Sometimes, to make boarding a ship easier, I'll send off a volley or two of burst lasers to knock out the medical bay or injure the crew before I teleport over to fight them.
When I do this, of course, it causes several points of damage to the enemy ship's hull.
Does it make any difference in the amount of scrap I receive at the end of the fight whether I weaken the enemy ship in this way, or capture it by teleport without firing a shot?
(My impression is that it doesn't, but I'm looking for something more solid than a hunch.)
Best Answer
According to this wiki page (and to this Arqade page, where a rather similar question is answered), the default reward system does not take the "health" of the enemy ship into account when the ship survives. It is only a matter of probability between the possible rewards triggered by the "killing the crew" victory.