5. Farming investment money and nanites for modules through missions
Time for some
EXCESSIVE GRINDING.
Okay, not really, just mild. Won't be boring much I promise, it's just the loading screens that will get on your nerves… Because you'll be passing through the same route - twice. The second passthrough will come later though.
Anyway, you've visited 50+ systems and can now travel in between them through teleport portals in space stations, right?
What, you didn't?
Go back to whatever previous step you skipped and make sure you can teleport to at least 50 different space stations!
I do recommend having 70 or more stations available in the portal (5 per each page, 14 pages), but 50 is somewhat of a minimum.
Go to any of your planet bases then use teleport portal there to visit the first space station listed. And filter the teleport portal to show only space stations.
I have no idea how the game sorts space stations and you'll be visiting them all, one by one.
There is a way how to keep track which one you should go next and not return to a previous one - the same station is always placed on the spot you're currently at, but I cannot explain this properly so let's do what we always do with proper RPGs.
Pen and paper!
Make a table of a sort where you'll mark which station you've just arrived through a portal so you don't revisit any previous one (doesn't matter if you misclick and do, but it's wasting time). Something like this:
Keep your eyes on the names of stations while travelling, you might get what was I saying above that one is always at the spot you've just visited. If you get that you won't be needing a table on paper, but hey, a game where we won't write nothing on a paper ain't fun!
On every space station talk to missions agent and accept certain missions. Don't go do any, just walk from station to station and get missions. What certain missions now? Those where if you do just one, it automatically solves all others of the same type!
An example, if you accept 3 kill pirates missions then fly out of the base and kill just one, it'll complete all three missions. Regardless of how many stars pirates in missions had!
Take:
- kill pirates (any number of stars)
- kill creatures
- kill predators (any predator counts, even those that won't attack you but other lifeforms)
- kill sentinels (basically kill first three then go to your second base through a portal, kill again 3 there then portal back, then kill 2 more for total of 8 - or kill 3, enter/exit ship, reload autosave so they cooldown, rince repeat)
- scan minerals
- scan animals
- scan plants
- feed animals (on the planet where you made your first base you should be able to do this with ferrite dust - just hold E while near an animal, note that after a while these fed animals shit coprite)
- take photo of a land animal, underwater animal, small settlement or something that won't make you wasting too much of time
Do not take:
- kill quad sentinels (sentinel quads are fourlegged sentinels and you probably can't do them in just yet so skip those for now, feel free to take them when your multitool is fully built)
- raid planetary depot or harvester
- collect whatever item or items
- locate missing person
- take photo of whatever too much of time waste to get there (example, monolith you cba to travel to)
- deliver an item
- repair whatever
- defend or assault a freighter
Additional notes:
- If it says take a photo of manufacturing facility, you can't "cheat" it by taking a photo of Operations although it should be the same thing.
- You can take one kill monstrosities mission, but just one as it won't solve other such missions. However, it does count for killing creatures missions and you don't need to wait for those to spawn but you trigger their spawning by destroying eggs!
Once you passed all space stations and accepted numerous samey missions, do them one type then another. Any order will do. Start for example with exiting the station and killing a pirate then return, wait till the game runs through all "objective complete" messages and says "return to mission agent" then claim rewards at any station. Any. A mission agent on any station will reward completed missions regardless of where you get those and in this case by destroying just one pirate ship you got rewarded many times.
Then land on some planet you've never been before and scan everything, then kill something, etc…
Finish all of it, claim all rewards (cash and nanites, if you've received items as reward sell all of those).
You shoud end up with 30+ more millions in your wallet and almost 10K nanites, maybe more depending on your luck on how many appropriate missions appeared in space stations.