No Man's Sky - Interceptor

[gospvg]

10 minutes ago, deKay said:

 

Silly @gospvg

 

Not sure it gives you any benefit though, I seem to be able to get to any star system I want at the moment with just the theta drive installed.

@dood ??

[Not Thread Owner]

16 minutes ago, gospvg said:

 

Omegon was hard to find, I got it from crashed ships or just buy it from vendors. You only need 50.

 

I was farming it on a planet the other day. Sold 1000 of it!

[gospvg]

8 minutes ago, deKay said:

 

I was farming it on a planet the other day. Sold 1000 of it!

 

I think I got some once by accident, was it from a plant?

[robdood]

@gospvgYour max jump range will combine.

 

Can't remember exact numbers.  Let's just say each drive is 100, 200, 300 LY jump.  Those numbers will add up if you have all three.  And you get a bonus of 20% if they are in adjacent slots. 

[Not Thread Owner]

9 minutes ago, gospvg said:

 

I think I got some once by accident, was it from a plant?

 

No, from a rock! Lots of rocks! All over the planet! Also, if you feed animals they sometimes find you some.

[gospvg]

10 minutes ago, dood said:

@gospvgYour max jump range will combine.

 

Can't remember exact numbers.  Let's just say each drive is 100, 200, 300 LY jump.  Those numbers will add up if you have all three.  And you get a bonus of 20% if they are in adjacent slots. 

 

Thanks that will be very useful after I finish the atlas path for my journey to the centre. Will install the other two this evening.

[JPickford]

11 minutes ago, dood said:

@gospvgYour max jump range will combine.

 

Can't remember exact numbers.  Let's just say each drive is 100, 200, 300 LY jump.  Those numbers will add up if you have all three.  And you get a bonus of 20% if they are in adjacent slots. 

Not sure it really matters much.   There's nowhere to actually go.   All you are doing by jumping further is exploring systems that are further apart and skipping more of them.

[Davros sock drawer]

Ah, thanks guys. I don't bother with crashed ships - the chances of me finding one that looks better than mine is slim to none, and you only get 1 extra slot at best.

[gospvg]

9 minutes ago, deKay said:

 

No, from a rock! Lots of rocks! All over the planet! Also, if you feed animals they sometimes find you some.

 

Don't bother with feeding animals, only seem to find a small amount of a rare material. All rocks I have been shooting have been just iron.

Which leads me to another question, I have done lots of space battles now & I have all 4 deflector shields installed.

 

How do you recharge your shields? Do you build shielding plates, shards etc & keep a stock or just use raw iron like I do?

[Davros sock drawer]

9 minutes ago, JPickford said:

Not sure it really matters much.   There's nowhere to actually go.   All you are doing by jumping further is exploring systems that are further apart and skipping more of them.

 

I'm sure that earlier in the game there were specific types of star that the game told me I needed certain warp drives to even travel to.

 

I'm still puzzled by the Star colour hierarchy. "The Internet" seems convinced that you'll find lusher planets with more interesting stuff and rarer materials, but my first Blue system didn't bear that out. Then I went to another one and it did indeed seem to have several quite diverse planets, and Vortex Cubes/Gravitino Balls etc all over the shop. I suppose it's still a dice roll, but there's a greater chance of rolling a six? Hard to visit enough systems to test really.

[Not Thread Owner]

12 minutes ago, gospvg said:

 

Don't bother with feeding animals, only seem to find a small amount of a rare material. All rocks I have been shooting have been just iron.

Which leads me to another question, I have done lots of space battles now & I have all 4 deflector shields installed.

 

How do you recharge your shields? Do you build shielding plates, shards etc & keep a stock or just use raw iron like I do?

 

You only get iron from rocks?! I've had all sorts - gold, emeril, aluminium, nickel, copper, heridium, all the rare stuff too.

 

I recharge shields with titanium or zinc, whichever I have most of at the time - you can't with iron and building plates is just a pain.

[JPickford]

10 minutes ago, Davros sock drawer said:

 

I'm sure that earlier in the game there were specific types of star that the game told me I needed certain warp drives to even travel to.

 

I'm still puzzled by the Star colour hierarchy. "The Internet" seems convinced that you'll find lusher planets with more interesting stuff and rarer materials, but my first Blue system didn't bear that out. Then I went to another one and it did indeed seem to have several quite diverse planets, and Vortex Cubes/Gravitino Balls etc all over the shop. I suppose it's still a dice roll, but there's a greater chance of rolling a six? Hard to visit enough systems to test really.

 

Yeah I think you need the higher drives to access the different coloured stars.   I was more referring to jump distance stacking when you have multiple drives which is fairly pointless as there's no meaningful reason to head to a specific destination more quickly.

[Davros sock drawer]

Ah, gotcha!

 

Going back quickly might be a reason I suppose, if there was a particular planet you wanted to return to. But the game makes it next to impossible to do that.

 

[gospvg]

18 minutes ago, deKay said:

 

You only get iron from rocks?! I've had all sorts - gold, emeril, aluminium, nickel, copper, heridium, all the rare stuff too.

 

I recharge shields with titanium or zinc, whichever I have most of at the time - you can't with iron and building plates is just a pain.

