So about those Navigator insight points...

[TheBattleForUranus]

So I've been wandering around trying to get more NIP so I can actually open a path to a planet I need to get to (need 3, have 1 NIP). Been stuck on 1 NIP for a couple hours now, so am I just not going to be able to finish the game or do I have to buy NIP from somebody?

[Draken]

Apparently you can get them from random warp events.

[Khloros]

find a dangerous and or deadly warp path, jump back and forth between it until you get an event where you can trust the navigator, and you get like 2 or 3 insight points.

TBH dont ever bother with making routes safe or even unsafe, the worst you will have to deal with on a deadly or dangerous is you might have to fight some demons in the ship. Its a none issue.

[Balekai]

Navigator Insight points can be farmed from yellow lanes. There's an event that deals with Cassia in which with a check I think she gets some.

[TheBattleForUranus]

Originally posted by Khloros:

find a dangerous and or deadly warp path, jump back and forth between it until you get an event where you can trust the navigator, and you get like 2 or 3 insight points.

TBH dont ever bother with making routes safe or even unsafe, the worst you will have to deal with on a deadly or dangerous is you might have to fight some demons in the ship. Its a none issue.

So I guess I've just been unlucky? I've been doing the "jump back and forth on yellow route" thing for a couple of hours. I've had a few encounters where I had to fight but I'm not getting any NIP.

This mechanic sucks.

I wish I would've known how rare the NIP was before I started making all routes safe.

[Khloros]

No, go to orange or red.
Almost nothing ever happens on unsafe routes.

[TheBattleForUranus]

Ah gotcha. I'll give that a shot then.

[Nether]

Also don't quote me on this, but I THINK the game opens up routes when the plot requires you to go to the couple of unconnected systems.
I didn't pay too much attention because I had already connected those, but I believe a new red route spawned.

[Echoside7]

Originally posted by Nether:

Also don't quote me on this, but I THINK the game opens up routes when the plot requires you to go to the couple of unconnected systems.
I didn't pay too much attention because I had already connected those, but I believe a new red route spawned.

I've only seen it do this for MQ areas not the optional side areas. I ran out of NP and would have soft locked myself out progression but the game spawned a black route to the area I needed to go to at the system closest to the cluster.

[rakshasa72]

The Orange paths seem to work best for "Farming" Np.

[Nether]

Oh, yes - with 'plot' I was talking about main quest areas, game has no mercy if you lock yourself out of side-quest zones.

[corisai]

Originally posted by Nether:

game has no mercy if you lock yourself out of side-quest zones.

Actually it does - orange/red ways could provide additional Navigator insights. And without cheating you're unable to turn whole map into green one.

[Mr.Hmm]

Only routes you should make safe are the ones that directly lead to your Colonies, the rest are fine as they are.

[Nether]

In addition to the safe routes with Dargonus at the center (because of course I did that), I liked making just about every path I regularly took unsafe.

It's not a huge investment of resources if you do it smartly, and almost as good as safe.

Combat in warp encounters kind of managed to be both annoying and unrewarding, so I just avoided as much of it as possible.

[pascal.difolco]

Originally posted by Balekai:

Navigator Insight points can be farmed from yellow lanes. There's an event that deals with Cassia in which with a check I think she gets some.

This
I mostly use yellow routes and pretty quickly have amassed like 13 IP, making navigation easy, I just use them to get a couple green return lanes and change to yellow some oranges ones where I want to go

[TheBattleForUranus]

Originally posted by Khloros:

No, go to orange or red.
Almost nothing ever happens on unsafe routes.

So I've been doing nothing but orange and red now. Not only have I not gotten any more NIP's, I actually lost one, lol. This is ridiculous, think it's time for a break.