Hey Travelers. I’ve repaired a crashed starship I found and all that’s left to fix are three “Corroded Tanks” with Activated Copper. So far I’ve been to three different yellow-star systems and have scanned all the planets but none say “Activated Copper” from space (several say just “Copper”). What further confuses me is that all of the “how to find” articles I’ve found online seem to confuse regular Copper with Activated Copper.

Is “Activated” Copper a separate thing? Will scanning a planet from space tell me if there is specifically Activated Copper on that planet? Any tips on finding it so I can get those storage slots cleared on my starship?

Don’t get me wrong – seeing action and life in certain places is great – but it is way too frequent and more importantly, it seems way too random. You discover an uncivilized planet at the edge of the system with a few relics from another era. You want to build your base and discover what is there, but every 2 minutes some spaceships fly around close to the surface… doing what exactly?

I would love it if planets and systems had more meaningful parameters for population/traffic density (for example, there is a huge trading platform, so more ships are flying around). But I also like to discover planets that have not been discovered, where you can have your own “edge of the universe” feeling. It is the same with the frequency of pirate ships or massive freighter spawns when you are in outer space…

it feels like the developers were afraid that the game would feel too empty and as a response just let everything randomly spawn everywhere all the time… Perhaps others like this, but for me, it is killing the immersion