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Sh3llShock Sep 11, 2019 @ 3:20pm
Question about story line *Possible Spoilers* The Purge 6/16 countdown
Hello,
Sorry for the newb question but I think I played through some of the game a little to fast over the last weekend when I had a few extra days off and now I am just a little confused. Actually, I am curious as to what is going to happen or what my options are so.

I did that part of that mission where you can choose to wipe the atlas. I did this. I ended up on a strange planet for like 10 seconds and was warped back somewhere else. I am still in Euclid. I have a mission called the Purge which says to get to the center. On the other hand, I have what seems to be some sort of count down or just a counter. Every time I warp, it goes up by 1. Right now I am at 6 out of 16. What happens when I hit 16? Does the game change me to another galaxy automatically? Am I suppose to make it to the center in 16? I keep jumping to black holes but I am still far from the center. There is no way I can make it there in 10 more jumps. Anyways, I don't mind spoilers if someone can tell me what is going on or what that count down is about? I missed some of the story line but not on purpose. For instance, on one jump, that guy hailed me over the comm and I answered it and pirates came in so i had to sit there and rush the dialogue before I died. Didn't get to really read it. He said at the end Bye friend or something like that. I think it was apollo.

Again, sorry for a basic question. I am just wondering if it is worth even to keep farming exploring Euclid when I may be transported to a new galaxy and have to start from scratch. To be honest, I have just 100 hours into the game and already have a lot of money. S class everything. I would like a new galaxy with nice planets and to start from scratch. Well, I guess a your ship and multi-tool are broken but you keep capital ships and ships etc?

Thanks!
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tkwoods Sep 11, 2019 @ 3:29pm 
Just keep exploring. The Purge gives you all the glyphs. Then you can make more choices.
Sh3llShock Sep 11, 2019 @ 3:48pm 
Originally posted by tkwoods:
Just keep exploring. The Purge gives you all the glyphs. Then you can make more choices.

Oh yeah I saw something about that. Like I earn a glyph after a jump or black hole jump. I forget. I am about to jump again. I guess it will resolve itself and if I really want to change galaxies I can always just warp to the center or black hole jump. I read about that online to some effect. I am not sure though. 70000 ly I believe is my distance right now.
Sh3llShock Sep 11, 2019 @ 3:55pm 
Well, I just did two black hole jumps. It said I went 700,000 light years but I am not much closer to the center. Galatic core is 695,470. I guess it is hit or miss with those, or I misread what it said. It is fun though. Sort of...
NMSPlayer Sep 11, 2019 @ 4:00pm 
You can do regular warps, you can warp back and forth between two star systems or continue doing what you are doing -- it's up to you. When you reach 16/16 you will be told where to go -- it's another portal - GO, don't skip this step. When the atlas interface asks you to choose between resetting the galaxy or leaving that's when you decide if you want to be sent to another galaxy. Don't choose the Red one - it's very very dangerous by comparison to the others. The Green leads you to a peaceful Galaxy with some dangers but more lush planets than others. Or you can choose to stay. Make sure before you get to that point that you HAVE A BASE in Euclid, otherwise the only way back is the long way.
Sh3llShock Sep 11, 2019 @ 5:41pm 
Originally posted by NMSPlayer:
You can do regular warps, you can warp back and forth between two star systems or continue doing what you are doing -- it's up to you. When you reach 16/16 you will be told where to go -- it's another portal - GO, don't skip this step. When the atlas interface asks you to choose between resetting the galaxy or leaving that's when you decide if you want to be sent to another galaxy. Don't choose the Red one - it's very very dangerous by comparison to the others. The Green leads you to a peaceful Galaxy with some dangers but more lush planets than others. Or you can choose to stay. Make sure before you get to that point that you HAVE A BASE in Euclid, otherwise the only way back is the long way.

Thanks. This is exactly what I needed to know. I have my main base in Euclid so I am ready for some lush green planets for real! Thanks. Appreciate it.
Arland Sep 11, 2019 @ 5:53pm 
There was an old bug that you could never get "the remembrance" or something similar if you chose to stay in current galaxy.. no idea if it has been fixed now or still same issue

I would chose to go to new galaxy just to play it safe (as Beyond update permits you to return to Euclid through teleporter anyway - as long as you have at least one base there already).
dalgo Sep 11, 2019 @ 6:00pm 
Do make a manual save just before you pass through the portal - just in case.

