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You can make a really nice profit if you have commerce skill at lvls 3 or 4, and register your ship from the main menu, not from the technician! Main menu registers for base price, technician registers using the elevated-by-commerce-skill value! Therefore you can easily make 20k credits selling a decent ship, more for great ships! I would consider tier 3 commerce a must-have enjoyment skill, because space piracy is super fun 😃
Love the video, thanks for the pointers. I was waiting too long in one spot for the bang and your method is much more efficient re. resetting via new landing spot. I will throw my own "secret" spot - since I have been running the Bessel 3-B mining/building base where you can get iron, alum, cobalt and nickel in one base (adaptive frames and iso mags), I decided to poke around on Bessel 3-A... ... and WOW for a low-level system, Bessel 3-A is a Class-C ship stealing wonderland! In particular, in only a couple hours between two sessions I have managed 2x Claymore IIs, 1x Claymore III, a Hyena II, and a large number of Ghosts, Bayonets and a bunch that I just let go because it's not worth spending the time on Class-A ships any more. So, Bessel 3-A is just awesome for me, not sure if others have found the same experience.
VERY IMPORTANT TIP: You do NOT have to take off to assign a ship as a home ship or register the ship! You can do this in the ship menu after sitting in the pilot seat! Do this, go grab the other ship and do the same. Then fast travel back to your main ship to set it back to your home ship. The other ships are now in your fleet! Registering a ship in the menu is also cheaper than at a ship technician so you make more profit!
Ganked a UC Vista III (Class C) with 1350 shields and 2950 cargo today. Buy a ship? Nah. Slip it out from under a crew as they're walking off. In space no one can hear you scream...but you better believe they can hear you laugh as you fly away in their ship.
Same goes for grav jumping to another planet if your trying to disable engines and board a specific ship in space. You save just before the grav jump hits 0 and then reload until you get a specific ship your aiming for. I haven't been able to do it on the best Class C ships other than a crimsom fleet wraith III.
There is one thing I have noticed, although I haven't thoroughly tested to check whether the results are consistent. When you land on a planet, especially one that is in a "lawless" system (not controlled by either UC or Freestar), look around with your scanner and see if there is a settlement nearby. These random, lonely settlements tend to be quite frequently targeted by spacers, who will drop out of the sky, disembark their ships, and attack. So if you land somewhere and don't hear a ship coming into the atmosphere right away, but your scanner picks up a settlement close by, start walking towards it - chances are as you get closer, a ship will come down for you to steal. Sometimes multiple ships too! I have had the case a couple of days ago where 3 spacer ships landed in quick succession. Be mindful though, these ships WILL take off after you kill their entire landing parties, so if you are here for fun and profit, better leave those civilians to fend for themselves and keep your eyes on your own prize.
Just wanted to emphasize your last point: if you kill the whole landing party of a ship, it WILL take off immediately. I even tried sniping the last one from the landing ramp, but it wouldn't let me board the ship - I was just stuck on the ramp while the ship took off and 💥!
I had that happening quite often and still want to upload those encounters but haven't had the time yet :D Its also funny when you land inside a hangar which has its doors closed lol
Yeah, I've also noticed If you're on the outside of the ship cargo door you'll fall through and out the ship. If you make it in the ship you'll hit a load screen and then be out in space. A lot of times it'll leave your companion behind 😂
I had a passenger mission where I took after sending them off but one of the NPC was underneath the ship and his head clips to the fuselage taking off with the ship. After loading screen I have an unwanted stowaway that I cannot get rid off besides killing him but then Sarah will complain 😑
Skip landed ones. Run straight to the cockpit. If you inside, even if script worked and ship started to take off, but with you on board launch is cancelled.
@@04AMofficial I found an amazing high level, cool looking va’ruun ship on a planet last night but when I entered the ship it immediately took off, which is fine as that’s happened plenty of times before but as soon as it got into space my game stopped playing sound and when I looked out the porthole I saw it was in a fight. The ship ended up losing I guess because my character just dropped dead and my game reloaded to the point right before I started taking off to the ship initially. I was so pissed I lost the ship but although I knew ships can leave with you on it, I was surprised it could get into a fight with me on board and even lose so my character dies. I honestly think that may have been a glitch and shouldn’t have happened with me on it because how is that any fun? It would be silly of the developers to do that.
Great vid! I have to disagree about the not being lucrative. Around level 20 I had commerce 3/4 unlocked and used this and other methods to start terrorizing pirates. Post level 20 contraband spawns averaged 3-4 per ship for me plus all the loot and creds. Sometimes a lot of creds. Then I’d you register the ship through your ship menu with commerce you’ll get your buy discount. Pair that with your sell bonus, the contraband and loot and your clearing 20-30k every time and possibly a mission reward. 🎉
One time I went to a spacer ship that landed and killed all the crew, and was given the message to steal it or leave. I left because I didn’t have the piloting skill. But hours later when I did have the skill, I was able to go back to that location and get it. It stayed there. It was in my miscellaneous mission list.
Better off flying to each planet/moon in level 70+ systems. Just have to wait 30 seconds or so to see if enemies jump in, they can always be captured and generally have money if there’s no ship worth stealing. This way you’re making money and gaining experience while you’re ship farming. Once I’ve visited everything in system, I go to a neighboring system and repeat.
10:16 - small tip, DON'T register it there, if you want to register it cheaper. Instead, pause your game, when you're wandering in space, and register it there, in the ship menu.
Different planets have different spawn pools too. You might see zealots on one, spacers on another, or crimson lance on another. This means you can target the type of ship you want. I really like zealot ships.
Oh yes, I started to notice this as well. Some spawn pools absolutely suck - feels like there are only 2 different ships spawning while in other cases there are like 10 different ones I love the game and all its secrets!
