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hydremajor

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Why are ships sold by the player so stupidly cheap ?
« on: December 11, 2021, 12:16:08 AM »

Like seriously WTF even is the point of selling ships at THIS conversion rate ?

basically the players sells ships at what I suspect is a sub 10% of their original value basically guaranteeing that ships are just about never worth picking up to sell....
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intrinsic_parity

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Re: Why are ships sold by the player so stupidly cheap ?
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2021, 12:24:08 AM »

Yes, that's the idea. Alex doesn't want the player to feel obligated to pick up and drag around every ship they find to sell.

Also, low sell prices lets the ship drop rate from combat be high so that you can have a decent chance of recovering the ships you want without getting unbalanced amounts of money.
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Re: Why are ships sold by the player so stupidly cheap ?
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2021, 08:19:31 AM »

If you don't like it, you can always adjust it in your settings file.
I am making a note of this. Plans are mutating in my brain.
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Re: Why are ships sold by the player so stupidly cheap ?
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2021, 08:38:18 AM »

You'll almost always get more for scuttling ships than selling them due to D-Mods.
Scuttling gives you supplies, heavy machinery, and fuel, which are all immediately useful to the player,
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hydremajor

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Re: Why are ships sold by the player so stupidly cheap ?
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2021, 11:27:57 AM »

If you don't like it, you can always adjust it in your settings file.

starting to think there should be a pinned post detailling just how much can be adjusted by messing with that, assuming one wants to mess with that concept, what would one look for ?
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Re: Why are ships sold by the player so stupidly cheap ?
« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2021, 12:43:02 PM »

If you don't like it, you can always adjust it in your settings file.

starting to think there should be a pinned post detailling just how much can be adjusted by messing with that, assuming one wants to mess with that concept, what would one look for ?
starsector-core/data/config/settings.json
Tucked away quite deep, but in a logical place if you know it exists.