Living Ship mission is awful

[Mule]

Overly time gated. 72+ hours forced to wait. Forced META gaming. Literally had to take a photo of the mission text with my phone to input the glyphs, which was still wrong as I didn't guess that the glyph showing what is clearly a BIRD, was actually the Hunter. Second visit out of game required to actually get the address after an hour of guessing. So far, the game has told me everything I need to know within the game itself, which is a bonus, as the game ♥♥♥♥♥ itself if I tab out anyway. But this mission? noooooo. Just Google it bro, u good.... Plus after all that, the ship is trash. It'll just sit in my freighter and catch death stares every time I walk past it. The P.O.S. I know I'm just ranting, but man, until now I've loved this game, but that sent me over the edge. Made me Alt F4 and come here to cry about it. F u Sean.

[neock]

if you log in, start one of the waiting points, then log out and change your system clock, then log in, it speeds this up. so you can complete that 72 hour wait in like 10 minutes

[Guyver8]

4/10 for the vent...your pain is recognised
FYI for future saves, you can save before getting in your ship (when you get the message that sends you to the living ship) and use the portal to go to different planets to get a different model living ship... oh and after the first living ship on a save you won't have to do the quest on that particular save ever again

as for the time-gate there is a mod called 'Mission Timer Redux - MTR' which removes this and other time gates
https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/1921

or you can bypass all that and use the save editor to change the seed of a ship
or use the external program 'NMS Companion' to backup/restore fav ships to other saves
(there is a discord to share backups of ships/MTs/pets/freighters/locations)
https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/1879

you're at the beginning of your NMS journey try not to sweat the small stuff (better for your blood pressure Lol)

safe journey m8

[Mule]

Originally posted by neock:

if you log in, start one of the waiting points, then log out and change your system clock, then log in, it speeds this up. so you can complete that 72 hour wait in like 10 minutes

I hope this helps anyone else who wants to do it. Obviously, too late for me, but even so, to have to do that...wow.

[Mule]

Originally posted by Guyver8:

4/10 for the vent...your pain is recognised
FYI for future saves, you can save before getting in your ship (when you get the message that sends you to the living ship) and use the portal to go to different planets to get a different model living ship... oh and after the first living ship on a save you won't have to do the quest on that particular save ever again

as for the time-gate there is a mod called 'Mission Timer Redux - MTR' which removes this and other time gates
https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/1921

or you can bypass all that and use the save editor to change the seed of a ship
or use the external program 'NMS Companion' to backup/restore fav ships to other saves
(there is a discord to share backups of ships/MTs/pets/freighters/locations)
https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/1879

you're at the beginning of your NMS journey try not to sweat the small stuff (better for your blood pressure Lol)

safe journey m8

Cheers dude. I get that there are ways round almost everything in this game, but I've really been trying to do everything legit, probably why I was already close to the edge before even doing this mission. lol. And yea, my rant was rather reserved as I'm not trying to upset anyone, just having a moan

[Guyver8]

Originally posted by Mule:

Cheers dude. I get that there are ways round almost everything in this game, but I've really been trying to do everything legit, probably why I was already close to the edge before even doing this mission. lol. And yea, my rant was rather reserved as I'm not trying to upset anyone, just having a moan

yeah i get where you're coming from
legit Lol, my first option i.e. save (save point/beacon for a restore point save) B4 getting getting into the ship to get the message then using the portal instead of the ship to get a different model (reload the 'restore point' if when you fly over the ship it is 'fugly') may not be 'legit' by your reckoning but it beats getting a fugly ship after the annoyingly time-gated quest... still something to ponder for future saves

[SoloQ]

I had the bug where it gave me a regular ship. And I figured, like the rest of the missions, that after 24 hours it would turn into the living ship.
That sucked.

[Guyver8]

Originally posted by SoloQ:

I had the bug where it gave me a regular ship. And I figured, like the rest of the missions, that after 24 hours it would turn into the living ship.
That sucked.

reload would've respawned the ship as a living ship

[Zak]

Originally posted by Mule:

Living Ship mission is awful

It's absolutely the worst. Long delays for no other reason but just to make it long. It's bugged too. I don't even like the idea of fart-powered meat-ship anyway so I did it once just to see what the deal is and it was beyond awful.

Be careful when messing with your PC clock. This may deactivate some copy-protected software and prevent some secure websites from working properly. It's rare, but it may happen.

[wkitty42]

Originally posted by neock:

if you log in, start one of the waiting points, then log out and change your system clock, then log in, it speeds this up. so you can complete that 72 hour wait in like 10 minutes

this is NOT a good idea because it messes up anything else you may have in play that requires time to pass... growing plants, frigate missions, settlements, and many more... what usually ends up happening is those things will not progress further until the IRL clock catches up with the in-game stored ones for those things...

just play the game and don't be so impatient... start the mission and when you get to the time-gate(s), go back to exploring and building your bases or whatever you normally do...