what should I spend my quicksilver on?

[Mossie]

I finally got 3250 quicksilver, enough to buy one of something cool from the quicksilver bot. Are living ships different or interesting enough to purchase a void egg? I do think they look cool.

I'm also considering a new helmet/head. What helmets does everyone like?

Any other neat things about quicksilver items I might not know?

Cheers!

[Happy Monkey]

Bobble heads and ship trails give minor bonuses, especially if installed next to each other.

Living ships cannot have slots added currently, so they are inferior to fully-upgraded regular ships for most if not all purposes, but they do look cool.

I believe that everything else is purely aesthetic.

[Mossie]

Originally posted by Happy Monkey:

Bobble heads and ship trails give minor bonuses, especially if installed next to each other.

Living ships cannot have slots added currently, so they are inferior to fully-upgraded regular ships for most if not all purposes, but they do look cool.

I believe that everything else is purely aesthetic.

Neat, thanks!

[Latharion]

If you enjoy playing through the campaign missions, then a void egg is an excellent buy as it adds a new quest series and you end up with a cool looking ship in the end. Other than that, the advice from Happy Monkey is fantastic.

[Mossie]

Originally posted by Latharion:

If you enjoy playing through the campaign missions, then a void egg is an excellent buy as it adds a new quest series and you end up with a cool looking ship in the end. Other than that, the advice from Happy Monkey is fantastic.

You're right, I would definitely enjoy a new quest series!

[Happy Monkey]

One more thing: The candelabra bloom is the best light source in the game for lighting up a room in a base.

[Mossie]

Originally posted by Happy Monkey:

One more thing: The candelabra bloom is the best light source in the game for lighting up a room in a base.

Awesome, thanks!

[Jimbodiah]

An upgraded living ship is faster (1K5 vs 950 boosting,18K vs 11K in orbit) and hyperdrive is on par with the explorer, so it is definitely not a bad ship. You just need to upgrade it's slots with the glitch (see youtube), or a mod. Same with economy scanner and the distant access thingy, mod or with a glitch.

[Mossie]

Originally posted by Jimbodiah:

An upgraded living ship is faster (1K5 vs 950 boosting,18K vs 11K in orbit) and hyperdrive is on par with the explorer, so it is definitely not a bad ship. You just need to upgrade it's slots with the glitch (see youtube), or a mod. Same with economy scanner and the distant access thingy, mod or with a glitch.

Oh cool, thanks for the info!

[Blaine]

From what I've read, the Living Ship is somewhat inferior in most core stats to a fully-upgraded Exotic ship, but with slightly more potential cargo capacity, provided you're using around 21 total tech upgrades in each ship (since the Living Ship apparently has a huge tech bay, at 21 slots). My Exotic ship "only" has 14 tech slots, so my final upgrades will spill into cargo.

The main difference being that exotic ships are hilariously rare (I got super-lucky and got one early, this is my first NMS playthrough) and it costs like 200 million space bucks to fully unlock an Exotic ship's slots, whereas the Living Ship comes with them all unlocked. Or again, so I've read.

Overall I'd say Living Ships and and Exotic ships are fairly comparable. Unless you care about having tons of cargo slots, they're probably the best all-round ships in the game.