scrapping ships isnt paying out

[sapper4725]

I scrapped a ship but it jipped me of the 3.4M units ship sold fine but the units didn't go into my inventory is this a known bug with the update

[Krash Megiddo]

You have to sell the scrap.

[ClayHead]

Is you inventory full?

[RiChuF]

Originally posted by Krash Megiddo:

You have to sell the scrap.

[SuperTech]

Originally posted by DoZ3r:

Is you inventory full?

Ship won't scrap if you don't have enough empty slots.

[rdouglass1]

I have done this 3 or 4 times since update, and it worked fine for me.

[wkitty42]

do you have your settings locked? there's a bug where if you have your settings locked, the salvage button is greyed out...

NVM, i see you did scrap the ship in question so this can't be the problem...

[Nostromo]

Yeah sell the resulting salvage scraps.

You never directly get "credits", just the resultant scrap - to sell, and maybe a goodie or two to keep. There was recently another thread about this.

[MaddogDino]

I've been scrapping a lot of exotics since 4.0 and although we get less of it, we do get scrap to the value.
Scrapping ships is an expensive hobby now.

[Krash Megiddo]

Originally posted by MaddogDino:

I've been scrapping a lot of exotics since 4.0 and although we get less of it, we do get scrap to the value.
Scrapping ships is an expensive hobby now.

We used to only get 70% of ship value by selling the scrap. Are you saying its less in 4.0?

[Sentient_Pickle]

it you scrap a salvaged ship, it's pure profit. If you scrap a purchased ship, there's diminishing returns, but no ship has ever generated units explicitly from scrapping. You'll get materials you can then SELL for units, but not units outright. You'll also get upgrade module you can either use or sell back for nanites as well as the possibility of storage augments that can be used to give your ship more storage slots. The diminishing returns aka the net loss from scrapping a purchased ship is proportional so the cheaper the ship bought, the less actual units are lost, but the update increased the amount of storage slots ships come with right off the bat, which in turn increased their value, which in turn increases the net unit loss from buying and scrapping, but it's still able to be mitigated by buying high value, but low cost ships such as A or S class Explorers, which tend to be cheapest, but still have a great chance at augments. But yeah, it's not a bug, it's working as intended, you're just misunderstanding how it works and upset over nothing. Probably should put more effort into understanding how the game works before complaining about it.

[Menel]

Originally posted by Sentient_Pickle:

it you scrap a salvaged ship, it's pure profit. If you scrap a purchased ship, there's diminishing returns, but no ship has ever generated units explicitly from scrapping. You'll get materials you can then SELL for units, but not units outright. You'll also get upgrade module you can either use or sell back for nanites as well as the possibility of storage augments that can be used to give your ship more storage slots. The diminishing returns aka the net loss from scrapping a purchased ship is proportional so the cheaper the ship bought, the less actual units are lost, but the update increased the amount of storage slots ships come with right off the bat, which in turn increased their value, which in turn increases the net unit loss from buying and scrapping, but it's still able to be mitigated by buying high value, but low cost ships such as A or S class Explorers, which tend to be cheapest, but still have a great chance at augments. But yeah, it's not a bug, it's working as intended, you're just misunderstanding how it works and upset over nothing. Probably should put more effort into understanding how the game works before complaining about it.

OP asked a question.
If you have a preferred way for him to understand the game, that isn't asking questions on this forum. Share that with him.

[wkitty42]

Originally posted by Krash Megiddo:

Originally posted by MaddogDino:

I've been scrapping a lot of exotics since 4.0 and although we get less of it, we do get scrap to the value.
Scrapping ships is an expensive hobby now.

We used to only get 70% of ship value by selling the scrap. Are you saying its less in 4.0?

has anyone worked out the actual formulas and come up with the real numbers on what it actually costs to fully repair a crashed ship and what all you get back when you salvage it?

i'm thinking of like actual monetary units like if 1x carbon sells for (eg) 5u and you have to put 20x carbon into repairing everything in a crashed ship, that's 5*20=100u of in-game money spent... then doing the same thing to figure out the money value of all the stuff you get back from scrapping the ship...

figuring out all of that is what i'm asking about... i used to be really into that type of stuff but when i stopped working on accounting programs, i left all of that behind...

EDIT: also... how many money units is a nanite worth? that's something i don't think i've ever seen anyone talk about...

[Fienyx]

Originally posted by wkitty42:

'snip'
EDIT: also... how many money units is a nanite worth? that's something i don't think i've ever seen anyone talk about...

I used to to do exchanges using the SE. 5000 units to 1 nanite, 10,000 nanites to 1 QS.

[Rexxer]

Originally posted by Krash Megiddo:

You have to sell the scrap.

This^. Also you will never get the full purchase price back even when you sell everything, even if you optimize selling the commodities where you get the highest price. In general, you won't even want to sell some of the stuff since it is strategically important to your game, like storage modules for your ship, - so most of the time you will get WAY less than you purchased the ship for.

The most efficient way to do it is to: (1) scrap, then (2) quickly sell all the loose upgrade modules to the dealers there for mucho nanites, then (3) fly down to the flight deck and sell the other commodities you just got to the nearest trader, then (4) look at the sales price of his ship, (if its a good one), if not just keep your eyes open for a good one that flies in while you are selling, and (5) keep buying ships until you fill up your ship parking quota, then (5) DECONSTRUCT all the internal upgrades in each ship you just bought, (yes do this or you lose their value), and (6) repeat. That way you clear 2 to 4 ships at a time rather than one by one.

Since you never know when an S-ship or exotic will fly in, I usually only buy up to the last parking space on my freighter, and always leave one parking spot available in case a rare ship flies in. This is all calculated in your head at the station...you just have to remember how many parking spots you have left.

Typically I will keep storage modules and stasis device components, since if you use those components to make stasis devices you will get far MORE units back than you ever spent on scrapping. I also keep the wiring looms and antimatter from the upgrade breakdown, just cuz. But if you don't know how to make stasis devices, and are just saving storage mods, then you should get at least 70% of the purchase price back. I usually will start scrapping with 100 million units, and that usually will last me a good hour or so. By the end you will have about 20,000 to 50,000 more nanites, plus enough stasis device components to easily make up the spread between your purchase price and return on selling.

[Maviba]

Originally posted by bill4725:

I scrapped a ship but it jipped me of the 3.4M units ship sold fine but the units didn't go into my inventory is this a known bug with the update

I scrapped 3 ships that came along with the twitch drops yesterday and got about 30 mil for those three + modules for my other ships.

So I can't complain. its easy money, especially for new players who are in need for it.
The better the class you scrap, the better the money you get.