finding new ships

[jackal[ronin]]

I think I am missing a step. I've tried using the Sentinel Interceptor 'trick' got get new ship parts but every time I go to salvage them for parts, I can only salvage them for scrap.

I've been farming the 'emergency signal maps' and in like 20 of them I've only found 1 ship.

how do yall do it?

[Rathyel]

Originally posted by Felis_Exploria:

It doesn't sound like you are going to the correct terminal. One allows you to upgrade or trade for scrap. The other let's you dismantle for a single piece or build. The latter terminal is in between the ship modifier and personal (character) modifier.

No, the terminal on the left lets you scrap a ship or dismantle it for parts. The one in the middle is exclusively for building.
Important is you cannot dismantle interceptors, exotics or shuttles for parts, since they are not possible to build.

[smurfy]

Originally posted by Felis_Exploria:

It doesn't sound like you are going to the correct terminal. One allows you to upgrade or trade for scrap. The other let's you dismantle for a single piece or build. The latter terminal is in between the ship modifier and personal (character) modifier.

Wut?

Originally posted by jackalronin:

I think I am missing a step. I've tried using the Sentinel Interceptor 'trick' got get new ship parts but every time I go to salvage them for parts, I can only salvage them for scrap.

I've been farming the 'emergency signal maps' and in like 20 of them I've only found 1 ship.

how do yall do it?

1stly, only certain types of ships can be broken down at the station terminal to provide parts for building.
Fighter, Hauler, Explorer, Solar.
You can't get parts from Shuttles, Exotics or Interceptors. You can only break those down to sellable scrap.

Not sure what you think the "interceptor trick" is? Interceptors are the easiest to farm multiple ships from a Harmonic Camp and scrap them for huge profits, which you can then simply spend on buying up qualifying type NPC ships at a Station or planetary Archive or Trade Platform to get the exact parts you want without having to hunt for wrecks. You can then assemble those parts at the Station.

[Element]

Originally posted by jackalronin:

Sentinel Interceptor 'trick' got get new ship parts but every time I go to salvage them for parts, I can only salvage them for scrap.

This is not clear English. Do you mean you are trying to get parts from Sentinel Interceptors? You can't. The only ships you can get parts from to customize your own are Haulter, Fighter, Explorer, and Solar. And even though several of the Expedition rewards ships are classified as Fighters, you cannot get parts from them. I know for a fact that it DOES work with the Iron Vulture, but all of the "special" looking ships (Boundary Herald, Starborn Phoenix, etc.) will not let you get parts. I can't speak to the Golden Vector, though. I may have to go test that one out...

[Doc Moriarty]

Once you have a good amount of cash you just buy cheap C-class ships (~4.5 million a pop) that have parts you want and dismantle them for parts.

[Ozwald]

Originally posted by Felis_Exploria:

It doesn't sound like you are going to the correct terminal. One allows you to upgrade or trade for scrap. The other let's you dismantle for a single piece or build. The latter terminal is in between the ship modifier and personal (character) modifier.

Poppycock. The scrap terminal is the parts terminal. The other terminal is just for building.

Originally posted by Element:

I can't speak to the Golden Vector, though. I may have to go test that one out...

It's built out of standard parts, so I wouldn't see why not.

[jackal[ronin]]

Originally posted by smurfy:

You can't get parts from Shuttles, Exotics or Interceptors. You can only break those down to sellable scrap.

OOOHHHH, this is what I am missing. so you go get the interceptor, turn that into cash and then shop around for ships with the parts you want. I get it now.

Originally posted by smurfy:

Not sure what you think the "interceptor trick" is?

i put it in quotes because there's lots of youtube vids saying this is how you get parts... One Neat Trick, but they seemed to imply that you get the ship parts directly from the interceptors. the trick is "piss off a sentinel, fly into space, beat the flagship"

[smurfy]

Originally posted by jackalronin:

...the trick is "piss off a sentinel, fly into space, beat the flagship"

Guide for farming Sentinel ships from another thread:

Originally posted by smurfy:

There's much easier ways. You don't need to fight the ships at all if you stay out of your starship. You can either fight 5 waves on foot (progressively harder including the cloaking quads and mini-quads) and on defeating the 5th wave, a single ship site will be marked for you.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3021941306
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3021941426
Or you can use the even easier method..

Find Dissonance Resonators, they look like a drill on legs guarded by corrupted sentinels.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3029391807
Walk up to it. It will either say it yields an Inverted Mirror or an Echo Locator.
Destroy it and either fight or evade the sentinels on foot (or in an exocraft).

When you get an Echo Locator, activate it in your inventory and it will reveal the location of a Harmonic Camp.

Note: You'll need the Inverted Mirrors too, so claim them when you find them.

When you arrive at the camp, put down a save beacon or a base computer to mark the spot.
Activate the terminal. If it is your first time doing so, you will unlock a Jetpack visual mod.
Solve the maths problems to unlock the terminal.
Unlock the sentinel multitool cabinet and claim that if you want it.
Return to the terminal and scan for dissonance spikes.
This will reveal the location of an instance of the crashed sentinel interceptor. Go an claim it (you'll need to do a minor repair quest).
Return to the camp and scan again. It will reveal another instance of that version of the Interceptor, but with re-rolled stats (could be a different/better class, it will have different slots unlocked and different supercharged slot locations and possibly have extra tech pre-installed).
You can repeat this at that camp until it returns you to the first site again. At that point, remove the save beacon/base computer.
You can then repeat the steps, find another Resonator with an Echo Locator and find a new camp to farm more.
Each C class ship you claim will be worth at least 20 million in scrap if you don't want to keep them.

[Ozwald]

Originally posted by jackalronin:

because there's lots of youtube vids saying

Well there's your problem.

[Darrcelf]

At least he tried to look up something before asking here - Hats off !!