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No Man's Sky |OT2| Maths Effect
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The only way I found to get money was to fill my inventory with a resource and sell it. (Repeat 100000 times)
When you find crashed ships, they're normally one size bigger than your last ship.
Zombie James
Banned
You also get credits by destroying attacking ships, stealing from freighters, discovering and naming planets, animals, and plants, and talking with NPCs. You could also hold on to specific items to get more credits out of them when you're in a specific system (ie. Gek Charms sell for more credits when you're in a Gek system).
The problem is, a Gek Charm for example, you can sell it for 20k on one system and 35k on another one. What is 35000 units compared to 35000000 units .
I'd have to sell 1000 Gek charms to buy that ship, let's say my inventory fits 40 items, that'd be 25 trips between a place where I can farm Gek Chams and a station/trade robot in a planet. aka not fun
SynthFetish
Member
Two words, Vortex Cubes
What are the glowing balls called again? If you can find a planet with those, it's fun to set down and do some danger runs of grabbing as many as you can while avoiding the system, then getting back to the space station while fending off hostiles, and selling for quite a lot of money. I was able to raise 2 million in the early game stages doing this, but now can't find my way back to that system...
vpance
Member
Trying to find out where you've been in the map is a pain. If you're like 3-4 jumps away it's definitely possible though. Saved waypoints helps a bit but it's wonky.
Had a planet with grav balls and cubes in the last system I was in. Going to move my base there temporarily.
SynthFetish
Member
Once I get a chance, I'm definitely setting up my base on a Vortex Cube planet. One of the ones where they are just scattered all over the place and the sentials don't care.
Iriscomeback
Member
Sorry if this has been asked and answered already, but how do you build the harvesters that mine resources for you? Do you need a base for that?
Oppo
Member
i think you build them. dpad-up menu. i haven't done it myself yet though.
vpance
Member
Where sentinels don't care? Is that really possible? Would be a great find for sure. Every cube/ball planet I've come across have had aggressive bots.
SynthFetish
Member
Yep, unless they changed it.
Two types of vortex cube worlds.
1. Cubes floating on pedestals when sentinels get mad
2. Cubes scattered all over the ground and no one cares.
Lucky you. For any planet I found that had aggressive sentinels guarding grav balls, I appended "Protected Habitat" to the name when uploading it so I could find them again, little realising that once I'd made a few jumps there would be no thread back, and the list of systems is not usable as a warp jump list. The latter is one of my most wanted features... Just let me pick one from the list and then view on galaxy map.
Move the Atlas stones to your ship, they stack. Remove phase beam upgrades if you need slots
R_thanatos
Member
You need to research them first
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Black holes without a question. It cuts the travel time down by more than 3/4s.
Same here. I use my plasma balls to "mine" it until I find the required mining laser.
backbreaker65
Banned
Is there a guide/tutorial on how to get a "Atlas Pass"?
Follow the Atlas route, you'll get the recipe after visiting an anomaly.
Atomic Playboy
Member
Yes, but keep in mind that a black hole always breaks something on your ship at random, and depending on how rare the materials are to fix it, you may have to spend a while farming resources after you jump. If you're lucky it just ends up being a deflector shield or photon cannon. But if you have to go looking for Omegon it might take you a while. Every resource you need can be harvested from crashed ships of course, so it's not like you'll ever be stuck with zero resources.
noonespecial
Member
Maybe forget all that and instead do this:
-If you attack a ship that is not a pirate they give you a warning, maybe two warnings if they are a friendly faction. If you keep attacking them then they open fire instead. Shouls be easy to track how many times the player has attacked that ship.
-If they are unfriendly faction then they open fire on you.
-Sentinels and pirates will always fire back.
There. Easy solution.
backbreaker65
Banned
OK, the "Atlas route" where?
noonespecial
Member
You only have one base but you can supposedly breakdown your current base into resources and get them all back.
EdwardTivrusky
Member
I was on one and stupidly forgot to farm it before eagerly applying the update. Resources are much scarcer now and you can only stack 5 items in a slot. I lost about 50 Gravitino Balls and 20 odd Vortex Cubes that i had in my inventory when it capped the slots.
*sigh*
I still have 32 million in the bank mainly from salvaging crashed ships and destroyed starfighters for their exotic materials. I also found lots of Emeril and Gold when i started out which helped. I miss my vortex cube labyrinth located next to a Galactic Terminal for easy farming though
Go to the Star Map and press the RB until the top of the screen says "Atlas Path", the linked stars will show you the path to the system you need to go to.
noonespecial
Member
You only have one base at a time but you can supposedly breakdown your current base into resources and get them all back.
backbreaker65
Banned
Thanks.