I found some zealot ships, or more correct only one type..however it was a A-tier ship so I did not take it..Have you, using this method found any b-c zealot tier ships?
You can bait a ship thats stronger and beats you in space combat they will follow you to the surface and you can beat them hand to hand and take their ship that way. You just have to fast travel in time or you might be able to dock and then fast travel to the surface and get them that way.
Register ships in your SHIP MENU and not at a service tech. Its cheaper to register and sell value is better. Im assuming by how much depends on your COMMERCE Level. Also I dont believe ships are automatically determined to land at the exact moment you land. Ive had a ship come in about 10 minutes later when I was on the Moon exploring the Apollo landing site. It might determine if a ship will land there, but how soon/when it happens might be on a random timer. Your method is probably changing that timer for best results which is always a WIN!
I found a freestar vista 2 in the fermi system, i boarded the ship and there was a crew on board so left it. A couple of (real days) later went back and the ship was still there BUT the crew had gone and i could steal it. Hope it helps.
i did manage to steal the frestar ship, it had a smiggler captain and some crew talked to him and gave me a package that i had to deliver but not telling me where xD, then i tried to get that ship to leave so a new one could land but it stayed encountered starborn in orbit jumped to a nearby system jumped back and the ship was still there. but nu crew or captain anymore and i was able to sit down in the pilot seat and claim it as my home ship. fast travelled back to my own ship set it as home ship and the freestar one is still mine :D
You do not have to register a ship to sell it. After you steal a ship, on the xbox, go the the ship technician and set your home ship to one that you do own. Make sure that the one you want to sell is your last ship. Then go to the line where you ask to look at ships to buy. Press Y to sell. Make sure your home ship is on the screen and press LB + A at the same time. You will get a dialog box confirming your choice to sell the unregistered ship for full price. As always, do a quicksave before you talk to the technician in case you make a mistake and sell the wrong ship.
7:17 Also the smuggler ship, the same. The only difference is that you must lie to get their items (can have purple items). They think that your middleman/woman to deliver to your boss. Killing them will not prompt sit in the pilot seat to fly it.
Actually, I found a c class claymore in indium on indium two, 800+ shield, I was very low level weird, started new game plus and can't find one haha, still got old save incase I can't, fond it again, went bwvk to where i found it and different ship and different base type,great video, well done.
A little tip, if you have multiple ships spawn around you, you can kill the crew, sit in the pilot seat pause the game and go to your ship menu and choose to make it your home ship then just exit the ship and run to any others that have spawned around you and do the same thing making it your home ship without having to take off. It will become yours and you won't miss out on stealing any and all ships that land around you
The big bang ships to keep a look out for are the Ecliptic Claymore III and the Va'Ruun Prophecy III - Both of these have a massive reactor, shields that compete directly with vanguard components, and large cargo spaces (3k to 5k+ at times)
yeah and they never spawn. i did that for literaly 6 hours today....in the system he recommend......the best spawn was a level b shipt with a 16 power reactor. better farm your credits and buy a ship. this is just a waste of time
Honestly the strategy in the video seems a bit fishy. The 'amazing' ships we see at the end aren't good ships at all. I came in expecting ships with 33-40 reactor power only to see half that.
@@FireCrack83I was able to get the claymore III to spawn in space by saving before the grav jump and then reloading and one appeared. Sadly I stood no chance with my Razorleaf and basically got 3 shotted out of the sky.
Nice Video. Did you try some D**gs? There some that slows the time and maybe with the Skill „Nutrition“ it is up to 50% more efficent. I Did not Test by myself. But this could be a method to get your hands early on this ships. With the background „File not found“ it should be possible that you can start with lvl 13. 3 Points in Piloting, 2 in Security, 1 In Fitness, 1 in Stealth, 1 in Weight Lifting and 4 in Nutrition. Piloting, Health and Ballistics are Set due to the background. Additional skill in Boost Pack Training. All the best from Germany.🙂
you know... you can register the ship from the ship menu without visiting anyone... you will need to either travel to another system, or land on a planet... (in the case of stealing the ship, take off, then land and you can register it right there...) (I've done this numerous times when capturing ships in space battles/disabling the ship, and then go from there... currently have 2 Wight's, a banshee, a Hyena and Coyote in my stable of ships...) That being said, I will have to give this a try.
Goeie video's maar ik wil je wel n paar pointers meegeven over je uitspraak: - niet munnipeleet maar mah-ni-pjoe-leejt (manipulate) - niet kjoerunt maar kurrent (current) - niet prossedoewel maar proo-sie-djoe-ral (procedural) - niet ruh-djis-ter maar reh-djis-ter (register, met de klemtoon op de "re") Ondanks je Dinglish krijg je van mij toch sub en een like, ouwe. Lekker bezig.
I’ve even 2 ships land at same time and steal both. I go on commandeer first after killing crew and making it home ship. Then go to second ship and repeating same process. Making it my home ship. Then going back to my original ship then make it my home ship. Both ship’s stolen ship are now in my ship inventory. If you kill everybody on broad a ship but don’t make it your home ship it and leave the ship. It will liftoff with no crew alive onboard.
If you guys haven’t reached the class C ship requirements go into the pilot simulator on new Atlantis at the MAST district and speak to the guy at the front desk and he’ll ask if you want to join the UC Navy basically you want to accept his offer and the rest is pretty easy from there
I don't know if this has been patched or not, but I seem to be getting maybe 1 on 12-15 fast travels on planet is resulting in a ship spawn. I'm also trying on Masada, the only ship spawns I'm getting are low value A grade ships.
