barstein
4012
I landed in a new galaxy, after (spoilers), which required starting over with a new base. Having teleporter issues, where I can warp to any base that I set up, but can’t warp into any stations. Tried warping to a few different systems, but that didn’t seem to fix it. May need to warp to a few more.
Pretty happy with the new base layout so far, though.
100% sure. I’ve tried heading to other planets in the system just to make sure it wasn’t a restriction based on the planet the portal was located on. Nowhere in the system does the Base Computer even show up as an option to build in the list. It’s simply missing altogether. When I step back through the portal and return to the original system, Base Computer is back in the list.
Given that when I try to use the Galactic Map or a station teleport ring on the far side of the Portal I see a message on the screen that says “Galactic Navigation Unavailable : Portal Interference” I’m thinking this is a designed behavior put in by Hello Games. So I thought that maybe the lock was on everything as long as the portal was still open…maybe closing it (while on the far side) would fix things. Only when I walk all around the portal on the far side, the terminal never pops up, so I cannot close or control the portal from the far side.
While writing this post I did some additional searching on Reddit and elsewhere and am dismayed to discover this behavior is INTENTIONAL. Apparently with the patch that added in Community Events, Hello Games disabled base building while a player is on the far side of any Portal. The reasoning behind this is supposedly to keep players from Portal Cheating their way to the center of a galaxy, so as of now and going forward, you can only explore the single system on the other side of any portal address you enter, effectively making portals next to useless.
This means I have to plot a navigation path and manually warp, system after system after system, if I want to reach the Galactic Hub and the center. Fuck that noise…I’m done with NMS.
Velegon
4014
This means I have to plot a navigation path and manually warp, system after system after system, if I want to reach the Galactic Hub and the center. Fuck that noise…I’m done with NMS.
What about black holes?
Asking Nada for a shortcut will supposedly reveal the location of a black hole which will get you about 6000 light years closer to the center of the galaxy.
https://nomanssky.gamepedia.com/Black_hole
I did that twice already (jumped through a Black Hole Nada pointed me to) and did not seem to come out any closer to the center, at least according to Pilgrim’s Star Path. I did recently ask for another one, so Maybe tonight I will plot my position when I start, then warp to Nada’s black hole, jump through, and chart my position on emergence to see if I am any closer.
The problem with Nada is that they require you to have reached a new milestone since talking to them last before they will give you information, and I’ve reached nearly all my milestones by now.
Velegon
4016
How far are you along the Atlas questline? (spoiler below)
If you complete the Atlas questline - all of the locations of the black holes will be revealed - you won’t need to ask Nada anymore
I finished it awhile ago. But…
I see all the Black Holes, but when Nada gives me one it shows up as “Black Hole Black Hole” (named twice on the map), and I was under the impression that only SOME Black Holes would take you closer to the center, that many others would take you around a ring far from the center, or even push you further back out if you’d already travelled part way to the center. In other words, just hopping down random black holes is a terrible way to reach the center?
Klaatu
4019
The fastest way to the center, in my experience, is to join random people’s games. Once you join, check to see how far you are from the center. I did this and ended up only a few thousand LY from the center, and it literally only took me a few minutes. I think I got lucky though, so YMMV.
Cheesing or not, it may be what I end up doing. Last night I used Pilgrim Star Path to chart my position. I was over 600,000 LY away from the center. My ship can jump just over 1000LY at a time, so PSP calculated 800+ jumps to the center (jumps are not linear to the center, so it takes more than 1 jump to go 1000LY towards center even if that’s what your ship can handle).
So black holes it is. I jumped through one…and on the other side it said I had travelled 1.2 million LY. Wow! That should help, right? Nope. Charted my position…I was only 3000 LY closer to the center. Navigated myself to another nearby black hole system, jumped again, 300,000 LY this time. Charted my new position, another 3600LY closer to center.
At this rate, I’d need to jump through around 170 black holes to reach the center. What an enormous waste of time for very little reward. All that happens when you reach the center is that you can jump through another black hole and emerge into the second galaxy…then you start all over again in a new galaxy. I mean, I am curious to see the Euclid Galactic Hub and other cool stuff that is in the systems around the center…but not 20+ hours of my life devoted to simply warping over and over and over again until I reach it level curious.
