I always build my bases next to a minor settlement. It’s got a landing pad for other trade ships (or for me to use to save on launch fuel in early game)… and an easily accessible trading hub inside.

Any fun little tips you have for bases?

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think this should be changed, but since the new update dropped, you can get like 5 sentinel ships in 40 minutes. (For those who don’t know, the new autophage settlements on dissonant planets are really easy to find using echo locator, and every settlement will give you exact location of a crashed sentinel ship.) In the most unlucky case it’s about 80,000,000 units, and if you get really lucky you can get over 200,000,000 units by selling these ships. With this amount of units you can afford basically anything, and to this day I don’t think there is more efficient glitchless method for farming units

After using primarily fighters for hundreds upon hundreds of hours of my main save, I had finally found an Explorer that I knew had to be my new main. Helped that a natural S-Class just kinda fell into my lap. Transferred all my tech and cargo over, but decided to ditch the positron and phase beam in favour of just a dual-weapon loadout with infraknife and rockets (my fav combo anyway).

After optimizing the layouts with the given SC slots, I was resigned to the overall damage potential being 20% that of my fighter, and the infraknife achieving only 50% of the DPS. I thought I’d give it a try anyway.

Holy shit.

In the next pirate freighter encounter, I finished off the freighter in half the time. I was still skeptical, so I took on a host of combat missions, including solo pirate missions from the Nexus, sentinel freighter battles, and various random encounters. The results were all the same – the Explorer eviscerated enemies with a terrifying efficiency and brutality that my maxed-out S-class fighters could only dream of.

I had read similar stories of such performances, but hadn’t experienced it first hand. But now I know and I can hardly go back to my fighters.

Now if they can only fix that bug so both of my outboard engines are lit up.