How much do you upgrade a ship before buying a new one? I just bought a vengeance and I'm questioning how much should I spend to kit it out when I want to upgrade to even bigger ship later on
#Question about upgrading and buying new ships
fluid mesa
strange jolt
Without upgrades don't expect a ship to be viable. A continuous stream of updates is best for your first ship, but it's often best to reserve 50% extra of the purchase price of the ship for immediate dry dock updates before trying to fly it in earnest
potent ingot
All the really good faction specific components can be $200-300k each so having a sold $2M in the bank beyond the purchase price will get you up to speed real good
Cargo bays, engines, hyperwarps, and bridges in particular can eat up a year and about $1.5M in dry dock upgrade time so you can queue that up, run some missions for funding, then tack on the officer annexes and weapons and utility components after
fluid mesa
Yea I mean how much should I upgrade it?
like I only buy weapon locker and passenger cabin for my 1st ship
2nd ship 5k/6k/7k do I kit it out fully
when I probably will gonna buy a 3rd and final ship which is 8k/9k
potent ingot
You can do all the endgame stuff super safely in a 6k mass hull and zip around at twice the travel speed of a 9k so yeah that 3rd ship would be flexing
The first ship if it's a nice 5 officer / 30 crew hull I typically upgrade up to the point I can safely run missions in high danger quadrants so probably about $500k-$1M total investment for Weapons Locker 4, rank 4-5 guns at about $50k apiece, med bay upgrade, couple defense matrices at $80k each, fuel tanks for about $100k
fluid mesa
Ah I see that makes sense. Never get to late game so I don't know that 6k is viable
potent ingot
Yeah 6k hull is the lightest that supports 7 officers and any hull with 6-7 officers can get the job done great
austere nest
Out of all of this, definitely agree the most with having extra credits when buying a new ship, because you still have to pay for upgrading that new ship you buy.
Can't forget the many close calls that almost led to death spirals just because I almost didn't have enough credits to refuel because I went crazy on upgrades with little regards to my funding.