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thy_armageddon

Farming for an S-Class ship, there has to be a better way.

Question :snoo_thoughtful:

So I got some money, made a decent amount of progression, figured it was time to find a nice hauler. Scoured the stars a bit, found a nice looking ship and decided hey, why not go for an S-Class of it, how bad could this task be? Long story short, here I am roughly 21 hours later, in the same docking bay that I started in, and it has yet to spawn. I've seen at least 9 S-Class ships that aren't exotic, a dozen exotic ships, and three of which had max inventory, but for the life of me this thing will not spawn as an S. Surely there has to be a more efficient way of just sitting here and waiting for these to roll in and out over and over?

Posted Aug 18, 2018, 10:10 PM UTC

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Killzone3265•

the best method currently is to locate a trade post, save there, and continuously reload that save until the ship you want appears.

i hope this is changed. it's such a pain. i wouldn't even care if they straight up just added a ship market to space stations with the ships being double the normal prices

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Jupiter67•

Why reload? Just let the ship groups cycle. Then hop to a nearby trading post. Keeps the ship groups turning over. S-class in less than an hour, in my experience.

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indyracingathletic•

You see more ships if you reload.

On load in, you will see 4 ships start to land within like 30 seconds. These 4 (assuming you are at a trade post) are random from the pool it can draw from.

On my PC (slightly older), a reload took 30 seconds (when I was looking last week). So I could see 4 ships a minute. If you wait, you'll see less ships per minute, and eventually the same ships start to cycle back. So from a pure numbers perspective, reloading is best.

And on that first load you can definitely see exotics and S classes.

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vini_2003•

Holy, only 30 seconds for a reload?

My game must be doing something wrong. SSD, R7 2700X, 16GB of RAM and yet it takes anywhere from 50s to 100s.

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indyracingathletic•

Hrm. I have no SSD, 8 gigs RAM and an i5 4570 (I’m pretty sure). And a GTX 970.

Maybe because I run on medium?

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Jupiter67•

You see more ships if you reload.

You on console? Reloading a 39MB save file is ludicrous (even with an SSD, like on my PS4 Pro, it takes far longer than I'm willing to wait). No, trade post hopping is the way. It's the most efficient in terms of time. And the trading posts are so close when you trading post hop, you can cycle ship groups far faster than reloading.

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mettadas•

IMHO, the better way is to just play the game and then be delighted at each new upgrade you stumble across.

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mcsneedy•

Counterpoint: I'm going for a specific achievement - reaching the galactic center on permadeth - and so I'm looking for the best ship for going the farthest distances, which is an S-class explorer (haven't figured out yet how to get freighter hyperdrive upgrades). Now I could just wait till I stumble across one, or I can try farming one. How I choose to do that will depend on my playstyle, how much I want the achievement, my threshold for tedium, etc. So what's 'better' for you may not be 'better' for me.

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XCSki395•

Find a trading post. Save. Watch the 7-9 that spawn. Scan them. If your ship isn’t there, reload the save. Repeat. You get a new spawn of ships every time you load your save.

While you could do this in a station, stations take longer to swap ships in and out, even if you go to a short tunnel station, and the first 2-3 that arrive are fixed.

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Buttchuckle•

What are you looking for again ?

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Boysenberry_Icecream•

I built a base on a trading post and just scan ships every now and then when coming and going. Found 3 S class ships and 1 exotic that way

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Jupiter67•

I always use trading posts. And I hop to other trading posts every 15 to 30 minutes (make sure you have an Economy Scanner installed; it will ping a trading post near the one you're on, and you fly to it, camp a bit, rinse/repeat). Nabbing an S-class has yet to take more than an hour. Also, sounds like you're in a wealthy star system if S-classes are showing up.

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Midniteoyl•

If the ship you want is spawning as mostly C Class, chances are very slim to none that it will spawn as an S Class. If it comes in pretty heavily as B and A Class, then there's a good chance it'll come at least once as an S, and usually early on.

That said, I've been on planets that spawn mostly A and B but never an S. Thanks RNG.

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Psaggo•

This is not quite right. If you are in a medium or wealthy system every ship design will spawn as S class. Every spawn is an individual event and what class previous spawns were has no influence on it at all. It is all RNG and you might wait a long time for an S class version of a particular ship, but it will turn up eventually.

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Midniteoyl•

So I've been told, but close to half of my 200+ hours have been hunting S Class of particular ships and it hasn't happened. In fact, all my S Class ships that I do have came while in my brothers game. The same planets in my single player game seem to never spawn S Class. Same with freighters. I have only spawned a max slot A Class once, he seems to get S Class all the time.

Who knows, it's been a weird ride for me and my game so far.

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Psaggo•

As others have said, Trading Posts are the best locations for ship hunting, having the fastest turnover of ships. As an alternative to reloading your save constantly, when you want a new wave of ships, take off and fly straight up. Watch the dots on your holo display, when they disappear, fly back down again.

You seem to have been pretty unlucky so far, but keep at it and the S class will come. If you want efficiency though, just settle for an A class. Much easier to get, and the extra stat bonuses for the S class won't make any actual difference to your game.

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