Quick guide on finding abandoned ships

[ThisIsOli]

It's really quick!

1) Long range scan constantly
2) Look for groupings of "unknown objects" - these are generally mines that surround abandoned ships)
3) Check the tags! Abandoned ships will not have a faction assigned
4) Get in to your space suit, enter scan mode and look for the red beacon (regular boarding will generally destroy most of the ship modules
5) Once scanned enter the ship and enjoy!

[ThisIsOli]

*edit* destroy the mines before you claim :P

[Peater]

Thanks.

[Grimreaper]

I have seen a lot of these ???? but i never saw a ship, once when i removed all of them a lockbox appeared, it is super annoying......

[Itchy_Scrotbag]

I luckily found a mammoth of a ship, I sold it for 1.9 million and bought a nice fighter instead

[Han Swolo]

Also, don’t just sell. Strip all parts first THEN sell. You get waaaaaay more cash this way.

Also also, most of these ships are spawned based on mission offers. So if you start claiming random mining ships and then you see quests to rescue a mining ship .... take it at your own discretion. You could lose control of the ship you just painstakingly took and upgraded ....

Hasn’t happened to me yet but I NEVER take quests to retrieve ships. I find them and take them myself lol

[ThisIsOli]

I think quest ones generally have an owner :P

[Raven Zahadoom]

Originally posted by Grimreaper:

I have seen a lot of these ???? but i never saw a ship, once when i removed all of them a lockbox appeared, it is super annoying......

Yeah mines don't only protect abandoned ships, sometimes locked boxes and sometimes seemingly nothing (I don't know the real reason but in a roleplaying way I'd like to think those are the ones some NPC already found and took the ship or locked box)

[jeric0]

So question for a noob, are these abandoned ships the same as the wrecked ones I see floating around in asteroid belts sometimes?

[TrinityC]

Wow, ok, didn't know about the swarms of unknown objects. I figured they were just mines. Wow, there are cookies hidden in some minefields. Time to go play :)

[Darkspear]

i opended a impossible lockbox crate, 2x4 bombs, tilting and spinning fast. when i finally got the last one after quickloading 15 times, gues what came out?
5 tracker mines, i was 50 meters away..... reloaded and nailed them: reward 2 spacefly and a decryption thingy