All expansions are free on this.
Essentially you get enough salvage data to unlock the miner and storage blueprints. Have a ship capable of getting to a blue star, the hunt for an S Class Activated Indium deposit, then build groupings of 4 miners over the deposit. They can't be too close or the returns fall off exponentially, and don't connect the networks or it'll have the same effect. Build storage up vertically. If you have a max inventory hauler (any ship really), load it up over a few days, then take it to a system with a pickaxe symbol. Sell all the indium at the best percentage you can. Should net about 300 million on the low end, towards 400 million on the high. Numbers may be off, but after one go you should be able to finance anything other than maybe an A or S class freighter.
Help me out here. So NMS was a game I was hyped for way back when, when it first dropped and then I was immediately disappointed. It always felt aimless to me. Like nothing in the game actually mattered. And I continued to feel that way about it even after they released all these different updates. So I see what you just posted there. I'd love a reason to jump back into the game. Explain to me what the purpose of all that is that you just typed. And I'm not asking in a condescending way or anything. I'm legitimately asking.
At the core, this game is simply about space exploration. Seeing what interesting shyt you can find from the procedural generation. You're right, it's an aimless game. After a while you have to make your own fun, set your own objectives. They did add in some "story" and side quests to help give some structure, but 90% of it is avoidable and arguably not necessary.
. The money would have been to buy ships or materials to ease other aspects of the grind. But honestly that was easily solved with some Cheat Engine usage, and now you can loosen the gameplay rules as much as you want, money is only worth as much as you want it to be.
. As far as a reason to get back into it, I don't know if I could find a good enough one for you. At best it would be play the main quest through, see some of the lore, try and build a few cool things, then put it down until they drop the next ocean wide puddle deep update 
Love this convo you are both having...At the core, this game is simply about space exploration. Seeing what interesting shyt you can find from the procedural generation. You're right, it's an aimless game. After a while you have to make your own fun, set your own objectives. They did add in some "story" and side quests to help give some structure, but 90% of it is avoidable and arguably not necessary.
Originally when I typed that all out it was one of the better money making strategies. After this latest update, that's a wasted exercise
But you hit the nail on the head - No Man's Sky is a wide collection of ideas with shallow implementation and cohesion. There's no rhyme or reason to base building, ship collecting, exploration, any of it, outside of the initial wonder and whatever self motivation you find.
The reality is, given 15-20 good hours of gameplay, you've seen the bulk of what they can show you. Beyond that there's little reason to pick up the game other than to just zone the fukk out for a little while. There have been times where I load it up, ask myself what the fukk is there to do, then close it back out
Ok. That's what I figured. I used to get really angry when I thought about the game. Mainly because the game is actually a good game. Or to rephrase that, it has a lot of good pieces. And it felt like they had all these good pieces and did nothing with it. Like if some kind of way UPS dropped off a bunch of Ferrari parts to your home and you had no way to put them all together. But now, I don't even think on the game. I posted that question to you just to see if I'd missed anything in my time away from it.At the core, this game is simply about space exploration. Seeing what interesting shyt you can find from the procedural generation. You're right, it's an aimless game. After a while you have to make your own fun, set your own objectives. They did add in some "story" and side quests to help give some structure, but 90% of it is avoidable and arguably not necessary.
Originally when I typed that all out it was one of the better money making strategies. After this latest update, that's a wasted exercise
But you hit the nail on the head - No Man's Sky is a wide collection of ideas with shallow implementation and cohesion. There's no rhyme or reason to base building, ship collecting, exploration, any of it, outside of the initial wonder and whatever self motivation you find.
The reality is, given 15-20 good hours of gameplay, you've seen the bulk of what they can show you. Beyond that there's little reason to pick up the game other than to just zone the fukk out for a little while. There have been times where I load it up, ask myself what the fukk is there to do, then close it back out
Ok. That's what I figured. I used to get really angry when I thought about the game. Mainly because the game is actually a good game. Or to rephrase that, it has a lot of good pieces. And it felt like they had all these good pieces and did nothing with it. Like if some kind of way UPS dropped off a bunch of Ferrari parts to your home and you had no way to put them all together. But now, I don't even think on the game. I posted that question to you just to see if I'd missed anything in my time away from it.At the core, this game is simply about space exploration. Seeing what interesting shyt you can find from the procedural generation. You're right, it's an aimless game. After a while you have to make your own fun, set your own objectives. They did add in some "story" and side quests to help give some structure, but 90% of it is avoidable and arguably not necessary.
Originally when I typed that all out it was one of the better money making strategies. After this latest update, that's a wasted exercise
But you hit the nail on the head - No Man's Sky is a wide collection of ideas with shallow implementation and cohesion. There's no rhyme or reason to base building, ship collecting, exploration, any of it, outside of the initial wonder and whatever self motivation you find.
The reality is, given 15-20 good hours of gameplay, you've seen the bulk of what they can show you. Beyond that there's little reason to pick up the game other than to just zone the fukk out for a little while. There have been times where I load it up, ask myself what the fukk is there to do, then close it back out
It's a conversation that really needs to be had about this game. In the years since launch they've been able to put together a complete package that finally delivers on what they promised on the pre launch hype train. But many of the systems and ideas they've had have felt so incomplete. Freighters for example: they're cool to look at and it's fun to build the interior, but they serve little function beyond mobile storage. Companions are functionally useless (although the metal horses have some get up and go when you need to get around
). Settlements add only a couple of hours of intrigue. Smuggling I haven't tried, but given what I know about the game, it's probably forgettable. The ideas they've had have been great. They just lack depth.Their engine is self made as far as I know. It's probably not set up to support mods, couldn't imagine how much work that would be. Some gamers think shyt is as simple as changing the config.ini in their engine to say "enable_modding=true"
. But an open modding platform could let people who have time and passion expand the systems or add their own. No Man's Sky is a case study in turning around a bad game. Too bad larger studies are more willing to cut their losses and abandon shyt than to actually fix broken or under developed games.
