That was what I didn’t know thanks.
I had the chart, but didn’t post as I’m not sure how outdated the one I have is … so that’s good to.
It does open up using some of the “small” body type ships. Some of the models I do like but had to pass on before. Upgrading to S is possible, and while the nanite cost is insane, I guess it gives a longer game use of the currency?
@jpinard I like some of the color/marking combos you can find. Those are nice ones.
Recently. I misclicked add when I wanted to swap a multitool on acquire. Now I have three and can’t figure out how to delete one. The old ship slot thing all over?
No multitool deletion, unfortunately, but I think you can monkey with the quick menu to make selecting the correct one easier? Haven’t tried it but I thought I saw something in there.
Yup. Honestly, any ship I see that I really like the look of, I try for S. I never want to be grinding for all those oh-so-precious nanites for a class upgrade that I could get up front with an hour or two of ship fishing at a trading post or a station. For example, I’m currently saving every nanite I get for hyperdrive range. I would hate to be simultaneously saving for a class upgrade, since both goals are kinda long-term.
Yeah I did the hyperdrive first too this save. And cash currency is much easier to gain than nanites.
Hah, I just happened to see “jpinard is initializing a mission in the Nexus”.
jpinard IS the Nexus. He’s become part of it. An iteration. 16 16 16 16 16.
Grem I’m totally jealous of that thing. It looks cool as hell!
So just to make sure I understand this is what you do. You see a ship you really like. Say it’s a B Class Fighter with 30-6 slots. You would then stay at the spot you saw it and reload the game until it became an S Class?
To be clear, I’m not recommending this because it’s frustrating and time-consuming, but yeah, that’s basically what people do and it works for me.
OK cool! I will give it a try. How long does it take usually?
It varies quite a bit from system to system. It might take hours, or you might get the ship you want right away.
4-5 ships land in waves, beginning a few seconds after you arrive in a system or load a save, and there’s a 1 minute delay or so between waves. Some ships attempt to land and change their mind if other ships (including yours) are taking up the available parking, and there are always a couple of parking spots that I think are supposed to be reserved for other potential players, that the NPC ships won’t use.
The waves contain a predefined assortment of ships, skewering toward the dominant race ship (more Explorers in a Korvak system, etc.) and a seemingly random selection of non-dominant species ships.
Sometimes you may notice that a specific ship model will always show up in a specific wave, and you can use that to get the class you want. There are other patterns, too, but I haven’t figured them out. For example, it might always be in the second or fourth wave.
At one point toward the end of my last fishing expedition, I wondered if perhaps the patterns conform in some way to one of the number puzzles, such as the Transmission Tower puzzle (e.g. 5040 - 720 - 120 - 24 - X), but I didn’t spend any time testing that. The things a guy ponders while watching paint dry…
Did it last night w/o reloading as ship I wanted didn’t reliably spawn in first wave. Wanted an S of that hauler now I have my crafting going and could buy it. It took about 4 hours of just letting ships land and using the scanner on each of the right model. I watched something on an iPad and chatted with family during that as you don’t need to be glued to the screen.
I was in a high wealth system that helps. It would take longer/never in others. The trading wealth affects the percentage of each ship class type spawning. I did get to see the exotic for that system while waiting too!
I finally got myself an upgraded freighter and wow do I love it! It’s not an S Class as I was hungry and didn’t want to reload more. But it’s a big A Class. It’s got 3 more tech slots and 5 more slots than my B Class freighter.
Old Gek freighter:
New much more forbidding Battleship (Vy’keen design):
Can you upgrade the storage space on your freighter?
Nope, freighter stats and inventory slots are fixed.
A Class freighter slots have a max of 33/9, and S a max of 34/9, making S only marginally better than A, imo (unless you use the freighter to warp around to different systems, which I don’t think most people do since their range isn’t great).
Oh that’s good to know. Thanks!
DeepT
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How do people farm fuel for freighter expeditions? You can spend a lot of deuterium or whatever that stuff is that you get from blue crystals on one mission, never mind multiple ones.
I also found a really cool fighter, or so I thought. It was metallic gold with blue trim. I bought it and sold my other extra fix-er upper. Then I was on some space station and some other cool looking fighter landed and I wanted to compare it to my blue and gold one but could not summon it. So then to see what was up, I landed on a planet and summoned my blue and gold fighter and it wasn’t gold at all. It was just gray with blue highlights. It seems that lighting on space stations isn’t the same. I have no idea where the metallic gold effect came from.
Teiman
5171
I forgot, but I think can be crafted from something that is easy to farm? I hate farming in NMS but is not hard, or long.
Somewhere on the internet theres a cheatsheet with all crafting recipes.
This post is possibly 90% wrong since I have not played the game in a long time.
I buy Di-hydrogen jelly, it breaks down into fifty di-hydrogen each when refined. You should have plenty of tritium from shooting up asteroids to make freighter fuel.
Di-Hydrogen is what you need to make freighter fuel (the blue crystals). They do not sell that at any station, so it’s kind of a grind to collect it. I’ve been running my freighters by dropping down and driving around in my souped-up buggy, so it was fun, but still getting annoying. Then a realization hit me on friday- stations (including the terminal I installed on my freighter) do sell Di-Hydrogen Jelly. Stick that in your backpack personal refiner and it refines to plain old Di-Hydrogen at a rate of 10>500. This is the way.
The evolution iof my ships from back to front.
