Revisited the planet from the bathysphere quest line, picked up a sunken ship and hung out at the station for a while to see if anything fun showed up before I scrapped it. Nothing extra special, but hey, if you like yellow…
Also what’s the deal, sorting by new is a bit depressing. Did everyone crawl back to Spez’s basement so soon?
Thanks for your reply, I think it really puts some things in perspective. If that 150 hour figure is accurate, and I don’t doubt that it is, it really changes the lens I’m looking through on what efforts one must go to to get an S class freighter, let alone one in your preferred make and model.
I know we collectively call it save scumming, but I’m not so sure it rises to that level. The first game I ever put any real time in was Nethack, where save scumming is reason enough for apostasy if not excommunication! I might not do it, but unlike with the folks doing it in Nethack, I won’t bring out my torch and pitchfork against anyone in this community.
I picked up an A class, and now when I’m hitting derelicts I’m fabricating bulkheads instead of tech. If I wasn’t on Switch, and multiplayer was a consideration, I think I could see my way to resetting for an S class. At this point my freighter is a platform for sending organic frigates out to get living ship upgrades. If a future update changes freighters in a big way, the way the recent update brought Nexus missions to Switch, I may regret not just putting in the effort to get an S class, but that for another time.
For now though, I’m happy with my A class but I still enjoy hearing what others went through to get the freighter of their dreams. Oh, and I think the increased frigate capacity may be a reason for me not to get an S class. Could be unrelated because stability on Switch has always been a bit off, but with three pages of frigates I think I’m seeing more crashes when I’m in the same system as my freighter.
Found some big “normal” looking Diplodocus on an ice planet today while doing my quicksilver missions. Someone was there first for sure ‘cause there was a pretty half-assed base next to a portal where I landed. Still, cool to organically find one that doesn’t look bizarre.
It’s a class 3 economy so you can probably re-load for something better than a C tier. Upgraded to S tier it’s got four supercharged slots on the left and I got over 50,000 potential damage with some perfectly average neutron cannon weapon tech.
I’m like 70% sure Tab is pink. Is Tab still a thing or did Monster and RedBull and the rest kill it?
I think it was very creative of Hello Games to handle colors the way they did. We got infinite worlds and all those worlds care going to need a “look”, something if not unique to that world then at least different to the point that every twelfth planet you visit looks like that one you were on yesterday. We get atmospheric differences from planets to planets, blue sky here, yellow sky there, and all the variations for soil and plant life and everything.
What I really like is the color shifted worlds. If you’ve played for a while you’re sure to have noticed your ship looks a different shade on the local space station than it does on a planets surface. There’s also whole worlds where they seemingly started with a normal set of colors and then desaturated everything, or otherwise filtered everything.
Look at my image. I got the same jet pack trails in both, they look like “what’s on the tin” on the anomaly, but on one of the color shifted worlds, they’re yellow, like very yellow. How does anyone feel about these shifted worlds? I like them, they keep things interesting. It makes me wonder if things are set up like either sky = blue for some worlds and blue = magenta on others. Each set of rules will give you colorful worlds, doing it two different ways just adds variety.
Looks gray to me but I'm told I'm colorblind. Found it right in the cabinet on this space station in Euclid where I happened to end up after finishing my latest Nexus mission. I can't seem to figure out how to make a multi-image post so I made it a single image. Feel free to tell me a better way to share images in the future. Nothing super special, but hey gotta keep adding content to grow the community!
Thinking about it more, I think it’s maybe even bleaker. Forget the galaxy hopping for a moment. We have two modes of travel, portaling and faster than light warping. Lets say portaling is some sort of instant quantum entanglement something, but faster than light travel is going to have relativistic time dilation effects. Because we can still find the same people after a warp, everyone must be functionally immortal. Otherwise we’d have never see the same NPC twice, if we traveled by starship.
We’re for sure in a high economic disparity universe. Like we’re the 1% of the 1% living in a hopepunk wonderland and then the crews of our frigates are indentured servants living in the grimdarkest grimdark. I read all those expedition debriefs and, well, I’m glad I’m not crew. I don’t know if that qualifies as a head-cannon or if it’s just an observation. We and all the other NPC’s we encounter are for sure extremely high net worth individuals though.
I've noticed that on some missions I'm getting multiple eggs and storage enhancements and this could just be down to most of my organic frigates being tier C at this point (but gradually they're getting better) the upgrades are also tending to be tier C. The few space encounters I've had snagged an S and an A (as well as a couple C's). It's certainly slower going compared to just buying upgrades, feels more satisfying though.
Playing on Switch I don't see other players ships at all but I do wonder, how popular are living ships, like I'm sure most folks have one but are they common "daily drivers" or are they more of a have it just to have it ship?
As much of a spoiler as it is, I found out, as I know many did before me, that there’s a quick route to the center of any galaxy. No, it’s not looking up a portal address close to the center from someone who went before, it’s just spamming the first glyph at any portal. Apparently, in this golden age without portal interference, the first glyph will always drop you within a few thousand lightyears of the core. This actually made me feel more connected to the community. Playing on the Nintendo Switch I don’t get to run into players at the Nexus, so seeing all the communication stations around the portal at the other end of the jump was a fun reminder other players had gone before.