Free ships

[כבוד צום ערשטן]

Hi,
I think I found a bug,
I swapped my ship for a cheaper one then I went to my old ship, I talked with new owner and I could take this ship back for free, so I had now new ship (the one I swapped for) and my old ship.
I have tried it a few times and after every swap I could get my old ship back for free.
I don't think this is how this swapping should work.
Maybe someone had the same bug?

[Geldric™]

Yes for several years now. Ssssssssshhhhhhhhh

[Mr. Bufferlow]

It could be a bug, but more likely someone did not get the memo when developing that "feature". It seems to be really common that one Dev will develop something based on the current status of the game while another changes the status that the first one was programming for.

Case in point are the interpreter upgrades. Those would have been helpful and make sense when the station NPCs still had conversation strings that required you to guess the right answer. If you got it right, you got a small reward and if wrong, you might even take some damage.

At the same time the interpreter upgrades were added, they changed the dialogs (the starting dialog is still in the game) so that you only get three pre-set choices regardless of what the NPC sez to you. Sounds like a planning screw-up since those addons are essentially useless and came out of the box that way.

I am guessing one of the Devs thought it would be a nice QOL feature if you could exchange for a ship (if you didn't have funds to buy it and add to your collection) and still get back your favorite ride. It is rare when I am tooling around in one of my worst ships and that probably holds true for most players.

Current day, it is kind of goofy since getting rich quick is no longer an issue. Adding scrapping makes the feature even worse- an easy exploit. HG seems to have kind of given up since the Save Game Editor was introduced. If you are seeking an exploit for quick wealth, the simple answer is just to give yourself as much credits/nanites/QS as you need in a 10 second transaction then waste your time using some game exploit.

[כבוד צום ערשטן]

Thx for answers, after a few tries my eq in ships bugged (swapped between my other ships I didn't swap) so I don't think it's safe way to make profit, also kinda breaks the game I think

[Geldric™]

I’ve done this procedure for hours. The ONLY bug is that if you have moved your hyperdrive into the tech slots; a second one will appear in your ships inventory when you swap back.

As with many things, you should turn off multiplayer if you have other players nearby like on an Expedition or Weekend event.

[כבוד צום ערשטן]

That's usefull information, I didn't turn off multiplayer, thx

[Geldric™]

I will also add that if you do end up with 2 hyperdrives; your only recourse is to sell the ship or use the Save Editor. The hyperdrive is one of those items that can be moved but never deleted (in game).

The trick is to earn just enough to start the buy/swap/scrap. I usually try to get around 500-600k. Selling salvaged data is fairly quick. You'll also want to replace your original ship with say a 1.2mil or 2mil ship otherwise you loose money when you are trying to buy a 3mil ship and you only get 700k trade-in.

[כבוד צום ערשטן]

I have never had problem with two hyperdrives (I wasn't trading as much as you) is that common problem when you trade?

And I saw that today about the prices that it's really easy to trade with expensive ship, but I was scared for loosing the most expensive I have so I was using this cheaper ones, but now I know that my worries was unfounded

I don't know how I did't know about this trading thing

[Geldric™]

The 2 hyperdrives issue only happens when you go back to your original ship & ‘buy’ it back for free. Then if you’ve moved it to the tech slot, another one is placed in your inventory.

[כבוד צום ערשטן]

Ok, so to avoid this you should have it installed in inventory and it shouldn't copy I think

[Geldric™]

Yup