Best way to make money currently?

[Shadow Draxis]

Everything on youtube seems to be outdated, except for digging bones which i'm doing now. Are there any other ways? Also, best way to farm nanites?

[redbeard]

Are you just starting out? or have you been playing for some time?

If you are just starting out, storm crystals, and vortex cubes are the best way.

If you've been playing for some time, then hopefully you've been hitting up the operation centers and manufacturing facilities for blueprints. There are 2 builds from blueprints that will garner you 15 mil each when you build/sell them.

For nanites, locate all the damage machinery you can find. Also, scanning all the plants and animals and uploading those discoveries, and if you find all the animals on a planet, make sure you click on the icon in the upper right corner of your discovery page, to get a bonus nanite cluster (which is based on how many animals there are on that planet)

[Shadow Draxis]

I've finished the base building quests and built a second base on the bone planet. For the op centers, do I scan for them with the exocraft?

[Pul Myfinger]

Publicado originalmente por Shadow Draxis:

Everything on youtube seems to be outdated, except for digging bones which i'm doing now. Are there any other ways? Also, best way to farm nanites?

May or may not be best .., but easy and 'natural'

Once your suit scanner is fully upgraded, just scan plants and animals.
~74k for plants and ~100k - 500k for animals.

[OZFugazi]

Publicado originalmente por Shadow Draxis:

Everything on youtube seems to be outdated, except for digging bones which i'm doing now. Are there any other ways? Also, best way to farm nanites?

trading.. nothing else comes close.

https://www.xainesworld.com/nmsguides/trading

this guide is outdated, but the formula is the same, only difference is now you can put a base right on top of a trade post, making it much easier. the trade items and loops are the same.

if you take the time to read up and are patient enough to establish the trade route.. you can easily make 40m+ in a couple hours.

just finished my fresh start trade loop today.. started with less than 500k.. finished off 5 hours later with 37m. could have been much faster, but i enjoy building an actual base at each trade hub instead of beacon and teleporter (terminus) on the landing pad.

only need one loop.. but can do multiple and make 3 times that a session.

all you need is the ability to warp, an economy scanner installed in your starter ship, the guide linked and patience.

all the best.

[EDUARDO LUZ 🅺🆈🆄🅱🅸]

1. Buy tons of oxygen (or use oxygen harvesters)
2. Have a medium or large refiner
3. Combine chlorine + oxygen

Repeat this process for 30~25 min (or until the oxygen is gone) ... done! you did 35m~15m.

What makes it easier is to have a cargo ship and when filling up chlorine inventory, send it there ...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1702724405

[Shadow Draxis]

Ok, I did a few op center missions and unlocked the semiconductor. Does the game still have vendors that sell the raw ingredients? I need sulphurine and nitrogen or thermic condensate and nitrogen salt. Also, im doing the chlorine trick, are there others that are like this that produce a bigger pay off?

[chonwaen]

Publicado originalmente por ⚖ EDUARDO LUZ 🅺🆈🆄🅱🅸:

1. Buy tons of oxygen (or use oxygen harvesters)
2. Have a medium or large refiner
3. Combine chlorine + oxygen

Repeat this process for 30~25 min (or until the oxygen is gone) ... done! you did 35m~15m.

What makes it easier is to have a cargo ship and when filling up chlorine inventory, send it there ...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1702724405

This is a great early-game source for your first 20-40 million units.

I would then recommend system hopping and visiting stations to upgrade your exosuit slots, check to see if you can get a decent rifle (22-24 slots A class or so) and accept any scanning, photography, creature elimination and sentinel elimination missions you can from the mission npcs. Stack them up because you can complete them concurrently anywhere. Focus on the missions that give nanites as a reward, but the others are also a good source of units.

When you think you have enough missions stacked up, go do them in order of ease: Scanning/photography are the easiest overall, once you have completed most or all of those, you can turn them in for 1000-2000 nanites that you can use for exosuit and multi-tool upgrades. Its time to upgrade that rifle with 1-2 weapons of choice (mine being scatter blaster and blaze javelin) and upgrades. Spare nanites to go into shield and movement upgrades. Then you are ready to go hunting the creatures down, (most easily go spear fishing with a blaze) for more nanites to boost your exosuit shields even more. Take out the 8 or so sentinels to clear all of those missions, and you should have enough nanites to upgrade your suit fully and fill out the rest of your multitool.

Once you have completed your first batch of missions, you should have enough standing with the guilds to accept even more missions for higher rewards. Wash, rinse, repeat for more nanites.

Afterwards, its up to you whether you want to farm/gas harvest to make valuable trade goods, build up a freighter fleet, or go on a scan-fest to make your first billion units. Once you have several hundred million, most of your money troubles go away other than deciding what to spend them on.