Actually! What seems to be important is the planet has Helium. Then you get ships landing for refueling. I found many lvl 75 planets where ships don't land but on Helium-3 containing planets they do. So a good tip to add that.
Tried this yesterday on Masada and had two low level ships spawn, nothing worth stealing. Watching your video if I saw that many Level 64 elites walk off a ship I think I would have saved and worked that for awhile. I have tried various difficulties and have not noticed a difference in quality of ships just the npc's showing up are more difficult. Bad RNG for now I guess.
after doing this for 6 hours today in a level 75 system i am shure its level locked for stealing aswell....i only get level A ships....IN A 75 System. (i have c licence but i am level 20). so i wasted 6 hours for streight nothing @@englishvoodoo676
A side note on ships that land shortly and take off before reaching them: it seems we can catch them in space if we take off directly. I have not tested this but it has happened to me on several occasions.
Does the lvl of spawning ships depend on player lvl? I'm lvl 14 and in the same system (Masada) got only class A ships (like Ecliptic Bayonet and Stiletto) I tried this for the hour or so and mostly got those.. when I was leaving at last try I got class B cargo which I kept and extended cargo space to around 7k) So I got one class B and rest were class A)
First time I found a ship like this, it was laid out in a way that there was no way to enter the cockpit. You could enter the ship and there was 3 rooms. but it did not have any doors to the cockpit. I thought you can't steel them! Have you seen such thing?
I can't seem to get this to work. I either hear the ship sound but never see the ship or I see the ship but it lands so far away by the time I run over to it the ship is gone or I can't find it over hills or something.
Both the freestar and most of the UC ships that won't let you fly you can fly to a different system for awhile then come back and it will let you fly them. The crew magically disappear.
I think the time you need to wait is around 150UT hours. I've done it without even leaving the planet, made an outpost near the ship, made a bed, slept, took the ship.
FYI; Class C does NOT = "Legendary". There are rare, legendary ships (huge and all classes) - I've yet to see one ever land and be stealable. Also, the Freestar ships that land have usually been crewed by "smugglers". If you find one of these, don't shoot when you enter and go talk with the captain... you can at least make some $.
Ive maxed out my piloting and stuff and when one of those ships land, every time I get into the bay it always says [Inaccessible] and doesnt even give me the option to pick locks, can anyone explain to me why this is? I haven't been able to steal ships this way at all (docking them in space is fine tho).
Been doing this for several hours. Not a single ship could I even come close to stealing. Like 70% of the time there is no ship at all forcing you to reload or fast travel to a new spot. 15% of the time I see a ship but it's so far from me that I can't sprint over to it fast enough before it takes off or I can't find it. The other 15% of the time it's a guardian ship that I don't even bother trying to get because you can't access them unless you can get to the door before the NPCs leave the ship and even if you could do that you can't sell or modify the ship so I don't really care. Either this method is not fast AT ALL or I'm missing something.
I discovered also... put your game in very hard setting.... wait till ship lands.. often this imeaditly a c class huge ship.. when almost there.. change back your setting and steal it. I tested this out in very easy setting.. u get a class ships. Very hard, c class ships.
I'm having alot of trouble finding class C ships. Ive gotten a dozen class A and one class B.I have a outpost in the Fermi system. What am I doing wrong?
_Predetermined short landing time_ is not a problem. You can use AMP and PHASED TIME ability to catch a ship before taking off. I've yet to find a ship that can escape.
no, you can't get rid of your starting ship, can't even sell it. When you steal a ship it's set as your new home ship, just change it back with a ship technician if you want
I had an $87k Hyena land today! Had a 40 power reactor on it! Made me look into this. I saved when i heard the boom. And could change the ship 5 or so times then it got locked as a specific ship. And even going back on the save, the plane was on the groumd after that. So it's not going to work indefinitely. But handy non the less. I honestly find pirating enemy ships in space to be better. On the ground from the limited time I've been trying this, it seemed half the time the ship was friendly, couldn't sit in chair, or just took off to fast. I also find it alot easier to get back in my ship quicker and be on my way.
Make sure to also take the Wanted trait! That way you have a guaranteed ship you can steal every in game week when the Bounty Hunters show up and fail to capture you.
Incorrect. Ships that land with the bounty hunters specifically from the wanted trait always give the not authorized message when attempting to pilot, regardless of piloting rank. There’s a different message when you attempt to pilot a ship but do not have a high enough piloting rank, which specifically mentions your piloting not being high enough. Piloting was the first skill I maxed out, thanks to the sim, and had rank 4 before encountering any wanted trait bounty hunters. Every ship that has landed on planet w/ wanted trait bounty hunters gives the not authorized message. I haven’t tried to board them when they show up in space, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was also not authorized there. Some UC ships give the same message, while the crazy UC ships such as the Vista or Autobahn never give me an issue. So far I’ve encountered three unique messages when unable to pilot a ship. One for piloting not being high enough. Another for when a hostile crew remain (though I’ve also piloted when a hostile Varuun crew took off after boarding and I only killed a couple before rushing the pilot seat). Then the not authorized message which is a hard stop no matter the piloting rank, status of the crew, amount of time you wait, leaving and returning to the planet, etc. Those wanted trait ships are trash anyways, regular landing sites are extremely common and you can farm them, with or without save scumming.
It might be, while Im currenly 34 and also farming 75 planets- seeing plenty of 80 enemies and Tier III Spaceships which have insane values. Maybe your Piloting skill also helps
I don't think this works at all. Has this been patched out of the game since this video was posted? I been at this for 2 days now and not a single ship stolen. Doesn't seem to work. I'm on the exact planet mentioned in this video but it just doesn't work. Also, the more I try the less ships even spawn. At first it was fairly regular (like 30% of the time) but they were always too far or guardian ships. Now I rarely ever get any ship event at all and the couple times I do it's usually a guardian ship and once I got a UC ship event. I wonder if player level or any particular perks have some effect on this? I don't know but this just doesn't work.
tried it for hours in level 75 system...does not woork at all for me. i only get class a ships to spawn (yes i have c licence) In the time i spend tryin this i coould have farmed a level b ship .....
