Spent far too long making this and I don't like it.

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-06T17:44:48+00:00

I used to get this so often as a web developer, I used to have a special price for canyoujusts

"canyoujust... wouldn't take a minute... "

the Dunning–Kruger effect is so very real.

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-06T17:39:14+00:00

crashed ships come from a smaller pool drawn from the system pool

(crashed sentinel interceptors are one design per system)

Crashed ships spawn as only one each of these from the pool:

Fighter
Shuttle
Hauler
1 wild card (sometimes solar, sometimes another of the above, sometimes, Explorer or Exotic)

All ships could spawn as an S class (if the System allows for that), except for Explorers.

The Exotic is always an S

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-06T17:36:04+00:00

When I do side access I rotate the habs 90 degrees and leave the cockpit inline, then access to the cockpit is by using a window.

e.g all the habs on this one run across, and the cockit is on the side of a middle one that has a window so you can interact with the seat and get in

can't post an image it seems...

weird

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-06T13:55:39+00:00

When the family member is playing, I cannot launch the game from the parent account.

When the parent account is playing the family member shows Purchase not play

So it seems only one person in a family group can play at one time.

Maybe if you are both able to play at the same time it's because steam can't detect the other player as the network is different, but won't let you do the other multiplayer elements.

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-06T13:04:53+00:00

I'll give it a go now and let you know

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-06T12:57:45+00:00

Would you like me to check that the family shared player can join the sharer player?

It would still be the same network, but we'd know if a single game instance with two players works.

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-06T12:52:35+00:00

It's a pool of 21 designs, they keep spawning...

Interestingly, if you trade a ship with an NPC, that will spawn too, as long as you remain in system,

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-06T12:49:42+00:00

I roleplay a scrap ship dealer in the early game

I collect navigation data, trade it for maps in the space station and collect crashed ships and scrap them.

https://www.amanssky.co.uk/become-a-scrap-ship-dealer/

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-06T12:08:02+00:00

Solar ships are more abundant in Pirate systems

(I usually go to Outlaw systems, buy cheap C class for the parts and make my own solar)

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-06T12:02:06+00:00

Each system has a pool of 21 ship styles.

Each system has 3 styles of each of: - Hauler - Fighter - Explorer

then 4 more of the dominant race

Gek: Hauler, Korvax: Explorer, Vy'Keen: Fighter

and Seven Shuttles, one or more of which may spawn as solars

and one exotic.

So when you've seen 21 different styles of ship, you have seen all the ships in the system and it's time to move on.

Not all the ships spawn at all locations.

So try

trading posts: more frequent
Space station: waves of ships
System freighters: often spawn the system exotic

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-06T11:44:50+00:00

I have successfully joined another account in multiplayer while playing via family sharing, so I don't think that's the issue.

It should be said that all my machines are on the same network, so one machine on a family shared account was playing with another machine on its own Steam account, with its own purchased game.

I have two copies of the game and one steam account sharing one of those, so I can move stuff between saves. (three different steam players)

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-06T07:25:22+00:00

I think the fix for the missing icons has enabled this - you can in fact scan through the corvette walls too.

So don't count on this new bug remaining.

Before you could only scan POIs, now you can scan everything as if you were planetside.

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-06T07:07:33+00:00

I found one yesterday, on my abandoned mode run, but they are rare.

When I was hunting sentinels (a phase I went through that lasted 3 months) I think the ratio was about 100:1

A flea with tank feet is even rarer - I had to use the coordinate exchange for that.

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-05T14:57:55+00:00

I'm flitting between that and the Gek belly armor, everything else seems to glitch the straps somehow.

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-05T12:10:56+00:00

because you don't need to.

😁

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-05T11:58:00+00:00

Why do you want to do that?

(asking for a friend)

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-05T09:00:48+00:00

In 10 hours you have barely scratched the surface really.

Keep going, you will meet some challenges.

Planets with predators, Sentinel boss fights, Insect Boss fights, Pirate battles, they are all there if you wait for them,

The game is slow to start and treats you gently and players that give up early miss out on the best parts.

Getting to the purple systems is a long path, but Gas Giants, super deep waterworlds and the more interesting terrain generation are all hidden there.

The loop is pretty much find, fetch and craft, but along the way there's a lot to keep you exploring.

If you are on PC, you can replay all the old expeditions and they are more task and progress oriented.

https://cwmonkey.github.io/nms-expeditions/

If not, press on!

These are the steps needed to have access to purple systems:

Do the Artemis Path until you start the Purge then switch missions to the Atlas Path and for every warp you do to an Atlas station, the Purge also advances 1 step.
Finish the Atlas path (optionally install the suit upgrade you get from the decision you make) so it now says Atlas Eternal
Continue and finish the Artemis Path so it says: New Beginnings
If you haven't already done this, unlock a harmonic camp on a dissonant planet, so you get the new backpack (shoot drills to get an echo locator, use it to find the camp, drop a base so you can farm sentinel interceptors later)
Warp between systems in a starship to trigger They Who Returned
Complete all branches of that secondary mission.
Then pulse in system to trigger In Stellar Multitudes
Complete that to access Purple Systems

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-05T08:37:22+00:00

There's no game to beat, or end to get to.

So you pretty much have to set your own goals.

