No Man's Sky
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They changed a lot of things...
More elements, recipes have changed, more aliens on spacestations!
More elements, recipes have changed, more aliens on spacestations!
Maybe this is a dumb question, but if the point of the game is to always be moving somewhere new, what's the point of sticking around to build a base on one planet?
There is a teleporter at your base and i think you might be able to teleport from another systems space-station to your base and back...
And it looks like the freighter will act like a mobile base\personal space-station as well, summoning it to any system you're at...
Ign video on base building:
And it looks like the freighter will act like a mobile base\personal space-station as well, summoning it to any system you're at...
Ign video on base building:
Ah, now that makes a lot of sense! Cool idea.
Still waiting for a large price drop on this but I'm glad they're still working on it.
Still waiting for a large price drop on this but I'm glad they're still working on it.
No idea if I will use a base or mobile freighter.
https://www.engadget.com/2016/11/28/no-mans-sky-code-hints-at-ground-vehicles/
https://www.engadget.com/2016/11/28/no-mans-sky-code-hints-at-ground-vehicles/
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New problem. I cannot find copper to repair my sigma reactor. No base metals on the planet and little Gold. Cannot leave the one planet system. Do I trade down to a ship that can leave the system, or spend weeks looking for enough Gold?
Edit: big patch now so cannot do anything soon.
Edit: big patch now so cannot do anything soon.
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The new patch is buggy, I read where they will issue a patch to patch the patch. I'll wait for the patched patch before playing again. Sometimes the cockpit view from my ship is partially blocked, and the game crashes while attempting to land on a planet. I did play just enough to realize you should build your first base in a Korvax system that has Spadonium.
Not patchedyett. How long before the next patch?
Anyone know the size of the latest patch?
The patch and the follow up patch for it are available now. As to it's size, I forget. But on my slow ass DSL connection it took about 45 minutes for the foundation update, and I didn't notice the foundation patch.
I will check again, but The last time I tried st home, it hovered around 26 - 28 minutes.
So here's how to make the business of base building, or trade ship owning, work without having to depend on the galaxy map. The galaxy map, or star map, in this game is difficult to use, and makes mobility between star systems difficult, to say the least.
Trading Ship - it costs 8 million, more or less, to buy a trading ship. Once you purchase a trading ship, you can build your labs on it just like you can on a planet base. After going to a new system (in your starship) you summon your trade vessel, and it appears in front of you. So your trading ship is your mobile base and follows you along as you go from system to system resource hunting. You have to keep moving in this game to find all the resources you'll need.
Planet Bases - start your first planet base anywhere, and do what you can to run all the errands you can with the aliens you can recruit for your base. When you run into a dead end, and have to go to another system to locate resources, build another new planet base in that new system. The aliens you've recruited so far will show up in your new base as soon as you build their respective terminal in your new base. You can also bring forward any supplies you left in storage containers from your most previous base. You'll have to keep building new planet bases over and over again doing it this way, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than spending 8 million for a trading ship.
Remember, the errands the aliens in your base want you to run are planet (system) specific. So while you can always warp to another system, then use the transporter to get back to your home planet in another system, you do not have your ship with you. Now then, for resource hunting, you can keep this system hoping up for a while, just carrying everything in your exosuit.
Hope that helps.
Trading Ship - it costs 8 million, more or less, to buy a trading ship. Once you purchase a trading ship, you can build your labs on it just like you can on a planet base. After going to a new system (in your starship) you summon your trade vessel, and it appears in front of you. So your trading ship is your mobile base and follows you along as you go from system to system resource hunting. You have to keep moving in this game to find all the resources you'll need.
Planet Bases - start your first planet base anywhere, and do what you can to run all the errands you can with the aliens you can recruit for your base. When you run into a dead end, and have to go to another system to locate resources, build another new planet base in that new system. The aliens you've recruited so far will show up in your new base as soon as you build their respective terminal in your new base. You can also bring forward any supplies you left in storage containers from your most previous base. You'll have to keep building new planet bases over and over again doing it this way, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than spending 8 million for a trading ship.
