The UI of this game is bat-crap crazy, to the point where about half the time I have no idea what it is I'm supposed to do or where to go next.
I keep dipping in and out, often out when I hit a wall of non-information.
My current headscratcher is ships. I've got the original ship, because I have a hard time letting go of things and have already upgraded it... leading to two issues:
- I have no idea how to upgrade the ship any more. I've got all these purple (which seems the best, a good point) upgrade parts but it seems they can't simply upgrade the part but have to be fitted alongside it in a "technology slot"... and I don't have any spare and can't seem to find how to get some. The internet says salvage other ships. I've done about a dozen of those and it's boosted my Units balance but nothing else...
- I keep finding other ships I'd quite like to keep hold of, alongside my ship, but it seems it's one or the other. Is there no way to have a stable of ships? I've just repaired a crashed Sentinel ship which seems to be pretty spiffy (it's purple class, but has barely anything fitted) and would like to fly off in it but then my old ship just... stays on the planet full of my stuff?
The ship salvage interface is mad. Find ship, inspect ship (square), compare ship to your ship, add to collection, repair ship, fly ship. What the smeg is even the point of the compare step, and given that the new ship apparently replaces the old one and there's neither a collection nor are you adding to it, how is that "add to collection"?
Seems generally pretty and like Frontier: Elite II was in my head back when I was 16, but boy is it weird to interact with. Haven't even touched all the expeditions and ship-building and crazy crap they keep adding.
I've not really read much about the whole plot thing, except that it seems wise to just do the story first and then get into the rest of it after. The start gave me an inkling as to the general thread of it, but we'll see how we go.
When i've come across other 'abandoned' ships i've fixed them just enough for them to fly, flown them to the nearest space station and salvaged them there. You get a chunk of credits, a few high-value scrap items
(grey background icons, only good for selling) and an upgrade 'token'. Your previous ship
(usually the one you flew in to find the abandoned one, but sometimes just one of the other ones you own but only seem to exist in the ether) will now appear parked in the space station. You can then use that 'token' at the same terminal you used to salvage the abandoned ship at
(that terminal is at the very back left of the space station on the ground floor) to add a cargo slot or upgrade slot to your other ship. You can buy slots there too, but they're well expensive.
The tokens appear like this in your inventory:
I was at the Anomaly space station the other week, the only place you are likely to come across another player outside of an Expedition, i was in convo-string with one of the NPCs when i kept receiving messages that some random had given me an item
(which i wasn't aware you could do) when i'd finished i couldn't find this player, but my inventory was full of some
very high value trade items (12m credits each) When i went to sell them i had 800+m credits worth!!!
Is gifting newbs a common thing at the Anomaly in NMS?
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