[chonwaen]

Publicado originalmente por Shadow Draxis:

Ok, I did a few op center missions and unlocked the semiconductor. Does the game still have vendors that sell the raw ingredients? I need sulphurine and nitrogen or thermic condensate and nitrogen salt. Also, im doing the chlorine trick, are there others that are like this that produce a bigger pay off?

Refining: not really for value, but you can do the same trick with condensed carbon (harvester fuels), ionized cobalt (as you need it), and to a lesser extent sodium nitrate (also as you need it).
Another useful refining trick is to purchase a stack of platinum to be combined with oxygen. You will get 10:1 conversion to Mag Ferrite for base building if you need it.

Gasses are not sold by vendors in any reliable quantities, your best bet for gas is to have 3 gas harvesters each at bases of different biomes. Toxic and Lush for nitrogen, Desert and Scorched for sulphurine, and Frozen and Radioactive for radon. The scientist missions will unlock the gas harvesters if you haven't already done so.

A useful trick for maximizing gas efficiency is to use the refiner to process the gas for the initial step of nitrogen salt, thermic condensate, and enriched carbon instead of the stock blueprint you will eventually find. Instead of 250 gas + 50 condensed carbon per gas product that the basic blueprint will give you, you can use 100 gas +10 condensed +5 chlorine to make the same product allowing you to make 5 of the products for 500 gas instead of 2.

Gasses are the real bottleneck for advanced industry.

Oh, one last thing, be sure to rotate your sell star system for bulk sales, the chlorine trick will tank the prices for selling for a while.

[chonwaen]

Another easy-ish way to make an early million or two is to go hunting for salvaged tech, if you don't mind limiting what you research with the blueprint machine early on, each dig site will net you 100-200k units worth of tech that stacks up to 15 in each inventory slot for about 750k per inventory slot filled. You can always go out salvaging later to complete the research. I usually do this when language hunting near bases early game. Hold back a couple stacks to sell, so I can afford to build up my initial base without having to mine every rock within 1000u.

[getbent824]

Publicado originalmente por chonwaen:

Another easy-ish way to make an early million or two is to go hunting for salvaged tech, if you don't mind limiting what you research with the blueprint machine early on, each dig site will net you 100-200k units worth of tech that stacks up to 15 in each inventory slot for about 750k per inventory slot filled. You can always go out salvaging later to complete the research. I usually do this when language hunting near bases early game. Hold back a couple stacks to sell, so I can afford to build up my initial base without having to mine every rock within 1000u.

This is fine, unless nanites become more important than units. Put salvaged tech in a medium/large refiner for sweet nanite production. Also, pugneum refines to nanites, so if you're killing lots of sentinels and don't need the units, refine 'em.

Also, repeat the above tip about storm crystals. If you have proper protection and max movement and can find a very stormy planet with crystals, it's the best way to make easy money. Just clear out your freighter and/or starship and fill them up with crystals. Came home with 320 crystals, after less than 2 hours for ~50 million, as well as 5 stacks of salvaged tech that I dug up between storms. But like people say, everyone has a favorite way to make easy money.

[Johnny in the Clouds]

Starting out you probably need recipes but visit Polo at least once each day and the Gek will give you a FREE tech upgrade (for your daily scan data). Then sell the tech for Nanites at the Space Station. Also begin doing the Space Station missions for reputation and more Nanites. With those Nanites you can buy the S-class upgrades that you DO want. With more reputation there are more opportunities for lucrative rewards. Also it is worth raiding depots (find using the exocar) for their resources you can sell or combine (if you have the recipe) into lucrative items.

[Tim]

Like somebody already said the best way is to find an extreme planet and gather storm crystals. You can make 30 million in less than an hour if you do it right. I have a base on an extreme planet just for the sole purpose of gathering storm crystals when I'm low on money. Farming takes a long time. So does all the other suggestions. The fastest easiest way to make money is storm crystals.

[Isme]

Okay, I'm in on the storm crystals. I have several extremely stormy planets. But. How do I harvest ice crystals? Do they grow? Are they in the air? Caves?

[Pul Myfinger]

Publicado originalmente por Isme:

Okay, I'm in on the storm crystals. I have several extremely stormy planets. But. How do I harvest ice crystals? Do they grow? Are they in the air? Caves?

Wait for storm. If they are on planet, they will glow bright white. Can't miss 'um.
I think they show up on the scanner as a gold colored lightning bolt in a diamond-shaped frame.

[Corvus]

Load up on launch fuel and just fly around during the storm. They're bright white crystals, only visible during the storm. I usually don't land unless there are 3+ crystals. A lot of clusters have a full stack (x5) of crystals which sells for almost 1m.

And if you can collect about 10-20 per minute... 60-120m/hr isn't bad (if you find a planet that's always storming... The planet I farm has a storm about every 3-5 min. But it gets boring, so I usually get 5-10 stacks or so and move on.)