I’ve been playing for a few hundred hours now and can actually claim to have a solid grip on most of the game. I was selling off activated indium from the farm I’ve set up (about 12m units worth/day which I think is pretty respectable) when I saw a trade item I didn’t recognize in my exosuit inventory. I had a full stack, 50/50. Something called Starship AI Valves. I look at the value for the sale. That moment was one of those moments where you wonder for a split second whether the problem is your eyes or reality itself. 650 million units. So I look them up and see they are the most valuable item in the game, only obtained from scrapping a ship worth more than 50 million. There’s a different thread where someone discovers one in their inventory and is informed that someone must have just given it to them in the Anomaly, and this must be their lucky day.

Here’s my question: did someone seriously just give me the product of fifty scrapped high value starships, completely out of the blue, just to be a nice person? Has anything of this magnitude happened to anyone else?

Is it normal to start off on a planet that is incredibly hot? I swear I had literal seconds to spare figuring out where to find the sodium I needed to keep myself alive. So, I didn’t die, that much is good. I traded with one bird/reptile dude eventually. Named a few crazy lookin beasts. One looked like a beaver and a ground mole had a gigantic child (two big beaver-looking tails and the finger-star mole nose on a pretty basic quadruped body). Another looked like a stegosaurus and an iguana had a baby. Got my spaceship up and running by some miracle and harvested a ton of Na+ just so I wasn’t on edge walking around. Explored a few wreckages and tower thingies. Found a distress signal and a bunch of broken stuff on the ship where the alien died. I left most of it. Had no idea where to find most of the resources to fix it all. And now finally I am on the next planet over. A big toxic fungal ball. This game is weird. I think I like it though.