How can I claim a pirate ship?

[MR DEATH]

So I pirate ship attacked me and blew up my ship. I managed to board them and make them surrender. I want to claim the pirate ship so i can move my crew and everything here. Is that possible? Taking apart the pirate ship to rebuild mine would be a real pain.

[Soylent_Greene]

DEATH,

That's your only choice at this point...

There has been quite a few threads regarding tech changes to capture ships intact.
Such as ION Cannons that EMP the engines, then when you board them you get the ship whole.
Optimally there would be a choice of weapons too, non-lethal options to capture enemy crew.

[Cailleach]

I don't care about the method, I just want to be able to capture ships I take over through boarding. It is very frustrating that you cannot even use the medical beds of the enemy ship. Just add it in somehow, and figure out/refine the method later, the game is less fun without this feature.

[Tribersman_FR]

I'm just starting but it look like you can use the medical bed, if you've killed everyone first AND explored the ship.
Then you can order your guy on the medical bed.
But I suspect I'm missing the ability to have my medic work on them

[Stardustfire]

no Timber, problem is when you completly terminate all resistance in another ship and explore the ship it transforms in a derelict, i think thats the problem the TS has in the first place, but it also leads to not useable medbeds on that ship, you crew dont use anything on derelics, only chairs in best case when they need a pause.

[Kasa]

The problem is how this game handles ships, abandoned ships come in 2 types derelict and claimable and only specific ships are claimable while everything becomes a derelict regardless of the condition they are in.

This is because claimable ships give back 100% of the resources used to make then (mins hull) so it would make raiding an enemy ship the most efficient way to get rare resources making the game overall to easy even though it would make logical sense.

[Tribersman_FR]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

no Timber, problem is when you completly terminate all resistance in another ship and explore the ship it transforms in a derelict, i think thats the problem the TS has in the first place, but it also leads to not useable medbeds on that ship, you crew dont use anything on derelics, only chairs in best case when they need a pause.

I definitely got my crew to lie down on one of those bed. Even if I guess it's supposed to have a medical gameplay

Anyway, I think Kasa explained it all.
The downside of being able to reconfigure your ship entirely with no loss is that if you apply the same logic to claimed ship you break any semblance of balance.