I've messed around with save games, one thing that you'll have to make sure to do is to pass the saves at the beginning of nodes, if you save at the end, then every person will have different versions of the next node.
I've found a couple ways that can get me fairly reliably to the end boss- 2x anti ship drones with some other weapon keeping the shields down demolish ships very fast, and 2x ion weapons with an anti-ship drone is extremely safe.
If you're going for max scrap you definitely want to get a boarding team and kill the enemy with out actually killing the ship. You have much better chance at getting weapons and you get more scrap and fuel then you do if you just destroy the ship. I did that and stacked the +15% extra scrap augments and had 800 scrap saved up when I got to the last zone.
I've found a couple ways that can get me fairly reliably to the end boss- 2x anti ship drones with some other weapon keeping the shields down demolish ships very fast, and 2x ion weapons with an anti-ship drone is extremely safe.
If you're going for max scrap you definitely want to get a boarding team and kill the enemy with out actually killing the ship. You have much better chance at getting weapons and you get more scrap and fuel then you do if you just destroy the ship. I did that and stacked the +15% extra scrap augments and had 800 scrap saved up when I got to the last zone.