I’ve seen videos and some articles that have complained about NMS being an “overglorified base building game” or “next gen minecraft” but I can’t even believe that people would take that opinion given the amount of content in the game!!

I’m 20ish hours in, have a pretty shitty square base that just holds my base computer save point and storage units, and the story of the game + exploring planets and documenting fauna alone has been MORE than worth the 60 dollars I’ve payed for this game.

Not only that, I’m not even close to getting to the center of the galaxy, hell I haven’t even found Artemis yet (if that actually happens?) and I already feel as if I’ve gotten my money’s worth just from the story and exploration alone.

All this being said, 20 hours of story and insane exploration to not even be halfway through the game, not even having a new ship yet, and I’m blown away that I’d seen people label it as a base building game. Totally ridiculous!!!

NMS rules.

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Below are a few popular questions that we’ve received from our past FAQ thread. As always we ask that everyone be respectful and we welcome everyone’s contribution so have fun!

Q- I’m keen to start a new passive money making pursuit. What are some good ideas or guides post-Waypoint?

A#1-Gold farm, then take that stack and sell it at a terminal (not traders) in systems that sell gold. Sell all your gold to the terminal and crash the economy. Then buy it all back at 80% off discount. You just got free money and keep all the gold. All this takes is an initial investment on a gold farm, then you carry all that gold with you and just sell/buy back when you get to another system that sells gold. With 50 stacks in my ship’s cargo hold, I can make somewhere around 150 million units in each system I do this in.

A#2-Start a Farm, Fusion Igniters or Statis Devices Farm which will increase your profits to 100- 200 mil fairly quickly and you can even send out multiple freighter missions which will help you get aronium, magno-gold, Enriched carbon and more which will increase the profits even more.

A#3-Quickest way I’ve found to make a TON of units: Harvesting Storm Crystals. Find a VERY hot planet that has frequent fire storms. DURING STORMS ONLY – you can see the bright white light from Storm Crystals if you fly around low enough. Fly to them, land, quickly harvest them, get back in your ship and fly to the next before you burn up.

Q-How do I get the Advanced Mining Laser? I don’t have the option to craft one, and the multi-tool upgrade vendor at the space station doesn’t have the blueprint for sale.

A-In order to get it, you have to look for the blueprints in crashed ships or abandoned facilities. You get it from the main story (awakenings) or you can buy it on the anomaly.

Q-What do I actually do in the game? I finished the tutorial, is there anything else beside gathering stuff, building a base and repeat?

A#1-It’s really whatever you want, there’s a base story, (assuming you haven’t completed it already), follow the quest log and you’ll figure it out, but things You’d want to do for end game? You can collect multiple multitools, ships, built a fleet for your freighter, etc.

Q-Is there a planet that is populated by many players, and they built their base close to each others like a city?

A- Yeah its the Galactic Hub Project, Its a place where many people have bases and each day the numbers grow. Please help yourself. There are many factions in NMS that do this, even NMS Pirates Hub.

Q-I’m still pretty early into the game, just making my way to the center of the galaxy, what should I be spending my credits on?

A-Go hang around a outlaw/pirate trading post. Cheapest S-class start at around 8-8.5 million without a trade-in. I recommend Vikeen pirate, as then you have two good and 1 remote chances at high-maneuverability S-class: fighter, solar, exotic.

I know the 20,000 per save, and 3,000 per base is a technical limitation to stop devices that are running weaker hardware from having FPS nightmares – but why.

It’s quite possible to optimize an engine to allow such a limitation from not being an issue – whether that be rendering logic, or performance logic, or LOD management. It will take time, but it’s quite honestly the most important NMS update I think they could ever do – for one reason alone.

It allows the game to evolve past the size of the NMS development team.

NMS is fairly empty at this point in time, and even the factions that exist have “official planets”, but they’re not really cities. Imagine heading to a player faction’s capital city – and being able to see a city the size of Coruscant. Players have already shown strong indication of collaborative base building, management, etc. as mechanics that they do outside of the game.

Imagine stumbling onto a player settlement, or even starting your own with a couple friends. It would massively change the dynamic of the game. NMS is a game that is considered “a mile wide, but an inch deep”, but this sort of player created content generation allows players to create their own depth. Paradise planets become far less consistent, when one of them may have a massive player landmark that they generated for others. A pit stop, or a giant Gekk Statue.

I want that more than diverse planets, or another update that adds content. Still do those things, but open the flood gates for players first. That way we’re not stuck waiting for content and putting the NMS team on the clock. The team can generate content in collaboration with the community – indirectly or directly.

I’ll close with a personal story. When I started playing this game with a friend of mine, we heard of the Galactic Hub – and their capital planet. At this time, we didn’t know about the build limit and having not wanting to ruin the surprise; we didn’t look up any photos. It became our goal to journey to what be this massive player created city. Eventually we made it; and it was just…underwhelming. We completely estimated picking up shop and moving to the Galactic Hub in the city; and building and adding to it. Maybe found our own settlement. Unfortunately we had to pad our expectations. The gameplay loop broke for us; what was the point? We saw the planet types, and we mined the resources; but we couldn’t exactly build with these resources. Once we hit our limit we were done.

Imagine it was different.