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Title: Rare Finds In Space (Mods Included)
Post by: Takion Kasukedo on May 23, 2017, 07:52:55 AM: What's the rarest find you've found in space?

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Got this while heading to Corona Australis, MIRV included.
Title: Re: Rare Finds In Space (Mods Included)
Post by: cjuicy on May 23, 2017, 08:01:29 AM: I found a black hole system with two research stations and a full [REDACTED] station. The loot was beautiful.
Title: Re: Rare Finds In Space (Mods Included)
Post by: isaacssv552 on May 23, 2017, 09:48:00 AM: A Terran world with rich farmland, massive organics, ultrarich ore, and abundant rare ore. Unfortunately, we can't make outposts yet so it was just another class V survey chip.
Title: Re: Rare Finds In Space (Mods Included)
Post by: Destructively Phased on May 23, 2017, 03:02:47 PM: I had someone in one of my streams who'd found an odyssey just floating in hyperspace and was able to reactivate it.

Otherwise, my finds include a Sunder in the belts near chicomoztoc (brilliant early game start, especially if you get ion beams. Just look at a domain drone and it dies), a colossus floating in hyperspace, numerous class V and IV worlds, a research station, both types of [REDACTED] station, a mothership and a healthy respect for flies smashed into windscreens when those "friendly" prospectors turn out to be not so friendly.
Title: Re: Rare Finds In Space (Mods Included)
Post by: StarSchulz on May 23, 2017, 08:43:29 PM: Sometimes i get mad lucky when i start a new game and just find things. once i found a monitor that was salvageable, before i even docked to Jangala.

Other times, though...
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Title: Re: Rare Finds In Space (Mods Included)
Post by: Midnight Kitsune on May 23, 2017, 11:32:15 PM: Quote from: StarSchulz on May 23, 2017, 08:43:29 PM
Sometimes i get mad lucky when i start a new game and just find things. once i found a monitor that was salvageable, before i even docked to Jangala.

Other times, though...
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Hehehe I see you found the trolling Panda
Title: Re: Rare Finds In Space (Mods Included)
Post by: dk1332 on May 24, 2017, 06:27:42 PM: Quote from: StarSchulz on May 23, 2017, 08:43:29 PM
Sometimes i get mad lucky when i start a new game and just find things. once i found a monitor that was salvageable, before i even docked to Jangala.

Other times, though...
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Lel, one of the best things in 0.8

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found a working one though, near a TT station
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Title: Re: Rare Finds In Space (Mods Included)
Post by: Clockwork Owl on May 26, 2017, 01:24:50 AM: When you Transverse jump because it is the only planet in the system and will certainly have the contract target and see...
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Title: Re: Rare Finds In Space (Mods Included)
Post by: Igncom1 on May 26, 2017, 02:20:21 AM: I found a couple of Onslaught battleships today!

I just had to remove the surrounding hegemony fleets from them first ;D
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Post by: isaacssv552 on May 26, 2017, 10:55:50 AM: I found a pristine imperium dreadnaught yesterday. No need for restoration, just basic hull repair.
Title: Re: Rare Finds In Space (Mods Included)
Post by: Hussar on May 26, 2017, 06:22:57 PM: Spoiler
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Not the ship, but the missiles - Lens HDEM rack. They dropped out from a research station and it's literally the first time I ever saw them anywhere across all my playthroughs. I always loved the old laser torpedoes from Tartiflette's 'old' SCY mod - and these somewhat remind me of them. Though I guess they act more like sabot's in fact, like very explosive (+ some emp) sabot's :D

