Scrapping at spaceports or at current location... benefits?

[Astorax]

The1sean, yes, the game really is randomly giving (multiple) techs for every non-your ships. Crappy pirate ships with no advanced components? Tech advance or at the least points to a tech. Derelict spaceships? Probably a multiple bump for a single tech and, likely, it isn't even the tech that the ship has an advanced component of. If you get a ship from some enemy - same thing.

It doesn't seem to matter whether the components are advanced or not, you still get an advance. It does seem like if there are multiple advanced components on the ship, you more than likely will get a multiple advance on some single tech field.

[taltamir]

ORIGINAL: Astorax

The1sean, yes, the game really is randomly giving (multiple) techs for every non-your ships. Crappy pirate ships with no advanced components? Tech advance or at the least points to a tech. Derelict spaceships? Probably a multiple bump for a single tech and, likely, it isn't even the tech that the ship has an advanced component of. If you get a ship from some enemy - same thing.

It doesn't seem to matter whether the components are advanced or not, you still get an advance. It does seem like if there are multiple advanced components on the ship, you more than likely will get a multiple advance on some single tech field.

Yea, it seems to count up the tech and then give advances...
I scrapped the world annihilator... all its tech was average (Except the super weapon)... and I was actually very low tech at the time I got it... it simply maxed out engines for me (giving me tech in that field that was better than what the world annihilator was equipped with)