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Hyperactive posted:Not really. You can build 20,000 objects. In theory this could be 20,000 base computers. This type of game works best if you just don't get attached to your first few bases anyway. Once you complete the questline and round out your blueprint collection, though...
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I have at least 30 "bases." About half of them are just resource spots of whatever, but I have 10+ fully-built-out, designed and decorated monstrosities.
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Nov 23, 2020 22:24
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I suppose I am still in the mindset of having a "home" to return to, a la minecraft or something. When in reality, most "home" things can be done on the freighter and the initial base only "felt" expensive because I was scraping for resources at each turn. Now a quick visit to any space station gets me thousands of any of the basic resources. Looking back, none of the major base components seem to take much.. Though grinding out the salvaged data modules for some of the base stuff is pretty tedious, not gonna lie.
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Nov 23, 2020 22:36
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Eventually you get SO much inventory space on your person that you don't really need a home. My freighter served that role and now it's just a mobile bulk forge with a market and teleporter.
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Nov 23, 2020 23:47
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Glazius posted:Why do you need to deconstruct things? You have millions. There is both a hard per-account limit and a per-base limit. I heard the last patch upped the base limit on the newer consoles, and the PC limit is decided by your graphics settings but can be manually modified in a config file. Always destroy things, because if you get into even moderate industrialization you can and will hit your account limit and you'll never remember which one of your 80 bases had that extra bit you were working on but never finished.
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Zesty posted:Eventually you get SO much inventory space on your person that you don't really need a home. My freighter served that role and now it's just a mobile bulk forge with a market and teleporter. What should I be looking for to make this happen, or is it just an eventuality? I just started this and I'm hooked while I wait for cyberpunk. I'm doing an anomaly generated survey mission by myself and found my first drop pod - but of course my inventories are all full and I dont have enough space to get the components to fix it! I've been trying to expand my suit whenever I get to a new space station but i'm not that far in yet, <15 hours. I also was exploring, heard a mighty rumble, and turned around to see a massive horned worm rocketing out of the ground in the distance, which was cool even though the game wouldn't let analyze it. Also hollowed out the mountain near my first base so I could have a cool semi-under-a-mountain lair, which I love but the game does not. So many unloaded textures and pop-ins lol. It's kind of charming how bad some of the bugs still are after being out for 4 years, but I guess I'm glad I waited this long to pick it up!
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Nov 25, 2020 12:05
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do glitched silos/collectors only need one set of pipes and power cables or something?
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Nov 25, 2020 13:35
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Ciaphas posted:do glitched silos/collectors only need one set of pipes and power cables or something? yes
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Nov 25, 2020 14:54
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well, drat. I never bothered learning how to glitch build because i figured you'd still have to do up all the connectors. wild. Been playing this for much of the last week - I first tried it a couple years ago and got bored, as many did, but there is so much crap to look at and do now. Been having a good time just s lowly plodding along on all three major quests, setting up a couple activated Indium mines along the way and wondering when the hell I'm gonna find a blue freighter hyperdrive upgrade could do with shorter loadtimes through teleporters though, christ
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Nov 25, 2020 15:17
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What is glitch building exactly? I noticed you can place wires/pipes wherever you like and items that connect to them seem to snap to the connection you made, is that part of it?
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Nov 25, 2020 16:01
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DelphiAegis posted:What is glitch building exactly? I noticed you can place wires/pipes wherever you like and items that connect to them seem to snap to the connection you made, is that part of it? Pretty much! There are a couple different methods. Lots of videos out there but I found most of them start at the intermediate level where it assumes you already know how to do it with no real explanation. I think I’m doing it right but it never works so maybe my timing is off. Too fast? Too slow? Who knows!
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Nov 25, 2020 16:26
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I started playing a couple days ago and am enjoying it! Last night I was doing some stuff in the Anomaly and some random stranger gave me a bunch of stuff, one stack selling for 45M (I ended up buying a freighter).
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Slimy Hog posted:I started playing a couple days ago and am enjoying it! Last night I was doing some stuff in the Anomaly and some random stranger gave me a bunch of stuff, one stack selling for 45M (I ended up buying a freighter). drat. Someone gave me some random mineral once, so that's pretty lucky! Make sure to pay it forward (to me!!!!!). Yeah this game has me hooked, but I truly think half of it is because of how buggy it can be. It's goofy as heck and I love it.
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Dec 1, 2020 17:47
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I had the same thing happen, someone in the anomaly just said "Hey who needs money" and then gave me 5 stasis devices. If I see you around Iron Lung I'll totally give you a bunch of whatever to set you up with a stack of fat (mostly useless) cash.  I made it a point to find ways to quickly earn units afterwards (re: Chlorine expansion) to get back over the 250million they gave me though. It's too bad you can't gift someone nanites easily. I now have a full activated indium farm for whenever I want to bother getting a few million more units whenever. It's great.
