Hey Travelers. I’ve repaired a crashed starship I found and all that’s left to fix are three “Corroded Tanks” with Activated Copper. So far I’ve been to three different yellow-star systems and have scanned all the planets but none say “Activated Copper” from space (several say just “Copper”). What further confuses me is that all of the “how to find” articles I’ve found online seem to confuse regular Copper with Activated Copper.

Is “Activated” Copper a separate thing? Will scanning a planet from space tell me if there is specifically Activated Copper on that planet? Any tips on finding it so I can get those storage slots cleared on my starship?

So…I finally got the nudge I needed from one-too-many people saying “but the wall of text is just TL;DR!”

So…I made my first Tutorial video instead.

https://youtu.be/BZtf1BujkgY

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Including the original Wall-o’-Text for posterity.

Step 1: Get both the Economy & Conflict scanners from the Anomaly’s Ship-Tech vendor. You’ll need a Walker-Brain for the Conflict Scanner.

Step2: In GalaxyMap, sort by Conflict, and choose the red stars. THEN you’re looking for the stars with the pirate symbol (that’s the skull). Travel to that system. You’ll want a bunch of those systems (15-20).

Go to Pirate Systems.

Buy Banned Goods from the vendor on the far-left if you’re looking at it from the Teleporter (under the yellow junked ship).

Buy tech & weapons packages from same dealer (not the next dealer over that sells ‘em for nanites).

Go to a NON pirate system by cycling through one of your bases (you can’t go directly to a Non-Pirate space station from a Pirate system or vise/versa). Sell off the Banned Goods immediately, don’t just fly around with that stuff (a system Scan will get you popped & chased by sentinel ships).

Open all the tech & weapon packages. Sell those to one of the Tech Dealers across on the other platform for nanites.

Lather/rinse/repeat.

Hit a few Freighters IN THE PIRATE SYSTEMS ONLY for more banned goods to sell, to keep your $$$ headed north…so you can keep buying those tech packages. Don’t hit the free-floating Cargo Pods or you lose Standing with whatever Race is dominant in that system.

Develop a LIST of Pirate systems & hit them regularly, they’ll regenerate their inventory for you to buy again about every 30 minutes to an hour. I’ve got 20 in my list. It takes me 30-45 minutes to go through the whole list & nets me about 50k Nanites per rotation.

I keep track of which ones I’ve done by going through the whole list of pirate systems (while in pirate systems, ONLY Non-Pirate systems will say “unavailable” something to that effect), then cycling back to sell off.

That keeps them in order so I can go back for another run later.

So, I was curious as to why all the space station interiors are pretty much the same even with the update adding what Hello Games described as being “vastly different from station to station”.

The answer that seemed most prominent is that people get lost and frustrated inside space stations. So Hello Games makes it the same so people don’t get lost.

Do you find it hard to navigate space stations to the point where they have to be laid out roughly the same exact way? Or are you able to pretty much get your bearings in a game in a few minutes of exploring?

Coming from games like WoW where capital cities provide similar services with vastly different architecture and layout, I just find it hard to believe that a game full of explorers can’t navigate the tiny space station without getting frustratingly lost or turned around.