SPOILER - Massive Unit Farm

[voidCaster]

In another thread, somebody suggested building the Stasis Device to make units FAST. I looked at it. How ridiculous!!! It would take hours just to farm the nanites to get all the requisites, never even mind the massive agriculture base required...

So I decided to check it out.

https://youtu.be/Krj6C2Df3Pw

Worth the work?

[gNg]

Depends what you enjoy doing in the game. Too much like hard work for me and there's nothing to spend all that money on anyway.

[Jaggid Edje]

It is probably worth it for people who regularly switch ships and want a lot of units so they can just max out storage/tech slots immediately on getting a new ship. That's about the only real point of having a "lot" of Units in the game.

Not worth it, to me, because I don't tend to switch ships often enough to need units for unlocking slots on starships. I pretty much always have a ton of the starship storage upgrade tokens, except in the early game, when the setup for the stasis device production is also out of reach (without massive time investment).
At that point, I would rather spend the time finding and salvaging ships for upgrade tokens than set up that production chain.

Basically, it's just a matter of how you play, and what you personally enjoy, that determines if it's worth it or not. I do not enjoy setting up the production, nor do I enjoy sitting with my nose in inventory doing the crafting process. So, for me, not something I choose to do.
I'm still at the Unit cap on 4 of my 5 active saves, so it's also obviously not something that is necessary to do in order to 'get rich'.

[Krash Megiddo]

Its on my Todo list to setup an operation like this, but I can never get motivated to do it.

[Foxglovez]

Stow away rewards for frigate missions, spend nanites on the recipes because you just do it one time which is no big deal. Found two CD patches to farm. I have a small farm on my freighter and set up 3 little farmettes for gasses.

The joke is this save by the time I did all that I have too many units to even make it interesting thanks to the new ship scrapping. Used to be important, not so much any more. Times change. I like finding the best locations and making the mini farms so I will probably keep them just because, until I squirrel off and do something else that entertains me.

The beauty of a sandbox.

[DennisM the Diligent]

In a couple of my saves, I have two plant farms each that provide enough plants to yield 8 stasis devices plus 8 fusion ignitors, along with mines that supply the minerals and gases. This yields a total of 32 of these devices per day (every 18 hours technically), which nets approximately 500 million units per day. I also keep a few spares of these devices in my inventory, in case I decide to spend a bunch of money. As you might imagine, it doesn’t take long to reach billions of units. I haven’t needed to harvest these for quite some time, as I already have plenty of units.

I have a spreadsheet that calculates the number of biodomes, along with the electric power and amount of glass needed to build various sizes of this type of farm. I prefer the biodomes rather than the grow rooms on my freighter for the larger-scale harvesting, though I do keep a few grow rooms on my freighter when visitors need to collect a few plants.

[Faceplant]

Been doing that since the early days. It's much easier now. The new freighter rooms are horribly inefficient, but I'm starting to build one now in my current save.

Once you get the operation going, you quickly get rich enough that you don't really need it anymore, but I like the process.

[FREEZED]

Originally posted by tekmunkey:

In another thread, somebody suggested building the Stasis Device to make units FAST. I looked at it. How ridiculous!!! It would take hours just to farm the nanites to get all the requisites, never even mind the massive agriculture base required...

So I decided to check it out.

https://youtu.be/Krj6C2Df3Pw

Worth the work?

massive?

my farms produce 700m worth of these kind of stuff in every 4 hours.
my freighter has 2 floors plant farms+ some on the planets i do mining.
here is my reserve stash for quick units injection to wallet

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2965189818

[Mr. Bufferlow]

As long as you are having fun doing it. Realize there is a finite cap of max credits you can have. There is also a finite amount of items to buy with credits. Unless you plan to regularly swap out your fleet of ships for different ones that need a lot of credits for upgrades...you end up just stuck with too many credits and no where to spend them.

I give similar advice to those who want to make a mega base or two. There is a cap of how many base parts you can use. Also you can't remove all the terrain from a planet...lots of other adventures people wanted to do that just don't work well in the game.

Basic learning is to realize moderation in everything. Going big usually also means you run into a brick wall at some point.

[Galadhlinn]

I always stop at the cryo pumps and convince myself that I achieved my goal of massive units. Clearly I'm not actually into massive units as evidenced in all my saves over 1,500+ hours never achieving the max units, even once, even half the max. The thought of the ultimate cave planet out there somewhere always pulls me away : P
I have a property in the California gold region. It has a stream, and I have panned some flakes of gold from it, but about 45 minutes into panning, and the lure of trout always results in the pan sitting on the bank, and fishing pole in hand. Same kind of thing.

[bobhome2]

I have a modest stasis device farm. I can make 16 stasis devices every, like, 16 hours. It was an easy thing to set up, honestly. Always found it easier to handle than some random activated indium mine, since I play on survival and my inventory stack caps are smaller. It helps me maximize out ship inventories from time to time.

Still, money's not a huge part of the game, and you don't need to max everything to have fun. So, build one if you want; don't build one if you don't want to. Nothing more to to it.

[lordoftheapes79]

MY WAY IS BEST! YOU'RE ALL STUPID!

[voidCaster]

Originally posted by FREEZED:

massive?

my farms produce 700m worth of these kind of stuff in every 4 hours.
my freighter has 2 floors plant farms+ some on the planets i do mining.
here is my reserve stash for quick units injection to wallet

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2965189818

When I posted the question, "Worth it?" the last thing I expected was for somebody to try to turn the thread into a deck-measuring contest.

[Khalunka]

Originally posted by tekmunkey:

Originally posted by FREEZED:

massive?

my farms produce 700m worth of these kind of stuff in every 4 hours.
my freighter has 2 floors plant farms+ some on the planets i do mining.
here is my reserve stash for quick units injection to wallet

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2965189818

When I posted the question, "Worth it?" the last thing I expected was for somebody to try to turn the thread into a deck-measuring contest.

you have no idea how many people take pride into cheesing the mechanics to the max.

[Foxglovez]

Originally posted by tekmunkey:

Originally posted by FREEZED:

massive?

my farms produce 700m worth of these kind of stuff in every 4 hours.
my freighter has 2 floors plant farms+ some on the planets i do mining.
here is my reserve stash for quick units injection to wallet

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2965189818

When I posted the question, "Worth it?" the last thing I expected was for somebody to try to turn the thread into a deck-measuring contest.

LoL You must be new here.

[luZk]

Honestly, comming from a guy who earned 95% of his NMS money this way. Building farms is not worth the time effort when you can just drop teleporters next to these plants in the wild.