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No Man's Sky |OT2| Maths Effect
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The Elite
BOSS
I have decided to go the crashed ship method but I think I need to get myself to a Gek system as well since scanning for crashed ships is a lot more fruitful using their glitched transmission towers.
I upgrade my new ships with the bare minimum now and just focus on the hunt for the next ship.
Congrats. I think this will be my second platinum.
Oh please prepare for so many duplicates on your journey.
For the milestones/trophies where you survive on a planet for X days, does that have to be all at once, or can you leave and come back, or use several different planets?
I found a planet with gravitino balls everywhere that I noticed was increasing my survival days counter. It is pretty convenient to farm on (the radiation isn't that bad/sentinels I can run from) but I'm wondering if I should stick it out here for 30 odd days or so or if I can move on and not lose my count.
Other than that, so many blueprint dupes last night.
I found a planet with gravitino balls everywhere that I noticed was increasing my survival days counter. It is pretty convenient to farm on (the radiation isn't that bad/sentinels I can run from) but I'm wondering if I should stick it out here for 30 odd days or so or if I can move on and not lose my count.
Other than that, so many blueprint dupes last night.
Welcome to the club!
Without context, I just clicked on that endgame spoiler lol.
Sorry, do you think I should delete it?
Pestilence11
Member
Yes. I assumed it was about legacyzero being banned, glad I didn't reveal.
Yeah, I've managed to be online in this game for maybe an hour total since launch.
I'd really like to see more shots of things like this in the game. It has a varied landscape, interesting architecture, and lush, detailed vegetation. Hopefully after some updates the game will start to look like some of these pre-release screenshots.
Will it though? I was under the impression that the entire galaxy was already generated. If they change the seed, wouldn't that change the planets that have already been discovered?
The Elite
BOSS
Yup. This game hasn't been online for about a week now.
They have said as much but apparently that is something they will be doing on occasion as part of their patch work.
I'd really like to see more shots of things like this in the game. It has a varied landscape, interesting architecture, and lush, detailed vegetation. Hopefully after some updates the game will start to look like some of these pre-release screenshots.
Head to the screenshot OT. They're in there, just rare jewels, as they should be.
I found one in my second system.
My last planet was a radiation hell hold of Kilometer high mountains, ranges, and cragy canyons with a few high plains. I hadn't seen anything like those mountains yet myself.
The Elite
BOSS
I'd really like to see more shots of things like this in the game. It has a varied landscape, interesting architecture, and lush, detailed vegetation. Hopefully after some updates the game will start to look like some of these pre-release screenshots.
If you told me this was a screenshot from the game now the only reason I would doubt you is the structure in the background. They need to seed some random structures into the game that don't have any purpose whatsoever. More simple random structures that just exist as reminders of an ancient civilization now extinct. They don't have to do anything.
Once. You can't leave the atmosphere, so be careful of the jettison glitch. It's about 6 hours real time I believe.
You CAN save on the surface and shut down the game / come back. So find a extreme with lots if annuals and just find them all in 2 3-hour sessions.
Sword Of Doom
Member
Played for the first time last night and my home planet has lots of aluminum, which I was able to sell
For a lot of credits. Not sure if Its useful to keeps
Some in my inventory
For a lot of credits. Not sure if Its useful to keeps
Some in my inventory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMkwTdkTCr0
I'm currently duping an inventory full of Emeril. Nets me around 1.8m every time. Usually takes 4-5 minutes a run including selling the duped half.
but could it affect the game? i mean, i was in the other space station, and there arrived about 4 to 5 different ships. and that was it. i thought there where so many different ships allover the game..
The Elite
BOSS
There are many different ships. They arrive at space stations, trading platforms, some outposts and you can find crashed ones via transmission towers.
They are randomly generated.
I would keep stack of 500 in ships inventory. Few higher level mod crafts need it.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
I was under the impression that a reason for the universe reset at launch was to clear stuff liked named discoveries, so everyone started on even ground.
Otherwise I thought it works like this: whole systems and planets don't exist when a player isn't in them. Only specific bookmarks, like planetside waypoint beacons, are preserved everyone's personal save file. Planets are generally the same when you return only so long as the algorithm generating them is the same.
Therefore the math that creates each planet can be changed to alter how the planet is generated, so long as the math still finds a place for saved waypoints a player has locked into existence by activating them. If so they could update the game to produce better planets and if you went to a previously discovered system, the planet would be different but your discoveries and waypoints would still be somewhere on its surface.
To me it seems as if NMS can be readily updated with new breadcrumb trail questlines like Atlas, to give players something new to go find and explore since its universe is so large. Even when the universe isn't reset with a new configuration of stars, the game would dynamically place new points of interest as you enter a system for the first time on your save file, allowing the player to discover and follow a new quest chain.
