No negativity towards the game , I have been playing since release and I think the game is going great, but if I’m going to be honest, there are some things that make me think “If only…”, like:

• The life in the game, there’s not much depth to it, if I meet someone, the most I can expect is a simple interaction, and learn a few alien words. I can’t go out and feel like , “Oh that gek is up to something, let me see what he’s got going..” . Every interaction just feels like a quick touch and go no matter where you are. I want to feel like there’s so much going on around me.

• Fauna feels the same way because every animal is a copy-and-paste. There’s no individualism when it comes down to creatures like, maybe seeing an herbivore, going up to plants and eating them, while watching a carnivore stalk it’s prey, and not walking up to them and giving them a quick smack on the head and digging in. Or a strider using it’s long legs to eat leaves off trees.

• The lack of Hostile NPCs. I’ve had this one for a while, as mentioned above, NPCs offer no depth when it comes to interactions , and that includes hostile interactions. Pirates do not live up to their name because the most they will do is blow up your freighter/ship and fly off. What if pirates took your cargo, and you’d have to find them to retrieve it back? What if they landed on some planet with your loot and you’d have to take them out on foot? What if instead of blowing up your capital ship, they land in your ship to kill you, and your crew, as well as find and raid storage units you have installed, or raid the storages from the Captain?

• Ship depth and interiors, another one I have had for a while, as mentioned above with fauna, it feels like a copy and paste when it comes down to the depth of a ship. You go into a ship in 1st person, it’s the same cockpit, depending on class, but what if you got a ship that made it feel likes it’s own ship? Like Tier 1 ships having a more brokendown cockpit , Tier 2 having a decent, organized cockpit, and Tier 3 ships having a high-end cockpit? Energy distribution was introduced with the Echoes update, and I think they should continue to explore what mechanics they could add to the ships.

• Interiors are another. Haulers, Shuttles , explorers, all have the potential to have a crew, walk around, place items, or sleep in, but its limited to just flying and I think that should be considered. This would work well for rescue missions, as you would find the NPC in your hold while you’re on your way to the drop-off

• No Aesthetic Ambience, you land on a forest planet, no sounds of fauna in the distance, you land on a snow planet, you don’t hear winds , you land on an ocean planet, you don’t hear waves on the beaches, I think planet types should gave their own type of ambience to make them stand out aesthetically

• Staffs being a reskinned multi-tool and the lack of Melee weapons, Staffs are neat addition to the aesthetic of the game, but there’s nothing I can’t do with Staffs that I could do with a Sentinel MT. Even in VR, it is held like a gun, it’s so awkward to hold. I just think they should have more melee capabilities to make them stand out as a staff and not a reskinned MT. Currently, they share the same stats as S class Sentinel rifle, but I think they should have some sort of melee prod and swing to give more options to it and make it stand out

Hey all. If you like to use a freighter as you primary base, and you don’t want to go through all the trouble of building a planetary base to get your Oxygen, it’s possible to get it entirely from your freighter! Here are the steps for a net gain of 2250 Oxygen, and you can of course scale up for your needs.

1) Collect 250 Nitrogen gas from a Stellar Extractor room. Yes, these things are actually useful! (Okay, and they are also known to be a bit buggy, but i am able to do this rather reliably. I’ll go over the bugs i’ve encountered and how to deal with them below.) To get Nitrogen from these things, park your freighter in a RED star system the day before. It’ll be ready when you start up NMS next time.

2) Harvest 3 Echinocactus plants from your Cultivation Chambers. Echinocactus is the most efficient since it gives you 100 per plant, but any of these will work: Star Bramble, Fungal Cluster, Echinocactus, Solar Vine, Frostwort, or Gamma Weed. You’ll need a total of 250 of whichever crop you have.

3) Grab 25 Chlorine and 50 Condensed Carbon from storage. Have 150 Oxygen on hand.

4) Go to your Refiners and start refining! Note that these are all “net gain” recipes, meaning that you don’t lose any of your starting materials. The extra Chlorine and Condensed Carbon can go back into storage for next time.

Refine 50 Condensed Carbon + 100 Oxygen -> 300 Condensed Carbon.

Refine 25 Chlorine + 50 Oxygen -> 150 Chlorine.

Refine 125 Chlorine -> 250 Salt.

Refine 250 Salt + 250 Nitrogen -> 250 Kelp Sacs.

Refine 250 Kelp Sacs, 250 Condensed Carbon, and 250 crop of choice into 2400 Oxygen. This particular recipe is a bit slow, so i’d recommend splitting it up into 4 or even 8 refiners. Voila!

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Okay, so let’s talk about those Stellar Extractor rooms and their little bugs? Here’s what i have personally encountered and how i’ve been able to work through them. If you know of other bugs and workarounds, please feel free to add them in the comments? Thanks! Anyway…

When you first build a Stellar Extractor room, it seems to be important to wait a few minutes until it produces at least one unit of something and then collect it. Otherwise it might not work right. This only needs to be done once, and that’s when you first build the room.

If you check your Stellar Extractor and it doesn’t have anything in it when it should, try going into the build menu, removing the room, and then replacing it. More often than not, the gathered materials have magically reappeared for me after doing this. I’ve only encountered this a few times ever, though, so your mileage may vary.

Finally, if you’d rather not deal with Stellar Extractor rooms at all, you don’t have to! Travel to any star system with water, hop in a starship, and scour the ocean floors with a Positron Ejector to collect the Kelp Sacs growing there. As a bonus, this will probably also get you a bunch of Cyto-Phosphate, Carbon, Salt, and a few other things.

Anyway, i hope you find this information useful. Good luck and have fun, fellow Travellers!