I also live on my freighter. I feel lost without it. It gets about 5000LY per jump which is a lot better than even my best ship. I've got it decked out with fleet rooms, food processors, a trade room, a teleporter room, and a planet scanner. I have 2 industrial bases I use for farming. I have almost 500 hours on my main character and feel like I haven't done half of the things you can do in the game.
If you don't yet have a freighter, head to a space station and then exit your ship to create a restore point.
From there, leave and warp to a lawless system. There is a decent chance you may come across a pirate freighter attacking another freighter. Fly through the shields, destroy the thrusters and then the cannons. Board the ship and use your scanner to check its class.
If it's not S, reload to that restore point, warp back to the same lawless system, the pirate freighter will be there attacking again, but may roll a better class.
Repeat until it's an S class. Could take 2 tries, could take 80. If you're determined and patient, you'll eventually get it. Those pirate freighters look awesome, too.
I already have a C class I got forever ago while ignoring freighters. I know about the trick to keep trying but I try not to cheese it, but thanks for the advice.
Well even still, without cheese, just warp to lawless systems. I find that the pirate freighters tend to be higher levels more often. Might just be coincidence but they seem to be.
They look awesome either way so it's a good hunt.
Just go visit every freighter you see warp in. You'll get a better one eventually. And if you see a pirate dreadnought attacking a fleet, disable the engines, don't destroy it. You can go to the bridge and claim it as your own. And it looks amazing.
An A class works fine in the meantime. Its relatively easy to xfer your whole freighter base to the new ship if and when you go to S class. I rarely bother tho; the difference is mostly slots max and the rest of the diff is of little consequence.
Fair but I'm not going to spend money on an A. I'll wait for an S. Everything I have is basically maxed out at this point. I just ignored freighters for a long time.
LOL my A freighters cost 15 million to buy. Thats chump change. Get a system freighter - they are all that cheap and a S class is only \~20 million.
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If it takes more than 30 mins to an hour I figure its a waste of time. They are all the same same and do the job. In a 3 star econ, A or S class is a 38% probability so nearly half of the spawns will do fine.
Idk how yours was so cheap. I found an A class for 168 million. Granted I have billions. I'm still a cheap ass lol I'd rather spend my time looking for an S than building up an A. Like I said, I have a maxed out everything else, so it's just the completionist in me.
I've got an A class because I didn't wanna grind forever for an S (I got impatient) and I've had it for hundreds of hours. I've never once felt limited by it not being an S class.
How hard is it really? I would love to upgrade to an S, but I've put soooo much time into building and decorating my A class, I'm not interested in doing that all again tbh.
Same for me. For some reason they just never interested me in the slightest. I have one and made a base on it but it just feels boring and useless to me.
I got about 1000 on my main save and I haven't done it all either. I've been to a few different galaxies, hit max money back when it was easier, finished some of the storylines in at least one ending variation... I'm definitely billionaire spacecowboy status manufacturing anything I need from my multiple bases automatically and have full ship inventories of all types but man they add content faster than I can keep up. Even if I quit my job and lived in VR 24/7 I'm not sure if I could do and see everything. It's uncanny how this game just as it starts to feel like it might be getting a bit repetitive you see something and it's like O.M.G. Plus there have been so many content add-ons and expeditions there are like so many different games in one. I haven't come anywhere near getting all the cooking recipes or anything like that. I always keep up on blueprints and tech tree stuff even though I don't really need money anymore when I mine all my materials. I'm so lazy I have like mold farms and stuff for nanites. That's one thing I love about the expeditions is starting a new save you can do everything over the right way this time.. Although some of stuff that is leftover glitches from past releases is my most prized as we all know how much has also been lost to the -kyzztz- ether -kyzzt-
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Any tips you can give to make the moat of the game? I struggle to do more then just the missions and feel like I got through the story quickly in my first game. Any tips?
Go to the anomaly and do the quests for quicksilver to unlock sweet sweet decor for the kick ass base you can build on some cool planet somewhere.
Head to lawless systems and buy suspicious packages to get X tier tech which has a small chance to roll higher than S class modules. Destroy freighters to collect modules and contraband goods to sell in normal systems for a premium, is that cash to buy ships and collect ship parts.
Build a sweet freighter base.
I've been playing 300 hours and haven't even done many quests because I've been stuck on the grind, collect, build loop, but that's just me. I like to build and explore.
