1st – Does anyone actually fly an Explorer? Is there a reason to flying an Explorer? I can see the merit to flying a Hauler, when you’re doing a trade route. You can pack a whole lot more commodities into its hull, making for greater profit. And, obviously, the Fighter lets you kill things faster.

As I understand it, the Exotics and Solars are basically improved Fighters, but are harder to find. And I presume Sentinel ships are similarly so. So, I can see good reason to fly a Fighter (or Fighter “variant”) frequently, given how often space battles happen.

But, is there a real benefit to using an Explorer? I get that they have a bonus to the distance they can warp, but… is that actually worth while? With a few mods, any other ship seems to get a pretty respectable distance, too. If I warp into a system and suddenly find myself in a battle that I want to take part in, can my Explorer still compete (assuming I’ve got adequate weapons and mods installed) or am I forced to find a space station, teleport home, swap ships, and then teleport back if I want to fight something… which, obviously, likely means the fight is over when I get back.

Or is the only purpose to flying an Explorer skipping systems and covering extensive distances quickly i.e. warp to furthest system, arriving, then immediately repeating the process x number of times, without stopping. What about the Freighter? I feel like a ship that size should have a hefty distance it can travel, but I’ve never fiddled with them much so I don’t know the extent of their warping capabilities.

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2nd – Is there ANY other, more efficient way of farming Di-Hydrogen and/or Tritium? Or is manually grinding it for an hour the only method? Yes, I’m aware Di-Hydrogen can be crafted into Jelly and then crafted back into DH for a profit, but, considering the time it takes to do so, for the amount gained, I see grinding it a far more efficient method. Is there no collector that can be used to farm these two vital resources?

Yeah it’s not super hard to do spinnies to find planets, and there’s the planet compass in 1st person view, but the compass doesn’t have names and sometimes the planet info doesn’t come up for a few seconds while looking at it, especially if there’s another player’s base icon or something in the way because icons get prioritized.

If I’m going to specific planets over and over it’d just save a bit of time than pirouetting in space like “This one?… Nope. This one?… Nope. This one?… Can’t tell, icon in the way, have to spend 30 seconds getting closer to see.”

Hey folks,

I’ve been sitting on this game for a real long time, got it during launch day and then left it until now. I see that it’s been completely revamped and beyond what it was originally supposed to be. A crazy success story!

Either way, now that the game has completely changed I’ve been getting back into it bit want to see what wisdom the space captains can share to a newbie.

I have the general gist of things, just reached the Anomaly Orb last night. Really early on. Learned I missed out on a lot of those expeditions haha.

Thank you all in advance!