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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-Where can I post ships and other cool stuff that I want to share with the public? A-You can always post on this sub and now the NMSGlyphExchange is live! 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.

Hi all!

I remember seeing the trailers and all the chatter around this game back when it was still being announced and I recall thinking to myself that I needed this game in my life. Well, the launch didn’t go so well, to put it mildly and I just forgot about it until recently.

Decided to get it and give it a shot, since so many online articles were claiming that it redeemed itself and is now the game it claimed to be at launch, so why not.

I have to say that it’s been a while since any game grasped me this hard. There is a sense of wonder and mystery that I can’t put into words, and the feeling of being free to do whatever I want is amazing. I have not gotten very far into the game, only just entered the Anomaly for the first time and spend a few good minutes drooling at all the cool ships. There was even a blue kinda organic-looking one, no idea what that could have been. Oh and one that had a red light in front, moving from side to side just like KITT, that looked amazing and I need it!

So far I have done the tutorial base, but since moved off to another planet, found a nice little Paradise Planet with cool Fauna and nice landscape, so I settled there with a new base. Along the way, and exploring different planets I found some weird bones that sold for quite a bit ( at least for my standard ), found a strange ball that maybe I shouldn’t have picked up since it angered some sentinels and I just barely escaped, and found a very strange planet where my ship was reporting “anomaly strength” at whatever %. Not sure what that was about, but felt cool.

I know that I still have a long way to go ( probably ), but so far I’m having so much fun just exploring and getting side-tracked all the time because I saw something interesting, which leads me to something else and then another thing and I just end up losing track of what I was doing in the first place. But that’s fine because I get to do so much stuff.

For my next steps, I’d love to get a new, cooler, ship, explore more planets to see what they have to offer, adopt a companion and find out what they can do – I have one at the moment, but not entirely sure of their utility – and find out more about trading. I’m starting to notice that prices of some things vary from station to station and I’m sure some clever people out there worked out some trade routes or something similar. Finally, discover more about the storyline, it seems interesting so far!

I went in this game blind, don’t know much about the story or what the endgame looks like, and I’m loving it this way.

Thanks for reading an excited player’s blabbing this far!