Marking a planet as the home base

[Dwyn]

Hi,

I'm new to NMS and really like my first planet. I want to mark it as my home and build a base. But I can't work out how to do this.

Can some one give me a step by step guide? I've tried googling / reading other forums but haven't found a post which starts from a absolute beggining.

Thanks!

[stvlepore]

You have to find a base first and claim it. Not all planets have them. Build a signal booster. If a base is on the planet it will find it.

[Peaceful Joe]

Originally posted by stvlepore:

You have to find a base first and claim it. Not all planets have them. Build a signal booster. If a base is on the planet it will find it.

Wrong. Every planet you can build a base on. There is some small bug or something that prevents icons from showing up if you already have too much. First you need to go clear all of the markers than search for the base on your desirable planet.

[Captain Brendig]

Originally posted by Joseph7000:

Originally posted by stvlepore:

You have to find a base first and claim it. Not all planets have them. Build a signal booster. If a base is on the planet it will find it.

Wrong. Every planet you can build a base on. There is some small bug or something that prevents icons from showing up if you already have too much. First you need to go clear all of the markers than search for the base on your desirable planet.

Eh? I've been to many systems without ever planting a beacon or such, and have rarely found a system with more than one base (my current home has two). Yes, one can build a base on any planet or moon, but a habitable base is necessary for teleporting.

[Peaceful Joe]

Originally posted by cbkohoh:

Originally posted by Joseph7000:

Wrong. Every planet you can build a base on. There is some small bug or something that prevents icons from showing up if you already have too much. First you need to go clear all of the markers than search for the base on your desirable planet.

Eh? I've been to many systems without ever planting a beacon or such, and have rarely found a system with more than one base (my current home has two). Yes, one can build a base on any planet or moon, but a habitable base is necessary for teleporting.

Trust me. I have over 100 hours. You can have a base on any moon or planet. Also, there is no such thing as a base that is uninhabitable. That would defeat the whole purpose lol. Every base that you claim would cause the planet or moon you are on to be designated as home. You can then teleport to and from your new location.

Go to a random system and land onto a random planet. Make sure you don't do any system scans or planet scans. Instead, place a signal booster and scan for habitable bases. I can 100% guarantee you that you will find one.

[Captain Brendig]

Originally posted by Joseph7000:

Originally posted by cbkohoh:

Eh? I've been to many systems without ever planting a beacon or such, and have rarely found a system with more than one base (my current home has two). Yes, one can build a base on any planet or moon, but a habitable base is necessary for teleporting.

Trust me. I have over 100 hours. You can have a base on any moon or planet. Also, there is no such thing as a base that is uninhabitable. That would defeat the whole purpose lol. Every base that you claim would cause the planet or moon you are on to be designated as home. You can then teleport to and from your new location.

Go to a random system and land onto a random planet. Make sure you don't do any system scans or planet scans. Instead, place a signal booster and scan for habitable bases. I can 100% guarantee you that you will find one.

You are a troll. 100 hours and you claim to be an expert? ROTFL!!!

Just landed on an undiscovered planet. Set up a signal booster and scanned for habitable bases. Result: 0.00%. Go back to your cave.

[Peaceful Joe]

Originally posted by cbkohoh:

Originally posted by Joseph7000:

Trust me. I have over 100 hours. You can have a base on any moon or planet. Also, there is no such thing as a base that is uninhabitable. That would defeat the whole purpose lol. Every base that you claim would cause the planet or moon you are on to be designated as home. You can then teleport to and from your new location.

Go to a random system and land onto a random planet. Make sure you don't do any system scans or planet scans. Instead, place a signal booster and scan for habitable bases. I can 100% guarantee you that you will find one.

You are a troll. 100 hours and you claim to be an expert? ROTFL!!!

Just landed on an undiscovered planet. Set up a signal booster and scanned for habitable bases. Result: 0.00%. Go back to your cave.

I'm no troll. Other people have confirmed what I've been saying also. You must have a bug in your game or something. Every single planet I've landed on I've found habitable bases, and I've landed on many!

100 hours is more than enough to give credibility to my claims. Here read throug this reddit post that I found.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/5z4rem/i_found_a_very_beautiful_moon_on_my_way_to_the/

[Captain Brendig]

100 hours = 0 credibilty, especially with a status of 0 and a hidden profile. How many warps have you made? Can you back it it up with a screenshot? Someone else's anecdotal writings does not confirm your claims.

[Peaceful Joe]

Originally posted by cbkohoh:

100 hours = 0 credibilty, especially with a status of 0 and a hidden profile. How many warps have you made? Can you back it it up with a screenshot? Someone else's anecdotal writings does not confirm your claims.

100 hours in this game is no different than 1000+. I love the game, but most of your hours consist of doing the same stuff over and over again.

In every single system, I explore all the planets before moving on just in case I miss that one golden world. So number of warps for me may be lower than other people, but that doesn't mean I haven't visited enough planets to accurately back up my claims

I didn't realize my profile was hidden. If you want I can make it public so that you can confirm I'm no troll.

edit: I may be wrong for the empty planets, but that's because I 've never searched barren planets for bases before because I've always found them quite boring to even bother. But every other planet that I found mildly interesting, ranging from cold, hot, posonous, verdant, etc, there has always been a base that I found. Sometimes they wouldn't show up till I cleared all other markers, thereby proving my claim about the bugs.