You also cannot steal starborn ships as you can’t even get on them. At least first play through. Idk about 2nd play though. I got excited because a starborn ship landed and I killed the crew but couldn’t get inside the ship 😭😭
I had the same issue last night. No matter if I saved/loaded prior to entering their airspace or initiating the fight, once it's engines were down there was never the option to dock. I tried landing on a nearby planet and coming back to see if thag fixed it as someone else had mentioned but no luck. I tried everything and just had no option to dock. However, this is also in the same time frame that my outpost marker disappeared from the map and I had to land 20 different times to find it on foot again then get to my landing pad and switch home ships to bring my ship over because the marker never came back. Game was bugging bad last night
@Jaylohalo man I didn't think to check that! Just looked it up and yes, legendary ship M class I guess and unboardable...thanks for waiting my time Bethesda lol
Doesn’t work. The chance of ships spawning in high level planets seems close to 0 when you’re player level is much lower. Very high chance of ship spawn on low level planets, but as soon as you travel to a 50+ level they stop spawning.
Saw a guardian alien ship and tried to steal it. Inaccessible. Killed the dudes, tried agsin. Inaccessible. THAT totally sucked. I wondoer if anyone knows what to do so i can steal that thing!!
Ships don't really have a sell value, because the registration fee is about 85% the sell value of the ship. So you make a few thousand credits selling a ship.
Register the ship in your inventory, as others have said, the the sell value is much better. I ran an eight hour test of stealing ships vs outpost farming to see how much better outposts really are (they are significantly better). However, the outpost farming is boring! Boring! Jacking ships in space or on ground is fun. No sneaking - shoot, kill, loot, fly. Then register in the inventory, go sell. I managed to make over 1,000,000 credits in eight hours. I am pretty high level, so I try to only farm Class C, type III ships. I can average one jack and sell about every 12 minutes - 5 an hour. So, stealing ships can net a profit. Do not forget, most of these higher level ships have epic and legendary gear to sell, as well as credits in the Captain's safe (usually about 3-5K). Yes, farming is vastly more profitable. Jacking ships is vastly more fun. I can come home from work and spend an hour a day jacking ships and feel okay about spending time gaming. I farm at an Outpost and feel like, "why?" If I can figure out how, I might do a "jacking ships live stream" for eight hours just to show that it is a fine way to level up and get credits. It just comes down to what you enjoy in the game.
From what i can tell this video is disingenuous. The ship you come there with is the same level you will leave there with. I did this 12 times with an A level ship and could only find A level ship. When i came there with a B level then I got B level ships. So you need a C level ship to get it and at that point whats the point? in short you dont go there with a Class A ship and leave with a C
I cannot steal these ships.. Ive killed the patrol and all inside.. it says "I am not authorized to pilot this ship: Im lvl 80 and have all the pilot skills. what gives..?
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Dang it i missed this
Is your name a cherry ghost reference?
Legendary.....lol.
You can make a really nice profit if you have commerce skill at lvls 3 or 4, and register your ship from the main menu, not from the technician! Main menu registers for base price, technician registers using the elevated-by-commerce-skill value! Therefore you can easily make 20k credits selling a decent ship, more for great ships!
I would consider tier 3 commerce a must-have enjoyment skill, because space piracy is super fun 😃
Love the video, thanks for the pointers. I was waiting too long in one spot for the bang and your method is much more efficient re. resetting via new landing spot.
I will throw my own "secret" spot - since I have been running the Bessel 3-B mining/building base where you can get iron, alum, cobalt and nickel in one base (adaptive frames and iso mags), I decided to poke around on Bessel 3-A...
... and WOW for a low-level system, Bessel 3-A is a Class-C ship stealing wonderland! In particular, in only a couple hours between two sessions I have managed 2x Claymore IIs, 1x Claymore III, a Hyena II, and a large number of Ghosts, Bayonets and a bunch that I just let go because it's not worth spending the time on Class-A ships any more.
So, Bessel 3-A is just awesome for me, not sure if others have found the same experience.
VERY IMPORTANT TIP: You do NOT have to take off to assign a ship as a home ship or register the ship! You can do this in the ship menu after sitting in the pilot seat!
Do this, go grab the other ship and do the same. Then fast travel back to your main ship to set it back to your home ship. The other ships are now in your fleet!
Registering a ship in the menu is also cheaper than at a ship technician so you make more profit!
I have also gotten the not authorized to pilot issue with ecliptic ships at maxed out piloting level.
Thank you! I’ve been only taking one ship not knowing I could add it to my inventory!
Omg, it really is cheaper in the ship menu
You beat me to the tip!
Ganked a UC Vista III (Class C) with 1350 shields and 2950 cargo today.
Buy a ship? Nah. Slip it out from under a crew as they're walking off. In space no one can hear you scream...but you better believe they can hear you laugh as you fly away in their ship.
3:24 The most efficient is to save the game before in space or after landing inside the ship. Then exit, if no bang sound, reload. Rinse and repeat ;)
Same goes for grav jumping to another planet if your trying to disable engines and board a specific ship in space. You save just before the grav jump hits 0 and then reload until you get a specific ship your aiming for. I haven't been able to do it on the best Class C ships other than a crimsom fleet wraith III.
