I am having a dabble. quite enjoying it. a quick question. due to the limited inventory of weapons and frames etc (I despise this aspect of F2P and other games which use inventory as a way to make you pay money ... it made me walk away for ESO!!
When you get established with spare parts you can start selling prime bps/parts for plat which you can then use to buy slots etc. As much as I'm not enjoying the current changes of late and as such playing less the one good thing about warframe is you can trade for plat (warframe.market is a good site for reference/selling/buying) which can do cosmetics/slots etc.
but if I master a frame or weapon and then have to get rid of it to free up space for another. down the line if I make another version of that item will it still be max level or will I have to start from scratch?.
currently am ranked as a novice ... it's going to take a lot of time to level up . I do have a max level frame and some weapons but the way the game works as soon as you max an item you are encouraged to ditch it.
Think of it like this, each item you own is it's own unique item and needs to be treated as such... forma, level, mod loadouts (outside the 3 setups - polarities are shared though) are all independent. The only thing is the MR value can only be earnt once per item (some special items go to rank 40 and need forma to do it) and that MR goes towards your overall rank.
Not sure if you've reached helminth yet but if you haven't don't sell your non prime frame (keep the primes unless you desperately need the space) unless you have to, you will need that to feed the helminth.
Be careful with weapons, some weapons need to be used to make other weapons (check wiki) but ALWAYS max a weapon to max rank before selling it.
Also don't waste your time with potatoes/forma on low level gear it's just not worth it.... same goes for a warframe if there is a prime version (assuming it's not vaulted)
I had some platinum but because of my hatred of limited inventory I spent the lot of it on new frame and weapon slots.
You did the right thing... that's what we all recommend newbies do. Also try and do the nightwave seasons as they usually have some sort of slot in them, keep an eye out for any alerts with stuff too. Maroo's ayatan missions would be recommended too (good endo supply when full with stars)
Any other questions ask away, last I checked I had 3000ish hours in the game, although like I say I've not been playing as much of late and there's some things I just didn't enjoy so didn't play it much.