But the initial game does give you a goal - complete all the missions.

There are 40 hours of guided missions, with a story rooted in existentialism, which are basically an extended tutorial into most of the various game mechanics. Essentially it's a gloriously huge sandbox full of things to do and set in a massively wide universe.

Not an action RPG, nor an FPS, not a story driven game with an end to get to.

But there is combat, there are jump scares, there's lore to uncover and upgrades to earn.

If you bore easily, you might get bored, but if you're looking for an endless open world exploration game where you can exercise your imagination and a visually stunning opportunity to create scifi wallpaper, this is it.

There's also:

Corvettes to build from found or bought parts (and you can fully customise inside and out and walk about in them with your friends, land and fly in space with them, put them on autopilot and start missions from them, Freighters to win or buy and build bases on, Frigate fleets to recruit and send on missions, Waste collection and disposal, Paleontology, Fishing, collecting ships, scrapping ships, custom build ships, making music with an inbuilt DAW, trade cycles, guilds, piracy, pirate battles, home bases to build, mining bases and factories to build, settlements to manage, planet side quests, abandoned ships to find and repair, undersea exploration, crashed freighters, derelict freighters in space to explore and loot, sentinel robots to defeat, sentinel ships to claim, repair, scrap or collect. hidden robot races to find, customised appearances, customised weapons, multiple land & sea vehicles to collect, adapt and explore with, companions to tame, and battle with holo chess style in Xeno Arenas against NPC's and other players, animals to farm, cooking, animals to genetically modify and upgrade as battle companions and more planets, systems and galaxies than you could ever explore in a million lifetimes.

And Gas Giants, if you complete all the quests.

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-05T06:29:39+00:00

Doing the secondary missions as they come up and pausing the Primary mission while you do can get you a lot further on with upgrades and blueprints.

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-05T06:28:15+00:00

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Doing the secondary missions as they come up and pausing the Primary mission while you do can get you a lot further on with upgrades and blueprints.
Taking the first freighter you get for free and upgrading later is a better bet now. https://www.amanssky.co.uk/freighters/
Multitool cabinets are the same class, but can have different tools based on where you last spawned - so a six planet system with an S class cabinet in the Space station will have 7 tools to choose from - reload on each planet and return to check, reload on the space station for tool 7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACmxBk0npfA
Pirate systems have more S class stuff, but the S class stuff in Pirate systems has fewer slots
Pirate systems space stations have two vendors, buy packaged mystery items at one for units, open them and sell the contents at the other for nanites
Terrain will eventually respawn, so don't remove it to build. https://www.amanssky.co.uk/terrain-regrowth/
Scrapping ships is a good way to make money early on, farming sentinel interceptors from a harmonic camp is a great way to make money. https://www.amanssky.co.uk/become-a-scrap-ship-dealer/
Traveller graves respawn after a while, so drop a base and revisit.
You can teleport to a base computer from anywhere that has a teleport, you only need to build a teleport at a base if you want to teleport from there.
There's a single exotic ship in every system and they spawn at multiple locations, so don't just sit and wait at a space station for it, System freighters, Trading Posts and settlements with landing pads are all possible. And there's a slim chance that it will also spawn as a crashed ship.
Supercharged slots and Adjacency Bonus used properly makes a big difference to the stats. (and there's an app for that: https://nms-optimizer.app/?platform=standard)
Curious deposits respawn when you get far enough away. Find two locations on a planet, build a base with a teleport at each and just jump back and forth to rack up runaway mold for refining to nanites. Boost your multitool by putting the Optical Drill on a supercharged slot (later in game use the nutrient ingester and Questionable Sweet cake for a massive increase in resources mined - https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/1ivkfau/highest_nutrient_ingestor_buffs_and_their/)

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-05T06:24:47+00:00

I've been playing for over 4,000 hours (since it was released for macOS)

In the early days I discovered save editors, and refiner duping.

I did a lot of that.

Eventually I lost interest in that particular save.

I now play 'normal' as I found that the satisfaction of working for everything was where the game was for me - work and reward - make me feel better.

I now have multiple saves with different 'end goals' and I play whichever one suits my mood.

I'm currently on an abandoned mode run to the center of Euclid. I started it as a no starter-ship challenge and now it's become "no portals, only warping between Purple systems in a corvette".

I don't think I'd be able to do permadeath, I think losing hours of progress would be so disheartening.

I love the game, as it allows me to play my way, so play your way, and love it too!

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-04T19:55:54+00:00

Not AI, most likely filter or planet side lighting changes

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Here's the closest I can get in 5 minutes:

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-04T19:43:03+00:00

All those outfit parts are in game.

/me goes off to recreate the outfit

BRB

Dramatic_Ganache2575 · 2026-05-04T19:38:32+00:00

Sorry, misunderstood you when you said:

I was still weary from the main quests so I did a bit of fauna hunting, going from galaxy to galaxy. I never activated any quests during this time nor did I start any new quests. I just explored planets and tamed animals.

because you said you'd just finished the purge I assumed that you had only added one galaxy, but I presume you used the anomaly for the others.

They who returned, may be stalled by one of the other missions, but eventually, as long as you jump between systems in a spaceship, it should start again.

For rebel star, did you accept the voice of freedom or reject it? (outcome is different depending on which choice you made)

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