There is one thing I have noticed, although I haven't thoroughly tested to check whether the results are consistent. When you land on a planet, especially one that is in a "lawless" system (not controlled by either UC or Freestar), look around with your scanner and see if there is a settlement nearby. These random, lonely settlements tend to be quite frequently targeted by spacers, who will drop out of the sky, disembark their ships, and attack.
So if you land somewhere and don't hear a ship coming into the atmosphere right away, but your scanner picks up a settlement close by, start walking towards it - chances are as you get closer, a ship will come down for you to steal. Sometimes multiple ships too! I have had the case a couple of days ago where 3 spacer ships landed in quick succession.
Be mindful though, these ships WILL take off after you kill their entire landing parties, so if you are here for fun and profit, better leave those civilians to fend for themselves and keep your eyes on your own prize.
Just wanted to emphasize your last point: if you kill the whole landing party of a ship, it WILL take off immediately. I even tried sniping the last one from the landing ramp, but it wouldn't let me board the ship - I was just stuck on the ramp while the ship took off and 💥!
Fun fact, if you kill all the guards on the ground, the ship can take off. It can even take off with you on it!
I had that happening quite often and still want to upload those encounters but haven't had the time yet :D
Its also funny when you land inside a hangar which has its doors closed lol
Yeah,
I've also noticed If you're on the outside of the ship cargo door you'll fall through and out the ship. If you make it in the ship you'll hit a load screen and then be out in space. A lot of times it'll leave your companion behind 😂
I had a passenger mission where I took after sending them off but one of the NPC was underneath the ship and his head clips to the fuselage taking off with the ship. After loading screen I have an unwanted stowaway that I cannot get rid off besides killing him but then Sarah will complain 😑
Skip landed ones. Run straight to the cockpit. If you inside, even if script worked and ship started to take off, but with you on board launch is cancelled.
@@04AMofficial I found an amazing high level, cool looking va’ruun ship on a planet last night but when I entered the ship it immediately took off, which is fine as that’s happened plenty of times before but as soon as it got into space my game stopped playing sound and when I looked out the porthole I saw it was in a fight. The ship ended up losing I guess because my character just dropped dead and my game reloaded to the point right before I started taking off to the ship initially. I was so pissed I lost the ship but although I knew ships can leave with you on it, I was surprised it could get into a fight with me on board and even lose so my character dies. I honestly think that may have been a glitch and shouldn’t have happened with me on it because how is that any fun? It would be silly of the developers to do that.
Great vid! I have to disagree about the not being lucrative. Around level 20 I had commerce 3/4 unlocked and used this and other methods to start terrorizing pirates. Post level 20 contraband spawns averaged 3-4 per ship for me plus all the loot and creds. Sometimes a lot of creds. Then I’d you register the ship through your ship menu with commerce you’ll get your buy discount. Pair that with your sell bonus, the contraband and loot and your clearing 20-30k every time and possibly a mission reward. 🎉
One time I went to a spacer ship that landed and killed all the crew, and was given the message to steal it or leave. I left because I didn’t have the piloting skill. But hours later when I did have the skill, I was able to go back to that location and get it. It stayed there. It was in my miscellaneous mission list.
Once you have a landing zone it won't go away until you make a 5th, then it erases the first.
Better off flying to each planet/moon in level 70+ systems. Just have to wait 30 seconds or so to see if enemies jump in, they can always be captured and generally have money if there’s no ship worth stealing. This way you’re making money and gaining experience while you’re ship farming. Once I’ve visited everything in system, I go to a neighboring system and repeat.
10:16 - small tip, DON'T register it there, if you want to register it cheaper. Instead, pause your game, when you're wandering in space, and register it there, in the ship menu.
Different planets have different spawn pools too. You might see zealots on one, spacers on another, or crimson lance on another. This means you can target the type of ship you want. I really like zealot ships.
Oh yes, I started to notice this as well. Some spawn pools absolutely suck - feels like there are only 2 different ships spawning while in other cases there are like 10 different ones
I love the game and all its secrets!
I found some zealot ships, or more correct only one type..however it was a A-tier ship so I did not take it..Have you, using this method found any b-c zealot tier ships?
The 9 ship slots drives me nuts. I want to take all of them and modify. Sucks we are so limited in ship space.
@@celindafuller8498 Pretty sure there are mods for this
@@alexwakefield-pandorasthou6391 For Xbox?
You can bait a ship thats stronger and beats you in space combat they will follow you to the surface and you can beat them hand to hand and take their ship that way. You just have to fast travel in time or you might be able to dock and then fast travel to the surface and get them that way.
Register ships in your SHIP MENU and not at a service tech. Its cheaper to register and sell value is better. Im assuming by how much depends on your COMMERCE Level. Also I dont believe ships are automatically determined to land at the exact moment you land. Ive had a ship come in about 10 minutes later when I was on the Moon exploring the Apollo landing site. It might determine if a ship will land there, but how soon/when it happens might be on a random timer. Your method is probably changing that timer for best results which is always a WIN!
I found a freestar vista 2 in the fermi system, i boarded the ship and there was a crew on board so left it. A couple of (real days) later went back and the ship was still there BUT the crew had gone and i could steal it. Hope it helps.
What kind of armor are you wearing? It looks awesome.
i did manage to steal the frestar ship, it had a smiggler captain and some crew talked to him and gave me a package that i had to deliver but not telling me where xD, then i tried to get that ship to leave so a new one could land but it stayed encountered starborn in orbit jumped to a nearby system jumped back and the ship was still there.
but nu crew or captain anymore and i was able to sit down in the pilot seat and claim it as my home ship.
fast travelled back to my own ship set it as home ship and the freestar one is still mine :D
You do not have to register a ship to sell it. After you steal a ship, on the xbox, go the the ship technician and set your home ship to one that you do own. Make sure that the one you want to sell is your last ship. Then go to the line where you ask to look at ships to buy. Press Y to sell. Make sure your home ship is on the screen and press LB + A at the same time. You will get a dialog box confirming your choice to sell the unregistered ship for full price. As always, do a quicksave before you talk to the technician in case you make a mistake and sell the wrong ship.