 

Sorry yes I meant the smaller rocks I have only gotten iron. I never use Zinc it is rare to find, you can recharge shields with Iron it is what I use all the time.

[Not Thread Owner]

13 minutes ago, gospvg said:

 

Sorry yes I meant the smaller rocks I have only gotten iron. I never use Zinc it is rare to find, you can recharge shields with Iron it is what I use all the time.

 

ZInc is everywhere for me. I've 2000-odd units of it, and usually end up selling some just to make space. You certainly can't recharge environmental shields with iron - and if you just keep them topped up your other shields never need recharging.

[gospvg]

7 minutes ago, deKay said:

 

ZInc is everywhere for me. I've 2000-odd units of it, and usually end up selling some just to make space. You certainly can't recharge environmental shields with iron - and if you just keep them topped up your other shields never need recharging.

 

Sorry no not environmental shields, the deflector shields on the starship.

[Not Thread Owner]

Oh. Not needed to recharge those yet.

[gospvg]

7 minutes ago, deKay said:

Oh. Not needed to recharge those yet.

 

Oh! you will  Trust me.

[robdood]

28 minutes ago, JPickford said:

 

Yeah I think you need the higher drives to access the different coloured stars.   I was more referring to jump distance stacking when you have multiple drives which is fairly pointless as there's no meaningful reason to head to a specific destination more quickly.

Except for when you want to just get to the centre, that is.  

[JPickford]

Sure but there's no reward for doing that so it's pointless.

[Not Thread Owner]

21 minutes ago, JPickford said:

Sure but there's no reward for doing that so it's pointless.

 

Spoilers!

 

Getting there is reward itself.

[Not Thread Owner]

53 minutes ago, gospvg said:

 

Oh! you will  Trust me.

 

Not if my pirate shooting skills remain as awesome as they currently are!

[gospvg]

I made a quick video showing off my final ship then, the 48 slots Hizentsu S54 aka the Millennium Falcon (named by my daughter). 

 

 

Question on the atlas path (spoiler below)

 

Spoiler

Are the atlas stone's linked to your milestone rank? I have 10 on most categories except survival, exploration & zooology. Should I get these upto 10 before continuing on the atlas path?

 

[Not Thread Owner]

You can't access the stones unless you're a certain rank (increasing for each one). You can get maximum rank without maxing all your milestones though - not sure when but I was maxed when on 65.

 

EDIT: Max rank is Galileo at 55.

[Rev]

17 minutes ago, gospvg said:

I made a quick video showing off my final ship then, the 48 slots Hizentsu S54 aka the Millennium Falcon (named by my daughter). 

 

 

Question on the atlas path (spoiler below)

 

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Are the atlas stone's linked to your milestone rank? I have 10 on most categories except survival, exploration & zooology. Should I get these upto 10 before continuing on the atlas path?

 

 

Spoiler: I don't think it makes any difference. In that I have no idea what milestone rank I'm at (probably 6 or 7 on most things, roughly) and I finished off the Atlas stuff.

[gospvg]

Ok thanks I do want to get a rank 10 in the others so will get on those after I have completed the atlas path.

[Tomdominer]

14 hours ago, K said:

 

I think he is - the site lists EA, Bethesda, Gearbox, Respawn, etc as his clients. 

 

Good to know someone has some sense. Shame it isn't some beloved indie developers trying to make a splash, but hey ho.

[TehStu]

Giving this another go, thought I'd work my way up ships on a planet that wasn't awful. So I warp and go looking for one in the next system. First is a moon with -90c storms, the next is a planet with 32sv extreme rad storms. I have titanium up the whazoo, so may stay here for a bit. I'm right in thinking extreme radiation storm means it counts toward survival discovery, right? It didn't budge the needle from 4.4 after an hour, but I assume it's still "bugged" and needs to be done on one planet, so it's probably way back down on 1.0 internally.

[Gorf King]

Afaik it has to be a continuous 32 sol period of extremity, so the storms tipping it into that alone won't do - the planet would need to be 'extreme' at all times, not just when the storms hit.

[Rowan Morrison]

Terrible news! I left this for the best part of two weeks due to going on holiday, and when I tried to pick up where I left off the other night, I couldn't get my groove back at all. I flew around for a bit, hopped a few planets, mined some gold, but it all left me a bit meh. I was halfway through mining a big chunk of gold and I just thought wait, why am I bothering with this? It'll make me about 1% richer and won't get me any closer the next spaceship price. It'll just get me attacked by pirates. So I stopped. Then I went into a building and found two blueprints that I already had (of course), a multi-tool that was worse than the one I had (they all are, now) and a cube that gave me just over 200 units (not even equivalent to me finding a penny in real life).

 

Everything I did was pointless, basically. Pointless is fine if you have fun in the process, but I didn't. I had a bad run of rocky planets and dull creatures, which I'm sure didn't help, but I came away cold. I found myself annoyed at having to recharge my launch thrusters. I was surprised by how glaring the texture pop-in was when flying around. I don't know what it means, but it doesn't bode well. I couldn't get past the half-baked game mechanics to the (sometimes elusive) beauty of the engine. So my advice to anyone enjoying the game, as I certainly was, is to keep playing it regularly. Sorry, Davros! I'll try again.