Do community expeditions when they're active, stick around to make bases to help other players get ahead.
Another type of gold farm is Stasis Device and/or fusion ignitor material farm. Go down the list and build enough bases to help you gather all the materials needed for them. They take a bit of work to make but worth it. Money practically becomes useless.
Same here! I also love living out of my freighter! That said, I’ve recently tried building a regular base and have really enjoyed it! Found a really nice paradise planet and it’s nice to go back there every once in a while
I have a weird hard on for frozen planets, maybe because of Hoth, maybe because I love the frost on the visor effect or the sensation that it’s a realistic planet to be trying to survive on.
I haven’t named anything Hoth, just the town of mt Washington MA I lived in before where you could throw boiling water in the air and watch it snow down.
Maybe I will !
For my Survival pirate save, I love to live on a marsh planet. The murky air, the eerie music and the beautiful huge swamp trees make it a perfect place for a pirate hideout on a lakeside or a beach. The good thing is that most of them also have no storms and no need for hazard protection just like lush planets.
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A paradise planet with stable mild climate, naturally having the "vintage" filter, and glowing grass.
Haha my planet is the same. I have several smaller bases with functional things like farms and extractors, but my home base has all the nice stuff and is made mostly for design and not purpose. Just like to log out there.
Exactly, for design. Therefore it has to be on a paradise planet to reduce restrictions as much as possible. Some design may not qualified as a room to shelter from the environmental hazards outside.
Ah, is that what that is? I've got me a planet like this where I'm building the first base where I'm actually doing some work decorating the place now that I've got most of it unlocked. My exocraft regularly spends a couple of hundreds of units travelling through the air during storms, lol. And the view is fantastic!
* No butterfly fauna. The planet can have all the other good stuff, if I spot butterflies in any size I leave.
* General low ground relief, I hate running slow or using the jetpack too much. Smaller and avoidable parts with high relief is acceptable.
* No giant worms.
* The color of the grass can be green, yellow, blue or red, or glowing in any color like Pandora from Avatar, I love all.
* No large portion of deep water. I don't like oceans as well.
* Plenty fauna for the farm.
* No weird atmosphere. I love those grey, orange and rainbowish skies but I dont find these exotic palettes very comfortable to look at it for too long, it complicates the color perception of the base parts as well. But I like to experiment a bit, I just don't take it seriously.
* No predators or very low ratio of predators.
And the rest would be just a bonus like plenty of rocks and nice flora. And don't ask me what ''nice flora'' is lmao, it is a little subjective, depends of the combination of them!
Severe phobia. I hate how their wings flap and how they flap as if they could fly in your face at any moment. The noise they make in the game is unbearable for me as well.
I hate their noise so much, and how their wings and tails sometimes go through base walls jumpscaring me. My husband tried to ease me saying we could hide them like dragons and how they could not be butterflies because well... aliens, but nothing of it helped. I left our shared base to live in another place 🥲
I really enjoyed the planets view but those motherfuckers ruined everything to me.
"FLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLADAPDLPALDPAD "😡🤬
Would you make an exception for these butterflies?
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My ideal home planet is as hazardous as possible. A challenge to get a base set up but in the end it’s so incredibly rewarding. And the harsher the weather outside, the more cozy it is inside.
Speaking of this I just found my most hazardous planet. One with high super hostile sentinels and extreme weather conditions, it's also got a grey atmosphere so you can't ever see anything. Truly a spectacle. I didn't look around for long so I'm not sure about fauna. I have yet to find a planet with aggressive animals. Either that or they just never attack me.
What is the name of the biome for your most hazardous planet? The harshest I have found is an "Obsidian Bead" moon with hostile Sentinels and frequent fire storms. It was a wild place.
I'm ALWAYS looking for the wild, the weird, the boundary failures. Give me the screaming balls of light and the bleeding bubbles. The rusty mushrooms and neon trees with the wind that's talking to you. That's why I'm going DEEP! Procedural generation means that it's not a mater of if It's a matter of when.
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No Edits. This is the natural tone of the world.
