?

Considering it costs like 25 million units to upgrade one potential slot, I imagine this is far cheaper.

That still requires grinding enough money to afford that, too, and beyond just normal farming methods its kind of a slow grind to get several million units enough to do that.

When you go to scrap it, the amount it quotes is about 70% what you paid, but depending on the ship, sometimes you get some extra stuff like activated metals and such. I remember scrapping something one time and adding up the standard sale price of the just the components I got and it came out to more than the quoted scrap price. And when you dismantle the upgrades, there's more stuff for you to sell. You get one SA for an A class and two for an S class.
Just remember not to sell the stuff on space station as you get much better prices at a trade depot or the trade terminal on your freighter. I haven't searched around systems to compare prices, but it seems like a trade terminal on your freighter scans the terminals in a system and offers you the best price available in that system.

[Knightmage Bael]

Originally posted by Evil Tim:

Originally posted by Archmage_Bael:

Considering it costs like 25 million units to upgrade one potential slot, I imagine this is far cheaper.

Ehehehe, just you wait, the last few are 300 million a pop.

Scrapping it's 70% of the list value of the ship in scrap materials, but ships have a huge jump in value every time you complete a row or column of their inventory: you can flip a 6 million unit Exotic for 120.75 million if its inventory is maxed.

so you can get hundres of millions of units in profit by doing this then?

That's awesome, but how do you gain the initial amount of units required to buy ships and upgrade a full row like that?

[Evil Tim]

Originally posted by Archmage_Bael:

Originally posted by Evil Tim:

Ehehehe, just you wait, the last few are 300 million a pop.

Scrapping it's 70% of the list value of the ship in scrap materials, but ships have a huge jump in value every time you complete a row or column of their inventory: you can flip a 6 million unit Exotic for 120.75 million if its inventory is maxed.

so you can get hundres of millions of units in profit by doing this then?

That's awesome, but how do you gain the initial amount of units required to buy ships and upgrade a full row like that?

Personally I have three S rank mods on my Multi-tool's scanner, which means up to about 460,000 units for a rare creature and 71,000 for every single plant. That plus my Frigate fleet like bringing me gifts of up to about 4.5 milllion per mission once a day, gets me by.

[Daeomyn]

Originally posted by Archmage_Bael:

so you can get hundres of millions of units in profit by doing this then?

That's awesome, but how do you gain the initial amount of units required to buy ships and upgrade a full row like that?

Yep. You buy a ship with a small inventory for 2-3 million, fully deck out it's inventory and sell it for over 100 mil. Different class ships have different prices when fully inventoried with exotics being worth the most

You can also buy trade goods in one system and sell them for a profit in another as long as it's not the same type of economy in the next system. As long you have the trade terminal built on your freighter, jump to a system, summon your freighter, sell goods from last system, buy new goods, repeat. you should be able to make a few million in about 10-20 minutes. You'll want to jump to at least T2 systems, better if you do T3

[Evil Tim]

Originally posted by Daeomyn:

You can also buy trade goods in one system and sell them for a profit in another as long as it's not the same type of economy in the next system. As long you have the trade terminal built on your freighter, jump to a system, summon your freighter, sell goods from last system, buy new goods, repeat. you should be able to make a few million in about 10-20 minutes. You'll want to jump to at least T2 systems, better if you do T3

Better yet is to look at the item description of the trade goods you buy since it identifies the type of economy you'll get the best prices in, then use the economy scanner to find a suitable system to jump to.

[Daeomyn]

Originally posted by Evil Tim:

Originally posted by Daeomyn:

You can also buy trade goods in one system and sell them for a profit in another as long as it's not the same type of economy in the next system. As long you have the trade terminal built on your freighter, jump to a system, summon your freighter, sell goods from last system, buy new goods, repeat. you should be able to make a few million in about 10-20 minutes. You'll want to jump to at least T2 systems, better if you do T3

Better yet is to look at the item description of the trade goods you buy since it identifies the type of economy you'll get the best prices in, then use the economy scanner to find a suitable system to jump to.

I think the time spent looking for the best economy to sell in isn't really worth it. At the worst prices you're still making a minimum 25% profit I believe on the T5 goods with your profit margins going up the lower the tier, but that's just me. I get a little impatient looking sometimes and would rather keep on the move