So, I am playing (as usual) a new start. I am more of a scrappy guttersnipe type than a master of the universe type so I tend to be very willing to just start fresh, and the Outlaws update was a good excuse. Anyway…
One thing that has become typical of my starts is that I ditch the Pillar as soon as I can. I’m not THAT much of a guttersnipe. Then I ride whatever rustbucket that involves, doing the absolute minimum of upgrades, until I have the cash to get a “keeper ship.” Absolute minimum used to mean none, but yay for the improved combat.
In this case the rustbucket was a class C shuttle that I dubbed BUTruck. I’ll leave it to you to guess what the BU stands for. It was…functional…once it had a rocket launcher and some C class shield upgrades. I had some A class upgrades but I saved them. Previously I would have installed the C class ones and then scrapped them for parts, but bow keeping them seemed prudent. The truck sort of grew on me, but I always long for the flashy fighter, even though they are really impractical prior to freighter time.
Eventually I ran out of space in the truck. I’m sort of a hoarder and tend to just stock anything that might be needed on a wreck salvage. Then there’s those upgrades that are too good to waste installing them in a class C rustbucket I know I will eventually trade off. Frigate modules; gonna need those someday… I trust you remember how this goes on a fresh start.
Conveniently, when the truck got too small I was sitting at about eight million units. Time to shop.
I haunted the stations I had mapped and watched stuff come and go, eventually finding a class A shuttle with a lot more space and a price tag I could barely afford. At this point I figured that was the best eight million was going to do. I was not going to trade for anything less than an A class, because I know I won’t keep them. An A class fighter in my price range was going to be smaller than the truck. I settled for one of these…
Even in a class A at eight million it was very roomy, especially after all my saved upgrades got installed in tech slots and stopped taking up cargo space. Among those upgrades were two hyperdrive kits. So off I went to explore a handful of new systems and spend what units I had left on exosuit expansions at stations. My honest good intentions were to ride this one until I had a freighter to make using multiple ships less of a hassle and then probably keep it in a towtruck type function. Like I said, a keeper ship.
The VERY FIRST jump I land at the station, hop out, and go get my exosuit upgrade. I’m walking back to the new truck and this beautiful fighter comes whistling into the station.
I can’t help but check.
It’s an S class.
Sigh.
Not any bigger than the old truck. Priced at three million.
I traded straight across for it. Net losses, five million units and a handful of accumulated upgrades.
She’s a beauty though, yeah?
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