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Congratulations you have a new ship for free. If you are well geared, this is incredibly easy and you can knock out a ship in a single shot.
You can also just hang around on planets and wait for ships to land nearby. If they aren't Spacers or Ecliptic teams being dropped, you can sneak aboard and fly away. Though I find it kinda lame you can't also take the drop ships used to spawn enemies. Dumb door to go inside is always [inaccessible] :/
Every ship I own I got for free either doing the above, or as a reward for a quest.
Are you killing the enemies first? I found that if I kill the enemies it will say [inaccessible] and they'll fly away, but if you make a break for the ship you can take it.
Oh ho ho! Interesting. Yeah, I usually kill them all before I've gone up to the door, not wanting them to follow me in after. But next time I see one, I'm gonna rush the door and see if I can get in.
If you dock with the ship, get in the pilot's seat, then leave and get back in your own ship, do you keep the new ship?
Kinda. There's a fast way and a slow way.
Fast way: You have to dock with the enemy ship, clear it, sit in the seat, undock from your main ship, quickly open the menu, set the ship you're in as your home ship, redock with your main ship before it flys away, and then presumably you'll want to set that back as your home ship.
Slow way, dock, clear, sit, fly somewhere (grav jumping sets whatever ship you're in as your home ship), land at a ship technician, set your main ship back as your home ship. You have to repeat this for every ship you take.
The fast way keeps you in system with your main ship so I prefer it, especially if I'm in the Serpentis system trying to make 100,000 credits collecting var'uun ships.
Just undocking the ship usually makes it my home ship automatically. I kinda wish it didn't because sometimes I want to get away from hearing Sarah and the Adoring Fan tell me how good I am at doing things that are entirely automated.
Ah ok so I guess I need to invest in one of those emp guns, at least when I tried to target a ship I wasn't sure if it was disabled or not and ended up blowing them up each time
You don't even need the targeting
Every ship I've gotten behind and fired at has lost engines no problem
Hell, I think every ship I haven't explicitly gotten behind had engines fail at low health too
I have to use targeting most of the time because my guns are so powerful, a single shot can usually blow up the whole ship otherwise lol