EdwardTivrusky
Member
No worries. The other two map modes are "Free Roam" where you can move around and jump to a system you like the look of and "Journey to the Centre" which will plot a path to the centre of the UniGalactyThingy you're in.
If the "Atlas Path" takes you through the same systems you've been to or you just fancy a change, go into free roam, hop about different systems for a bit and then select "Atlas Path" again and you should get a new path to another Atlas system.
LB & RB move you through the map modes.
DukeLongfellow
Member
Found a decent survival starting planet. Radioactive but with a decent amount of Thamium on the way to the ship and an ok amount of caves. Plutonium also on route. That seems to be a big luck factor for success. Only gripe is that I'm 13:46 minutes away at my starting point.
It's all about strategy and practice pretty much. It's gonna feel so good when/if I succeed I reckon. Just to find Zinc and Heridium somewhere.
It's all about strategy and practice pretty much. It's gonna feel so good when/if I succeed I reckon. Just to find Zinc and Heridium somewhere.
EdwardTivrusky
Member
I've read that they reappear when you build their terminal type in the new base.
Yeah they automatically appear in the new base once you build the right terminal.
Basically there is very little cost in moving the base to another planet (which is great). It kind of suggests they wanted to avoid complaints about an exploration game having base building.
Icyflamez96
Member
To be blunt, what's the point of base building as it's in the game right now? I haven't played it so I wouldn't know.
This doesn't solve the single GPU problem of the water crashing the framerate into the 30s. That profile seems to just kill the second GPU entirely, which isn't a solution.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
the point is to make a thing with the resources you get instead of just selling them all to buy bigger things.
It adds some much needed user input into the game. Before, everything was basically set. You could mine stuff. you could blow holes in stuff and it all went away later. The base is a place that you can customize and actually show off what YOU did so in that way it's kinda cool. Before it was just about what someone else made that you thought was neat.
Also it gives you some direction for exploration as you need some of the biome specific resources to upgrade and such so it helps give you an anchor to have a goal rather than just aimless exploring with a general "reach the center."
eyeball_kid
Member
The star system orbital mechanics that we were promised and didn't get. :/
Yeah that's frustrating. It seems like an easy fix too...just check for if the base is at an area of water. I wonder if the proc gen system is adding POIs before it adds the water levels. Low on the priority list but I'd like to see them redo the water implementation so we could have mountain lakes, moving water, and actual ocean waves.
I think I prefer the other suggestion of friendly ships not taking damage while you're in Friend mode. Simplistic, but easier for them to implement and less chance of buggy behavior.
At least they've added the race name to the system when you're in it, like Obiwon V (Korvax). Don't know if this is visible from the star map. I hope they improve the star map at some point...it's beautiful but not as functional as it should be. I think that continues to be a general complaint for me with the UI the game prioritizes slow animations instead of efficient interactions. Talking with NPCs is a chore because of this. In my experience this is coming from the Art Director. I've known way too many ADs who are so precious about their designs that they can't see the problems to functionality it adds. Sean needs to put his foot down. The quicknav is a good start, but everything needs to be faster. I suggested a lot of things to Hello like L1/R1 to flip through crafting pages, but most of it has not been implemented.
noonespecial
Member
What others have said and it is also used to unlock certain technologies. It might be completely optional but I am not sure how the changes would impact a brand new playthrough. Probably not I would guess. If you want to just fly around and not bother with a base or a freighter I guess you can still do that and still find all the upgrades you need.
You can't be fooled again
Has anybody found rigogen? Is it a purple material? Any specific star color?
I've warped to about 30 different star systems with roughly 150 planets total and not a single one had rigogen, so I'm wondering if I'm missing something... Maybe it's like coprite or something...
Any ideas?
I've warped to about 30 different star systems with roughly 150 planets total and not a single one had rigogen, so I'm wondering if I'm missing something... Maybe it's like coprite or something...
Any ideas?
Darth Smurf X
Member
This game just got one step closer to my dream game. Imagine base building combined with creature collecting. Yes. I want to build a space zoo. Imagine being able to replicate any species into a cage or enclosure that you've scanned at some point.
Have you tried feeding wild animals? They dig up rare materials when you do that.
Hmm.. they dig stuff up? I've only had it that they dropped stuff, which was always coprite