Any Hints on unlocking these ships?

[Cactuschef]

So I've been playing the hell out of this game for quite awhile, and I've still yet to unlock the slug, mantis, or crystal ships.

I'm trying to resist spoiling it for myself, but i really want to try them out. My problem is I have absolutely no idea what I should be looking for to get these things. I know that the damaged stasis pod is related to the crystal ship, but I've found it dozens of times and have no clue what to do with it. as far as the slug and mantis ships go, I know nothing at all. I make sure to hit up the mantis and slug sectors at every given opportunity, but nothing ever comes up. And it feels like I've seen every encounter and event many times over.

Can someone give me some hints as to what I should be looking for? I'm kinda reluctant to ask cause half the fun of this sort of game is discovering stuff for yourself, but I'm kinda frustrated with having absolutely no clue what I'm even looking for.

So if anyone could point me in the right direction regarding these three ships, without outright spelling it out, i'd appreciate it. (unless the unlock methods are so obscure you'd have to stumble on it completely by accident?)

[Number43]

First of all, to get a hint click "list" in the hangar and mouse over and read the tooltips for the locked ships.

For the crystal you need the damaged stasis pod, then you need to encounter a certain event in either zoltan or engi sectors. Getting that will tell you where to go for the next step.

For the mantis, it needs to be the "Mantis Home Worlds". Then on a certain encounter you need to use a teleporter to take the ship intact (which you should do as much as possible in any case as you get better rewards.) There is another upgrade you need as well to get it. If you do the rest and don't have the last upgrade you should get a hint about what else needs to happen.

As for the slug, go to the "Slug Home Nebula". Notice how many slug ships offer to surrender without telling you what they're giving you before hand? You need to accept those, and a certain one of those starts the quest (though often you'll get normal loot instead). To pull it off you need either a slug crew member or a certain system upgrade, and you need to choose the right choices a couple times or you'll fail.

[Cactuschef]

thank you kindly, i guess i need to start upgrading things i don't normally upgrade.

[Sharpieman20]

If ya want, more "hints" PM me, I feel like I could give you some good ones without spoiling it for ya.

[Cactuschef]

actually i've managed to unlock all three. for the slug and mantis it was simply that i almost never bother to upgrade the necessary systems. for crystal it was just bad luck, i know a number of runs i'd gotten the required event but it was always -before- i had gotten the stasis pod.