Relics replacing old fossils worth less....

[WickedIrish]

So apparently the new relics are replacing the older fossils I would farm on a planet I have marked... they sell for a cheaply measly 75,000 each now..... Is this permanent?

[Zanbou]

I think so, but the point is now you have to assemble the fossils and those will sell for prices close to the previous bones you could find.

[WickedIrish]

Originally posted by Zanbou:

I think so, but the point is now you have to assemble the fossils and those will sell for prices close to the previous bones you could find.

dang... I hope its worth the cash flow

[Maofead]

Originally posted by WickedIrish:

dang... I hope its worth the cash flow

I sincerely doubt it

[✪✪ Sgt Rakov ✪✪]

Are old fossil items unobtainable now?

[Panamarc]

Originally posted by WickedIrish:

So apparently the new relics are replacing the older fossils I would farm on a planet I have marked... they sell for a cheaply measly 75,000 each now..... Is this permanent?

It is worth it. You just have to dig a bit more, assemble full skeleton and those sell well for 500k + with 5 bones in them (often 700k or so). There are so many ways to generate units in nms apart from bones! At least now it is fun to create improbable skeletons. I like this update.

[SynapticBoomstick]

I sure hope the two crocodile fossils I keep on my freighter have been "grandfathered". If I finish this expedition save and go back to my main and they've been switched out I'll be sad.

[WickedIrish]

Originally posted by Panamarc:

Originally posted by WickedIrish:

So apparently the new relics are replacing the older fossils I would farm on a planet I have marked... they sell for a cheaply measly 75,000 each now..... Is this permanent?

It is worth it. You just have to dig a bit more, assemble full skeleton and those sell well for 500k + with 5 bones in them (often 700k or so). There are so many ways to generate units in nms apart from bones! At least now it is fun to create improbable skeletons. I like this update.

I find fossils worth around 200k so that hardly sounds worth it after grabbing spare bones and putting a whole unit together to only sell for 500 to 700k

[maestro]

Finding bones worth more than 100k was rather rare before this update.

Sure, every once in a blue moon you'd find a 500k lunker, or maybe a 200-250k one, but that was like 1 in every 10 bones.

Most of them were only worth 55-75k and now, after the update, each bone is guaranteed to be worth at least 100k, sometimes more as the completed skeleton sells for 500k minimum. I've seen them sell for almost 750k (which puts the price of each bone at 150k).

I'd say it's more steady income and less RNG involved.

Sure, you *COULD* make more the old way, but only if you got lucky.

[smurfy]

The old style "ancient bones" are still in the game as loot but no longer seem to be available to dig up on planets marked as having ancient bones.
You actually get a rare one as a milestone reward during the expedition.

In terms of value, the new fossils are much lower than the old bones.
You can combine 5 x 72K new fossils to make one exhibit valued from 500-700K.
The very lowest value common (blue) bones used to be worth 50-75K each. Uncommon (purple) ones were over 100K each normally. High value rare (yellow) ones could be over a million each. The rare one I just collected in the expedition is worth 910K.
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[maestro]

Originally posted by smurfy:

The very lowest value common (blue) bones used to be worth 50-75K each. Uncommon (purple) ones were over 100K each normally. High value rare (yellow) ones could be over a million each. The rare one I just collected in the expedition is worth 910K.

In my experiences with testing out various ways of early-game cash generation, bones were nearly the worst way to get money early-game the old way.

They spammed your inventory with almost worthless 50-75k junk, 80% of the time. 8 out of 10 bones I'd dig up were all blues. About 2 in 10 were purples worth about 100k as you said.

The Yellows?

Once every 20-30 bones was a yellow.

It was awesome when it happened, but far too rare.

I found salvageable scrap to be the far superior option. The blues with those are 150k, the purples tend to be 500k-ish, and the yellows can go for 1.5-4 million.

But, the thing is...

They spawn corrupt sentinels which you can kill without angering more sentinels (unless a random sentinel happens to be nearby while you do it).

These can sometimes drop salvaged glass which can drop mods and other random items, so you're actually farming for two things at once by doing those. And they are a decent source of early-game Pugneum if you happen to want to repair a starship and can't find a station selling it.

Now, with the new bones?

Each bone is guaranteed to be worth 100k, up to 150k potentially. Though it is true that it might take you more than 5 bones before you get a complete skeleton and it is also inventory spammy.

IMO? Still the worst way to make money, but yet, slightly better than before just because it's more consistent.

[smurfy]

Originally posted by maestro:

In my experiences with testing out various ways of early-game cash generation, bones were nearly the worst way to get money early-game the old way.
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IMO? Still the worst way to make money, but yet, slightly better than before just because it's more consistent.

99% agreement from me. Not the worst way (there are many worse) but by no means could it be recommended as anywhere near a good method of wealth accumulation.

[Dr_Jdubz]

Originally posted by WickedIrish:

So apparently the new relics are replacing the older fossils I would farm on a planet I have marked... they sell for a cheaply measly 75,000 each now..... Is this permanent?

Fossil hunting for profit is only worthwhile early game. Once you got the resources, your better off scrapping Sentinel ships. And once you got consistant resource flow nothing beats Stasis/Fusion farming.

[Lindy Bomber]

The old style bone deposits typically had one or two per site. The new deposits can have up to nine, maybe more. There are still sites with one or two, but three to six serm.to be most common.

[Zoran]

Originally posted by smurfy:

Originally posted by maestro:

In my experiences with testing out various ways of early-game cash generation, bones were nearly the worst way to get money early-game the old way.
{snip}
IMO? Still the worst way to make money, but yet, slightly better than before just because it's more consistent.

99% agreement from me. Not the worst way (there are many worse) but by no means could it be recommended as anywhere near a good method of wealth accumulation.

In the initial abandoned mode I was digging up bones for cash, they can be found on safe planets. If ship scrapping has been added, then that'll be the new way to make cash.

[Holy Athena]

Originally posted by WickedIrish:

Originally posted by Zanbou:

I think so, but the point is now you have to assemble the fossils and those will sell for prices close to the previous bones you could find.

dang... I hope its worth the cash flow

what do you need money for? You get everything for free in this game.