They're pretty nifty coup' de grace weapon. Naturally I simply had to put them on my Vesper (wink to Soren and his description of how Vesper crews love to tinker and customize those ships). :)
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Post by: Death_Silence_66 on May 27, 2017, 05:08:25 AM: Came out of the jump point to find a survey ship and a mess of probes.
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Post by: Jay2Jay on May 31, 2017, 07:32:46 PM: First game on vanilla 0.8a I was on a "scan something or other mission" on the edge of the starmap when I found a derelict onslaught. I saved, but found there was no way I could get enough fuel to bring it back, so I had to leave it there :(
Title: Re: Rare Finds In Space (Mods Included)
Post by: intrinsic_parity on May 31, 2017, 09:41:14 PM: You could probably take them and then immediately mothball them. You should be able to make it back to port and stick them in storage until you can actually use them.
Title: Re: Rare Finds In Space (Mods Included)
Post by: xenoargh on May 31, 2017, 10:31:45 PM: Quote
come to think of it, if I didn't salvage or board them but just left, will they still be there months later?
Usually, yes.
Title: Re: Rare Finds In Space (Mods Included)
Post by: AxleMC131 on June 01, 2017, 02:34:57 AM: Quote from: Network Pesci on May 31, 2017, 08:57:01 PM
Hey, come to think of it, if I didn't salvage or board them but just left, will they still be there months later?

Only if they spawned randomly as part of the sector generation - in that case they hang around forever. If they were ships that spawned as a result of a battle, then they disappear after a week or two.

Quote from: intrinsic_parity on May 31, 2017, 09:41:14 PM
You could probably take them and then immediately mothball them. You should be able to make it back to port and stick them in storage until you can actually use them.

Still gotta have the fuel to get them home.
Title: Re: Rare Finds In Space (Mods Included)
Post by: Drokkath on June 01, 2017, 04:23:15 AM: Well, for me so far, the most rarest of finds wasn't in space but instead seeing one of my modified and altered vessel on sale in a market for the first time. My reaction was: "WHAT!??? ???"

Not sure what exactly makes a ship available to be bought from a market, probably something to do with stability of a port/station/planet and the price of the ship which I always set to very high, so yeah.. was quite baffled. :-\
Title: Re: Rare Finds In Space (Mods Included)
Post by: AxleMC131 on June 01, 2017, 01:26:35 PM: Quote from: Drokkath on June 01, 2017, 04:23:15 AM
Well, for me so far, the most rarest of finds wasn't in space but instead seeing one of my modified and altered vessel on sale in a market for the first time. My reaction was: "WHAT!??? ???"

Not sure what exactly makes a ship available to be bought from a market, probably something to do with stability of a port/station/planet and the price of the ship which I always set to very high, so yeah.. was quite baffled. :-\

Basically if it's set to spawn in a faction, then it has a chance to spawn in that faction's market. I'm fairly sure all other factors are irrelevant. (Stability has no effect on ship prices/availability, only on commodities and weapons. Market size however is usually a rough estimation of the quantities of both resources and ships.)
Title: Re: Rare Finds In Space (Mods Included)
Post by: Drokkath on June 01, 2017, 11:44:16 PM: Aye, makes sense. No idea though how I managed to set it to buyable. Come to think of it, I messed up big time, it wasn't a ship I found on the market but one of my modified weapons. That or it was both a ship and a weapon. *facepalm*

Pardon my memory, I tend to zone out in the game sometimes so hard that it is a bit of a grey haze afterwards.
Title: Re: Rare Finds In Space (Mods Included)
Post by: AxleMC131 on June 01, 2017, 11:58:55 PM: Quote from: Drokkath on June 01, 2017, 11:44:16 PM
Aye, makes sense. No idea though how I managed to set it to buyable. Come to think of it, I messed up big time, it wasn't a ship I found on the market but one of my modified weapons. That or it was both a ship and a weapon. *facepalm*

Pardon my memory, I tend to zone out in the game sometimes so hard that it is a bit of a grey haze afterwards.

All good. ;) Weapons are more likely. You have to have a faction using a ship for it to spawn in the ship market, but weapons always have a chance of spawning in markets regardless of whether anyone's using them or not (although if they are it does increase the chance/quantity of spawning).
Title: Re: Rare Finds In Space (Mods Included)
Post by: Drokkath on June 02, 2017, 12:11:05 AM: Ah, thanks. A little jog to the memory sure digs out the truth. :D

Other than that rare find, I've started collecting various ships from the hostile/yet-to-be-hostile fleets sometimes with the help of Console Commands to put them in an abandoned station's storage quickly as anything below my usual burn level of about 16-20 gets bogged down to about 6-10, depends of what ship I've recovered. Fun later on to test the recovered and restored ships. Haven't yet gotten a rare find there personally but I guess anything from the 14th battlegroup/heg militarized I've found and restored counts along with those new pirate painted versions of ships.