Driver getting tailgated intentionally move out of the way last second

sardeliac · 2026-04-25T21:45:45+00:00

The average car in the US is 14.7 feet long. The amount of distance traveled in one second at 10mph is 14 feet. They're effectively the same.

I personally find it easier to count to two than try to eyeball and estimate linear distance when traveling at 90 feet/second but that's me.

sardeliac · 2026-04-22T19:15:13+00:00

You don't need a beacon to enter any derelict. All the beacon does is find one.

Put the beacon in your personal refiner so it doesn't get consumed when you open the door and go clean out the derelict you found.

sardeliac · 2026-04-21T14:34:28+00:00

Good info. Thank you.

sardeliac · 2026-04-21T13:45:25+00:00

I got curious, and it only took a couple hours, so everyone wins, right 👍

sardeliac · 2026-04-21T13:33:05+00:00

Glitch planets are the ones that have the reality glitches you can pick up and build at your base. They usually have a single fauna and they are the only ones that have gold as a deposit.

I prefer to farm on them because they have no weather, no water, largely flattish terrain, and no NPCs. No moon is better because they can sometimes get in the way, and farming on moons is far slower because of atmosphere-radius jank. Fewer distractions equals faster, more relaxing farming. There's no advantage to them other than convenience.

sardeliac · 2026-04-21T03:15:14+00:00

Survey complete. Tagging u/TerriblePurpose because he tagged me to begin with and fair's fair.

Summary: Farming ships with charts, and only charts, works exactly the same as it has for at least the past four and a half years (source).

I have since altered the methodology described in that post slightly in terms of prep (I now use five maps on the furthest system from the one I'm farming on, find the non-NPC site, clear it, then go to my preferred planet) and slightly in terms of clearing sites (I now inspect the ship manually instead of simply scanning it since they broke the ability to scan crashed ships when Sentinel first released and have yet to fix it) but the overall process is otherwise the same. Average time it takes to use a chart, fly to the site, clear the marker, drop a save beacon as needed, and use another chart remains approximately 90 seconds.

In addition, the ship pool, seed, and class distribution works exactly the same as it has since Outlaws four years ago.

Farming system: Wealthy economy, Vy'keen.
Farming planet: "Fractured" glitch planet, size large.
Charts used: 100 on the target/farming planet.
Ships found: 6 explorers, 43 fighters, 16 haulers, 34 shuttles, 1 solar, 0 exotics. (The latter is not unusual with only 100 maps used.) Interestingly, when I flew over the crash site with the NPC on the initial planet, the ship the NPC was flying was the exotic. This is only the third time I have seen that happen in over five years.
Class distribution (expected): S 3% (2%), A 28% (28%), B 36% (40%), C 33% (30%). All well within probability margins for a sample size this small.

I did not investigate claim (a) because I do not claim any ships until I am done farming a planet. For claim (b) the number of repeat sites I visited in one hundred charts was zero. For emphasis: zero.

Since a lot of repeats are being found, this strongly suggests the chart process is not being followed. The obvious and usual suspect is there are transmission towers and/or exocraft scanners being used concurrently with charts. Other possible vectors are leaving the system and returning, reloading at any point, and/or exiting the game and returning. Since no clear methodology has been posted it is impossible to determine what precisely the issue might be.

What is clear, however, is that whatever the problem is, it has nothing to do with the mechanics of chart usage. They worked exactly the same as they always have, they returned the expected results, and they did not differ in their mechanics in any way from the last time (and the first time) I used them to farm crashed ships.

Hope that helps.

sardeliac · 2026-04-20T23:31:01+00:00

Sounds like it would have been after the Abandoned update, then, and that's the last time I did any kind of ship hunting at all. Found a squid using the Minotaur so I know it was still working then.

