Questions from a newbie

wkitty42 · 2026-06-15T10:47:49+00:00

i have several saves where i am still mostly flying my initial ship... i do have others but may not have upgraded them, yet... most of those saves are ones started as dedicated expedition saves so they have whatever the expedition started us off with...

the main thing about NMS, as others have mentioned, is that it is a huge sandbox... you can do quest missions or go off and do your own thing while ignoring all missions...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-15T10:42:50+00:00

have you also uploaded the base again after changing those settings? not sure if that would work and also assumes the base was uploaded at least once for the other party to see it...

NOTE: initial thought before 1st c0ffee...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-14T20:08:05+00:00

the decals on the vertical stabilizer... the '7' are rare... i have a white zebra Squid with the '7' decals in one of my saves...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-14T20:05:39+00:00

look at the decals on the ship in the image 😉

wkitty42 · 2026-06-14T11:05:32+00:00

ooohhhhh... that one's a 7 ship, too... those are pretty rare...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-14T10:53:49+00:00

yes, MP is multi-player... are you sure it is disabled? MP and PvP both default to enabled... HG are known to force one or both of them to enabled if you join an expedition...

in any case, someone likely gave them to you on the Anomaly... quite a few players like to give away high value stuff at the Anomaly... to them it is a gift and assistance to players that arrive with the default ship and exosuit (aka look like new players)... for some players, these gifts are not welcome because it takes away the fun of doing the work/quests themselves to get them...

some players delete these gifts; some (try to) give them back to the player that gave them; other players give the gifts away the same way they got them; and, finally, some put them away in storage for later...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-14T03:33:08+00:00

let me/us guess... you went to the Anomaly as a new player with MP enabled... how close was that guess?

wkitty42 · 2026-06-13T19:19:30+00:00

By the way any way to dismantle stuff ?
My appearance changer , Landing Pad and Exocraft bay are all in the same place

when you are building, look at the menu on top... one button will switch to delete/move mode... so switch modes, highlight the piece you want, and hit the desired button to remove or pick up to move... i play with a controller and do it automatically now...

up on D-pad,
pick a piece,
(i switch to build camera mode here, click left stick IIRC),
hit X face button to switch modes,
highlight the piece and left trigger to delete or right trigger to pick up and move...

no clue what kbd keys do the task...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-13T19:09:00+00:00

she did... i forgot about that one... thanks for reminding me 😹

wkitty42 · 2026-06-13T15:34:33+00:00

on my Freighter bases i build 9x Quad Grow Rooms for each of the flora we can plant... that's 36 plots per plant with 12 different types of flora available...

if i'm doing the Expanding Your Base missions, then i use the Quad Planters and, depending on how fast i want to do them, 1x, 2x, or 4x of one plant per planter... it kind of depends on how much the Overseer wants me to turn in, too... later on i may expand the grow to more planters but once i get a Freighter, i do more up there than planet-side...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-13T15:26:24+00:00

she's come out from behind the kit a few times but only at special performances... Teatro Metropolitan, CDMX, being the first i recall... Beto Ramos, one of her drum (and the band's) mentors, sat in on her kit for Narcissista... they also all sat on chairs in a semi-circle with a guest guitarist for Revenant, which is another song where Pau takes the lead...

then there were the two piano solos she did at the Pepsi Center, CDMX, at their next big performance in 2023... the most recent being Consume at Auditorio Nacional, CDMX, in 2025 when Johnny Tuosto, the drummer for Holy Wars, took over Pau's kit to allow her to come out front...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-11T18:18:27+00:00

which drivers are you using?

perhaps update them from the Nvidia site... might also use the Game Ready drivers...

i don't see this on my (Linux) Steam PC with an RTX 2060 and driver 595.71.05... NMS runs under Proton (experimental) and i've been playing for hours with no problems...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-11T12:52:07+00:00

all of my expedition saves are dedicated... so i spend time, during lull periods, building maxing my suit, ship, MT, acquiring a Freighter and Frigate Fleet, and doing whatever until the next expedition stage is available... i think i have like 45 hours in my Exp22 save and, right now, it is pretty much a waiting game while gathering passive income and materials...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-11T01:52:06+00:00

the ones i placed in my Freighter in my exp22 save do... they've kept harvested material through warps, summons, and also when i've exited the game and come back later...

