Not sure what you hate but it feels to me like there are plenty of activities, so if I get to the point where one doesn’t appeal, I do something else. It helps that I really like exploring to be sure.
My recent goal was to get to the Eissentam galaxy, and I just made it there last night. My “strategy” is to warp into a galaxy, find a portal on a semi-habitable planet, build a base right next to it, then portal to the galaxy center and warp to the next one. Now that I’ve hit Eissentam I’m not exactly sure what I’m going to do now - I guess I will try to unlock all the recipes and work on upgrading my ships and multi-tool. The problem is I am emotionally attached to my current ship and multi-tool so it’s difficult to swap them out (go figure!).
You just described nearly the exact course I was on when I last played. I had found the center of the initial galaxy, finished both of the original main storylines and chose the Eissentam galaxy as my destination at the completion of the Atlas Path. Along the way I spent way too many hours hunting down The Porkchop Express, my personal “perfect” hauler in class (S), space (max) and design (fan wing, dual engine exhausts, symmetrical, white/blue/gray), while upgrading my exosuit and multitool with all the S-class upgrades. 200+ hours, and it was a ton of fun for the vast majority of it.
Now that I’m wandering around Eissentam, the internet says I should be swimming in lush, tropical and paradise planets, but I must have crappy luck as the few I’ve found thus far have either had hostile sentinels, been an active conflict system (so lots of pirates pestering me as I fly about) or had weather issues that spoil exploration and base building potential.
My search continues, as my next few goals in this game are:
- Explore base building (which I’ve barely scratched the surface of previously)
- Try out some derelict ship salvaging
- Rehab my freighter and it’s support fleet now that they’ve expanded on that aspect of the game
- Maybe construct one of those mech thingys
- Play around with the improved exploration/cataloging system once I have a base planet
Honestly though, it’s still fun just to wander in this game. Last night I set down on a Tropical planet I thought might work for base building. Good resources, large amounts of flora and fauna, other planets in system with lots of different resources, peaceful system with good economy and active space station. After landing I immediately saw several large dinosaur-like species (and scanned them) along with smaller stuff. Tagged a couple of settlement buildings while looking for a trading post, and everything was going well, until it started raining…which became boiling rain, which became a hurricane like storm of boiling rain. No thanks!
This is excellent information, thank you! I can’t remember if last time I played, a year ago, you could summon the nexus or if it just randomly popped into the system every few jumps. Summoning it is so much nicer!
I just meant that I hate my current base. Its just a bunch of functional crap that I built at an ancient monolith site I thought be be cool, but it’s shite and on uneven ground. I want to find a nicer planet and site and build a new one.
I really dig the game but I finished the Altus story and I have 46 million space bucks, and an S-class exotic ship, a decent multi-tool. And a small fleet of freighters. I’m just sort of aimless and have no idea of what to do now. I’ve been going to wealthy galaxies trying to nab another exotic ship from trading posts but having zero luck.
Trying to find the center of the galaxy sounds like it might be cool but I dont have a mission for it.
There is a quest line that sends you to the center of the Galaxy. Doesn’t the atlas quest line do that?
Also, @SlainteMhath when I had the choice to change galaxies I said stay where I am so I have had to fly there galaxy by Galaxy. It has taken a little bit of time but I have laid down a base of sorts in each galaxy along the way so ever wanna go back to one of the previous galaxies I can do it!
Holy crap, that is impressive! I didn’t even have the patience to complete the Atlas Path without cheating a bit. I ran around and collected all of the portal glyphs, then looked up a portal address on the internet that would put me close to the center of the galaxy, jumped through, and warped dozen or so jumps still needed to reach the center. I’d finished pretty much everything else at that point, and couldn’t see myself jumping through black holes dozens of times until I got lucky.