Otherwise I thought it works like this: whole systems and planets don't exist when a player isn't in them. Only specific bookmarks, like planetside waypoint beacons, are preserved everyone's personal save file. Planets are generally the same when you return only so long as the algorithm generating them is the same.
Therefore the math that creates each planet can be changed to alter how the planet is generated, so long as the math still finds a place for saved waypoints a player has locked into existence by activating them. If so they could update the game to produce better planets and if you went to a previously discovered system, the planet would be different but your discoveries and waypoints would still be somewhere on its surface.
To me it seems as if NMS can be readily updated with new breadcrumb trail questlines like Atlas, to give players something new to go find and explore since its universe is so large. Even when the universe isn't reset with a new configuration of stars, the game would dynamically place new points of interest as you enter a system for the first time on your save file, allowing the player to discover and follow a new quest chain.
hmm. not sure if I care about doing that right now then. I've been here about 6 days and have bumped my milestone counter up from 0 at least, but not sure I want to hang around for that long. Too much other stuff to do. Really just want the cash to finish suit upgrades then do what I gotta do to get rid of these balls.
Handy Fake
Member
They're on trading routes in that system, you can follow them to the surface and back. Now and then one will warp in that's different but usually leave the system again.
Changes to the way that the game renders objects can be made without changing the seed. The overall geometry and composition of the planet would not change but they could absolutely change the way that it looks. The question is whether or not it's technically or financially feasible to keep pushing for those cleaner, more robust graphics.
Well the structure, the textures, the lack of that kind of hazy filter that ends up over every screenshot of the game, the fact that the trees actually look like they're growing out of the ground instead of sitting on top of it.
Don't get me wrong, the game looks good, but it doesn't look this good.
There is a potentially huge number of different ships but the same 4 or 5 will usually show up in a system. The game seems to spawn a specific number per system but as soon as you warp to another you will find different ones.
The amusing part is of course that if you hang around long enough you may see 3 of four of the exact same ships with the exact same pilots all docking at the same time
randomly generated my ass. i spent like 10 hours in the same system. and there were like 5 different ships with sometimes different colors, thats it. doesnt bother me that much, and i love the game, but im just wondering if it has something to do with the online issue.. and i really want a better looking ship
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
I've dug a hole right next to a save point to hide from the heat and just leave the game on while doing other stuff. Just reached the Rugged milestone.
The trophies are for Robust and the last one. Which number milestone is Robust?
Plague Doctor
Member
Thanks!
In the early game when inventory space is at a premium, I say sell everything.
SumptuousLemur
Banned
This game really needs to pause when the controller shuts off.
I fell asleep playing late last night and I was on a planet with extreme heat. I was outside in the hostile conditions so I was sitting there for like 8 hours constantly dying. Woke up to all my warp cores gone and my tech all damaged.
Luckily the second save had my grave with all my stuff. Fuck. Why doesn't this game have such a basic feature?!?!?
I fell asleep playing late last night and I was on a planet with extreme heat. I was outside in the hostile conditions so I was sitting there for like 8 hours constantly dying. Woke up to all my warp cores gone and my tech all damaged.
Luckily the second save had my grave with all my stuff. Fuck. Why doesn't this game have such a basic feature?!?!?
If anyone is still hanging out in their first couple systems, don't. Move on. At around system 3 or 4 the upgrades that make the game less annoying start dropping like candy.
I didn't find a single exosuit upgrade in 10 hours in my first systems. After one more jump I found 3 on a single planet. Plus several new multitools.
I didn't find a single exosuit upgrade in 10 hours in my first systems. After one more jump I found 3 on a single planet. Plus several new multitools.
I treat ship as bank where I storage most crucial raw materials. Suit inventory expands so fast that you can get max suit by end of second solar system. Hell, I maxed out suit before leaving starter system. Drop pods are too plentiful.
Alebrije
Member
Is there any tool or strategy to find animals rather than just wandering around the planet ?
I like to walk but the last two days have been exploring a moon and do not find one specie , were on caves , sky, ground but nothing , have 8 of 9 species and do not want to leave the place until find the last one.
I like to walk but the last two days have been exploring a moon and do not find one specie , were on caves , sky, ground but nothing , have 8 of 9 species and do not want to leave the place until find the last one.
wowbaggerBR
Member
What are those gigantic ships around planets?
Freighters. You can attack them for resources or defend them from pirates. In the upcoming update you'll apparently be able to own them.
Wok
Member
Free stuff to loot if you have the weapons.
Fushichou187
Member
Flora AND Fauna not present? Are you on a barren rock? Love to see a screenshot of that since I haven't been on one completely devoid of life.
So is the scanner picking up red dots moving about ? Or is it pinging faint grey ones?