I need to do the pH, black hole, and hostile planet, and then I’m done.

Right now I’m just trying to finish the Expedition so I can get back to Starfield. 😅

I noticed that too. The first animal I scanned was 2.7 and it’s only recorded higher values from there.

This Expedition has been kind of annoying and the rewards aren’t even that good. 🤷‍♂️

I didn’t realize it had been released. I’ll have to start it when I get home.

Honestly, the rewards don’t look that great, but that’s mostly because the new content in the Echoes update was so good.

Agreed. I have tried equipping ships with a Ballista for shields and Infra Knife for hull, but honestly, it’s just easier to punch through with the Infra Knife.

Maybe it’s just in my head but I feel like the Photon Canon got better when they introduced Interceptors.

A maxed Positron Ejector used to be the way to go. You could actually kill pirates as they were warping into the system by shooting at the general area. Fights were over before they even started. Then with one of the major updates, they “re-balanced” the weapons and a maxed out Infra Knife now shreds everything in no time. I keep Rockets around as a finishing blow or a strong opening to weaken enemy shields.

I just finished reading the audiobook. Overall I really liked it, but that’s partially colored by the fact that I’m a fan of the Cyberpunk universe.

A couple, non-spoiler comments regarding the book.

• It’s not clear when this takes place in the timeline. It could be before, after, or during the Cyberpunk 2077 game. I’m not sure that it matters.
• The way the book jumps between characters can be confusing. Cherami Leigh does do voices for the different characters but they are not very distinct. When the perspective jumps to a new character, it can take a moment to realize it.
• Since there is no single protagonist, you don’t really form a connection with any particular character. They each have their own reasons and motivations but none of them really stand out.
• There are references to some minor people and places in the game. While the fanservice is cool, it does make Night City feel a little small. What are the odds that the characters of the book are in the same places, talking to the same people as the game? Luckily it doesn’t happen all the time.
• I think the connection to one or more storylines in the game is possible but tenuous. There are similarities but nothing direct.

Once my original save got to the endgame, I spent a lot of time maxing out my money, freighter, bases, etc. and contributing to the glyph exchange subreddits. After a while I stopped playing but would check back in after a major update. I didn’t really play again seriously until the expeditions started. It’s the game I often go back to when I don’t have something else to play.

The possible class of the freighter is tied to the system’s economy. Same goes for the class of the ships you’ll find in the system.

https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Economy

If you want an S-Class freighter (or ship), you need to be in a T3 or Black Market economy.

I’d recommend reading this guide on finding Capital Freighters: https://www.reddit.com/r/NMSGlyphExchange/comments/zmpc8w/how_to_acquire_capital_freighters_from_member/

System Freighters are easier to find since they’re just flying around the system. They are also generally smaller than Capital Freighters when you get them, but they can be upgraded with Bulkheads just the same.

Yeah I loved the book and the movie is a guilty pleasure of mine.

Kobold+ Fight Club

https://koboldplus.club/

I always liked having karma around as a personal metric, but I never actually looked at anyone else’s or went farming for it. So I think it should be added but not made a determining factor by default. If someone wants to look at someone else’s karma as an evaluation, that’s their choice.

Probably more important than Karma, Lemmy needs flair or tagging for posts to help with categorization and searching.

In addition to that, Lemmy (and Mastodon) eventually needs algorithmic choice. This is one place where the Fediverse falls short compared to BlueSky. A chronological feed of everything is a good place to start but let me decide what I want to view and how I want to view it. For example, if I am person that cares about karma, let me weight that so people with higher karma show up higher on my feed.

You build bases for different reasons. If you’re building some kind of farm (mineral, stasis device, nanite, etc.), then your focus is less about how it looks and more about making the best farm. After all you only get 3000 parts maximum if you want the base to be uploadable. A shack with a trade terminal and a portal is perfectly fine in that case.

I’ve actually never played in creative mode but it would be a good way to figure out a couple of quirks in building. The parts under Large Structures are pretty much interchangeable. They work the same ratios and can be put together in different configurations without many issues. The Timber, Stone, and Alloy Structures work on a different ratio than the Large Structures. While it’s easy to hang one off the other, if you want something cohesive, there are only certain combinations that result in valid connections and line up.

LOL. We all have to start somewhere. Honestly some people turn off snap placement and make some crazy works of art. That’s not me. My builds tend to be practical and fairly straightforward. I’ve just learned to deal with the quirkiness of the construction system, and keep expanding through trial and error.