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The ship you choose to fly will become your home away from home inStarfield. While there is a lot of fast traveling, your ship will always be with you, giving you a place to store your gear and keep your crew at the ready.
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While you may grow attached to your ship, there are dozens of others in the galaxy, all ripe for the picking if you desire. Depending on the size and class of the ship, you may get a notification that “You’re Not Authorized To Pilot This Ship”, with no explanation on how to fix that problem.
Updated On November 2nd, 2023 By Joshua Leeds:Starfield offers hundreds of ships for players to find and use. Ships are classified in different classes, with players needing to level up a specific skill to fly the best ships in the galaxy. This article has been updated to include additional information to help players fly better ships and upgrade the required skill quickly.
What Does The Notification Mean
If you receive the “You Are Not Authorized To Pilot This Ship” message, thatmeans your piloting skill is not high enough to pilot that class of ship.There arethree classes of ships:A,B, and the highest,C.At the start of the game, you’llonly be able to pilot a Class A shipand need toupgrade your piloting skills to be able to fly abetter ship.
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What Is The Class Of A Ship
Ships are split up into three groupsdepending on theReactor of the ship.The Reactor is the central part of the ship, and the ship can only havemodules andparts attached to that same classas the reactor.While you can make upgrades to Class A ships to make them stronger, theupgrades for a Class B or C ship will always be better.
When trying toboard and steal an enemy ship,you won’t always know the Class of the Ship until after you’ve boarded and cleared out the crew. Receiving the notification that you’re not authored can be frustrating as it is aclear indicator the ship is better than the one you currently have.Upgrading your Piloting skill earlyand all the way throughearly into your playthroughis key to avoiding these types of situations.
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How To Upgrade Your Piloting Skill
Your Piloting skill is one of thefirst skillsyou can unlock in the Tech skill tree.Like all skills, it has four ranks, and you’ll need todestroy other ships in combatto unlock the additional levelsin this skill. Always be sure to buybetter ship partsto make these fights even easier. One of the easiest locations to find enemy ships is theFlight Simulator.The requirements to level up your piloting skill are:
Requirement
This level can be bought at any time
Use of Ship Thrusters while flying.
Destroy 5 Ships
More effective turning and thrusters while flying.
Destroy 15 Ships
Piloting Class B Ships
Destroy 30 Ships
Piloting Class C Ships.
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