[japp_02]

The Signal Booster saying no = doesn't mean there is no base on the planet.
See any buildings on planet? = Habitable Base is possible

I cannot prove these 2 statements, but I play the game since Foundation in december and thats' my best guess.I have come in different situations where I have discovered a Habitable Base without the help of boosters, just visually, but I didn't pay big attention to it because I rather want to explore rather than build and I have a small functional base already.

If you find an interesting planet, then it will not be enough to just use the Booster one time, you need to explore the planet more times; if you see any buildings on the planet my guess is you will soon or late find a Habitable Base, also scanning it from space more times and eventually you should get a marker for HB.

Barren planets I really don't know yet. My guess is if there are no buildings then there will be no HB possible, but this may be wrong because I don't lose much time there except getting some Iron quickly. I couldn't swear, but I think I never saw any HB marker on a barren planet.

[stvlepore]

The reason i said not all planets have bases is because in my 400 hours i have found many. I recently had a paradise planet that inspite of a dozen scans did not find a buildable base.

[Peaceful Joe]

Originally posted by stvlepore:

The reason i said not all planets have bases is because in my 400 hours i have found many. I recently had a paradise planet that inspite of a dozen scans did not find a buildable base.

Paradise planets should always have bases. Have you tried scanning for them after you clear all other markers in the system. It could just be a bug.

[RNG3220]

I know when I scan for base on a moon, often times it sends me to the planet. Also, if you do not view and make the marker go away on a planet with a habitable base, you will likely not find more habitable bases. And this is rather annoying, especially when you scan from space and somehow the furthest planet has a base pop up. you end up having to hit that node before finding another.

[Xenomorph]

Originally posted by Dwyn:

Hi,

I'm new to NMS and really like my first planet. I want to mark it as my home and build a base. But I can't work out how to do this.

Can some one give me a step by step guide? I've tried googling / reading other forums but haven't found a post which starts from a absolute beggining.

Thanks!

You need a beacon. and you may actually need more then one. Think that beacons have limited range, and the larger the planet the harder it may be to find a habitable base. If you drop a beacon and fnd nothing, go back up to space, warp around it for a bit, land and drop another beacon. You will eventually find one. IF you REALLY like that planet, it's worth it. Chances are you might come across 999999999 others that you really don't want to spend too much time on. I set base on the first planet that didnt try to kill me horribly (survival run), and after 300 odd hours, i haven't found a planet as nice as that one. Island planet, climate is great, plenty of friendly cute critters, and 2 big Emeril deposits literally outside my door. And i have a dead planet on the same system with tons of Pt and Th, if i ever get too lazy and run out.
Once you find a habitable base, everything else is pretty straightforward. You build the first research benches, hire the dudes for them, and follow the quest lines. Then as you play you'll eventually be able to get all the part blueprints and build everything :)

[RNG3220]

It's hard to understand what you mean. Do you mean naming the base? the system your base is in? the planet? base is named inside the base. System and planet is in your discoveries tab if you go to the menu click over to discoveries and you can rename. From there you can technically mark on your galactic map.

Marking it isn't required though or naming it anything special unless you really desire to do so. The door opposite the galactic trade side inside the space station. The right side, facing the entrance/space of a space station. Inside the room will be a teleport portal that will always take you home, and you can transfer from home back to the station. And there is a space station in every system, so you will always be able to teleport home and back to from where you were exploring (this is a closed loop that you can only teleport back to a system ONCE and only after you transfer to your base)

[Captain Brendig]

Originally posted by Joseph7000:

Originally posted by cbkohoh:

100 hours = 0 credibilty, especially with a status of 0 and a hidden profile. How many warps have you made? Can you back it it up with a screenshot? Someone else's anecdotal writings does not confirm your claims.

100 hours in this game is no different than 1000+. I love the game, but most of your hours consist of doing the same stuff over and over again.

In every single system, I explore all the planets before moving on just in case I miss that one golden world. So number of warps for me may be lower than other people, but that doesn't mean I haven't visited enough planets to accurately back up my claims

I didn't realize my profile was hidden. If you want I can make it public so that you can confirm I'm no troll.

edit: I may be wrong for the empty planets, but that's because I 've never searched barren planets for bases before because I've always found them quite boring to even bother. But every other planet that I found mildly interesting, ranging from cold, hot, posonous, verdant, etc, there has always been a base that I found. Sometimes they wouldn't show up till I cleared all other markers, thereby proving my claim about the bugs.

Like you, I like to land on every planet and moon to see what's there, I prefer exploration over the mining grind. The exception would be if the system is so boring that I lose any interest in it. As far as my in game time goes, many of my hours include cooking, eating while watching a movie, falling asleep on the couch, going to bed, waking up and turning the computer off... :)

Your profile being hidden, fair point. Give you that.

My point is that I have been to a lot of systems and have found it very rare to find one with more than one base. But as I stated earlier my current home has two. Very unusual in my experience. I have read other posts stating the same thing (anecdotal). Bug? Perhaps. Yet then again, wouldn't it also be possible that finding a base on every planet within a system could be the bug (albiet a lucky bug)?

Barren planets: why bother? Grab the Th9 and go.