Deploy/Redeploy purchased ships.

[CDR Dracos]

I understand that storing components from an ARX purchased ship is not good for the obvious reasons. But would it be possible to have the option that if you engineer components on ARX purchased ships to be able to "sell" back the ship for 0 credits and keep the engineering intact? For example engineering the SCO FSD in the new Panther Clipper but wanting to sell it back so you can redeploy at another station that you travel to in a more jump friendly ship. Maybe I am misunderstanding things but it seems that engineering is pretty much a waste of mats since you lose the component when you sell back the ship and thus the mats you expended for the engineering.

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[aRJay]

I understand that storing components from an ARX purchased ship is not good for the obvious reasons. But would it be possible to have the option that if you engineer components on ARX purchased ships to be able to "sell" back the ship for 0 credits and keep the engineering intact? For example engineering the SCO FSD in the new Panther Clipper but wanting to sell it back so you can redeploy at another station that you travel to in a more jump friendly ship. Maybe I am misunderstanding things but it seems that engineering is pretty much a waste of mats since you lose the component when you sell back the ship and thus the mats you expended for the engineering.

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If all you have done is engineered the Panther and not added any modules why not move it by ship transfer which should only cost time.

Yes engineering the modules it came with has to be considered as net loss if you don’t intend to keep the ship, however only engineering to a maximum of G3 possibly without experimentals is fairly cheap in materials.

 

[CDR Dracos]

Losing the component is a wash since you get the credits back. Losing the engineering is a loss of time/effort gathering the mats.
True, paying for ship transfer is a possibility.
Guess I'm falling prey to the instant gratification mode.
A more convoluted way I thought of would be to buy a duplicate of the component you want engineered. Install that in the ship and engineer it then switch back to the original when you sell back the ship. Makes my head hurt thinking about it.

Your way seems best

 

[neutchain]

IMHO the ship should "shed" the modules that is different than what it's coming with by default especially if they're engineered. Since you can only deploy 1 at the time as I understand ideally the ship should keep the modules that are on it already but moving the modules to the hangar automatically ( since you have no way to access the outfitting UI remotely ) would be the next best thing. I guess its too much to ask lol.