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Dec 1, 2020 22:21
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Last time I went to the Nexus someone gave me 10 Star Bulbs.
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Is that why I sometimes see people just sitting on the ground on a specific spot in the Nexus? Is there a beggar's corner?
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if im passing through the anomaly to go somewhere to sell activated indium i usually drop a stack on someone
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DelphiAegis posted:I had the same thing happen, someone in the anomaly just said "Hey who needs money" and then gave me 5 stasis devices. If I see you around Iron Lung I'll totally give you a bunch of whatever to set you up with a stack of fat (mostly useless) cash. haha hell yeah. i actually have no idea how multiplayer works, or how to play with other people besides the randoms on the Anamoly. do we have to be steam friends or something? i am bad at games. I've not run into a unit issue yet, just an inventory space issue and nanite issue, but otherwise i just sell basically everything. I think I'm pretty early still, I just started the Apollo questline and have been dicking around on the side as well. Although now I'm reading about chlorine expansion and I have my home base set up next to the ocean filled with salt + chlorine yielding plants, and just built an oxygen generator thing...
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I picked up this game back in like January, played a bunch for a couple days and got tired of it; I think I just got impatient. I got back into it a couple weeks ago with a new save and am having a ball; have a decent base built and am starting a circuit board farm (good lord it takes a while to get started, having to replant everything I grow). I do have a couple questions though: How the hell do you find supply frigates to hire? I've probably looked at over a hundred frigates, and have only found one supply ship. I find every other type in pretty much every system, but am getting pretty tired of this. Something I'm surprised that I couldn't find online was like a silhouette guide for the types of frigates; is there such a thing? That would help, but is there some trick to finding supply frigates that I'm missing? Should I be looking in different colored systems? And, on a related note (partially because the lack of supply frigates), what is the best way to get dihydrogen? Some of the advice I've seen in this thread is to just buy the jelly, but I very rarely see it for sale, and it's a better use of time to just go out in the Colossus and find deposits. The Colossus is fun as hell, btw. I love being a spacefaring van guy, just driving that thing along for a few minutes and hoovering up everything in sight with the upgraded mining beam. I only wish I could airbrush a wizard on the side and maybe accessorize with some truck lady mudflaps. Spending 5-10 minutes doing that gets me all of the common materials I need. But alas, that'll get boring.
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Capn Jobe posted:And, on a related note (partially because the lack of supply frigates), what is the best way to get dihydrogen? Some of the advice I've seen in this thread is to just buy the jelly, but I very rarely see it for sale, and it's a better use of time to just go out in the Colossus and find deposits. The Colossus is fun as hell, btw. I love being a spacefaring van guy, just driving that thing along for a few minutes and hoovering up everything in sight with the upgraded mining beam. I only wish I could airbrush a wizard on the side and maybe accessorize with some truck lady mudflaps. Spending 5-10 minutes doing that gets me all of the common materials I need. But alas, that'll get boring. I put down like 50 of the green storage containers in my freighter and just harvested it every time I logged in (or every new game load). You will get 10-12 jelly's that you can refine and a bunch of garbage you can sell too. You'll notice the storage containers will give you the same things every time until you move the freighter. So you can cheese it by finding a storage container with jelly in it and continually setting it down, pulling out the jelly, delete it, set it back down again and pull out the jelly again. I never went that far, but it was a lot easier than shooting rocks. TracerM17 fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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Capn Jobe posted:How the hell do you find supply frigates to hire? I've probably looked at over a hundred frigates, and have only found one supply ship. I find every other type in pretty much every system, but am getting pretty tired of this. Something I'm surprised that I couldn't find online was like a silhouette guide for the types of frigates; is there such a thing? That would help, but is there some trick to finding supply frigates that I'm missing? Should I be looking in different colored systems? I asked this earlier in the thread and got this response which was helpful to me: Snack Bitch posted:Of course, so from my experience the type of frigate that spawns is determined by the system. Some systems will only spawn two or three types, such as mining and combat. So look for a system that spawns big fleets and the supply frigates will have rows of sphere shaped storage pods. You want to buy the one that use 2 fuel per 250 light years. The base stats are not as important as fuel usage in the long run. Supply frigates can get -9, -6, and -3 fuel per mission plus 1-3% less mission time. So with max upgrades, I can get every mission below 24 hrs so the fleet is ready to go as soon as new missions are generated. Basically look for rows of sphere-shaped storage pods, and if you see two or three other types in the system already you can stop looking. They seem kind of rare to me.
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Dihydrogen is simple since it takes 40 Dihydrogen to make 1 jelly, but putting 1 jelly into the refiner gives 50 Dihydrogen back. Some cycles with a medium/large refiner will get you all the Dihydrogen you ever need.