Hello Games made a huge mistake in nerfing the Portals. There is literally zero incentive to attempt to reach the center or anywhere else now, which means zero incentive to continue playing once you have a decent ship, a nice freighter, a base somewhere and have completed the Atlas and Artemis stories.
barstein
4022
I still have no idea how to make the Community Events show up in my Mission Log. I’m on my second galaxy now and midway through both main missions (Atlas & Anomaly), but Polo isn’t talking about it at all. Maybe I need to enable the networking feature?
Scott123
4023
I really like this game and am looking forward to coming back after my current break in favor of subnautica (which is similar). I feel that Subnautica has a better balance of much less grind per reward. I’d say that NMS is probably 2-3x as much effort for a similar effect (e.g. a base construction). One specific thing that turned me off was the resources to use a portal; that’s just grind for the sake of nothing… I found the damn thing so how would the game not be better if it was nearly free to charge up?
Maybe the exploding mining device instead of the laser will help? Subnautica also has an interesting mechanic in the scanning room, which helps cut back the searching for early game resources when you are more advanced in the game.
barstein
4024
To reduce that generalized grindy feeling, I eventually started keeping stacks of Carbon, Condensed Carbon, Sodium, Sodium Nitrate, Cobalt, Ionized Cobalt and Oxygen in my inventory at all times. Just gotta remember to keep those stacks topped off, like refilling the gas tank in your car. Eliminates a LOT of unnecessary grind hassle, even in situations like finding a Portal when you want to use it, like, right NOW.
RE gathering more advanced resources (e.g. Copper), I eventually stopped mining those directly and started dropping down autonomous mining units instead. I also mark them with beacons, and sometimes drop down teleporters if they are on other planets. So now whenever I need something special, such as Copper, Dioxite or Phosphate, I just head over to the mining units to collect them. (Sure, AMUs require 100 Uranium, but there are tricks for maintaining a stock of Uranium as well.)
DeepT
4025
Why do you want to get to the center of the galaxy anyway? In my game, I did the artimus stuff and spun up a new galaxy. I went through a few black holes, but where I ended up seemed like anywhere else I had already been, so I didn’t continue to the center of the galaxy.
Scott123
4026
Ok, but you need a pretty large amount of game time to actually get the beacon blueprints… and the AMU blueprints. And the Uraniuim.
Velegon
4027
I tend to use my large refiner a lot to get shortcuts for materials. So while I do have an outpost on a radioactive planet to directly get uranium - I also get a lot of radon + ferrite dust or phosphorus + ferrite dust and put them in the large refiner to get even more uranium.
Also re travelling to the center of the galaxy - I doubt I’ve gone more than 500 light years from my starting system yet - and I’m fine with that - still plenty to do so far - granted there is too much of a grind for some things in this game.
Because I’ve done pretty much everything else there is to do at this point, and there are some cool systems people have populated near the center.
Reaching the center is pretty much my endgame at this point. It’s the last “big” thing on the NMS bucket list, having collected cool ships, a nice freighter, a ton of money and resources, built a base, found a perfect multi-tool, modded my suit/ship/tool to the max and nailed all the milestones with the exceptions of the fauna finding one and the extreme survival one (both ridiculous time sinks). It won’t kill me to not go to the center, but it would be a nice way to simply say, “OK, I have ‘won’ No Man’s Sky” and set it aside until they make additional sweeping changes.
Andon
4029
I’d say you’ve won…does that help? :)
Absolutely. Now make me a little trophy and mail it to me…
barstein
4031
Finally figured out how to start the Community Event stuff. Had to toggle network play on again, then go to an Anomaly in a different system and it finally triggered. Followed the queues to a portal, went through and…massive disappointment. Arrived at a desolated planet where I was expected to hoof it from waypoint to waypoint, supposedly to track a signal using a seemingly random set of menu selections at each waypoint. They were so far apart that, lacking a ship, it quickly became super annoying. Even an exocraft didn’t make it much easier. Finally grew tired of the BS and gave up.
I think I’m getting near the end of my playing as well. There’s really not much more I can think of that I want to do, beyond tweaking the base and replacing a few ships. The new AC is out in a few days, and then RDR2 next month, so I’ll be shelving NMS at least until the next big update, if there is one.
At least I managed to finish my second base, and I’m pretty happy with it.
