Anomaly Where are you ???

[sunburstsports]

OK. I started a new adventure. Im not new to NMS, but decided to start fresh. Doing fine until I hit a small roadblock. Im to find the Anomaly in space to buy a geo craft. I know the routine. I hit the "X" key but the anomaly is NOT listed. NO ICON to activate . Is it possible there may be an ICON floating around in space I need to find rather than the Icon on my "X" key in my Starship
??? Any hints will be gladly accepted. Thanks.

[Rexxer]

If you are at the start of the game, the Anomaly may not be available yet. The Anomaly is NOT accessible until you speak with Artemis, since Artemis says she knows someone named Nada and she wants you to speak with him. And VOILA! The Anomaly appears just in time so you can talk to Nada. Thereafter you can summon the Anomaly anywhere.

In order to speak to Artemis, you must first encounter her crashed ship. That is all part of the starter quests.

[Dirak2012]

You have to follow the tutorial.

[Doom]

Originally posted by sunburstsports:

OK. I started a new adventure. Im not new to NMS, but decided to start fresh. Doing fine until I hit a small roadblock. Im to find the Anomaly in space to buy a geo craft. I know the routine. I hit the "X" key but the anomaly is NOT listed. NO ICON to activate . Is it possible there may be an ICON floating around in space I need to find rather than the Icon on my "X" key in my Starship
??? Any hints will be gladly accepted. Thanks.

It will show up if you start following artemis quest.

Takes a couple of hours to get there.

And yeah, following tutorial for a bit will land you at the anomaly.

[Rexxer]

Originally posted by Doom:

Takes a couple of hours to get there.

From the very start, maybe. If the OPer already has his hyperdrive, the very next stop after picking up the antimatter bp at a monolith is going to be Artemis' crashed ship. 10 mins max at that stage if you don't wander around first.

The first time you take to space after picking up the antimatter bp at a monolith will automatically start the Awakenings quest. You get a signal which is Artemis' crashed ship, (which you should claim for yourself, btw, but don't bother to repair it unless it's really good, just return to your starting ship, find a good space station with ships you want, then sell your starter ship which yanks the crashed ship in, then exchange the crashed ship for a nice ship landing on the station). There may be other intervening quests from the base computer and so on to build a signal processor and finding a drop pod, but you can ignore them if you want. Awakenings is what you want.

After you finish poking around the crashed ship, clearing that signal quest, the very next time you launch into space Artemis will contact you and ask you get info about her situation from Nada. But of course you don't know who he is, so somehow Artemis causes the Anomaly to suddenly warp in dead on in front of you. Subtle, huh?

Thereafter, the Anomaly will always be available for your use. At that point you can keep on the quests to get free blueprints or just take all the salvage data you dug up wandering around and start buying your essential blueprints all by yourself, without help from the quests.

Here's an example of an exchange I did for Artemis' ship in one game. In this game I was doing it for a speed run, hence "the first 15 min". There are ways you can actually get this done in vanilla NMS and do so that fast without taking the 1 or 2 hours as mentioned by the previous poster:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2186682118

[Harry]

Erm, I never go from A to B, always zig zag in games and I to started the Normal mode eventually after hours of creative and I had no Anomily for a looooong time.

However I have still mananged to avoid doing the Artemis bit and one day the Anomily was available.

But I am still banned from missions in there at present. Not that I am missing them.

Hope that helps a bit. I have no idea what I did to access the thing though... :(

[Rexxer]

Originally posted by Harry:

Erm, I never go from A to B, always zig zag in games and I to started the Normal mode eventually after hours of creative and I had no Anomily for a looooong time.

However I have still mananged to avoid doing the Artemis bit and one day the Anomily was available.

But I am still banned from missions in there at present. Not that I am missing them.

Hope that helps a bit. I have no idea what I did to access the thing though... :(

Since NMS often provides different ways to do things (example, quest for blueprints vs. buy them direct), it may be there's an alternative trigger for the appearance of the Anomaly, maybe some multiplayer entree to the thing. As an analogy, I can think of an alternative route for the space station: it is always there in space, but it is unlabeled until you build and power up a base teleporter as part of a base computer quest. If you go into space prior to that, and you search around, you can find it on your own prior to it being labeled.

Or you simply blew through the conversation with Artemis, quickly forgetting it, as it is boring and not very memorable.

[sunburstsports]

Ok. Here is the update with me. I did finally find the damn thing. At least where it was located. I took all the suggestions and tried them all. It ended up being in a star system of the wrong color. Had to build to many things to even outfit my star ship, to even get there. My guess is that I just fooled around doing to many other things, that I waited too long to follow the correct course. So, I deleted the game and will start over and follow the instructions without question. TY everyone.

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by sunburstsports:

Ok. Here is the update with me. I did finally find the damn thing. At least where it was located. I took all the suggestions and tried them all. It ended up being in a star system of the wrong color. Had to build to many things to even outfit my star ship, to even get there. My guess is that I just fooled around doing to many other things, that I waited too long to follow the correct course. So, I deleted the game and will start over and follow the instructions without question. TY everyone.

That does not make any sense at all... You can't see the Anomaly unless you can summon it.
I'm not sure what is actually happening here.

You also do not need to delete the game, just start a new save.

[sunburstsports]

UPDATE. I'm up and going with the Anomaly. To Answer TKWOODS remark. I found on the star map the location (i think of Artimis). However, it was way far away in a system of a different color that my star ship was NOT able to travel to. Not even sure at this point it had anything to do with the quest. However, In the end, I made it. TY again everyone for the HELP.

[Rexxer]

Originally posted by sunburstsports:

UPDATE. I'm up and going with the Anomaly. To Answer TKWOODS remark. I found on the star map the location (i think of Artimis). However, it was way far away in a system of a different color that my star ship was NOT able to travel to. Not even sure at this point it had anything to do with the quest. However, In the end, I made it. TY again everyone for the HELP.

It used to be community missions could be done outside of the Anomaly which made it possible to get quest lines stuck in distant unreachable star systems. I did that once and ended up traveling half the galaxy to rejoin the Artemis quest. Not sure how it would happen today unless in multiplayer, somehow joining up with someone else who does have access to the anomaly...is that even possible? Anyone know?

[Fienyx]

When you take a mission at the anomoly, you can now choose to where the anomoly drops you off after the mission. Home system or mission system. I like traveling around this way. You can even end up in a star system that you don't normally have the means to get to.

[b1vantage]

My guess is he had went through a portal and therefore could not summon the anomaly. JUst go back through portal and you would be fine. ;)