Wastelands & Scrap Heaps

[ChickenHawk07]

No resources are recovered when scrapping a ship/orbital. They may add that ability in an upcoming update.

No way to give up planets yet (this will be added in the next update). Unfortunately, you're stuck where you are. You'll just need to research bigger harvesters and start bringing in resources from other sectors. Either by building outpost ships or by capturing other player's outposts. Obviously colonies are only created by making colony ships or by taking them from other players. You'll need about 15 cruisers to take a new colony under 10-12Mu.

[hunkydory]

Thanks--the tool tip for self-destruct "recover some resources" is quite misleading.

Appreciate the advice re: bad placement. Aggressive expansion it will have to be then

[VanderLegion]

No resources are recovered when scrapping a ship/orbital. They may add that ability in an upcoming update.

That's actually incorrect, if you scrap a ship/orbital at a colony (or maybe an outpost, haven't tried), you get 1/3 of the resources for it back. I don't remember if I was scrapping ships or orbitals at the time, but decided to test it out (I think I was scrapping energy arrays to build more ships), looked at my resources before and after scrapping, as I said, looked like I was getting 1/3 back at the planet.

Edit: I'm assuming if you scrap elsewhere, you indeed get nothing.