On the positive flip-side – I love this game already and I can see myself dumping at least 100-1000+ hours into it. On another positive note I will probably enjoy Starfield equally. On the negative side of the coin, I will probably be incredible frustrated at not having the best of both worlds.

Do you think interior ship design will happen with NMS? Or building your own ships? It feels kinda weird that you can’t chill inside your ships. A void Starfield will fill.

What I wanted some discussion, thoughts and opinions on, if you guys feel like sharing, is the following; Why do you think it’s so hard to make a game which has the best of both w/o too much compromise? A game like that would probably satiate everyone into an everlasting gaming frenzy.

Is that a technical challenge? Economical one? Development time? All of those or others?

I’m playing NMS like a relapsed crack addict who just found a mountain of cocaine atm. And I’m friggin loving the game. And I’ll probably love SF when it comes out. However it does leave this frustrating thought eating at me like… these two games seems to both lean towards everything I want in a game so closely but not perfectly.

Anyway, /endrant! Glad I discovered this game despite being late to the show. Finally a game to fill the massive void.

Hello all!

Just thought I’d share this with the community for any new people who are struggling to get nanites.

When you are out there exploring planets, you sometimes come upon Curious Deposits. These are piles of Runaway Mold (green spheres that actually roll down the hill they are on once you mine them). You can refine these into nanites at rate of 5:1. So a full stack nets you 2k nanites.

Sometimes these deposits have 1 or 2 spheres, those are tiny. You are looking for decent sized ones, like 10+ spheres.

Once you find one, follow these steps:

1) Place a base computer. Name it whatever (I name mine Runaway Mold 01 <Planet Type>). If this will be your only Mold base, you can leave off the “01”. More on that later.

2) Build a Portal, 1 Battery, 2 Solar Panels. Hook them all up.

3) Build a Save Point

4) Build base walls in FRONT of the Mold Spheres so when they start rolling down the hill when you mine them, they hit the wall and you don’t have to go chasing. Just corral them real good.

This is pretty much it. You then mine all the spheres and get the Mold. I use a Multitool that has all my mining upgrades in Super Charged slots. If you don’t have an extra MT for this, just temporarily rearrange the one you got. I can grab 20k Mold in one go at one of my spots.

After you mined it all, save at your Save Point. Then reload the save point. Once you’re loaded, all the Mold Spheres will be respawned. And you just do it again over and over and over. I can collect around 30k worth of Nanites in just under 10 minutes.

For those not wanting to do the reloading due to immersion breaking or whatever, you can also just use the portal and go to anywhere, then portal right back and the spheres will be respawned. If you find a second good spot, built a base there with a portal and just port between the two.

Hope this helps someone struggling for Nanites!