I posted this advice on another thread but thought it might be useful in general: Feel free to add your own opinions and perhaps advice on good systems for buying and storing ships or good combos for pairs of ships at different budgets?.. anyway here it is:
Home System -
- It is a good idea to pick a home system where you store your ships of the future (ideally one with a large technology based economy) the reason is this system will sell lots of different ships and have many modules available for you to outfit them with. the last thing you want as a home system is a farming planet where the only thing you can buy is a crop harvester attached to a Type 6.
- If you are stuck for ideas I would suggest going to Li Yong Rui space and searching for a system there as you get 15% off any ships and modules you buy there. This will also reduce your rebuy costs by 15% if you die too.... handy!
New ship purchase advice -
- when you buy a new ship I try not to sell the original as you will lose 10% of the value of what you sell... However you can sell all the modules and weapons, reduce the power plant, FSD to their cheapest and smallest E class variants leaving only a shell. This means you can still re-fit your old ship later without losing any of your hard earned credits!
WARNING -Once you have reduced your power-plant to a small E class DO NOT LAUNCH or you may not be able to even power up your thrusters. This will result in you getting killed by the station for loitering, you have been warned !
- You can buy and sell modules and swap them between ships without losing any credits. For example; if you dont have enough money to have a MkiV Cobra and a Fer-de-Lance (you cant fly both at once anyway)... when your not Bounty hunting in your FDL you strip out the parts and use the money to refit your Cobra to do missions. or Vice Versa. This will allow you to use multiple ships without having to have them both outfitted all the time. Cash Recycling basically!I hope thats useful (generally selling ships should be a last resort unless its a cheap ship anyway and you dont care if you lose 10% of its value) -
NEVER NEVER NEVER sell a ship without removing all the modules first or you will lose 10% of all the value of your modules as well!
I hope thats useful advice for all venturing into the world of Multi-Ship ownership - I find one is never enough....... just ask my hareem of ladies on Lave station!
If anyone is interested in Joining Delta Squadron for more help/advice visit this thread - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=219440
Cmdr Burtonias
Home System -
- It is a good idea to pick a home system where you store your ships of the future (ideally one with a large technology based economy) the reason is this system will sell lots of different ships and have many modules available for you to outfit them with. the last thing you want as a home system is a farming planet where the only thing you can buy is a crop harvester attached to a Type 6.
- If you are stuck for ideas I would suggest going to Li Yong Rui space and searching for a system there as you get 15% off any ships and modules you buy there. This will also reduce your rebuy costs by 15% if you die too.... handy!
New ship purchase advice -
- when you buy a new ship I try not to sell the original as you will lose 10% of the value of what you sell... However you can sell all the modules and weapons, reduce the power plant, FSD to their cheapest and smallest E class variants leaving only a shell. This means you can still re-fit your old ship later without losing any of your hard earned credits!
WARNING -Once you have reduced your power-plant to a small E class DO NOT LAUNCH or you may not be able to even power up your thrusters. This will result in you getting killed by the station for loitering, you have been warned !
- You can buy and sell modules and swap them between ships without losing any credits. For example; if you dont have enough money to have a MkiV Cobra and a Fer-de-Lance (you cant fly both at once anyway)... when your not Bounty hunting in your FDL you strip out the parts and use the money to refit your Cobra to do missions. or Vice Versa. This will allow you to use multiple ships without having to have them both outfitted all the time. Cash Recycling basically!I hope thats useful (generally selling ships should be a last resort unless its a cheap ship anyway and you dont care if you lose 10% of its value) -
NEVER NEVER NEVER sell a ship without removing all the modules first or you will lose 10% of all the value of your modules as well!
I hope thats useful advice for all venturing into the world of Multi-Ship ownership - I find one is never enough....... just ask my hareem of ladies on Lave station!
If anyone is interested in Joining Delta Squadron for more help/advice visit this thread - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=219440
Cmdr Burtonias
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