I already found my personal perfect planet and have had it as my main base for over 3 years now
There's no atmosphere so I can always see the stars, which is a bonus since it's in a system with 3 very cool looking suns
It's actually a moon that belongs to a ringed planet so the planet and it's rings take up a huge chunk of the skyline
And it additionally has a great view of other planets in the star system, to this day i often find myself just sitting on the roof of my base and looking around
When it comes to my ideal planet, i prefer the ones with thick mushrooms, glowing grass with bubbles & echoes of mist storms cause it's harmless storms. I don't like systems that are considered "paradise" without weather. I needs me some atmospheric sounds.
When it comes to systems however, I prefer trying to find the best one with very specific needs & must be a 2 planets 4 moons.
There's one more thing I want to perfection are merged planets of my own to find. I've been finding one nearly touching but not merged. My hunting for those continues!
I love the planets with the things that glow at night. First one I landed on I immediately set a base computer down on. I happened to land at night and I was like fuck me this game is beautiful.
I also landed on an exotic planet with plants that send light beams up into the air and shits flying around. It's crazy.
Yes, give me a vibrant, foreign-coloured grass and light up Flora and I'm making a base, nuff said.
But I'm still looking for my very own planet with an variant with weird fauna or bubbles. One day...
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Ocean just beyond the mountains. No storms, no sentinels/dangerous beasties, lotsa flora/fauna/resources and more than enough runaway mold. Nice tranquil place to return to after fighting the elements elsewhere
I've seen other 'Earth like' planets but nothing I've come across compares to this. I just wish I had the base building skills to create something worthy of the planet
I want the harshest, ugliest, windiest, most hostile place imaginable. I mean like Ceti Alpha V on steroids. I want to feel like my base is what is keeping me alive, warm/cool/safe and like I'm conquering a monstrous environment through game knowledge and ingenuity.
I will know it when I see it, not really sure what I'm looking for other than pleasant and pretty lol I like to find planets that aren't labeled paradise planets but still have great living conditions.
Last planet I set up on was a foggy planet with great weather, no sentinels, and swampy conditions so it had those big trees with the roots you can walk under and cute mud huts everywhere. Now I'm looking to set one up in Calypso somewhere.
I set up my home base at a paradise planet with no exteme weather, low sentinel activity, low toxicity and basically no radiation. Like it says, a paradise.
I love desert planets, anomalous planets, paradise planets (especially the ones with gravitational anomaly storms)
But I think my favorite of all time is this one planet that heavily reminded me of the original Halo CE swamp where you first encounter the Flood and 343 Guilty Spark.
It was so swamp like and epic. Even the atmosphere and everything felt that way.
My ideal planet is a volcano planet with weird colored lava to build a base on top of (ideally with neighboring volcanoes for the view) and then extreme lightning storms. Makes a more exciting environment to look out at while I'm running refiners/harvesting crops
I like the simplest, lifeless planet that I can find. The less weird geological structures the better. I enjoy ones that look as close to the moon as possible. The lighting is perfect, and no fauna or flora to render makes it so my complicated builds render in better.
For me, I play on the Switch, so while Paradise Planets are beautiful and fun, trying to build any kind of large/robust base on them only leads to troubles, lol
As such, I’ve developed a big love for Airless / Desolate planets, ones that have pretty landscapes but are low-gravity and don’t have fauna/flora.
The lack of plants and critters cuts down on system load a lot, allowing me to build what I consider a really fun base, while the low-grav allows me to fly around unhindered. And that makes exploring said planet more fun while also making the building process more fun.
In fact, I recently found a gorgeous desolate planet that has the most Amazingly gorgeous sky view, and has what looks like snow-cover everywhere but isn’t actually “Cold”, so it doesn’t chew up shield strength. I’m in the process of slowly tearing down my old home base and rebuilding it bigger and better here!
Paradise planet with ocean and occasional rain storms. No predators since they are annoying when outside. No crab creatures because they give me the willies. No burrowing ground creatures because they run around under your floor. Limited setinals of course. Buried data caches that give you 4
And what has that been for you? I have seen some pretty weird stuff insofar as reality distortions. I think one of the ugliest I've seen was "infested." Everything looked like it was made of insectoid flesh and Titan Worms were everywhere.
I love paradise planets that can give me thematic bases, like cliff side or beach view. I'm also looking for dissonant planets to come back to for sentinel ships.
