Mission Progression for New Player

[GeminiBrian]

I recently started playing NMS and totally love it. However, I am now on my sixth start, a few of which have 10-12 hours in them before realizing mistakes and deciding it would be better to restart.

On my current game, I have just finished Awakenings and am doing Anomaly. I learned the hard way, for my play style, not to start the Expanding The Base secondary mission right away since the system I started in was not where I wanted to make a base. I read somewhere that it is good to finish Artemis before starting Expanding The Base (generally, given that you can play the game any way you want).

SO, what are your thoughts on primary mission completion before starting Expanding The Base?

[NMSPlayer]

Ok, Here goes LOL I have a save that is 330 hrs, one that is 60 hrs, one that is 40 some hrs, and two new saves 6 hrs and 3 hrs -- I have 2000 hrs in the game -- But my current saves only come up to 440 -- :D You are doing fine. I love the start of the game so I tend to play that bit thru a lot also.

I would actually recommend that you do base building missions -- The Overseer, scientist, armourer, farmer and exocraft guy first before you do Artemis -- here's the reason why -- There are parts of the Artemis missoin which will require you to be strong, agile, well equiped etc. The beginning is easy but as you go thru the missions of Artemis, the First Traveler and The Purge you're going to find yourself in some tight spots. Also, the Purge ends -- sometimes in another Galaxy and having the equipement and power to deal wth and the inventory is helpful.

[dashiichi]

Good advice above. You can also start the Artemis quest but slow-walk it while you do other things, if you prefer.

Your first base to do the base building missions does not need to be a forever base. You can always dismantle it later -- or just leave it there, since you can claim multiple bases all over the galaxy. If you do decide to remove it then you will get back all of the material that went into constructing it (just be sure to have enough suit storage when you tear things down).

Actually, I'd recommend that any initial base be as simple and "just thrown together" as you can stand. The elaborate bases you may see in screen captures won't become possible until you unlock many other base building parts, so don't go nuts trying to be too elaborate.

In the meantime, once you have the Terrain Manipulator grab all of the Buried Technology items that you see. They're an excellent source of units early on before you get serious about bases and are mandatory to feed the Blueprint Analyzer to unlock the additional base building blueprints.

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by Bristuhan:

I recently started playing NMS and totally love it. However, I am now on my sixth start, a few of which have 10-12 hours in them before realizing mistakes and deciding it would be better to restart.

On my current game, I have just finished Awakenings and am doing Anomaly. I learned the hard way, for my play style, not to start the Expanding The Base secondary mission right away since the system I started in was not where I wanted to make a base. I read somewhere that it is good to finish Artemis before starting Expanding The Base (generally, given that you can play the game any way you want).

SO, what are your thoughts on primary mission completion before starting Expanding The Base?

Once you have the antimatter BP and can make warp cells, Start the base building quests. They give you storage containers and other helpful BP's.

[Guh~hey~hey~♫]

awww... another compulsive restarter.
Myself I restarted around 20 times before sticking to my current save, everytime I was finding out how to do something more efficiently I was compulsed into restarting untill I reached a point on the game learning curve where I was feeling kinda confortable... doesnt mean I dont feel like starting over from time to time still...
Gambare, once you jump to the next galaxy it feel like a restarting but without loosing all your stuff and progress, just aim for that when you feel like restarting again...

but beware before jumping to the next galaxy because...
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1624653194
That's for the starship you were using when jumping, and same for your exosuit and MT...
(aka do it with a ship without any upgrades in the main inventory and filled with stacks of tech modules)

[=TCR= Big_Red]

I would like to just turn off all these missions and just play a lone Rebel.

[NMSPlayer]

Originally posted by =TCR= Big_Red:

I would like to just turn off all these missions and just play a lone Rebel.

you only need to follow awakenings thru the third warp jump -- then you can just do whatever you want :) the awakenings mission is the only way to get the hyperdrive and the way to fuel it. (*without the save editor -- can't believe i have to say that :( )

[Mr. Bufferlow]

1500 hours in, and i would just tell you to relax and have fun. The missions do provide some perks, but the original game had no missions and we got along dandy. A basic ship, fully upgraded is pretty much all you need. The + ships are just to make you feel good when you can finally get that 'one'. Unless you are a very odd duck, you will want to pursue the missions...as noted, the perks are pretty worthwhile.

Inventory is a big plus..so any opportunity to increase your slots is a pretty good bet. But play the game, don't let the game play you. At the core, it is just about exploring and learning what works, what does not..and knowing it is designed with the same attitude you might have had on the school yard as a kid doing recess. Skeptical is not a good attitude in this game. It is amazing, just let that happen naturally.

Enjoy the complications, but if your current desire starts to feel oppressive, just go explore and have fun. It is a sandbox game, just an awesomely huge sandbox to play in.

[GeminiBrian]

Thank you for all the replies. I think I'm starting to find a good groove between completing the missions and just exploring. I'm currently doing the Expanding The Base missions and parts of Artemis as they become convenient. I'm also just warping around ... gotta get those nanites.

[shsrpr]

I’m finding that to be the best bet for me as well. I’ve restarted many times, I’ve played through much of the Artemis missions without doing any of the base building missions or accessing a freighter, barely knew they were there. This play through I’ve started some of the Artemis things, haven’t gotten to Apollo yet, but mostly focusing on the base building missions, and crawling thru Artemis, and having a much better time at it.

Also, I wish there was a mode that was more aggressive like Survival/Permadeath, but with the increased inventory space available in Normal/Creative. It’s obnoxiously small in those modes, 250/500 vs 9999, c’mon.