Hello all, I am loving the game so far and I created an account just for this game to engage with the community. I am having trouble with upgrading my ship, particularly the ai cores. I have two so far (including the one given at the beginning) and I am having trouble upgrading my ship enough to go hunting for them in the precursor junkyard. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thank you!
Take your time!
This is a complex game, and you need several things done to complete each step before you can go on to the next level of the quest to return home.
AI Cores are rare, to start with. There are also plenty of other things you need to have in place before you are in a position to go into the junkyards.
At the heart of the game is your relationship with your crew. Then it's your reputation/ notoriety. Which means doing missions, helping freighter captains, rescuing slaves, even drug-running! Building up your crew's trust, seducing them and showing them off is also a part of this.
Be patient, enjoy your crew, mine like there's no tomorrow. The rewards will come!
AI Cores are mainly combat loot, so getting ready for combat (via pirate outpost) ist the first big step. Brigands (Lvl2 mobs) start drop cores with 15% probability, Lvl3 mobs and missions with higher prob.
You can perfectly go lvl 1 or 2 bounty hunting without any ai cores if you have your laser and shield equipped with all the other subunits that can be purchased at the pirate base and iltari (if you have your license) or found in space events.
Once you have Vee join your crew (around day 40) and the swarm comes for you you get tons of cores :)
There's also a walkthrough in the OP with more detailed combat help.
Glad you enjoy the game so far!
