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.

Started a permadeath run shortly before the latest expedition, restarted it at the weekend. About 12 hours in, I’d landed on an extreme radiation planet, spotted dormant storm crystals and decided to wait for the storm because that’s serious cash for the early game.

“I’ll be fine. I have a radiation-protection upgrade and uranium to fuel it.”

“OK, storm is here and the crystals are just over there, off to get them”

“Hey, there’s more just over the hill. I’ll just run and get them.”

“Time to head back to the ship.”

“Oh. That’s a tornado coming.”

“I’m not going to make it. Time to dig a hole.”

“This is a nice long, deep hole. I should be fine.”

“Why can’t I move?”

“I’m being pulled against the roof of the tunnel.”

“I’m being pulled backwards along the tunnel.”

“I’m being pulled out of the tunnel.”

“Help.”

“I think I’m a long way up in the air now but I can’t see the ground through all the wind and orange dust.”

“I’ve been up here a while now. Better recharge the anti-radiation module.”

“If this keeps up, I’m going to run out of uranium and die of exposure while still up in the air.”

“If this eventually lets me go, I hope I spot the ground before I hit it.”

I did spot the ground in time. But that was intense.