7:17 Also the smuggler ship, the same. The only difference is that you must lie to get their items (can have purple items). They think that your middleman/woman to deliver to your boss. Killing them will not prompt sit in the pilot seat to fly it.
Actually, I found a c class claymore in indium on indium two, 800+ shield, I was very low level weird, started new game plus and can't find one haha, still got old save incase I can't, fond it again, went bwvk to where i found it and different ship and different base type,great video, well done.
A little tip, if you have multiple ships spawn around you, you can kill the crew, sit in the pilot seat pause the game and go to your ship menu and choose to make it your home ship then just exit the ship and run to any others that have spawned around you and do the same thing making it your home ship without having to take off. It will become yours and you won't miss out on stealing any and all ships that land around you
The big bang ships to keep a look out for are the Ecliptic Claymore III and the Va'Ruun Prophecy III - Both of these have a massive reactor, shields that compete directly with vanguard components, and large cargo spaces (3k to 5k+ at times)
yeah and they never spawn. i did that for literaly 6 hours today....in the system he recommend......the best spawn was a level b shipt with a 16 power reactor. better farm your credits and buy a ship. this is just a waste of time
It is level locked too no? Just got to around 20 and started seeing the ”ll” versions of ships
Honestly the strategy in the video seems a bit fishy. The 'amazing' ships we see at the end aren't good ships at all. I came in expecting ships with 33-40 reactor power only to see half that.
But where??
@@FireCrack83I was able to get the claymore III to spawn in space by saving before the grav jump and then reloading and one appeared. Sadly I stood no chance with my Razorleaf and basically got 3 shotted out of the sky.
Nice Video. Did you try some D**gs? There some that slows the time and maybe with the Skill „Nutrition“ it is up to 50% more efficent. I Did not Test by myself. But this could be a method to get your hands early on this ships.
With the background „File not found“ it should be possible that you can start with lvl 13. 3 Points in Piloting, 2 in Security, 1 In Fitness, 1 in Stealth, 1 in Weight Lifting and 4 in Nutrition. Piloting, Health and Ballistics are Set due to the background. Additional skill in Boost Pack Training.
All the best from Germany.🙂
you know... you can register the ship from the ship menu without visiting anyone... you will need to either travel to another system, or land on a planet... (in the case of stealing the ship, take off, then land and you can register it right there...) (I've done this numerous times when capturing ships in space battles/disabling the ship, and then go from there... currently have 2 Wight's, a banshee, a Hyena and Coyote in my stable of ships...)
That being said, I will have to give this a try.
Goeie video's maar ik wil je wel n paar pointers meegeven over je uitspraak:
- niet munnipeleet maar mah-ni-pjoe-leejt (manipulate)
- niet kjoerunt maar kurrent (current)
- niet prossedoewel maar proo-sie-djoe-ral (procedural)
- niet ruh-djis-ter maar reh-djis-ter (register, met de klemtoon op de "re")
Ondanks je Dinglish krijg je van mij toch sub en een like, ouwe. Lekker bezig.
They definitely added "registering" spaceships as a credit sink to avoid people farming. Bad decision imo. At least its a game feature not glitching
I’ve even 2 ships land at same time and steal both. I go on commandeer first after killing crew and making it home ship. Then go to second ship and repeating same process. Making it my home ship. Then going back to my original ship then make it my home ship. Both ship’s stolen ship are now in my ship inventory. If you kill everybody on broad a ship but don’t make it your home ship it and leave the ship. It will liftoff with no crew alive onboard.
If you guys haven’t reached the class C ship requirements go into the pilot simulator on new Atlantis at the MAST district and speak to the guy at the front desk and he’ll ask if you want to join the UC Navy basically you want to accept his offer and the rest is pretty easy from there
I don't know if this has been patched or not, but I seem to be getting maybe 1 on 12-15 fast travels on planet is resulting in a ship spawn. I'm also trying on Masada, the only ship spawns I'm getting are low value A grade ships.
thx for the guide. getting my no man's sky fix with this lol. subbed
If nothing else, this is a REALLY FUN way to just play the game and blow some time making money. i did this to save up a narwhal.
Actually! What seems to be important is the planet has Helium. Then you get ships landing for refueling. I found many lvl 75 planets where ships don't land but on Helium-3 containing planets they do. So a good tip to add that.
I have played 100 hours and nerver see a ship in this radoms planets.
Tried this yesterday on Masada and had two low level ships spawn, nothing worth stealing. Watching your video if I saw that many Level 64 elites walk off a ship I think I would have saved and worked that for awhile. I have tried various difficulties and have not noticed a difference in quality of ships just the npc's showing up are more difficult. Bad RNG for now I guess.
A lot of parts are level gated too. I know some of the best ship weapons are after character level 50.
Best Grav, shields, Gen are level 60, I am stealing literally to find those!
after doing this for 6 hours today in a level 75 system i am shure its level locked for stealing aswell....i only get level A ships....IN A 75 System. (i have c licence but i am level 20). so i wasted 6 hours for streight nothing @@englishvoodoo676
Right off to have a go!!
A side note on ships that land shortly and take off before reaching them: it seems we can catch them in space if we take off directly. I have not tested this but it has happened to me on several occasions.
i was just thinking that.
If you set to very hard difficult before landing, it change anything? Better ships maybe? Ill try..
Does the lvl of spawning ships depend on player lvl?
