Don’t get me wrong – seeing action and life in certain places is great – but it is way too frequent and more importantly, it seems way too random. You discover an uncivilized planet at the edge of the system with a few relics from another era. You want to build your base and discover what is there, but every 2 minutes some spaceships fly around close to the surface… doing what exactly?

I would love it if planets and systems had more meaningful parameters for population/traffic density (for example, there is a huge trading platform, so more ships are flying around). But I also like to discover planets that have not been discovered, where you can have your own “edge of the universe” feeling. It is the same with the frequency of pirate ships or massive freighter spawns when you are in outer space…

it feels like the developers were afraid that the game would feel too empty and as a response just let everything randomly spawn everywhere all the time… Perhaps others like this, but for me, it is killing the immersion

So I started a new Permadeath save after my previous PD save grief period ended and I wanted to try different ways of doing things. There’s a nice cooking guide that I read a few years ago if anyone’s interested. TLDR at the end

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/g4fynb/lazy_cooking_for_nanites_guide_updated/

So the simplest way is using 200 fungal mold and turn them into 50 delicious vegetable stew with at least 4 nutrient processors. I built 16 so I could get it done faster (4 full runs at a time). Total harvest from the bio dome was 1296 fungal mold that became 324 delicious vegetable stews.

With 55k nanite I went to the anomaly and gave them all for Chronos to taste and now I’m at 88k nanites, 33k richer than before. It takes 20 minutes for the whole cooking process to happen from fungal to stew, so I spent around 40 minutes as it took me 2 runs on the 16 nutrient processors. The first part is a very chill thing to do – fill the processors and wait. I took my time to read a nice book in the intervals of filling processors. There’s also mods that makes refining and cooking instant, so that’d save a lot of time for PC players.

The second part is giving it to Chronos and that is too repetitive. Took me some 25 minutes to give it all to him and I paused at every 1/3 of the way because it was very boring. I spent an hour scrapping A class cheap ships (eventually s classes too) and while I got a little more nanites and lost some cash it wasn’t as tedious as giving him all that stuff. But considering that the first part you’re relatively “free” to do other stuff, it goes like 25 minutes of super boringness against an hour of regular boringness so it still is a better alternative, at least for me.

Scrapping ships have their additional perks tough – enough storage augmentations and you can make quite some cash getting an eventual s class ship to 48 slots, gaining a 100+million units surplus in the process while still hoarding some S class upgrades from the eventual S class ships you’ll stumble upon.

TLDR: So if I’ve got my fleet all patched up I’d go for delicious vegetable stews, if I want some upgrades then it’s ship scrapping time.