Just picked the game back up and have been loving it. Got about 20 hours into it so far and have been trying to get my brother to play it more but he’s not fully engaged with it yet. Well I grinded a bit, we got on, I gave him some stuff to sell for some units and we hopped over so I could show him nexus missions. We started one up and a random guy joined in. Cool, he looks like a veteran with stacked stuff, he flies in with us. We land to start doing the mission when he calls in this crazy ship and just starts raining down missles on us repeatedly. Both of us lost all of our stuff, and we logged off. So I probably just lost someone to play the game with and I’m pretty bummed. Why is pvp even enable on nexus missions in the first place?

I haven’t seen a guide for this that explains it good enough, so here we go.

1. Go to a space station and buy emergency cartographic charts.

2. Go into space and activate chart. If it reveals anything other than “Distress Beacon” don’t go to it. The charts will only find one building of each type at a time, so leaving an icon for each type will ensure you won’t find any more of those types.

3. If it reveals a distress beacon, go to it and get just close enough to see if there is an npc pilot. If there is, leave. If there isn’t, congrats you’ve found a claimable ship.

Leaving the distress beacon icon for the npc ship will guarantee the rest of the distress beacons will be claimable ships. So now that have all 4 icons you will only be able to find claimable ships with emergency cartographic data.

It seems that your current location within the system determines what the planetary chart will find(you’ll get a lot of “building of similar type already charted”), so pulse around repeatedly attempting to plot the data until it works.

Using this method you will find ship after ship, and can claim dozens within a short time. Return to the space station, salvage, rinse and repeat. Happy hunting!