how come chlorine's value got nerfed?

[HamBunger]

i understand its very easy to make but instead of nerfing the price why didnt they just increase the amount of resources to make it?

[Jaggid Edje]

Because it wasn't the only raw material that had a price nerf. It was not 'just' a Chlorine nerf.

[NZ.Zero]

V4 nerfed every good mining based progression except mine based crafting, but since there's so little automation it's a lot of admin and grind-work in doing it. Anyway, once you've done it once or twice you're pretty much set up anyway, so I recommend doing that.

Since the nerf, I've shifted to playing satisfactory to scratch my mining/production itch, it's a much better game for that production line and crafting stuff than NMS v4 is. It's epic in fact.

NMS is great as a space exploration game but is less of a wide production game than it was, everybody is funnelled into stasis/ fusion production really, to make any decent money (the standard route to which requires almost no exploration so I'm not exactly sure where HG are trying to take the game).

[lordoftheapes79]

yeah... I'm gonna miss those days, but to be fair, I really nerfed my last character. I built all of my biome bases on extreme worlds with Activated Indium and ran the full rotation of trading economies. I was doing full trading rotations, making 20 Fusion Igniters and 20 Stasis Devices, AND filling all my left over inventory with activated indium. It was a 2.5 BILLION run that I could do daily, in less than an hour. yeah. it needed to be nerfed.

[gussmed]

The Oxygen -> Chlorine cycle was actually kind of game-breaking. If you knew about it, the moment you get a medium refinery, you could print money by buying unlimited oxygen at space stations and turning it around for a large profit. It make a lot of other early-game methods of making money rather pointless.

The *main* thing they did was halt sales of oxygen, but reducing the sale price of chlorine was part of it too.

There are still lots and lots of ways to make ridiculous amounts of money in the game. It's just that you need to actually do a bit more investment or work now. Stasis Devices and Fusion Igniters are still huge money makers, but those are late game.

[NZ.Zero]

Originally posted by gussmed:

There are still lots and lots of ways to make ridiculous amounts of money in the game.

Like what? (Apart from fusion/stasis)?

[HamBunger]

Originally posted by gussmed:

The Oxygen -> Chlorine cycle was actually kind of game-breaking. If you knew about it, the moment you get a medium refinery, you could print money by buying unlimited oxygen at space stations and turning it around for a large profit. It make a lot of other early-game methods of making money rather pointless.

The *main* thing they did was halt sales of oxygen, but reducing the sale price of chlorine was part of it too.

There are still lots and lots of ways to make ridiculous amounts of money in the game. It's just that you need to actually do a bit more investment or work now. Stasis Devices and Fusion Igniters are still huge money makers, but those are late game.

ill figure out a way to make more managed to farm 120 mill from doing this pre nerf im open for other suggestions

[Zak]

I'm still making enough for my needs from mining gold and farming Venom Urchins, occasional Storm Crystal harvest or ancient bones and artifacts digging. I started fixing crashed ships too. I don't feel I'm ever short on Units. But mind you, I'm playing on very relaxed settings where resources are abundant, prices are higher and I don't outright buy ships and upgrades if I can help it. I just fly one ship, have one tool, had three or four ships but scrapped them. I can't make 120 million per day but 50 million is a possibility.

There is another exploitative mechanism if you set the Purchases to Discounted in difficulty settings: you can buy ships at the space station from NPCs and scrap them on the spot for 2x what you paid for them. So 2-5 million profit in like 30 seconds. But it doesn't make sense and it was too much, I changed the setting back to normal and stopped doing that.

[GoreTiger]

I really wish they'd release a factory update with machinery. It would be awesome if we could build machine lines Like Fallout 4's automatron dlc. It feels pretty anti-climatic just putting everything in the refinery and watching it swirl around.