#Taking Non-Rusty ships into raids

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raw sand
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As we all know the majority of players don't bother taking any ship that isn't the rustbucket into raids and the only reason to use a non rustbucket ship is if you are planning on picking up salvage and fighting other ships. I think there are a number of reasons for this but for me the main one (as a mostly solo player) is that it is insanely easy to lose the ship whilst all it is doing for me is sitting in the hangar. There are other problems besides how easy it is to lose but, well, I can't fix everything!

I think to help with the above any (non rust bucket) ships that you own would remain assigned to you until the raid is over and unless an enemy actually takes the ship it is returned to you. I think that it should remain in your hangar but show as "unavailable" so that you can't "overfill" your hangar but that unless it is ACTUALLY taken you get it back. This would also allow you to pod out of raids as the ship owner without that being a massive loss.

late terrace
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I feel like paying insurance for the ship might be a move there as... well money is fairly easy to come by in game. though idk how much for insurance would make it viable.

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Though again as a solo, why bother taking a bigger ship? other than say raider or scout frigate?

whole hare
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it actually makes a lot of sense to bring in good ships. if you shoot down others before docking into a raid, that means less competition in the raid itself, and its incredibly easy to disable rust buckets with a good ship. and ofcourse, shooting down escape pods and baiting people into breaching

late terrace
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I mean maybe its just me being unlucky, but every time I bring in a ship solo, i get yeeted, every time I rustbucket i live. I suppose just me things.

whole hare
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capital ships might be ok, i havnt used them yet though so i just mean the other ones that ud normally buy solo

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forgot about howitzer, that might be decent now too but i need to try it

late terrace
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Yeah. ship balance is still bad, but least its still somewhat better.

sand thunder
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Rust bucket shouldn’t have breacher pods, just normal escape pods

stone nebula
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this would kinda be busted though as what's to stop you from just tossing your keycard onto the ship to make sure others cant get it when you enter the raid??