FTL: scraphoarder 3721/9385, sector 8, pauseless
2Sector 8 of the run (except Flagship fight), uncut, in-game sounds and music. This is my best Hardmode AE scraphoarder run, being a victory with 9385 score and 3721 scrap hoarded. This sector includes selling all 3 scrap arms in a late-sector store.
Selling scrap arms in this case was a no-brainer, with only 1 beacon left to go. Doing so allowed to hoard (75-31)=44 more scrap by the end of the run, where 31 is how many scrap i'd have from scrap arms should i not sell them: 19.8 (rounded down to 19) from the last regular beacon, 6 scrap from 1st stage of the Flagship fight, and 6.6 (rounded down to 6) from the 2nd stage.
Much harder decision was whether to keep or sell the Ion Charger. Turned out, i did right by keeping it; this lowered my scrap count by 25, but the gun was helping in most-punishing stage 3 of the fight, even when the benefit it has over flak mk1 against Flahship's supershield is rather small: Ion Charger puts out 20 points of damage against supershields, if everything hits, per minute (10 shots, 2 damage each), while flak mk1 puts out 18 points of damage against supershields, if all shots hit, per minute (6x3 = 18 shots, 1 damage each).
More important consideration, however, was Ion Charger's rate of fire, which is almost twice faster than flak mk1's. This means more chance to have a shot happen while using my own cloak, which in turn means cloak's actual duration is reduced a bit, which in turn means the moment i'll have my cloak off its cooldown - will happen a bit sooner.