When you arrive in your new galaxy all of your bases in Euclid will still be available to you - but not the space stations you have visited there.

It is very important to establish a base in your new galaxy before you travel back to Euclid.
Rexxer Sep 11, 2019 @ 6:17pm 
Originally posted by Sh3llShock:
Hello,
...Right now I am at 6 out of 16. What happens when I hit 16? Does the game change me to another galaxy automatically? Am I suppose to make it to the center in 16? ...
Thanks!

The Purge quest increments by 1 up to 16 every time you warp to a new system. After 16 warps it presents a portal to, presumably, the center of the galaxy where you can choose a new galaxy. The portal can be anywhere in the Euclid galaxy, but always where you are at that moment. Like all quests you probably can reset the system where the quest portal resides, although I have not tried that.

Many do not choose to leave Euclid. There's not a whole lot of differences between the galaxies. Worse, you lose all your bases, basically your history in Euclid is purged, and you, your multitool, and the ship you left with end up thrashed to smithereens in another galaxy. Just like you began in Euclid, except likely worse since you probably have tricked out your ship and multitool with lots of upgrades. And they will all be broken...every single thing.

So if you do leave Euclid, leave in the ship you want to really want to keep, and bring tons of the types of resources you need to fix every compartment in your ship and multitool. That is why most people were less than thrilled about the conclusion of the main quest to get to the center of the galaxy. Most don't find it worth it, esp. with multiplayer, most people are in Euclid anyway. The new anomaly portal supposedly allows movement between galaxies, but I don't know if they stopped purging your stuff after you "move on". Based on what's in some of the other posts here, sounds like your bases are now safe. But you still probably will sort of regret it.

The "Purge" basically is a shortcut to the center of the galaxy, but it's also a bit of a joke since you and all your stuff not on you gets purged too. And because it whisks you away sooner than trying to warp 500 times to the center of the galaxy yourself, you are less likely to have built up an empire of bases in Euclid, so have less to lose when you purge yourself from Euclid. That's probably why many didn't want to leave Euclid originally since they may have spent hundreds of hours building bases there only to have them all left behind by moving on to another galaxy.
Last edited by Rexxer; Sep 11, 2019 @ 6:47pm
Rexxer Sep 11, 2019 @ 6:44pm 
Originally posted by Sh3llShock:
Well, I just did two black hole jumps. It said I went 700,000 light years but I am not much closer to the center. Galatic core is 695,470. I guess it is hit or miss with those, or I misread what it said. It is fun though. Sort of...

Depending on your hyperjump range (which you can upgrade with S-class hyperdrive upgrades), you may take 500 or more jumps to reach the center of the galaxy yourself, maybe half that 200 to 300 jumps with black holes. A decently upgraded hyperdrive has a range of about 2700 ly or more.

Now that you can move upgrades around it's easy to cherry pick the best upgrades. Look at each upgrade you install. Unfortunately you have to install them to find out their upgrade specs. About the most range extension I have been able to get is 250 ly per upgrade, but if you have 6 of them (3 in the tech section, 3 in inventory), and you arrange them properly, they will synergize to give you much more than the "book value" range increase. Generally you want to always make square arrangements with S-only upgrades, like the Indium drive in close proximity to 3 other S-upgrades.

If you see any low upgrade ranges, like 200 ly, buy a new hyperdrive upgrade and install it....check the stats and throw away which ever is smaller. Make sure the upgrade with the highest value is flanked by the other ones...that seems to produce the best range increase.
dalgo Sep 11, 2019 @ 8:43pm 
Originally posted by Rexxer:
Many do not choose to leave Euclid. There's not a whole lot of differences between the galaxies. Worse, you lose all your bases, basically your history in Euclid is purged...


This is not correct. I have recently changed galaxies using this mission and all my bases in Euclid are still available to me.
Rexxer Sep 11, 2019 @ 9:36pm 
Originally posted by dalgo:
Originally posted by Rexxer:
Many do not choose to leave Euclid. There's not a whole lot of differences between the galaxies. Worse, you lose all your bases, basically your history in Euclid is purged...


