Purple Stars

[Seijana]

So on my main save which dates back a long way I'm still looking for somewhere to live and I'm thinking I'd like to find a gas giant moon. Trouble is I can't see any purple star systems. Do they just not appear on pre-Titans saves?

[Hykril Tynyx]

*sigh* Here we go again...
https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/640179350026607929/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/640179350026606839/

[Shadow Strider]

Originally posted by Seijana:

So on my main save which dates back a long way I'm still looking for somewhere to live and I'm thinking I'd like to find a gas giant moon. Trouble is I can't see any purple star systems. Do they just not appear on pre-Titans saves?

Use a search engine, do the required quests...

[davidb11]

Yeah, apparently, you have to run through the Artemis Questline, then the one after that, and also complete the Atlas Path, to the point of the final item you get from it, and then it starts the quest line for the Purple star thing.

Why it's an endgame quest, I don't know, but apparently they decided to do that.

[dolmore]

Look in the Galaxy Map for purple systems that will show as having no commerce, resource or conflict level. Some will show as belonging to a particular race/faction, but are really empty. The star color is very close to that of a large red star so you need to do some hunting. Essentially, gas giant systems are "starless" formed around a failed star with abandoned stations, minor settlements, manufacturing facilities, etc. The systems are there, just not obvious.

[Shadow Strider]

Originally posted by dolmore:

Look in the Galaxy Map for purple systems that will show as having no commerce, resource or conflict level. Some will show as belonging to a particular race/faction, but are really empty. The star color is very close to that of a large red star so you need to do some hunting. Essentially, gas giant systems are "starless" formed around a failed star with abandoned stations, minor settlements, manufacturing facilities, etc. The systems are there, just not obvious.

What are you talking about?
Firstly, purple systems only appear in the galaxy map during Titan expo or after completing Stellar Multitudes.
Secondly, whether or not a system is inhabited/abandoned/uncharted has nothing to do with anything discussed in the thread.
And thirdly, Gas Giant systems still have stars, just like every other system...

[Foxglovez]

Originally posted by Hykril Tynyx:

*sigh* Here we go again...
https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/640179350026607929/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/640179350026606839/

Thank you for my first laugh of the day. Priceless. Sometimes this forum is just groundhog day in so many flavors. There used to only be 3 stooges... Wait, who's on first? Whaaa

[Ozwald]

Originally posted by Foxglovez:

Originally posted by Hykril Tynyx:

*sigh* Here we go again...
https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/640179350026607929/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/640179350026606839/

Thank you for my first laugh of the day. Priceless. Sometimes this forum is just groundhog day in so many flavors. There used to only be 3 stooges... Wait, who's on first? Whaaa

And Curly wasn't one of them!

[Seijana]

Originally posted by Shadow Strider:

What are you talking about?
Firstly, purple systems only appear in the galaxy map during Titan expo or after completing Stellar Multitudes.

You know, just this is the answer to my question.

[Rexxer]

Purple stars will not appear on any saves (except a converted Titan save) unless you complete a bunch of new quests. The bottom line for most players is that making purple systems visible, (actually you can see them flickering, you just can't target them), will require completing several hours of prerequisite quests.

The In Stellar Multitudes quest just doesn't appear to everyone, - it is a late game quest.
Activating it is an obscure quest itself in the first place. If I recall, to trigger it you MUST have FIRST finished ALL of these quests/or activities:

(1) Complete the Atlas and Artemis Quest Paths. What this means is that you both have the *Star Seed* from the Atlas path and the *Remembrance Seed* from the Artemis quest path. Not sure if you had to install them, but you must be able to make them.

These quests are THE starting quests for NMS, and most people finish one or the other but not both before cavorting around the galaxies doing whatever, because frankly, they seem a bit redundant. The Atlas quest line - making all those lozenge shaped "seed" items up to the "heart of the sun" - then getting the "Star Seed" blueprint. The Artemis quest ends with a "final portal" that lets you skip on to a new galaxy, and when you do so, you get the blueprint for the "Remembrance Seed". You need BOTH. To get these you must complete "The Purge" in the Artemis quest line, and the "Atlas Path".
(2) Find a Dissonant World.
(3) Finish the Autophage questline, starting with the "They who returned" mission.
(4) Complete "They Who Returned".
(5) Scan for Echo Seeds
(6) Make your Autophage staff (part of they who returned, I think)

