I'm looking for a viper at the moment but am having a lot of trouble locating one to buy. Any suggestions as to a location where one can buy ships that has a good inventory?
I'm looking for a viper at the moment but am having a lot of trouble locating one to buy. Any suggestions as to a location where one can buy ships that has a good inventory?
I'm looking for a viper at the moment but am having a lot of trouble locating one to buy. Any suggestions as to a location where one can buy ships that has a good inventory?
This is where I get most of my stuff too. Panshin Ring in Fiden is just around the corner and has some stuff Ray Gateway lacks. For people with at least one Elite rank there's of course always Jameson Memorial in Shinrarta Dezhra with all the ships and modules that exist at 10% discount.Diaguandri, Ray Gateway. High tech system. All ships and modules 15 % off.
Lol'sPut your required ship and your current location "reference system" into here - https://eddb.io/station
And Robert is your mother's brother.
........... When you sell the ship, you only get the discounted price for it. If you had paid the full price, you get the full price back when you sell it. Whatever you paid, you get the same money back as if it were a loan, so you didn't save anything.
IMHO, it's not worth flying to the systems that offer discounts on ship and module costs for two reasons. Firstly, in the time it takes you to get there, you could probably have earned more money. As an example, it will take say 20 minutes to fly to Diaguandri from a starter system to get a 20,000cr discount on a Viper. You can make, on average, 300,000cr in 20 minutes using the basic starter Sidewinder to farm bounties in a high resource extraction site, so in the same time, you'd have enough money to buy two Vipers at full price and keep the money that you would have spent on the discount one.
Secondly, the discount is only an illusion. When you sell the ship, you only get the discounted price for it. If you had paid the full price, you get the full price back when you sell it. Whatever you paid, you get the same money back as if it were a loan, so you didn't save anything.
Good point. well presented.Minus a percentage - only modules sell at full purchase price.
Op was talking about a Viper though. My advice is for beginners because this is the beginners forum.On the other hand, for a more expensive ship is does pay off, if you plan it right, and for example include a side trip to an engineer after buying the ship. And the discount is also included into the rebuy, which is then also 15% (Li Yong-Rui) cheaper.
That was very true back when the game first started and credits were hard to earn, but now, from a new start, without any skill, you can have enough credits to buy a top spec Anaconda within about 12 hours. When you're making 1/4 billion a trip, discounts are irrelevant. Credits no longer have any value as currency. Engineering materials are the new currency that you need.Even at Scrooge McDuck levels of wealth, I still like my ships and major equipment to be discounted.
It cuts down rebuy and more importantly transfer fees.
Why waste money when I only do things for fun ? it only whittles away at my fun fund.
IMHO, it's not worth flying to the systems that offer discounts
Hmmmm!. What are you going to see on the way from Kremainn to Diaguandri - 20 yellow stars?It's worth it just to get out and see things.
Hmmmm!. What are you going to see on the way from Kremainn to Diaguandri - 20 yellow stars?