This is not correct. I have recently changed galaxies using this mission and all my bases in Euclid are still available to me.

As mentioned, that was more the issue before recent patches, but I read other posts after Beyond indicating that there are still some bugs with the back and forth travel between galaxies. Regardless, your ship and multitool as far as I know are still trashed when you choose to exit to another galaxy. And the original concept of the game was to purge everything, bases, changes, EVERYTHING when you switch galaxies.

Here are some cited issues others have raised about this:

"a) Teleporters in Eissentam do not register for me. Whatever system station I visit in that Galaxy I can't seem to get back through a teleporter. In Euclid I travel normaly and system teleporters are registered in my list.
b) All of my discoveries in Euclid were gone. Unfortunately I can't remember if this was before I visited Eissentam or after. "

Another said about a new galaxy:
"One thing I noticed is that recently my freighter and fleet have completely disappeared. I hope this bug is fixed (I'm on the experimental branch) I don't know if the freighter loss has anything to do with travelling between galaxies. Anyway fingers crossed they keep the ability to teleport between galaxy bases and fix the freighter bug."

Another said:
"Weird stuff. I would definitely be ♥♥♥♥♥♥ to lose all my discoveries"

And another:
"Stay in Euclid! :D"
Last edited by Rexxer; Sep 11, 2019 @ 9:54pm
dalgo Sep 11, 2019 @ 9:57pm 
There have been 17 patches since Beyond was released so maybe they fixed those bugs. All I can report is my current situation which is that I can easily teleport between my Euclid and Eissentam bases at will.

Yes I did suffer damage during the transfer between galaxies but I was able to repair most of that with material I had on hand or on my freighter. It certainly wasn't a big enough issue to prevent my making the switch and I am loving Eissentam.
Sh3llShock Sep 12, 2019 @ 5:48pm 
I appreciate the information everyone. I read up a bit since this post and it seems some people experience some bugs here and there, I am probably going to switch galaxies. I have not invested that much into Euclid. I have a base where it mainly serves to make living glass when I first login. I sell that for about 15 million, go to my capital ship. Recover my goodies. Send them back out and I would explore and do missions but now I am mainly just warping. I am at 11 out 16 on the purge countdown. Actually, I hope it isn't a bug but when i warp it says I learned for example Glyph 12 but my countdown is at 11. I know I discovered a grave on one planet before this started and got a glyph.

Anyways, I have come across a couple bugs but nothing serious. If I warp my capital ship, sometimes I can't see my 3 other ships that are stored inside. They are there, just not able to see or interact. I have to warp the capital ship again. Other than that, nothing else. One annoying thing is the freighter designs. When I repair one for example, and I go to leave I will get stuck on like the crap sticking out. Happens on planet sometimes as well at trading post. The only other major bug I experienced is once I went into the anamoly and my fighter would not land. I kept spinning up and around and people were laughing. I had to reload the save.

So, I appreciate the great information. I have not really done much multi-player missions at the Nexus. I read somewhere there was an actual community in some galaxy but idk. Seems a bit odd.
Sh3llShock Sep 13, 2019 @ 5:10pm 
Well, I am in a new galaxy and landed on a nice planet. Everything broken but I have all the materials needed to fix it all. I don't think I will go back to Euclid. The base was big but crappy. I built my main base exactly where I started in the game 100 hours ago and it was just..ugh..the only nice portion was my farming spot. Anyways, wooooooo!
tkwoods Sep 13, 2019 @ 5:24pm 
Originally posted by dalgo:
Originally posted by Rexxer:
Many do not choose to leave Euclid. There's not a whole lot of differences between the galaxies. Worse, you lose all your bases, basically your history in Euclid is purged...


This is not correct. I have recently changed galaxies using this mission and all my bases in Euclid are still available to me.

Yes, but it's a bug..(maybe) The teleport list should have been reset when you switched galaxies. The new ones don't (or didn't) into the list in the new galaxy. I've not heard if this is intended or unintended. So beware, if it is a bug and they fix it you might get messed up.
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