So I decided I was going to go visit Eissentam finally, and starting in my home galaxy of Calypso, I figured hey, I’ll do the thing everyone suggests, go through center, find ancient ruin, find portal, input glyphs that warp near center, go through center, rinse and repeat.

Well, I figured I’d visit an Atlas station first, thinking that if I “recreate the galaxy” again, I could just select paradise systems and I’d find Eissentam. I visited an Atlas station right near the center of Calypso, however, despite having a new Heart of the Sun, it wouldn’t let me recreate a new universe — instead, the quest log just tells me to locate a black hole. Which I did, but obviously didn’t do much since I was already near the center, and actually just erased the Atlas Path quest from my log.

I tell you this because the process of going through a black hole triggers a bit of a glitch.

When I went through the center of the galaxy and dropped into the new one, I was about 3500 LY from the new galaxy’s core.

Turns out, this is an actual thing: it’s called a Core to Core jump. If you enter a black hole before entering the galactic center, you will enter the new galaxy about the same distance that you were when you went into that black hole. This stays active, you don’t need to visit new black holes — I’m jumping my way to Eissentam right now: go through center, fix and fuel ship’s hyperdrive, go through center. No locating ruins, no inputting portal coordinates.

Typically you’re able to install up to 3 tech modules; exceeding that limit will result in a “tech overload” which renders all mods inoperable until you uninstall the excess mods.

Simple enough, right?

But for some reason, NMS has truly confusing naming conventions for some of these modules, and has resulted in some really odd inconsistencies regarding this limit.

For example, I have 4 Launch Thruster Upgrades installed and they run without issue. This violates the 3-limit rule, but as far as I’m able to tell, this is thanks to how some of the mods are named.

2 of the mods are labeled as “Starship LAUNCH THRUSTER Upgrades”, and the other 2 are “Starship LAUNCH SYSTEM Upgrades”. One of the latter 2 is the Auto-Charger which allows passive charging of your thrusters, which is different from the usual Launch Cost/Boost improvements, so I’d be willing to let that slide since it’s almost like a totally separate thing. But the other “Launch System” mod affects Launch Cost, same as the other “Launch Thruster” mods. It does the same thing as the others, and yet it’s given a different name. What gives?

Another example is my Pulse Engine. 4 mods, and yet all are working fine with no overload. 2 are labeled as “Pulse Engine UPGRADE and the others are “Pulse Engine AUGMENTATIONS” What on earth is the difference between an Upgrade and an Augmentation, and how does this impact the module limit?

These naming conventions are just bizarre. Or maybe there’s something I’m not understanding, which is probably the case. Any help would be most appreciated.

Cheers!