I’ve reached the point where I’ve build some pretty basic extractors for nitrogen, gold, sodium, activated copper, oxygen and more. After a couple of days I already have a maxed out stack for all of these, as well as whatever you get by chucking them into a refiner. And yet, the extraction keeps going and I’ve rapidly found myself with more materials than I know what to do with.

Sure i can sell them and usually do, but it’s not worth a huge amount of units and besides i’m already in the hundreds of millions for those. It really has me wondering: what do you all do with the sheer excess of all these ressources?

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.

The former NMSCE subreddit mods and myself have recently cut ties with r/NMSCoordinateExchange due to the NMSCE subreddit founder recently returning after 4 years of being MIA and deciding to run things with an iron fist (as if they never left) and abusing their power as a moderator.

Two mods were removed from their positions and banned from NMSCE for disagreeing with the founder on community related matters. Both mods had been mods for 3 years each and were and gone in an instant without the rest of the mod team even being consulted.

Another mod was removed from their position and banned from NMSCE for posting to another similar subreddit. That member was the NMSCE 2021 member of the year and was one of the top 5 of posters of 2022.

ALL of the former mods who left on their own were also later banned from NMSCE despite not breaking any community rules. Why ban us if we’ve done nothing wrong and you have nothing to hide?

As a subreddit founder, you have the right to run the community how you want. But that doesn’t give you an excuse to act like an ass. Especially if you haven’t put in any hard work in building the community yourself. Instead the founder wishes to call all the shots while others do everything else for them. That’s a hard pass for us!

Since the founders return (again, after a 4 year absence) in one months time, the entire mod team was either fired or quit, all were then later banned. The bans being an abuse of power due to lack of legitimate cause. (Not the first time we’ve seen the founder retaliate in a petty manner.)

The former NMSCE subreddit mod team (excluding the founder) built that subreddit from 4K members to the massive 229K members it has today. The founder had absolutely no hand in building the community in their 4 year absence. Most of the mods have never even spoken to the founder until they returned.

It pains us to leave something we’ve spent years and thousands of hours each building, but we will not continuing working for somebody who treats us like absolute garbage and takes credit for something they had no hand in building.

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