Ostranauts - SHORT Explainer: How to Flip Ships for MAD STACKS

UPDATE: Cirne did some testing and digging in the code to get a lot more precise info about how ship pricing works. It's... not necessarily ideal and very abusable.

The pricing appears to be as follows:
Combined value of each item of equipment installed on the ship * 80% * Room specialization multiplier * condition (under 33% = 25%; 33%-66% = 50%; 66%-95% = 75%; over 95% = 100%) * 300% oxygen bonus for having at least one o2 can with pump installed

Any walls - or anything that is installed with a center-point inside a wall - counts for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. This includes pumps, thrusters, coolers and any floors/conduits in a wall.

There is NO LONGER a bonus for having many rooms on a ship. The most ideal layout for any ship is 1 Luxury Quarters and everything else in a Reactor Room. A Towing Room doesn't decrease the value, though.

Edit: I also was wrong about the specialty room size requirements - they only refer to ONE dimension. Meaning that a cargo room doesn't need to be 6x6 - it can be 6x1.

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This is my best attempt at creating a concise explainer video showing step-by-step how to purchase, rehabilitate and re-sell a ship for profit in Ostranauts. It is, by far, the most lucrative activity in the game I've seen so far.

It's also my first attempt to cut a video like this so hopefully y'all like it and, if so, I'll make some more.

Extra special thanks to ThorSenpai who convinced me to get back in the game by asking me if he could update this guide, and for streaming with me on Twitch to help me get to know the post-patch changes.

I previously published a fairly large clip from a recent stream showing the full process blow-by-blow, but it’s over an hour long and there are extended asides where I deal with very annoying bugs that you may encounter while attempting to do this. If you want to see that, here's the link:
https://youtu.be/gdUGhdJxsmo
https://rumble.com/v5wp8u5-ostranauts-how-to-flip-a-ship-for-mad-stacks-long-version.html

Link to my updated guide on Steam:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3041301396

Links to relevant wiki pages:
https://ostranauts.wiki.gg/wiki/Rooms
https://ostranauts.wiki.gg/wiki/Ship_Building#Stats

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