Any tips on making units early game?

[Tanya_Von_Onette.ttv]

A little tangent first: That's a terrible name for a currency, what's wrong with good old "Credits"? Bah whatever.

Backstory (Can skip)
So I'm pretty early in the game, Got a small 3x3 house, a nice ship (Traded up from the starter) and found a second one from a distress signal and managed to repair it just enough to bring it around with me! Now though I need a place to store this while I slowly repair it. I know about freighters but the only one I've met is 13mill! I just broke 1 mill!

Actual request (Don't skip)
So any advice on making units early on? So far my best find is the pearls from humming eggs but they aren't that common and well sentinels have already buried me alive once and when trying to pre-emptively dig my hidey hole just in case I end up blowing the eggs up. So, any advice?

I hear "Farming" is a good way to make some but I've no clue how to do that, I've got a little flower pot cloche but that's about all I have that could count as "farming" implement.

[tkwoods]

Terrain manipulateor and ancient ruins... Find the buried treasure

[Defektiv]

Set up a farm, run missions or buy S Scanner mods and make credits exploring and discovering. You could try trading with NPCs but I am not sure how functional that economy is for that task as I don't really get into trading for profit. Freighter wrecks and expeditions can get you a couple mil maybe but are extra hassle.

[SickTag]

ruins, freighter missions, whispering eggs if you are brave

[PiTCHBLaCK]

Loot and detroy cargo ships, run to space station when shields are half, repeat. make millions.

[Jonathan Sensei]

Missions are a good way to get some easy units early on.

Scan ten plants for 50K+ units? Works for me.

Kill ten creatures for a few items worth 100K+ units? Sure, why not?

And the best part is you can have more then one mission at a time so you can really pile on the rewards.

[Tanya_Von_Onette.ttv]

I am far from brave. Stopping all things and freezing like a dear in the headlights whenever a sentinel starts paying attention to me and terrain manipulating under all dangerous fauna so I don't need to get close. So so whispering eggs can go fluff themselves I'll stick to the humming ones thank you!

[SevSaint]

Farming making 20mil a day with a small base. Can make more if i want to invest more time, but initial set up is costly. Do your science missions first for blue prints to make stuff and then do your farming to get materials to make. In a few hours a day you can make millions.

[Woogie71]

Go to galactic trade network
Buy 1000 ferrite dust+600 oxygen (cost~40K)
Craft 20 antimatter housing
Sell housings on GTN (for~120K)
Repeat until GTN runs out of one of those commodities
Take portal to another station
Repeat until bored

[Jonny Sparta]

the wispering eggs arn't too hard once you figure out some tricks to outsmart the little buggers, pop one egg, they spawn, goto other side of building until they finally make it around, goto other side of building, repeat

[Acamar]

Originally posted by tkwoods:

Terrain manipulateor and ancient ruins... Find the buried treasure

There are treasures under ruins ?

[Lucius Confucius]

I can only agree with farming. Do the base missions from the farmer and scientist, then set up a circuit board farm on your freighter. 2x rows of 4x hydroponic trays. Enjoy your 2mil basic income every two hours. (Time also lapses out of game, so every time you login after having been off for more than two hours, a new harvest will be ready.)

Never harvest for resources planetside ever again, just buy all you need from now on. It's now that the game begins, you are free. Free to explore the universe on your mobile base.

[Arson]

Originally posted by Acamar:

Originally posted by tkwoods:

Terrain manipulateor and ancient ruins... Find the buried treasure

There are treasures under ruins ?

Yes, use your scanner when near the ruins

[$mokey]

the real trick is to drop a base computer near whispering eggs. Build four walls around a grouping of eggs. Boost on top of the walls or a nearby building. Mine one egg and the buggers spawn. They'll clip outside of the walls most of the time. Just hop inside the walls and start mining and collecting the lavar cores! You might have to kill one or two you can do it with a basic boltcaster. Easy money.

[eldiabs]

In addition to farming, once you've completed a few simple base tasks you'll have access to some extremely valuable blueprints. The circuit board in particular is worth over 1.2 million credits. It takes 4 different ingredients, but they can all be easily bought from just about any on planet trade station by talking with pilots when their ships land. Or you can go a bit further in the base quest chain and build landing pads on your own base. That way the pilots come to you with all of the ingredients you'll need. Much faster than farming as there are only a handful of initial startup costs compared to getting a productive farm going.

There is also the abandoned building location with millions worth of credits in those egg things. Just drop and jump from the roof down one at a time. The ruins mentioned by others are hit and miss. Usually you'll get 130 - 200K seed things. The more profitable items are rare.

Personally I've been doing everything. It's more fun to just let things organically play out instead of pursuing credits like crazy. The base quest lines are actually pretty fun.

[Acamar]

Originally posted by Arson:

Originally posted by Acamar:

There are treasures under ruins ?

Yes, use your scanner when near the ruins

You mean the scanner with "c" on foot ? i dont have any upgrades on it will i still see the treasures ?