User blog comment:Zaneto/Dear Admiral/@comment-25779449-20150109175748/@comment-24978536-20150111083948

The thing is, those meager resources what you get from scrapping is still more useful than modernizing a non-combat ship. I'm personally at the point where I'm scrapping all the BBs I get, maybe sometimes using them for AA modernization if I have any CV(L) who to use in modernization alongside with the BB. And well, there is that one daily quest which rewards bauxite and a bucket for scrapping 2 ships... both of those resources are extremely useful.

Now, for a player who still hasn't modernized his full sortie fleet, then it is definitely not recommended to scrap ships other than for the daily quest.