This is how I encourntered it: I had already visited dissonant planets, heard about the new purple systems, and I tried to target a purple system to warp to, but was unable. After warping around, I got some garbled unintelligible signals IN SPACE. After several pages of nonsense dialog, it ends with coordinates to a nearby dissonant planet. This is the beginning of the Autophage questline. There is initially an empty dissonant camp there with the icon of the new Autophage questline embedded on some scrap in a tent. Clicking on that will direct you along the Autophage questline. It also triggers "They Who Returned" if you have finished the Atlas and Artemis quests. If you haven't finished Artemis or Atlas quests, you should also squeeze those in. Doing everything will take a few hours. Eventually after finishing all of the prerequisites missions, launch into space and start pulse cruising for a minute. You must do this but nothing will tell you to do this. It's assumed people do this all the time in the game, but to trigger the final quest, you must do this. A large ship appears and starts talking with you ... this will be the final mission set to get you to the Atlantid drive and make purple systems visible.

[Seijana]

I believe I already have an autophage staff, I don't remember anything about a large ship talking to me though.

[simon]

Originally posted by Seijana:

Originally posted by Shadow Strider:

What are you talking about?
Firstly, purple systems only appear in the galaxy map during Titan expo or after completing Stellar Multitudes.

You know, just this is the answer to my question.

Yeah and you could have got that answer in 5 seconds instead of waiting 3 hour by doing a forum search.

[Rexxer]

PS. Being able to see and warp to purple stars is also related to going through all 255 galaxies because many of the old galaxy edge systems have been displaced by new purple edge systems, making it much harder to jump to the center of a galaxy (ie. exit a galaxy) unless you have an Atlantid drive. On the positive side, you now have a lot of undiscovered edge systems now all of a sudden. Prior to the Worlds II update, most if not all edge systems in all 255 galaxies had already been discovered and renamed by the discoverer. It's a thing because everyone will see your name as they jump galaxies, since there are so few edge systems, so those systems have always been a bit of a goal to discover and claim.

Although many old edge systems remain intact, some prior edge systems have been superseded by new purple systems, so you will occasionally run into non-edge planets that proudly announce themselves as jump off points, and were renamed as being authentic edge or jump off exits long ago. From what I can tell, about 80% of all purple edge systems I have run into are undiscovered. First contact. I have been renaming a bunch as I have been going through all 255 galaxies again so my current save has bases in all galaxies.

Also, the cost of repairing a ship after a jump from a purple star is fairly high if you are a new player and don't have a strong flow of resources or units behind you. Repairing an Atlantid Drive requires a pane of "Living Glass" which is made from (5X) panes of glass and lubricant (400 gamma weed, 50 faecium). Plus 50 units or so of Indium and Atlandium. Other repairs require generous amounts of Chromatic metal, and other game resources one usually doesn't have in large amount at the beginning of games. You will need at least an indium, O2, sodium, Fe ++, and farm system (Gamma weed and faecium, plus Frost crystal for glass for the living glass, also planters for copious amounts of C ...used for everything). Just to keep up with the repair demand (and base building), I need about 4 gamma weed biodomes, 2 faceium biodomes, 10 planters, and 3 frost crystal biodomes).

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Originally posted by davidb11:

Yeah, apparently, you have to run through the Artemis Questline, then the one after that, and also complete the Atlas Path, to the point of the final item you get from it, and then it starts the quest line for the Purple star thing.

Why it's an endgame quest, I don't know, but apparently they decided to do that.

There have been regular complaints that there is no end game and no purpose, so maybe HG threw those players a bone. I think it took me about 20 hours to get to the Stellar mission on the save I use for expeditions. I am a slow poke and was also working on the words so I am sure someone more focused could get them all done quicker.

[dolmore]

Originally posted by Shadow Strider:

Originally posted by dolmore:

Look in the Galaxy Map for purple systems that will show as having no commerce, resource or conflict level. Some will show as belonging to a particular race/faction, but are really empty. The star color is very close to that of a large red star so you need to do some hunting. Essentially, gas giant systems are "starless" formed around a failed star with abandoned stations, minor settlements, manufacturing facilities, etc. The systems are there, just not obvious.

What are you talking about?
Firstly, purple systems only appear in the galaxy map during Titan expo or after completing Stellar Multitudes.
Secondly, whether or not a system is inhabited/abandoned/uncharted has nothing to do with anything discussed in the thread.
And thirdly, Gas Giant systems still have stars, just like every other system...

Okaaay. Guess I'll have to stop going to those gas giant systems since they don't exist.

[Jomaha]

I just edited my save file anyway to complete quests. Some quests in log tab were not showing me where/what to do next. Buggy game.