on that "ignore the battle, fly into space station, make a restore point, then fly back out" biz, it didnt work. i reloaded multiple times in the same system i chose as my freighter fight save, yet in the end, the battle didnt respawn at all. it acted like i chose to full sale abandon it, and at that point i figured "now i gotta afk for a few more hours again....cute :/"

afk'ing while i did that was a bit yikes, because when i went back to my settlement to check on the bar i was having built, my population went from 40 to 38. i don't have many people, and i don't want them dead

apparently nothing? ngl, i did not think of that at all, also didnt think that would work :/

but also, i don't know the possibility of the mods of that subreddit deleting my post using the old reddit mode and banning me from it, so i'd rather play it on the safe side

well, i did five warps, afk'd at a station for over three hours (partially, had to travel to my settlement to take care of crap that had to be settled), and i managed to find a sentinel freighter in the hubert dimension galaxy. i even made a PS+ cloud save backup so i could restore in-case i screw up the roll somehow (also, side note, i tried heading into the freighter as it was getting shot at by pirates, but it blinked out of existence). what im PARTICULARLY HATING about re-rolling the class stats, is the god damn pirates.

it feels like the AI is getting smarter, the damn pirates are ducking in and out of the freighter shield systems so half the time im trying to shoot them, my rounds hit the freighter shields. they're making me waste ammo, and im on a normal save. god forbid what trickery they're capable of on the most extreme difficulty settings

about half of the pirates i shoot try to follow and shoot me, otherwise i always get either two or three that clip in and out of the freighter, some right at the hanger area, the one area i can't approach unless i want the freighter to vanish out of nowhere. it works, sort of, but its still absolutely infuriating

after multiple grinds,. freighter rescue missions, and cursing RNG with all my vitriol and salt, it finally graced me with an S rank enterprise class freighter after i warped into a pirate controlled system. its not a senitinel freighter like i wanted, but at this point, and considering how tired i am, i decided "screw it", and bought it. tomorrow, ill use some cargo upgrades and max out the tech and storage slots, and afterwards, ill go about getting it kited out for some real stuff