Did you scrap your starting ships?

[Lord Xaar]

Just curious b/c of the other thread...so here is my first poll:

 

Did you keep your initial ships? I still have all my pathfinders, although most of them are now hanging out in EXPL fleets. Only a couple of them are still moving around.

 

The Bastion had to go however.

 

 

-LX

[ali-t-akua]

Actually I only scrapped a few of the Pathfinders in the build queue because I wanted ot build some other ships. I kept the ones already built plus the one at the top of the queue and I use the pathfinders a lot.

[cestvel]

I find these Pathfinders rather useful.

 

They are still in service as A or B WP crackers, system/planet surveyers or

with an addition of a small cargo ship they make excellent EXPL-ships.

 

So it never came to my mind to scrap these.

 

But I must admit I did not build more on my own.

[hobknob]

I don't find pathfinders particularly useful, but it has never been worth scrapping them. The part aren't really worth anything and within 12 turns most would be out of date anyway. Even a new position has little use for the stuff on a pathfinder.

 

The Bastion is another story as it is very useful.

 

[rotor911]

The part aren't really worth anything

I beg to differ: fuel shuttles & survey landers don't get upgrades (at least until now for me and are useful on the following generations. Also lot of ships don't need better than 1 Mk1 nuclear engine. Reusing these components spare BI orders.

[Hughestrog]

Last of the original Pathfinders is now being scrapped, after almost 2 years in game

 

I recycle the components when I can, one MkI Nuclear Engine on a 2000000 million freighter is just as effective as a MkIII Fusion Engine (i.e. 2AP).