Newcomer / Intro Any reason to keep ships in multiple stations?

maziou

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Just wondering if there's any benefit to having a ship docked out of the system you're in. Do you get realtime trade data, or anything else?

Thanks for any info
 

Tiny Tove

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I have found no direct and worthwhile benefit to having ships remotely stored. I can understand the desire to maintain a war fleet in a location but even the need for this hasn't emerged. Without shuttles to quickly move from one hub of operations to another hub, again, why maintain remote hubs? And how do you even build one up since you need to have to leave in a valid ship, so you take one vessel in, you have to come out in another. No shuttles...

The only thing I can imagine is that if you find a great milk run trading location and you milk it dry, you might want to leave a giant trade vessel in that location so you can return later to bleed it dry again. The stored vessel will act as a bookmark to the location as you can find the vessel in Shipyard.
 

Painkiller

Painkiller
To confirm what Tiny Tove says. In outer ring of my usually flight path I found milk run between station and Luxury seeking Cows. I am using my Lakon-6. Got tired of trading and wanted some combat. Instead of flying back over 10 jump points to get to my Cobra, I parked my Lak6 , bought Viper and fly myself back to home town :) ..why risking credits when there is no need.
 

theEmohawk

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If you have a trading ship, say an T6 or bigger, and you want to break up the monotony of trading then having a Viper at a station you regularly visit would let you swap into it for a bit of combat. I'm often hundreds of ly from "home" where I have another ship stored. I also have my frEagle in my start system, it's got a few upgrades so worth selling it off, but I rarely go anywhere near LHS 3447 anymore and I've just not got around to it. I was going to move it to my new home system but actually, if I want an Eagle there it would be easier for me to just buy a new one and save the 45 minutes it would take to fly and pick it up in a stripped out Sidewinder.

That brings me to "shuttles" - if you do need to shuttle best option is to buy a Sidewinder, upgrade the FSD and remove all the excess weight. You'll get your money back on the FSD when you sell at the other end.
 

RobWolves

R
theEmohawk said:
If you have a trading ship, say an T6 or bigger, and you want to break up the monotony of trading then having a Viper at a station you regularly visit would let you swap into it for a bit of combat. I'm often hundreds of ly from "home" where I have another ship stored. I also have my frEagle in my start system, it's got a few upgrades so worth selling it off, but I rarely go anywhere near LHS 3447 anymore and I've just not got around to it. I was going to move it to my new home system but actually, if I want an Eagle there it would be easier for me to just buy a new one and save the 45 minutes it would take to fly and pick it up in a stripped out Sidewinder.

That brings me to "shuttles" - if you do need to shuttle best option is to buy a Sidewinder, upgrade the FSD and remove all the excess weight. You'll get your money back on the FSD when you sell at the other end.
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This ^

When I asked something similar and if shuttling was possible, I was told no but to just buy a cheap Sidewinder to shuttle back to grab other ships you mighthave and then sell it. I've been doing it since and now have ships strategically placed (cargo based ship near my favoured trading routes, my Eagle near my fave bounty hunting grounds, etc). Yes it means I have to spend 5 or 10 mins shuttling to which ever ship and task I want to do that night, but it suits me okay until or if they decide to deploy a shuttle you can pay to take you there for x credits or something.
 

cowasaki

cowasaki
I have all my ships at my "home" station. I even bought a sidewinder as a shutter to go and collect one of my ships and bring it home thereby only loosing 10% of it's value.
 

Goilveig

Goilveig
Since you can't yet "favorite" systems or bookmark them in any way, I leave sidewinders across the galaxy in systems I want to remember for some reason :) Then I can see their location from any station with a shipyard.
 

Anton_

Anton_
I leave a Lakon 7 at my favourite trading route while I'm at my favourite hunting ground in my Cobra. When I need more money, I nip back to the L7 and trade a bit, and then leave to spill some more blood when my brain goes numb.
 

InMemoriamSirocco

Banned
InMemoriamSirocco
I also buy Sidewinders and store them in my favourite systems. I also kit them out for long distance travel so I can use them as taxis if need be. Costs me about 200000 cr per Sidewinder.

Aside from my Sidwinders, I have a T6 and an Asp.

I miss having a Viper, though... might buy one soon.
 

Zylark

Zylark
Another reason, is to have some extra insurance. By keeping valuable ships, you won't ever go totally flat broke. Even should you screw up and not have enough for the insurance if you get killed in some other ship, you can take your shiny new free Sidewinder and your 1000 credits and haul off to where you've stored some other ship, and be back in business in no time.

Or like me, you keep the ships you like just for sentimental reasons. Never selling my 7 million Cobra or 23 million Asp, despite pretty soon needing a bit of cash for getting myself an Imp Clipper. The Type 6 I have will have to go though.
 

Krepose Gavayne

Krepose Gavayne
Zylark said:
Another reason, is to have some extra insurance.
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That's what I do. Currently using an Adder to scout out new trading routes and whilst I have enough dosh to cover its insurance (barely), I know that if I die twice I can still go back to my 'home system' in a free Sidey to retrieve one of my other ships.
 

Syax

Syax
I'm guessing that when you are rich enough, 30k for a sidewinder to shuttle to another station to then sell when you arrive would be cheaper than cab fair for said players

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Ah there you go. Silly me , I didn't read the other replies on this post.
 
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