I'm lvl 14 and in the same system (Masada) got only class A ships (like Ecliptic Bayonet and Stiletto)
I tried this for the hour or so and mostly got those.. when I was leaving at last try I got class B cargo which I kept and extended cargo space to around 7k)
So I got one class B and rest were class A)
First time I found a ship like this, it was laid out in a way that there was no way to enter the cockpit. You could enter the ship and there was 3 rooms. but it did not have any doors to the cockpit. I thought you can't steel them! Have you seen such thing?
Is the quality of ship (A, B, C) dependant of my own level? Tried this with level 25 in varous 50-55 Systems and could only find class A ships.
I can't seem to get this to work. I either hear the ship sound but never see the ship or I see the ship but it lands so far away by the time I run over to it the ship is gone or I can't find it over hills or something.
Both the freestar and most of the UC ships that won't let you fly you can fly to a different system for awhile then come back and it will let you fly them. The crew magically disappear.
I think the time you need to wait is around 150UT hours. I've done it without even leaving the planet, made an outpost near the ship, made a bed, slept, took the ship.
Planet Heisenberg ? 😳 do they sell something blue?
yes i managed to get a Varuun prophecy this way, but it keeps flying away ( yes ive registered it ) any fixes ?
If you sit in the seat before you loot the loot isn’t marked stolen anymore
Drinking blend and amp should help the process of getting to the ship in time
FYI; Class C does NOT = "Legendary". There are rare, legendary ships (huge and all classes) - I've yet to see one ever land and be stealable. Also, the Freestar ships that land have usually been crewed by "smugglers". If you find one of these, don't shoot when you enter and go talk with the captain... you can at least make some $.
Isn't it more fun to capture ships in space? Or don't they spawn there almost as often?
I prefer the ground, spawns are much more frequent (and can be manipulated for amazing ships)
Ive maxed out my piloting and stuff and when one of those ships land, every time I get into the bay it always says [Inaccessible] and doesnt even give me the option to pick locks, can anyone explain to me why this is? I haven't been able to steal ships this way at all (docking them in space is fine tho).
Been doing this for several hours. Not a single ship could I even come close to stealing. Like 70% of the time there is no ship at all forcing you to reload or fast travel to a new spot. 15% of the time I see a ship but it's so far from me that I can't sprint over to it fast enough before it takes off or I can't find it. The other 15% of the time it's a guardian ship that I don't even bother trying to get because you can't access them unless you can get to the door before the NPCs leave the ship and even if you could do that you can't sell or modify the ship so I don't really care. Either this method is not fast AT ALL or I'm missing something.
I discovered also... put your game in very hard setting.... wait till ship lands.. often this imeaditly a c class huge ship.. when almost there.. change back your setting and steal it. I tested this out in very easy setting.. u get a class ships. Very hard, c class ships.
Would love to see some spaceship hunting clips!
Every time I try to board a ship that lands on a planet, the door says inaccessible. Was this patched recently?
Alter your ship or something in the ship builder.
I'm having alot of trouble finding class C ships. Ive gotten a dozen class A and one class B.I have a outpost in the Fermi system. What am I doing wrong?
Maybe your level? I started finding them around lv 20 I think, not sure
@@04AMofficialya that might be the problem. Since getting to level 40 I have got a couple C class ships.
Can you strip the ships you aquire to use the parts to build the ship you want?
Yep! I made a new guide for it!
@@04AMofficial what about buying and storing parts?
If a ship you like takes off before you get to it launch your ship into space. You can catch it in orbit
It’s Best to Register Your Ships yourself not at the Ship Tech! You get charged most from the Tech to Register
Register the ship from the ship menu in your inventory instead of going to the technician. Its cheaper that way so you get more profit when you sell.
_Predetermined short landing time_ is not a problem. You can use AMP and PHASED TIME ability to catch a ship before taking off. I've yet to find a ship that can escape.
You can also use Aurora/Blend to slow time as well.
I never had to lock pick when stealing a ship
New player alert. Does leaving the planet with the stolen ship mean that I need to leave Frontier behind and lose it?
no, you can't get rid of your starting ship, can't even sell it. When you steal a ship it's set as your new home ship, just change it back with a ship technician if you want
I had an $87k Hyena land today! Had a 40 power reactor on it! Made me look into this.
I saved when i heard the boom. And could change the ship 5 or so times then it got locked as a specific ship. And even going back on the save, the plane was on the groumd after that. So it's not going to work indefinitely. But handy non the less.
I honestly find pirating enemy ships in space to be better. On the ground from the limited time I've been trying this, it seemed half the time the ship was friendly, couldn't sit in chair, or just took off to fast.
I also find it alot easier to get back in my ship quicker and be on my way.
Thank you for vid
My pleasure!
Make sure to also take the Wanted trait! That way you have a guaranteed ship you can steal every in game week when the Bounty Hunters show up and fail to capture you.
On land or in space? I tried stealing that bounty hunter ship on land yesterday and wasn't authorised to do so.
@@Esponer I e only ever gotten that of my piloting was too low. Or on story ships like the ones for other vanguard pilots.
Incorrect. Ships that land with the bounty hunters specifically from the wanted trait always give the not authorized message when attempting to pilot, regardless of piloting rank. There’s a different message when you attempt to pilot a ship but do not have a high enough piloting rank, which specifically mentions your piloting not being high enough.
Piloting was the first skill I maxed out, thanks to the sim, and had rank 4 before encountering any wanted trait bounty hunters. Every ship that has landed on planet w/ wanted trait bounty hunters gives the not authorized message. I haven’t tried to board them when they show up in space, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was also not authorized there. Some UC ships give the same message, while the crazy UC ships such as the Vista or Autobahn never give me an issue.
