How do I sell my ship?

[Tumble Trash᠌ ⁧⁧ Official]

Do I need more than one before I can sell?

[ling.speed]

I think you need to have a ship, so cant sell last one. With exception that when purchasing another ship you can select "trade-in" for your current ship. That will sell your last ship and immediately use the money to buy the new one.

[[E] Shrike]

Originally posted by ling.speed:

I think you need to have a ship, so cant sell last one. With exception that when purchasing another ship you can select "trade-in" for your current ship. That will sell your last ship and immediately use the money to buy the new one.

This is absolutely correct. It's to prevent you from accidentally softlocking yourself if you come in with a beat-up ship and not enough funds to buy a new one.
I suppose you could, with no crew, possibly try to play the market to get back into the game, but that seems really not fun as a major aspect of gameplay (Unlike Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator, say, which is focused on that).

[Tumble Trash᠌ ⁧⁧ Official]

Was figuring it was something like that. doesn't matter now, found copious amounts a corpses that got me rolling in cash along with a derelict ship that also made me loads of cash.

[ling.speed]

Originally posted by E Shrike:

I suppose you could, with no crew, possibly try to play the market to get back into the game, but that seems really not fun as a major aspect of gameplay (Unlike Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator, say, which is focused on that).

You can have crew not on a ship, for example mechanics supposedly repair other ships faster if left on a station (mentioned in few places but i've been having mixed results with that).
So you can play mechanic as well. Buy trashed vehicles, repair and sell for profit. But i think mechanics only get to work when you go away on a ring dive, so kind of pointless to have helpers in that case.

[hev]

Originally posted by ling.speed:

Originally posted by E Shrike:

I suppose you could, with no crew, possibly try to play the market to get back into the game, but that seems really not fun as a major aspect of gameplay (Unlike Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator, say, which is focused on that).

You can have crew not on a ship, for example mechanics supposedly repair other ships faster if left on a station (mentioned in few places but i've been having mixed results with that).
So you can play mechanic as well. Buy trashed vehicles, repair and sell for profit. But i think mechanics only get to work when you go away on a ring dive, so kind of pointless to have helpers in that case.

Luckily, the repair benefit that mechanics give is based on the number of available mechanics at the time you're repairing/replacing the equipment, regardless of whether they're on board your ship or not. It only doesn't count a mechanic if they're on medical leave.

[ling.speed]

Originally posted by Hatsune Miku (real):

Luckily, the repair benefit that mechanics give is based on the number of available mechanics at the time you're repairing/replacing the equipment, regardless of whether they're on board your ship or not. It only doesn't count a mechanic if they're on medical leave.

Good to know, so it does not work! At least on my save i was initially comparing effects of mechanics while at station. Hmmm gotta test more then... thanks

[NimrodX]

You sort of can sell when you have only one ship, but it’s called a trade in and you can only do it when buying another ship.

So you can sell when you only have one ship, but only in the same transaction of buying a replacement.

If you find that you’ve screwed yourself trading in for too much of a lemon I think this is reversible by trading in the new ship for the old one (which should show up in the dealership).