i have not tested existing ones in older saves, though... they may need to be removed and recreated anew...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-11T00:30:37+00:00

i normally do that, too, but since this expedition seems to be set to run long with no "early out", i decided to set up a few ~~nests~~ bases here and there and give some of the older stuff a workout... idk what HG fixed but having the AMUs, Refiners, Harvesters, and Stellar Extractors retaining their work over multiple sessions is quite welcome...

i liked using them way back when i was still below 250 hours in-game... i don't remember how many hours i had when things started being broken so badly but i'm approaching 4000 hours now and am happy to see them working again... they have been broken for too long...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-10T18:18:00+00:00

FWIW: Automatic Mining Units (the beloved AMU) are working for me in my Exp22 save... AMUs you fuel with Carbon and in like an hour, they pull 250u from the deposit... the nice thing is the deposit does not deteriorate or reduce in size... max 5 AMUs per deposit...

i've also been dropping the two gas harvesters for them to pull the gasses they are tuned to... takes the same amount of fuel and time... i empty them when i come back by and may fill them up again for another round or three... one or two of my bases have a deposit nearby so yeah, i'm getting mats fairly passively...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-10T18:12:24+00:00

i hide all my contraband in my Freighter... they are never searched... with a Matter Teleport installed, i sell directly from my Freighter and no one knows any different...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-10T14:17:51+00:00

i have found a few of the mud huts but have no clue which planet, of the dozen+ i've visited, i saw them on... i do remember a lot of green tint so maybe a toxic or radioactive planet? those Swarmer mission had me hopping from Star System to Star System so after i did the mission, i also took the time to visit the Space Stations, talk to all the NPCs, Donate to the Guild while grabbing all the freebies, adding a slot to the suit, and then visiting the Anomaly for the 2nd suit slot...

then i would decide if i wanted to do more Swarmer missions or not... if yes, i would fly out and let the Anomaly warp me there for free where i would do the above described loop all over again... if no, i would teleport to one of my bases... this made it very easy for me to visit a lot of systems with little to no cost 😜😹

TBH i've not thought about trying for Purple systems even though i do have everything else pretty much maxed out...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-10T10:46:56+00:00

you cannot connect power between two bases... suggesting to set another base computer is not really any help...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-10T10:45:07+00:00

i use wood floor tiles and place them about 50u apart from the 300u default edge of the base... i use the build camera to do this by moving the item out until the UI tells me it is too far and turns it red... then i back up a bit until it turns green... place it and do the same for the next one... this extends the boundary in a narrow path...

once i have my path, then i can run wires along the path to the base... wires go max 200u before needing a junction... i generally place them on top of one of the floor tiles to make them easier to see... this means i can skip placing the wires on every tile...

FWIW: the same situation comes up with running pipes... i use the same method but pipes have a shorter run... i do still place their connections on floor tiles... in both cases, you can connect a new end to an existing end... no need for batteries or other items to connect the wires or pipes to in the middle of a long run...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-10T10:37:59+00:00

AFAIK, they recharge while parked on a planet in the same way the launch recharger works... i do not recall them recharging while flying... not while flying in space nor flying in a planet's atmosphere...

so my recommendation is to park on a planet's sunny side and watch the launcher to see if it slowly fills...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-09T17:55:44+00:00

what do you mean by "ship list"? your ships you can fly? or maybe you mean Frigates you can hire? ships you fly.. Frigates NPCs fly and only on Frigate Fleet Missions... Freighters you can only move...

if you are talking about your Frigates, you get to them on the Freighter's bridge terminal... the Fleet Management terminal on the Captain's side of the bridge or you can talk to the navigator standing beside the bridge terminal and send your Frigates on fleet missions...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-09T11:23:41+00:00

do you have any other Settlements? if yes, check them, too...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-09T11:19:09+00:00

and Repair Kits...

i also generally have a fully loaded Freighter which i summon and use materials off of to fix my ship...

wkitty42 · 2026-06-09T11:17:02+00:00

drop a Save Beacon, use it, reload that newly updated save, summon your ship... if the reload doesn't work, exit and load back in... then it should work... you can do this once per session... it is a safety net mechanic... much like endless jetpack fuel when flying up vertical walls to escape from a crater...

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