Prevalence of New Ships in Last Two Releases

[amazinglyaudrey]

Below are the ships listed as part of the last releases. The ones that I have seen in the game have a parenthetical note next to them. Are the unseen ones (which are most of them) all super rare, part of a secret area, or only show up after a given time? Or has anyone with the iOS version actually seen them? I have the 3.5.1 elite version.

v3.3.1
- New Ship Artwork: Naval Cruiser
- New Ship Artwork: Razor Wing
- New Ship Artwork: Hieroglyph
- New Ship Artwork: Escape Shuttle (seen)
- New Ship Artwork: Basalt Carrier (seen)
- New Ship Artwork: Ironclad
- New Ship Artwork: Corsair (seen a Pirate Corsair)
- New Ship Artwork: Skimmer
- New Ship Artwork: Guardian
- New Ship Artwork: Sloop
- New Ship Artwork: Ridgeback (seen)
- New Ship Artwork: Bladeliner
- New Ship Artwork: Longwing
- New Ship Artwork: Lancewing
- 50 New Ship types including:
Merchants: Star Lifter (seen), Ridge Liner (seen), Jump Lifter (seen)
Smugglers: Skip Jammer (seen a Star Jammer), Corsair Cutter, Dragoon, Steel Lazar
Pirates: Blightcruiser (seen), Shortbow, Executioner, Corsair (seen)
Military: Solar Cruiser, Harbinger Carrier Mk2, Dreadnought
Bounty: Vlax Interceptor, Carnivore, Cobra, Predator, Saber
Hives: Derelict, Templar, Drifting
Alien: Xrangg, Jyeetax, Bollish
Narvidian: Stalker, Hexor, Hive


v3.5.1 - 3/6/2012
- New Ship Artwork: Vollin Hull
- New Ship Artwork: Outrigger Hull
- New Ship Artwork: Linerunner Hull
- New Ship: Vollin Liner
- New Ship: Linerigger Freighter
- New Ship: Solar Jammer
- New Ship: Pirate Lifter
- New Ship: Knight Cruiser
- New Space Hives: Drifting, Vast and Hulk
- New Ship: Tiberia Hawk
- New Ship: Excellus Cruiser
- New Ship: Paladin Interceptor
- New Ship: Guardian Dragoon
- Fixed Issues with AI Gun Moves
- New Ship: Obliterator Cruiser Mk2
- New Ship: Naval Freighter
- New Ship: Victory Lifter
- New Ship: Victory Liner
- New Ship Artwork: Blue Victus
- New Ship: Strike Fighter
- Update Tiberia / Obliterator Arts

[starfixer]

Better ships are harder to find. As time increases, ships get better. Your reputation with a faction as well as your rank with them will also heavily affect what ships you find on their planets. The actual planet makes a big difference as well. Some planets have better starport ratings (not shown in game), meaning better/more ships. Urban planets generally have the best ships, as well as more upgrades. On syndacate capital, for example, it is not uncommon to see all 45 upgrades available and 90+ new ships available. Lastly, the faction itself makes a difference. Some factions sell more merchant ships (thulun), some more military ships (cadar).

Hope that helps!

[fallen]

amazinglyaudrey - when you say "seen" do you mean that these are the ones you have found in a Star Port for sale, or flown by enemy captains? Do you follow Star Port rumors around?

[amazinglyaudrey]

Hmm.. okay, how about for example:

Level 21,
Profession: spy,
Turn: 3793,
Difficulty: Impossible,

Faction Info -
Syndicate Rychart: 839, rank 13
House Thulun: 690, rank 20

At any Rychart or Thulun major civilized world (Thulun Prime, Baza Prime, etc), the exact same ships available at level 1, turn 1 as at my current turn and level. And that's just this game. I've built up rep in the thousands for other factions before without so much as one of the other ships. Are the other ships really so much better that they're just never seen within a games stretching that long?

[amazinglyaudrey]

fallen, I mean seen as in ever. Both in star ports and by enemy captains. Anything I've seen flown by captains, I've also seen for sale in star ports. I've followed the star port rumors before, but they're almost always at low-end fringe planets and don't even have the selection of what you can find at the bigger civilized worlds.

[fallen]

amazinglyaudrey - perhaps there is a problem! Cory will have to weigh in. We will definitely help resolve!

[slayernz]

Hey amazinglyaudrey,
When it comes to finding ships at space ports, look for the rich planets and shop there. Look for high quality star ports (Planetary Security), and High Economy planets.

Here are the top 10 planets ranked by economy. What you'll notice straight away is all of them are in the elite areas of the map (bottom right, bottom left, upper right quadrants).

Planet	Location	Faction	Sec	Econ
Roavin	(1, 37)	I	18	19
Zu Chong-Zhi	(26, 29)	CS	15	17
Kashtisha	(14, 20)	SR	8	17
Sernouaan Alpha	(21, 28)	SR	20	16
Caldora	(-9, 32)	I	15	15
Ryelline Ganne	(18, 29)	DV	14	15
Traneldor B	(24, 26)	I	12	14
Corelloth	(-8, 28)	SSC	21	13
Corouaari	(31, 18)	CJ	15	13
Tapella Outpost	(34, 6)	I	1	13

[johndramey]

Silly question, but...... Is there an in-game way of distinguishing the rich planets from the poor planets? Is it part of the flavor text, or just something that is handled behind the scenes?

[amazinglyaudrey]

Funny. I didn't know that the planets were rated that way, but I typically ship shop at Roavin, Zu Chong-Zhi, or Sernouan Alpha because the ships seemed better. Even still, no new ships (except as marked in OP) from any of those places. I've even tried artificially boosting the rating by stockpiling artifacts on docked ships and dumping them into the exchange all at once. Lol

[Cory Trese]

There may be a bug. Let me investigate.

The next iPhone update will display planet ratings as well.

[Cory Trese]

iST #907

[amazinglyaudrey]

Thanks, Cory! My hero! :-)