Here’s a quick rundown of everything currently wrong with freighters.

• This part of the freighter can’t be recolored or changed, it’s stuck as whatever your freighter’s original colour scheme was.

• The accent colour option does absolutely nothing on the Venator family of Freighters. It’s supposed to apply color change to the decals, but currently decals are rendered UNDERNEATH the main body of the Venator Freighters making the option completely void.

• The biggest of the Freighters don’t actually fit inside the UI, leaving this awkward looking overlap. Not that big of a deal, but it could look much nicer, example below.

  • If freighters were shown at an angle like this in the UI, not only would it fit better but it might even showcase more of the finer details off.

• Speaking of awkward UI, let’s look at the Frigate list….. Why does the Frigate list show 9 Frigates per page when the Frigate cap is 30? 10 Frigates per page would be much better.

  • 9 per page with a total of 30 frigates leaves this awkward looking 4th page which only showcases 3 Frigates. This page isn’t needed if you just increase the previous 3 pages frigate display by 1.

• Occasionally your ship will glitch out of the hanger during the landing process, which gives you a really cool view of your freighter base but should probably be fixed. lmao

• Seemingly nothing is stopping you from building out of bounds in the most awkwardly glitchy spots. Why am I even allowed to build here? Freedom is nice & all, but this is ridiculous.

  • Even my crew members are confused at this. lmao

Here’s a few ideas I’d like to see in a Freighter Overhaul update.

• Allow multiple player freighters per system (Limit is 1 currently, but modders have shown that more is entirely possible atleast on PC) This lets us show off our frigate fleet & all the work we’ve done with this aspect of the game to other players & friends.

• More Freighter Base Building options & decorations

  • Doors, both automatic & manual.
  • Windows option for rooms at the edge of the buildable area or just in general if you wanna create a medbay style area? We see windows on derelicts quite often, would be cool to add them to our own freighters.
  • Ladders as an alternative to stairs Freighter update Datamine has something better.
  • Buildable Transporters, as seen on Derelicts
  • Ship hangers (As seen in Derelict Freighters, could be useful as extra ship storage, maybe required placing on the edge of the buildable zone?)
  • Standalone rooms in various shapes, sizes & heights (Standalone rooms snap to the grid, but don’t automatically combine to other nearby rooms)
  • Hallways, Square Turns, circular rooms, a “hollow-out” or “empty room” option so we can create OPEN-AIR multi-floor/story rooms.
  • All the other building/decorating options we see in derelict freighters.

• Customizable Crew Uniforms

  • Let us decide what our Crew wear on the Freighters & Frigates.
  • Additionally let us decide crew uniforms based on Race, so the Vy’keen uniform option would be seperate from Gek & Korvax uniform option(s).
  • Maybe even expand this to Squadrons pilots as well? Although there wouldn’t be much point in this unless they landed in our freighters & walked around as well. WINK

• Customize Frigates

  • Having a Fleet all of the same colour is really rewarding, took me awhile personally… but what if it was made easier by allowing us to customize the colour of our Frigates in a similar way to how we customize our Freighter?
  • Customize the Combat Frigate’s reinforcements ships, atleast the colours of the trail. There’s been a few times I’ve blown them out of the air due to mistaking them as pirate vessels.

• Introduce more Frigate categories & expand Fleet size to 50 or 60 Frigates (NPC Fleets can be up to 60, why shouldn’t ours get close?)

  • Expand on the “Recon” Category of Frigates that were first introduced in Expedition 2 with the SSV Normandy SR1.
  • Add a Mining/Trading Specialized Frigate Category
  • Limit these “multi-category” frigates per type, otherwise people might completely replace their single category frigates.
  • Update Frigate missions to include something new & unique to give reason to doing them again.

• Freighters should feel Livelier

  • I feel freighters would feel a lot more alive if your Freighter & Frigates crew would path up & down the hallways, maybe the Fleet command room has a NPC in it either sleeping on the bed, eating lunch at the table or overseeing the fleet at the terminal? Also I’d love to setup a sort of bar or Cafe kind of area & have my Freighter crew walk up & sitdown on some stools. Basically bring settlements to Freighter bases?
  • Freighter settlements would be nice, I personally try not to settle on planets because I’ve lost a few bases to major updates, definitely wouldn’t wanna lose a Planetary Settlement to one. lmao

Freighters are a great feature, I just wish they were a bit more polished & less buggy.

Here’s some of the FAQ suggestions we received in our previous FAQ thread. Keep in mind that these are opinions from some of our valued OP’s and you may agree or disagree with some of these. We just ask that everyone remains respectful when replying to this thread and we look forward to your contribution! NMSTG Mod Team

You can also drop a quick tip!

Tip #1: Always try to be doing multiple things. Pick up the portable refiner so you can refine something from your inventory while exploring and mining.

Tip #2: Avoid multiplayer until unlocking the anomaly, can be stranded if not.

Tip #3: Exotic worlds only have 1 fauna so it’s easy to scan all of them.

Tip #4: Need glyphs? All 16 are on one planet here

Q- “I was on the Anomaly and a bunch of expensive stuff showed up in my inventory. What do I do with it? A:” Congrats! Another player has bestowed you with a gift. Most likely it is an item to sell for some quick and easy cash. Usually the item description will tell you what it is used for.

Q: “Help, I claimed a broken ship and now I can’t find my starter ship! Is it gone forever?” A:” If you merely selected to “claim” the broken ship and not “swap” it, then your old ship is still around. If you left it with launch fuel in the tank, you can summon it with the quick-menu. If it does not have fuel, it can be summoned on the Anomaly (once you unlock it), your freighter (once you acquire one).

Q- “Are crashed ships worth repairing?” A-” Unless it is an exotic, no. Scrap the ship at the space station, sell the items it gives you, and use those units to buy a better, working version of a ship in that system.

Q- “Any advice for new players?” A-“For new players, make sure you read the guide in-game. It’s an excellent beginner’s guide for traveling, learning about the alien races, building, and etc. Take a look over the catalogue of items too. Also, I’d strongly suggest mining a massive amount of carbon, oxygen, and sodium. These three items will be some of your most used and critical items in the game

I have played nms for quite a while and i absolutely love this game, but building bases really drew me away from it. I know it is a major gameplay mechanic, but is there a way to maoe it feel less overwhelming and a bit more casual?

Edit: Thanks for everyone who answered! Apparently freighters can work just as movable bases, which seems exactly like what i’d enjoy. I feel a lot more motivated to going back to this game now o7