Starfield - NG6 space captures now
Spent the time farming ships on the ground, since neither the Frontier or Guardian ship were able to put out the damage or soak the hits normally encountered. The ground captures didn't include any ship I would use as a base for a custom build either. Some mark III versions of the Falcata were captured; but otherwise not a single other sighting of any other ship in a mark III version were spotted anywhere in well over 20 ground captures.
After all this time grinding and looking for a decent ship on the ground, finding none worthy of customizing, I had accumulated 500K credits from the sales of the captured ships, so I had earned enough to just build the Frontier into the ship it needed to be to do space captures.
I expected better ships and loot in NG6, I didn't find either, not yet anyway. Now that I have a ship to do the captures in space I shall look and see if I find better ships and loot. Otherwise I think I have learned what I was seeking to know, it doesn't get better in the upper NG+ settings. I will let you know if my opinion changes, not expecting it to though and feel even more that it is time to move on to the next game.