So far I’ve encountered three unique messages when unable to pilot a ship. One for piloting not being high enough. Another for when a hostile crew remain (though I’ve also piloted when a hostile Varuun crew took off after boarding and I only killed a couple before rushing the pilot seat). Then the not authorized message which is a hard stop no matter the piloting rank, status of the crew, amount of time you wait, leaving and returning to the planet, etc.
Those wanted trait ships are trash anyways, regular landing sites are extremely common and you can farm them, with or without save scumming.
@@Esponer In space. It is seemingly a random event when you enter space where you get attacked.
Anyone got a trident ship yet? Im trying to get one of those.
Does your level matter when spawning ships? Im on a lvl 65 planet trying this, but im only lvl 12, and i only see class A ships :/
It might be, while Im currenly 34 and also farming 75 planets- seeing plenty of 80 enemies and Tier III Spaceships which have insane values. Maybe your Piloting skill also helps
It's much cheaper to register the ship via the Tab menu vs. Going to a ship services guy
I don't think this works at all. Has this been patched out of the game since this video was posted? I been at this for 2 days now and not a single ship stolen. Doesn't seem to work. I'm on the exact planet mentioned in this video but it just doesn't work. Also, the more I try the less ships even spawn. At first it was fairly regular (like 30% of the time) but they were always too far or guardian ships. Now I rarely ever get any ship event at all and the couple times I do it's usually a guardian ship and once I got a UC ship event. I wonder if player level or any particular perks have some effect on this? I don't know but this just doesn't work.
tried it for hours in level 75 system...does not woork at all for me. i only get class a ships to spawn (yes i have c licence)
In the time i spend tryin this i coould have farmed a level b ship .....
Could be that the ships that spawn are also level locked, similar to ship parts.
I have a problem where random ships land that i want to take over, but the access ramps never open...happens maybe 50% of the time
What ship do you have?
You also cannot steal starborn ships as you can’t even get on them. At least first play through. Idk about 2nd play though. I got excited because a starborn ship landed and I killed the crew but couldn’t get inside the ship 😭😭
You have to hit them right when they land by using Amp(or other speed boosts) as well as Aurora/Blend(or other time slowing effects)
I found a beautiful ship called varuun shroudbearer in space, destroyed its engines but I couldn’t dock and steal it 😭😭
I had the same issue last night. No matter if I saved/loaded prior to entering their airspace or initiating the fight, once it's engines were down there was never the option to dock. I tried landing on a nearby planet and coming back to see if thag fixed it as someone else had mentioned but no luck. I tried everything and just had no option to dock.
However, this is also in the same time frame that my outpost marker disappeared from the map and I had to land 20 different times to find it on foot again then get to my landing pad and switch home ships to bring my ship over because the marker never came back. Game was bugging bad last night
@@slohawk8275 dude I know how sad🥺after a little bit of research I found out it’s a legendary ship that can’t be stolen
@Jaylohalo man I didn't think to check that! Just looked it up and yes, legendary ship M class I guess and unboardable...thanks for waiting my time Bethesda lol
I definetly wanna know what that big ship at the end of the video was called lol. XD
All I ever get is the damn UC raptor... :)
Doesn’t work. The chance of ships spawning in high level planets seems close to 0 when you’re player level is much lower. Very high chance of ship spawn on low level planets, but as soon as you travel to a 50+ level they stop spawning.
It is cheaper to register on fly no need to go to ship services.
I always register via the menu now ^^
Saw a guardian alien ship and tried to steal it. Inaccessible. Killed the dudes, tried agsin. Inaccessible. THAT totally sucked. I wondoer if anyone knows what to do so i can steal that thing!!
If you get the Wanted trait, you get attacked by ecliptic space ships a lot. You can board all of them and steal them.
9 ships 6 differnt planets in that system all 100% Vanguard :( so back to playing the game!
100 % same for me.....nothing but trash
What gear is he wearing....
crimson fleet
@@XMG3 thx....
This never trigger to me
All i have is bloody starborn land
1st!!!!
Ships don't really have a sell value, because the registration fee is about 85% the sell value of the ship. So you make a few thousand credits selling a ship.
Register the ship in your inventory, as others have said, the the sell value is much better. I ran an eight hour test of stealing ships vs outpost farming to see how much better outposts really are (they are significantly better). However, the outpost farming is boring! Boring! Jacking ships in space or on ground is fun. No sneaking - shoot, kill, loot, fly. Then register in the inventory, go sell. I managed to make over 1,000,000 credits in eight hours. I am pretty high level, so I try to only farm Class C, type III ships. I can average one jack and sell about every 12 minutes - 5 an hour. So, stealing ships can net a profit. Do not forget, most of these higher level ships have epic and legendary gear to sell, as well as credits in the Captain's safe (usually about 3-5K).
Yes, farming is vastly more profitable. Jacking ships is vastly more fun. I can come home from work and spend an hour a day jacking ships and feel okay about spending time gaming. I farm at an Outpost and feel like, "why?" If I can figure out how, I might do a "jacking ships live stream" for eight hours just to show that it is a fine way to level up and get credits. It just comes down to what you enjoy in the game.
@@seabumbb3067 I remember jacking for 8 hours per day. Those were the days
Anyone manage to capture the insurance scam ship yet?
From what i can tell this video is disingenuous. The ship you come there with is the same level you will leave there with. I did this 12 times with an A level ship and could only find A level ship. When i came there with a B level then I got B level ships. So you need a C level ship to get it and at that point whats the point? in short you dont go there with a Class A ship and leave with a C
I cannot steal these ships.. Ive killed the patrol and all inside.. it says "I am not authorized to pilot this ship: Im lvl 80 and have all the pilot skills. what gives..?