Matrix Games Forums

 Forums  Register  Login  Photo Gallery  Member List  Search  Calendars  FAQ 

My Profile  Inbox  Address Book  My Subscription  My Forums  Log Out

Bonus for Scrapping ships?

 
View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
Users viewing this topic: none
  Printable Version
All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> Distant Worlds 1 Series >> The War Room >> Bonus for Scrapping ships? Page: [1]
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
Bonus for Scrapping ships? - 2/10/2012 6:01:05 PM   
Evrett


Posts: 142
Joined: 11/29/2011
Status: offline 		Is there any benefit to tech for scrapping a high tech ship at a planet? I got a refugee frigate that is very high tech and I was wondering if there was any way to salvage tech from it?

_____________________________

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'" - Ronald Reagan
Post #: 1
RE: Bonus for Scrapping ships? - 2/10/2012 6:12:32 PM   
feelotraveller


Posts: 1040
Joined: 9/12/2011
Status: offline 		In short, yes you will get a tech advance if you retire it at one of your spaceports.

You get a research bonus for retiring (not scrapping) ships at any of your spaceports if those ships contain components you do not (yet) know the tech for. The bonus is based on tech level of the components. You may get an entire tech from very advanced ships early on, but may only recieve a small contribution to a tech for basic techs you do not know later in the game. I believe the bonus is from the most advanced component on the ship if there are several. Size of the ship does not matter. The tech bonus will be in the general category of the advanced component, but is somewhat random. If there are several equally advanced components I believe it is also randomly decided which one provides the bonus.

Oh, and you get the resources used to construct the ship.

(in reply to Evrett)
Post #: 2
RE: Bonus for Scrapping ships? - 2/10/2012 6:30:10 PM   
Evrett


Posts: 142
Joined: 11/29/2011
Status: offline 		Nifty thanks! Retire not scrap! got it!

edit bleh I got a free low lvl engine tech that I never researched because my racial was better..should've kept the ship

< Message edited by Evrett -- 2/10/2012 7:55:09 PM >

_____________________________

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'" - Ronald Reagan

(in reply to feelotraveller)
Post #: 3
RE: Bonus for Scrapping ships? - 2/14/2012 4:01:55 PM   
Tomatoes

 

Posts: 24
Joined: 1/11/2012
Status: offline 		I never scrap the adavanced ships.

The way the tech system works for scrapping a ship is it will update the most out of date tech that the ship has that you dont have.

eg.

So if you have amazing missles and lasers but have not tech'd your torpedoes at all.

It will prob improve that tech as it is most out of date

I always scrap the ships i find of "simlar tech" to my current ships but the advance ones with torrent drives all find themselves in their own fleet. (this is due to them having the same hyper speed.)

Size makes no odds but generally small ships get scrapped. Big ones get kept.


Hope this helps....

(in reply to Evrett)
Post #: 4
RE: Bonus for Scrapping ships? - 2/14/2012 8:03:13 PM   
adecoy95


Posts: 420
Joined: 3/26/2010
Status: offline 		retire the tiny ships, keep the big ones, imo

(in reply to Tomatoes)
Post #: 5
RE: Bonus for Scrapping ships? - 2/15/2012 8:35:38 PM   
CyclopsSlayer


Posts: 583
Joined: 2/11/2012
Status: offline 		Not sure how it determines the tech, but...

Very early in my current game I found an abandoned Med Space Port and 5 ships near it. Claiming the Port gave me knowledge of Enhanced Hyper, then retiring all 5 of the ships completed High Speed Hyper and Hyper Slipstreaming, and got me like 80% into Hyper Flow Dynamics. All that in like the first year or 2 of a game, well, 23000 speed hyper drives made the early exploration phase trivially fast.

So going by that, maybe it was winning the lottery and never going to happen again, but I am willing to scrap on the off chance.. lol

(in reply to adecoy95)
Post #: 6
RE: Bonus for Scrapping ships? - 2/21/2012 5:11:01 PM   
LiquidSky


Posts: 2811
Joined: 6/24/2008
Status: offline

Yes, I like to scrap them all at once. Usually wait until I am finished with all the debris fields, then I keep the Captials, Cruisers and Troops ships, and scrap the rest. That way my tech is reasonably advanced and I can get a few free techs from them..usually engines.

_____________________________

“My logisticians are a humorless lot … they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.” – Alexander the Great

(in reply to CyclopsSlayer)
Post #: 7
Page:   [1]
All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> Distant Worlds 1 Series >> The War Room >> Bonus for Scrapping ships? Page: [1]
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts


Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.4.5 ANSI

4.141