For the glory of Hirk, can someone please explain to me how you defeat these behemoths? I’ve come close, but it always manages to destroy the civilian freighter and/or warp away.

On a related note, is the only way to get an S-class freighter to destroy a dreadnought?

Update: I was today years old when I realised you can divert power to your ship’s weapons, engines, and shields. Diverting power to the weapons helps for exactly 60 seconds before my shield drops and I get my ass kicked.

Thinking of the big picture you probably will never be able to obtain the starship that you dream of ever in your lifetime. The common saying is that exploration is a core aspect of the game and the player should keep exploring to find the ship they want, but there is a very brutal catch…

The world of NMS consists of 256 Galaxies, all with their hundreds of systems, who also have their handful of planets, the NMS world is so huge that you probably wouldn’t even be able to comb through it all in your whole lifetime even if you explored 24/7 without going to the bathroom or eating.

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Now here is my point, I don’t intend to imply that HG should just allow us to build our own ship and make the whole exploring shtick useless, but atleast we should be able to work with something that is “good enough”. A Sentinel ship for instance, I find a good model with folding wings and belly horn but it has the ugly big wing stuck in its body? I should be able to remove it. I find a good one with the wrong colors? I should be able to change the paintjob.

No modifying the entire ship, but still be able to change a range of body parts and paint to better match what we want, I dont care if it would change it to C class or if it costed an unholy amount of Nanites, it would simply be another nice goal to chase at endgame.

My phone goofed and I can’t seem to find out who it was or where it was from, but this is helpful information.

“A complete listing of all possible types of planets which can generate and a system to classify them, based on my observations of 150 star systems

Everyone knows that there are seven biomes, right? Well, kind of. Today I’m going to explain my system for classifying planets, and list every type of planet that can exist.

Seven basic biomes: these can occur in Standard [STD] or Extreme [XTR], and can be low-security or high-security [HS]. In space, XTR planets can be determined from scans by whether or not their chromatic metal [copper, cadmium, emeril, indium] is marked as “activated.” Activated chromatic metals only occur on XTR planets. This means there are seven biomes, two extreme-ness levels [except for airless], and two security levels, for a total of 26 basic types.

1. Humid [paraffinium, star bulb]
2. Cold Desert [pyrite, cactus flesh]
3. Hot Desert [phosphorous, solanium]
4. Frozen [dioxite, frost crystal]
5. Irradiated [uranium, gamma weed]
6. Toxic [ammonia, fungal cluster]
7. Airless

Next, each planet can have three different types of ocean level:

1. Type P [Pangaea] – planets with no water at all [all moons are Type P by default]
2. Type O [Ocean] – planets with oceans but still with large continents
3. Type A [Archipelagic] – planets dominated by water with only small, island landmasses

Last, each planet can have five levels of hostile animal activity [this is a qualitative scale, not a quantitative one]

1. Zero stars – no predators recorded
2. One star – Predators exist but attacks rare or non-existent
3. Two stars – Predators exist and attack occasionally
4. Three stars – Predators exist and attack often, interfering with other activities
5. Four stars – Predators attack so frequently it is difficult to engage in other activities

There are also anomalous planets. These come in two large categories, anomalous and exotic:

• Anomalous planets: Always Type P, only have one species which never changes between iterations. There are 10 subtypes: Bubble, shards, beams of light, tall robots, techno ruins, hexagon world, mechanical mushrooms, shells, and giant concrete spores,.
• Exotic planets: can be of any ocean type, normal or extreme weather, high or low security, and have a normal complement of flora and fauna species. There are, to my knowledge, six subtypes that overlap somewhat:

1. Mega Aquatic – contains extremely large versions of underwater flora
2. Mega Toxic – contains massive versions of flora from toxic worlds. Mega Toxic worlds aren’t actually toxic though
3. Mega Humid – contains massive versions of flora from humid planets.
4. Mega Desert – contains massive versions of flora from Hot Desert planets. Has normal temperatures though
5. Boundary failure – contains only large, ringed mechanical structures
6. Stone ring world – contains large stone rings. May occur with colossal flora as well.

This system can be used to quickly classify any planet:

• HS Xtr Toxic (A)*** = a high-security extreme toxic planet mostly covered in oceans, with relatively high predator danger
• Std. Frozen (P) = A regular-weather, low-security ice planet with no water or predators
• HS Std Mega Humid Anomaly (O)* = A high-security exotic biome planet with massive palm trees, oceans, continental landmasses, and predatory creatures which don’t attack the player”

I would love to give credit so if anyone knows who it was that made the original post I will credit them the moment I find out. Hope this helps 🙂