The game is very broken in terms of resources you can get. You can salvage one ship indefinitely. You can duplicate anything you want. You can buy nanites with credits, which is kind of irrational. Resources farming* is part of the game and these are easily earned if you know the ways. Stick to the story and don't worry about the bugs you encounter regarding resources, it'll save you some fun.

IMO, they kind of went nuts on Guild rewards and you can just bounce back and forth between stations and pick up a lot of free stuff. To a great extent, you need to decide how many gifts you will take.

As you move toward the best reputation, it really becomes OP for what you can pick up. I have enough hyperdrive fuel to last a couple of years without crafting. On the plus side, it is nice to have an easy way to pick up salvaged frigate modules.

The game or the save game editor will allow you to gain things rapidly. You are expected to decide what seems fair and balanced for you.

I had this yesterday on a game I continued after the Omega release.

I was also doing the Guild missions and hit a Gek planet. I needed about 12 Gek missions to finish it. Every planet, including the mission one either had freighter storage or freighter upgrades. I'm used to the old 'Grind' way, I also wasn't going to pass on the easy route. I spent about an hour with the transporter and got what would normally take a long time, with regards to freighter upgrades.

Still can't find an S Class in the new freighters. Is there one? (I have A Class) It doesn't really matter, just curious.

Another annoying point that happened earlier in the week. I was earning the Walker award. I was one off, game crashed. On the restart I was back to needing 15. Nothing else in the game was lost. As a caution, I save and exit NMS on some of the harder challenges. None lost doing it that way.

The same was/is true regarding upgrade modules. Buy a nice "S" class Jetpack upgrade? Well save/reload and you could/can buy it again.

All Guild rewards are more broken as they are "refreshed" when you teleport to another station, which will happen eventually for you. (traveling to another system)

There are S class freighters in the game. Just picked one recently after saving it from a pirate attack. The big ones with lots of slots are more elusive, but the ones with lesser slots that look a little fugly are not that hard to find.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3216018961
This is the first "flat top" captial ship I have ever owned. (4500 hours) I never grind for freighters, just take what comes up as I do things. The advantages are not really worth it to me to do mind numbing stuff to get one.

Originally posted by nano:

Originally posted by Geldric™:

The same was/is true regarding upgrade modules. Buy a nice "S" class Jetpack upgrade? Well save/reload and you could/can buy it again.

All Guild rewards are more broken as they are "refreshed" when you teleport to another station, which will happen eventually for you. (traveling to another system)

It is not the same, you have to buy the S class module, in the guild they give you everything for free

@nano, it never occurred to be that this was buggy, but I can see how it could be now after reading post and replies. I love the donate button and IF the the mechanic is bugged, then I am guilty of the higher perk ability to donate to decrease the amount of mission to grind.

I thinking it's as balanced as one chooses it to be. And Geldric is also correct.
You can buy every single mod: ship, exocraft, suit, multi-tool at the kiosk (at your guild/race % discount) and sell them back and make bank. Geldric hosted a thread on the teleporting to Pirate systems and using creds to purchase the "suspicious XYZ", and warping to another Pirate system.. it's like a trade route. Couple million to start and an hour and you can bank 100k+ nanites.

He puts on paper what we see in game and wonder if, "Is this legit, damn I am a pirate, or dang I'm special to the Trade Guild", just stop stressing on the mechanics and try to enjoy YOUR find.

Your perception is the reality in life as well as in NMS. Enjoy it while it lasts.

If I load back in after a break, I'm not averse to grabbing another free item. I just don't make multiple reloads to farm the items or bounce between discovered stations for that purpose. I figure it does not really matter in the grand scheme, because if I was willing to spend ages watching the loading screen I may as well just put the game in creative and give myself everything immediately.

Originally posted by nano:

Originally posted by Geldric™:

The same was/is true regarding upgrade modules. Buy a nice "S" class Jetpack upgrade? Well save/reload and you could/can buy it again.

All Guild rewards are more broken as they are "refreshed" when you teleport to another station, which will happen eventually for you. (traveling to another system)

It is not the same, you have to buy the S class module, in the guild they give you everything for free

Sorry but you missed the point entirely - but have fun

Originally posted by nano:

but I just hope they solve it by setting a time limit to claim it or any other mechanism

That solves it. Just as handled like the trade specific items per system's affinity.

I'll gladly accept my free 'jester' token now.

Originally posted by Mr. Bufferlow:

IMO, they kind of went nuts on Guild rewards and you can just bounce back and forth between stations and pick up a lot of free stuff. To a great extent, you need to decide how many gifts you will take.

Very much this. I suspect it is so lucrative that they will place some type of limit on it in the future. Like only one a day or some such.

Meanwhile, it's how the game works. Make use of it or not as you feel ok with.

Originally posted by nano:

Originally posted by majzerofive:

The game is very broken in terms of resources you can get. You can salvage one ship indefinitely. You can duplicate anything you want. You can buy nanites with credits, which is kind of irrational. Resources farming* is part of the game and these are easily earned if you know the ways. Stick to the story and don't worry about the bugs you encounter regarding resources, it'll save you some fun.

To do something you talk about here you have to "cheat" or know how to duplicate objects, etc. and you are free to do so, but I am talking about getting free items indefinitely without having to do anything strange, in my opinion it is not the same

I have 4 billion without any duplications and about 150k nanites in my permaworld. I haven't finished the main missions yet. Also, four S class exotic ships, one S class sentinel, an S class freighter, a full S class squadron and full S class freighter crew.
Getting resources in this game is never an issue if you know how to actually do it. You can farm it manually, automatically, buy it, steal it, ask for it, duplicate it etc. It's the beauty of the game. I needed about 3h of playtime to get my first 150 mil and I wasn't even using the most lucrative of ways not to mention combining some together. I traded to 150 mil in about 3h. Traded, as in was flying from one system to another and buying-selling resources.
The game isn't difficult in terms of getting resources and it wasn't for a long time now. So free resources shouldn't concern you as I said before. Focus on the story and having fun instead of reloading saves and farming resources, which is still technically an exploit as any other glitch with duplication.