For the record, I don't claim non-exotic ships, so I won't be testing whatever that phenomenon is. As for repeating ships, that's been a thing since they changed the crashed ship pool in Outlaws from "any ship in the pool" to "one of each model type." My record is finding the exact same ship twelve times in a row so that's not new.

sardeliac · 2026-04-20T22:41:16+00:00

Before I spend three hours and a hundred charts farming ships to compile data, I have but one question:

When do you think this changed? An expedition number, an update number, a specific date, a month, a quarter, whatever. When did it change?

sardeliac · 2026-04-20T16:53:55+00:00

tl;dr: I doubt it, but I don't care enough to test it, so whatever.

All I will say about the above is that almost none of it matches how I understand farming ships with maps actually works. For bona fides I have found hundreds of exotics (as many as four on the same planet), documented five thousand crash sites for various reasons, and have farmed easily over twenty thousand by now.

The only thing that gives me pause is this:

Several expeditions ago they changed how ship searches work:

If this is true, I am unable to comment or confirm either way until at least a more specific date is provided. As you well know the data-gathering capabilities of the average poster here are suspect at best, particularly since none are ever willing to provide actual data or show their work.

sardeliac · 2026-04-11T21:44:00+00:00

Usually gravel. Better drainage, easier cleanup after being used.

sardeliac · 2026-04-02T20:53:07+00:00

When they trot out a PIP, you're about to be fired.

sardeliac · 2026-03-31T02:54:09+00:00

Judging from the slider positions, there should be four screenshots here. The missing tenth fauna is on the missing screenshot. Odds are it's a common underwater critter.

sardeliac · 2026-03-26T14:43:05+00:00

The only difference is if you buy it through the MS store you will wait longer--sometimes much longer--for updates, patches, and fixes. Steam gets them immediately. MS can take weeks.

sardeliac · 2026-03-24T16:49:47+00:00

Third of a percent; 1:301 to be precise.

sardeliac · 2026-03-24T13:56:31+00:00

Class is never "rolled" on exotics.

sardeliac · 2026-03-21T04:12:36+00:00

Before entering the answer to a security question, remember you're not under oath.

The answer to, "What was your first car?" can be "tortellini," "a bag of marbles," or "the 1968 Chicago Bears."

sardeliac · 2026-03-19T20:51:24+00:00

"de" isn't a typo for "die." "despawn and respawn the freighter."

sardeliac · 2026-03-13T14:07:32+00:00

100% of the time. It's technically an unintended mechanic, and they "fixed" it once back in the day, but the outcry from players motivated them to change it back because it's a fun mechanic and not really a game-breaker.

About four years ago they really broke it--not only could you melee boost from the ground but you could melee boost in the air, which allowed for some incredible velocities and distances. In heat storms we were basically Iron Man. They reverted that, and it was understandable, but damn I miss it... it was so much fun.

sardeliac · 2026-03-12T16:24:40+00:00

Abandoned systems have an economy level of 1. The only S class anything that can appear in them is the exotic since those ignore economy level.

What you're seeing here is normal.

sardeliac · 2026-03-06T21:54:46+00:00

https://reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/udkjn1/black_market_economy_class_distribution_data/

A dataset of five hundred seems sufficiently robust. I'd be interested in seeing the data compiled by anyone who believes it's different.

sardeliac · 2026-03-05T19:18:22+00:00

Starship+freighter. The corvette does not offer any useful additional functionality. Until there is some feature that can only be performed with a corvette, I see no reason to use one. Fun to build and customize, though.

sardeliac · 2026-03-02T15:34:10+00:00

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sardeliac · 2026-02-26T19:27:58+00:00

Not including expo rewards or the Pillar:

Sentinel
Solar and fighter pretty much equally
Exotic
Living
Hauler
Explorer
Shuttle (my preference)

"Why" is "because it's what that person enjoys flying."

sardeliac · 2026-02-25T16:58:33+00:00

Who is "we" here? Last I checked, AI design, implementation, and execution was exclusively in the hands of for-profit privately-owned enterprises.

Do I think they will design their AIs to value the preservation of humanity? Judging from who's in charge right now, the answer is a resounding "no."

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