Oh yeah, I absolutely did not jump 700,000 light years 2 at a time. I 100% looked up portal addresses that put me near the center of the galaxy and then jump through. It’s just that I had to do that for each galaxy one by one. Fortunately, the portal addresses are in the wiki because the route has already been mapped out. So my main time was spent finding a portal in each galaxy. I’d say once I got used to the process I could jump two or three galaxies a night.
Cool. Still impressive, and you got to see a lot of the places between on your way to Eissentam. Those bases you set up will be useful as well. When the Atlas asked me what I wanted to do, I went straight for the promise of a peaceful galaxy swimming in paradise planets teeming with life and stocked with resources to make base building a breeze. Sadly the only breezes I’ve been feeling in Eissentam so far are the scalding hot rainstorm ones. :-)
Razgon
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Whats the difference between the galaxies? I doubt I will ever get to another, since I am extremely slow in this game, and have 8 bases so far.
Blue: Empty: Labeled as Ancestral, Frozen, Exhausted or Silent, when you do the mission that lets you choose one. More dead systems/planets/moons.
Red: Harsh: Labeled as Burning , Raging , Relentless or Ruthless. More weird planets, aggressive sentinels.
Green: Lush: Labeled as Halcyon, Inspiring, Serene or Tranquil. More Lush planets/moons, fewer aggressive sentinels.
Cyan: Norm: Labeled as Imperfect, Improved, Parallel or Rebuilt. This is the type of galaxy you start out in. Balanced distribution of systems/planet biomes and sentinels.
Eissentam is overhyped. Green galaxies actually just have a higher number of systems in which Lush biomes are more probable.
One other trick for you galaxy-hoppers, that HG may not have patched yet. When you reach the center of any galaxy and use a black hole that’s around 3ku from the Center, and then go to the Center to leave the galaxy, you will arrive close to the Center of the next galaxy. This can be repeated over and over, letting you hop multiple galaxies fairly quickly. This used to be the fastest way to tour a bunch of galaxies, before they made the recent portal changes.
vyshka
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Do the clouds look bad for anyone else? They’ve always looked off to be with my 1070 and 2080.
‘Bad’, pretty subjective and hard to know exactly how bad is bad, but… they’ve always looked bad. They look a little bit better since Origins.
But no-one is going to be mistaking them for Flight Sim 2020. :)
You’re on a planet with purple grass, yellow water, and giant green bulbous plants that glow at night and you’re complaining about the clouds?
This is his mod status page. But great mods. HD Clouds may be one you want to check out. Combining that with Rotating Atmosphere is nice. I don’t have the GPU for it as much now.
Lots of QoL, UI and minor graphics tweaks in the list they maintain.
“I never fly faster than I can see, and besides, it’s all in the reflexes.”
Finally managed to find a Paradise planet with perfect weather! No water though, so I won’t be building a land/sea combo base, but oh well. Found a huge trading post that has all sorts of extra stations in it, stuff like upgrade and component vendors, a knowledge vault where you can turn in those little archaeological items you can dig up, a map vendor and way more trade traffic than a standard trading post. I assume these were new as of the last big update because I never saw anything like this when I was playing previously.
I plopped down my base computer on a flat expanse atop some cliffs overlooking this mega-trading post. Built a little shelter for my large refinery, portal and save point, built a couple of solar panels and batteries to power it all up, and promptly realized I didn’t have all of the blueprints I wanted for making the other parts of my base. So I hopped in my ship and took off on a Salvaged Data hunt across the planet.
I forgot how easy it is to get sidetracked in this game. One minute you’re building a base, the next you’re looking for materials or blueprints and come across something interesting like a crashed freighter so then you’re off to another system to sell your salvaged loot or look for an upgrade, then you’re exploring a derelict, then selling the spoils from that when you realize your own freighter could use some work…suddenly it’s been a week of 2-3 hour nights and you still haven’t returned to your base!
Want to try this on my XSX, but the 11gb download is crazy slow.
Ive never been able to find one of those big bases, but i was trying with the Commercial Maps you get from the space station vendors. Did you find it just scanning for a regular trading post?