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DelphiAegis posted:Dihydrogen is simple since it takes 40 Dihydrogen to make 1 jelly, but putting 1 jelly into the refiner gives 50 Dihydrogen back. drat, how have I never noticed this? I always run out of spare launch fuel and spare dihydrogen at the worst times.
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Dec 3, 2020 18:58
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It takes a long time to use the refiner to make the jelly though. I just craft that in my inventory and then use my personal refiner to break it apart.
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Dec 3, 2020 18:58
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Market terminals on a planet also often sell jelly, so be sure to add one to any bases you build, then check them daily. 70 jellies from one terminal refines into a decent amount of dihydrogen.
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Nullsmack posted:It takes a long time to use the refiner to make the jelly though. I just craft that in my inventory and then use my personal refiner to break it apart. Oh, if you want max efficiency you can refine 30 Dihydrogen to 1 jelly and refine that to 50 back, but the 40/50 return is just by hand-making it, yeah. The refine option is there in case you want to shove a stack in and go do something else for a while. The time difference is moot though since I think 10 mins of doing this net me 10k Dihydrogen by hand making which is basically instant.
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Thundarr posted:Market terminals on a planet also often sell jelly, so be sure to add one to any bases you build, then check them daily. 70 jellies from one terminal refines into a decent amount of dihydrogen. Yeah once money is no issue for you just buy out all the dihydrogen jelly from a terminal and break it down. I used to just check at the space station or terminal on my freighter in every new system and buy it when I saw it.
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DelphiAegis posted:Oh, if you want max efficiency you can refine 30 Dihydrogen to 1 jelly and refine that to 50 back, but the 40/50 return is just by hand-making it, yeah. Artisanal homemade dihydrogen jelly bought at the farmers market.
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The_Doctor posted:Artisanal homemade dihydrogen jelly bought at the farmers market. Only the best for my starship. 
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The pilots who come into a space station are the best bet for dihydrogen jelly. Not all of them will have it but you'll find one who does quickly enough. They also sell tritium, so they service all your fueling needs.
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Buying di hydrogen jelly and refining it is definitely the best way to get it (though it does take up a dumb number of slots since it doesnt stack very high). I just wish you could buy dihydrogen or even just frigate fuel. Its annoying to have essentially unlimited money but still having to make your own frigate fuel. I ranked 30 frigates from mostly C class to all S class, so this was a very real annoyance for me as a space pirate admiral. Also, make sure to have at least 6 or 7 support ships and use one on every expedition it helps with fuel costs immensely.
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It’s more work at first finding 25 supply frigates but once they get leveled, you will never need to make frigate fuel. The high level frigates still generate fuel on the shorter missions so I’ve been giving the excess to a friend that went with the usual mixture of specialists.
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you can also refine dihydrogen from tritium. i usually have a couple stacks of tritium on my ship from just taking out a few asteroids whenever i land in a field, so i pop it into my backpack whenever i need. the ratio is like 5:1 so not great, but i'm so rarely huring for tritium that it's almost never an issue
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StarkRavingMad posted:I asked this earlier in the thread and got this response which was helpful to me: Super good to know; thanks. Glad to know that it depends on the system. I've mostly been looking in the same system as my main base, which would explain why they never seem to appear. Regarding dihydrogen, I've built my base next to a trading post, so I was mostly using that terminal. Turns out it only rarely had jelly for purchase. Between my own newly-installed terminal in my base, and stations, I should be okay. I'm also super proud of myself for starting on my first farm (Oxygen, that was closest). I was about to go to bed, so I built just one extractor, on a C class deposit, but even that fills up the depot in about 6 hours. It's crazy how much these deposits can pump out.
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It'll totally blow your mind when I tell you I have an activated indium farm that spits out 80k indium in 8 hours. Stacking extractors for fun and profit!
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Just started playing this game and I'm enjoying it a lot so far, starting to staff my first real base in the main storyline. Am I missing something or is there no star system map? I know there are more planets in my system, but I don't know where to point.
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hawowanlawow posted:Just started playing this game and I'm enjoying it a lot so far, starting to staff my first real base in the main storyline. You can see all the planets in a system on the discovery screen, and they show up on radar but it can be hard to read
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haveblue posted:You can see all the planets in a system on the discovery screen, and they show up on radar but it can be hard to read Oh wow, I was confused when you said radar for a minute. I instantly switched to third person ship view and never went back.
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hawowanlawow posted:Just started playing this game and I'm enjoying it a lot so far, starting to staff my first real base in the main storyline. You kind of have to get used to reading the ship radar. Took a little adjustment for me.
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On the subject of the radar, I did a shitload of black hole jumping last night, because I'm an idiot who wants to get to the next galaxy the old fashioned way rather than just using a portal. Why the hell do black holes not show up on your radar? So much time spent spinning around trying to find the things.
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