Remember, the errands the aliens in your base want you to run are planet (system) specific. So while you can always warp to another system, then use the transporter to get back to your home planet in another system, you do not have your ship with you. Now then, for resource hunting, you can keep this system hoping up for a while, just carrying everything in your exosuit.
Hope that helps.
Yes but I do not see a need for me to do so. Might just be more concerned about buying a new ship so I can leave the system I am in.
Home Base farming tip (if you haven't already read about it): Once you have the formula for lubricant, 40 carrion root plants (yielding mordite) will yield enough lubricants for about $900,000 every 10 minutes, sold at the galactic terminal you've built in your base so you don't have take time out to keep transporting it. That's over 5 million an hour. You will be furiously left clicking for that hour, so I suggest you do this while drunk or stoned, or possibly both, while listening to your favorite music. It's just as boring as mining gold, but makes money much faster, and you never leave the comfort and security of your home base.
I have prepared a list of supplies you'll need in order to set this up.
For building all the cuboid rooms necessary, and the 40 planters, you'll need around 6 or 7 thousand iron, and 200 zinc (for the planters). I didn't keep track of the iron, because it's so easy to get.
For the 40 carrion root plants, you'll need 1600 thimian9, 1000 carbon, and 1200 mordite. Now there's no way in hell you will probably go around killing enough animals to get 1200 mordite, so get as much as you can, and just start planting. As the plants mature, you get about 28 mordite per plant each harvest, use your early harvests to finish building the rest of the carrion root plants.
To build the galactic trade terminal, you need 6 voltaic cells costing 350 antrium, and 10 circuit boards costing 200 riogen, 500 candensium, and 200 antrium. Plus 500 Emeril.
I have prepared a list of supplies you'll need in order to set this up.
For building all the cuboid rooms necessary, and the 40 planters, you'll need around 6 or 7 thousand iron, and 200 zinc (for the planters). I didn't keep track of the iron, because it's so easy to get.
For the 40 carrion root plants, you'll need 1600 thimian9, 1000 carbon, and 1200 mordite. Now there's no way in hell you will probably go around killing enough animals to get 1200 mordite, so get as much as you can, and just start planting. As the plants mature, you get about 28 mordite per plant each harvest, use your early harvests to finish building the rest of the carrion root plants.
To build the galactic trade terminal, you need 6 voltaic cells costing 350 antrium, and 10 circuit boards costing 200 riogen, 500 candensium, and 200 antrium. Plus 500 Emeril.
I suggest just being drunk and / or stoned all the time because well look at reality?
May have to try this. Now if I could have a trade terminal in my ship...
Unfamiliar with some of the items mentioned.
Unfamiliar with some of the items mentioned.
You can build a trade terminal on your freighter. Speaking of freighters, the below is a post I made on another board about freighters.
How much does it cost to go from not having a freighter to having a 48 slot freighter? One BILLION units. Yep, that's with a "B" not a "M". Now, I like this game and all, but there is no way I'm going to mine enough gold or farm enough whatevers to get one billion.
So, how do I know it costs a billion? I cheated. I saved a copy of my NMS file before cheating, just so I could go back if I wanted to, then loaded up my cheat program and gave myself a billion units. It took damn near every cent of that to purchase my way to a 48 slot freighter, not to mention all the warp cells I had to create going system to system upgrading the freighter two slots at a time.
That's what you call "broken", as in a BROKEN ******* GAME. There is just no way the game, as it currently is, is set up to get you down that path. In the next major release, I'm sure they'll come up with something you can make a ton of money doing, probably involving the freighter. But currently? A full slot of gold on your starship (500 units of gold) is worth about 110,000. You will need to fill that slot 9090 times to get a billion dollars.
Looks like there's some on ebay for <$30. That's how I got my copy.
I traded mine in a while back because it was boring.
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