Selling modules

DrGoo · Jun 14, 2015

I came back to ED recently for the powerplay update. It's ok, a bit of a novelty IMO, but I'm turned off again by the 10% penalty for selling modules.

So, I sold my vulture for a Type 7. I found an okay trade route and thought I would grind for a couple of hours. When I went back to the shipyard, the account balances were not what I was expecting. Then I checked the Wiki, then I saw this stealth nerf.

Some of you may think 10% is not a big deal. If I may point out, insurance re-buy costs are 5% of your ship's value. By selling my ship (perfectly good condition, fully repaired, refuelled and rearmed), I was penalised as if I had been obliterated twice over!! Then twice more to revert back to my vulture or asp. ?? Insurance costs are enough of a heavy penalty as they are!! Plus, I had been tweaking my modules a fair bit during the time, so more losses there.

Ship trade-in costs used to be fine! They encouraged variety!

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Edit: Turns out I was wrong. I'm going to murder that guy on the wiki. And keep better track of my account balance in the future.

Polared · Jun 14, 2015

AFAIK they didn't implement it, it was "tabled!"

Nitek [pl] · Jun 14, 2015

Hmm actually devs cancelled the 10% penalty on modules. You only loose 10% when selling them with your ship

DrGoo · Jun 14, 2015

It was in the patch notes though... I'll have a re-read

Ian Phillips · Jun 14, 2015

The 10% reduction inselling price for used modules has been *temporarily* removed.

As it should have been in the game from the start, it will be back in the future, in some form or other.

samz812 · Jun 14, 2015

its only 10% if folks are selling there entire ship and weapons just to get another ship then they shouldn't be using that new ship cause i doubt they would have it insured or have the cash to fit it.

DrGoo · Jun 14, 2015

Okay okay, I see where they reversed it.

Silly me. I'll be keeping a record of costs from now on.

Patrick_68000 · Jun 14, 2015

Ian Phillips said:
The 10% reduction inselling price for used modules has been *temporarily* removed.

As it should have been in the game from the start, it will be back in the future, in some form or other.

Exactly. Frontier has always considered that the resale of modules must undergo a discount

DrGoo · Jun 14, 2015

What for? I trade-in ships often. I find it adds to the variety of gameplay.

If I had to self-destruct twice every time I swapped ships, I'd still be flying sidey / eagle / hauler.

tdshooter · Jun 14, 2015

erhh dude they didnt actually put it in.... if your balance werent what you was expecting thats your own mistake

fly_slightly · Jun 14, 2015

FDev should add the purchase of used modules as a feature when they decide to add 10% reduction in selling price.

Polared · Jun 14, 2015

DrGoo said:
What for? I trade-in ships often. I find it adds to the variety of gameplay.

If I had to self-destruct twice every time I swapped ships, I'd still be flying sidey / eagle / hauler.

I think the 10% makes sense if you've been using the modules for a period of time, but only if there was:
A. limited module storage feature
B. Try before you buy
C. Hot swapping of modules between ships
A+C probably with some sort of associated low level cost
if you want to sell used modules to generate credits then I agree that there should be a "hit" on that cash, and personally i'd put it even higher than 10% if the other options were available.

fieval · Jun 14, 2015

Polared said:
I think the 10% makes sense if you've been using the modules for a period of time, but only if there was:
A. limited module storage feature
B. Try before you buy
C. Hot swapping of modules between ships
A+C probably with some sort of associated low level cost
if you want to sell used modules to generate credits then I agree that there should be a "hit" on that cash, and personally i'd put it even higher than 10% if the other options were available.

A and C for me... limited storage 2 -3 parts at the most.