I’ve been playing for about a week. I played a lot when NMS first came out, and a bit after, but there’s sooooooo much new stuff now.

I see lots of people talking about discoveries, building, ships, etc after they’ve logged hundreds of hours.

So now that you’re hundreds of hours into the game, what is something you wish you had known, or done, when you first started?

I’m new to the game, something like 26 hours in. I recovered like 4 ships just to scrap for a money boost of around 35 mil or something.

When I scrapped them, credits didn’t go up. Then later as I was organizing inventory, I realized I have to sell the retrieved scrap components to get the credits. So I sold all of them and walked away with over 1 BILLION credits….

I don’t know what happened. I recall at some point in my play gathering stuff from a wrecked freighter on a planet, destroying a frigate in battle, etc, but over 1 BILLION worth?

Is that amount of money normal through storyline+random gameplay or did a bug of some sort perhaps occur?

This post is not about cool starship/planet/freighter/etc. that I found. I just want to share something really terrifying that happened to me today. I’m not looking for advice, just want to share.

I was playing NMS for a long time (since 2017 or so). There is something charming in endless space with uncountable amount of planets to explore. Someday I discovered for myself permadeath mode. And then it all began: I know that 500+ hours of pure gameplay isn’t that much, but for a working person that don’t have much spare time it feels like (and it truly is) years to be able to achieve this. Fully upgraded S-class Resurgent freighter, full dock of different S-class spaceships (basically every type available I love to collect some useless junk to please my soul), S-class multitools, expedition rewards, only one achievement left to 100% the game and now it’s all gone.

How did that happen? It was absolutely my fault. I’m not gonna blame the game despite the fact it has plenty of bugs. I went afk for 5 minutes and when I returned all I saw was starting screen so I don’t know what killed me.

I don’t have backup or cloud safe. I play on PS4. And tbh it doesn’t matter. I knew that this will happen sooner or later and you cannot be prepared for this.

I absolutely wish to return to this magnificent and fascinating game. I believe that there is still endless possibilities and opportunities. But all lost progress seems just too heavy duty for me to handle now.

Be safe and make backups, but more importantly: have fun in your journeys, Travellers.