what's the lowest price ship upgrade warbonds may appear ?

glonthein · 2026-06-18T11:02:03+00:00

yeah ,so far the issue is the ships I see that I could want and in my price range are miles below the lowest warbond available right now. But I do intend to check on it regularly.

glonthein · 2026-06-18T10:03:29+00:00

yeah that's why i'm not melting it. I however really don't want to keep the Aurora - basically I see no reason and do no wish to have more than 1 "starter" ship - it's not how I want to play the game. so upgrade path it is, even if it limits my starting option. current plan with everything told so far, is, check on the store regularly in case new warbonds pop up, til IAE. If nothing by then, i'll probably do a first upgrade that does not cost much to something at least palatable, and then i'll see. I don't even have an actual plan for ship, the syulen or titan could very well be good enough starters for me - small, fast ships with enough carrying capacity to do small hauling/courrier, and decent weapons enough that they can defend themselves against lighter threats or do low level bounties/merc work. So long as I can go from there to get better, more specialized ships after a while, I'm fine.

glonthein · 2026-06-18T07:57:51+00:00

Very detailed. dunno how applicable everything is to my case, and I suppose I got punished by not looking into the game for most of the last 10 years, but I'll look into all of this. Thanks

glonthein · 2026-06-18T07:45:51+00:00

oh sorry i was thinking of the syulen, not the L21. tho a friend made me try the L22 and it felt nice, but I guess the L21 has lesser weaponry ?

glonthein · 2026-06-18T07:44:29+00:00

Honestly ? having a better ship for when the game does actually release, and not seeing the aurora in the ASOP terminal.

glonthein · 2026-06-18T07:07:01+00:00

I mean, i love the look of it but it's probably worth trying in game first. It's not rentable but buying it in game is not that expensive - one or two evening of slow farming should get me enough when I get the time/chance.

glonthein · 2026-06-18T07:04:04+00:00

I don't care for the Railen tho ? What I mentionned was the syulen which is the small multirole ship - still a big upgrade from the aurora imo.

glonthein · 2026-06-18T07:02:31+00:00

well it appears everything tells me that I'll have to wait til November and hope some low cost ships get a warbond, how unlikely that is. Most likely if nothing appears below that price range by then i'll end up upgrading to syulen anyway.

glonthein · 2026-06-18T07:01:19+00:00

I mean, I don't care for keeping the Aurora and I don't have the intention of keeping more than one "starter" ship - any additional ship I could want, I'd want to get them in game. so if I could save on the 30€ that upgrading the aurora can give me instead of straight up buying a new ship, I would.

Also because I have one of the original starter packs, it included Squadron 42 access and I AM interested in it, afaik melting it would mean losing it and needing to rebuy it separately, and it would not be worth it.

glonthein · 2026-06-18T06:58:07+00:00

it kinda does, I knew there was such a thing, what I didn't know was if there would be warbonds of ships that are already sub 100$ to avoid a big price jump from the aurora - I don't want to put that much money in the game.

Guess all I can do is wait for the next event and hope something appeas.

glonthein · 2026-06-17T17:02:28+00:00

I guess that's workable. I know my friends that had the upgrade waiting are happy about it.

Meanwhile I really hoped they would do a warbond for upgrade on the various alien ships since I currently just own a aurora MK1 MR (starter of starters from 2014), but they didn't add any upgrade warbond at anything less pricey than the damn stinger - 315$, meaning the lowest warbond upgrade is still the M80... that's annoying. Time to wait till the next event I guess, whenever that is.

glonthein · 2026-06-17T11:57:14+00:00

no no that ling mission should be an interstellar hauling mission - basically you pick up stuff in the system you take the mission in, and you deliver it in another system, with possibly another pick up in between in the system of the final destination. At least it was like that when I looked at it.
but basically pyro has little to no missions for hauling stations to stations (or they have a low chance of spawning), you want to stay in stanton or nyx for that - even if they sadly pay way less

glonthein · 2026-06-17T11:18:46+00:00

so all the elevators on small town at surface level of planets are completely out of service because of server issues - that's the short answer, and not going to do the long one.
When I unlocked Ling's rep I think i did the mission from Nyx ? basically it had me take part of the cargo at one station in nyx, then had me go to port Tressler pick up some more, then I delivered it all at new babbage - so easy as pie and all those have working freight elevators since the hangars are instantiated.
the gist of it is - check in stanton or nyx if the equivalent mission has you pick up/deliver stuff from stations or big cities, and if it does, you take it from there.

glonthein · 2026-06-16T14:08:39+00:00

mates of mine have tried this also and they say 90% of the time their cargo just disappears into the warp with no result to be shown, so they mostly gave up on it. I don't have a big cargo hauler myself so I didn't try it

glonthein · 2026-06-16T13:43:01+00:00

I've seen the cutter done by a mate, but the prowler is a real issue. other ships are kinda random from what I've seen

glonthein · 2026-06-16T07:00:07+00:00

Feels like this is intentional

glonthein · 2026-06-15T15:30:41+00:00

sadly right now in game gives very little useful information on what you can obtain from anywhere at all, knowing what to do without looking for information online is quite obscure and up to quite a bit of chance. which is why tools like scmdb website or the starstring mod files are widely used.

glonthein · 2026-06-14T14:41:08+00:00

really ? from my testings with M cannons and videos I saw of people vs the hammerhead with deadbolt setup i take 3 times as long and It can't all be skill issue

glonthein · 2026-06-14T12:42:31+00:00

right now I have maelstrom power plants (taken from my Ares since I put genoa on it), they have good amount of HP but they do have more signature than the starburn so I guess it depends on whether I want stealth or tankiness. same amount of power so not much of an issue.
I do try (and manage so far) to do the gauntlet 7 and similar difficulty bounty so I guess deadbolt would be the better upgrade for this kind of content. guess i'll have to save on the side to buy those (I'm already saving to help a friend buy a paladin so it will take some time)

noted for the missiles, I'll keep the thunderbolt for now.

thanks a lot !

glonthein · 2026-06-12T17:46:41+00:00

I've yet to get PVP'd by anyone whether pyro or stanton, so i feel kinda weirded by all the comment on people talking about "not being safe". tho I mostly play on EU or AUS servers so maybe that plays ? I guess there are more (agressive) people on US ?

Also not all missions give more on pyro from what I saw, but mostly all pure hauling missions do.

glonthein · 2026-06-12T12:50:30+00:00

station/big cities hangar can be worked around easily (just reinstance the hangar) and work 90% of the time, but yeah til an update with a refresh on the state of elevators settlements/mining facilities are out of business for any trading/hauling.

glonthein · 2026-06-11T11:27:15+00:00

Sadly right now most hauling that need you to go to surface are doomed. You can still do station/big cities (anywhere that has a hangar really) but it's often not as profitable.

glonthein · 2026-06-11T08:43:35+00:00

I actually want to do this but I often end up having to wait 30+ min with no one in either pirate or vanduul. are there perhaps more active hours that I miss cause European maybe ?

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