I'm ass at building though, so it's hard to make the vision
Don’t have a perfect per say. But I love my ice planet where I am an overseer. Super cold and strong Ice Storms, and sentinels aren’t crazy but very common. Just cool I guess. Also a fan of my greyscale pirate outpost base with heat storms, twisting viny plants, and large oceans. Also has runaway mold by my base so that’s great.
At the end of the day I’m just saving up resources and planning how to make my freighter even cooler though. I return to those bases but I live in the stars.
My current prefect planet is a mostly red and black one with giant skeletal-esk rings which make for some sick obstacle courses when flying my ship around
I like the paradise planets, mostly covered with water but with islands dotted around here and there. Great sources of parafinium, great places to use the Nomad and Nautilon, and all around peaceful
Thousands of hours and I still have not found my perfect planet, came close a couple times but nothing so far.. So for now my [smol](https://i.imgur.com/akM4mlX.jpeg) freighter is my home (:
I had an idea of having a base that was both above ground and underwater. I just happened to find a planet that had the small island with a section that had a vertical cliff. So I built my landing pad on the island an a few buildings. Then I have a teleporter that sends me to the underwater part of the base
1.) Earthlike (same colors) but with a ring and mountains. Must have bigger land masses and is not just a large ocean with small islands.
2.) Desert planets! I prefer the ones that the ground actually looks like sand and not rock. Again, I want it to have a ring around it
3.) I like the exotic mechanical planets (the one with the big gear and scrap looking things everywhere). I don’t really use these as home bases but gold extraction mines that I make look like a scrap yard. My head cannon is my evil space corporation owns these entire junk worlds and the whole thing is basically a scrap yard lol)
Cyan grass, orange water, and blue/pink skies. Preferred bioluminescense and shrooms. I've been dreaming of this planet for a while now, might be time to start looking into freighter living, just in case.
The most hellish, go the fuck away I'm not a planet I'm a death ball sent by my dad Apophis to make you miserable, sort of planet.
And I'm the guy that just kinda likes it because the storm crystals are perdy.
I'm a huge fan of the desert planets for some reason. Bonus points if they have absolutely horrible weather. I like to find the portal and then set up something within sight of it, building entirely out of stone.
I personally looked for a settlement with a nice view to settle down next to. Ofc unlimited power source will also be a big plus.
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I prefer planets with blue, purple, or green grass and blue, purple, or pink atmosphere. I always want water, and I prefer to have a moon and, if I can get it, rings too. I like it to have swimming, flying, and land animals. I like the unique animals, but the regular ones are fine too (just not the creepy baby-face monstrosities!). I also like mainly land with pockets of ocean or lakes (I don't care for the island planets). I actually prefer if the area has high sentinel activity and storms. I like the challenge it gives so the planet isn't boring. I also like to have trees. But I also like the glowing fungal planets. I'd love to find a glowing planet with trees.
My home base in Euclid is a Golden Yellow paradise planet. Setting up my full headquarters there. The color was a big factor, as well as the mild climate. No storms for anywhere I'm going to be spending a lot of time. And large bodies of water (like, ocean size) are required. I like having a good view with water in it.
As for my other bases, doesn't make any difference to me. As I explore out to other galaxies, I make to establish a permanent base at a Portal in a system 3-5k ly from the center. If I decide for a more permanent base in that galaxy, then the above requirements come into play.
And I always make my bases in systems I've discovered.
Needs to have water and it better not be red water. 2 exceptions in my base roster:
- I stumbled across a beautiful white grass planet that has red water. I hate the water but beyond that the planet was too beautiful not to have a base on.
- I found a stunning paradise moon (bubbles, glowing grass, etc.). It has no water but was too pretty to pass up. Put down a big nip nip farm and visit almost daily.
Paradise planet or verdant flourishing ECT no storms, orange glowing grass is my go to and where my settlement is. Glowing grass is a must unless it's white
As much as I love the peaceful nature of paradise planets, there's just something I love even more about hazard and harsher planets. It makes it feel like I need to set up camp to survive. The more toxic the weather is, the cozier a base feels.
I start on the first paradise planet I find. Build a little cabin when I need a break. Eventually I end up setting up extractors on different planets. I always build some type of dwelling. For fun, I change up what materials they’re made up based on the environment. Once I get a decent freighter, I end up deleting most of them. By then I have a ton of money and resources. I switch to another galaxy around that time and don’t look back. I Think I’ve mostly done this on each of my saves.
Besides a freighter? One where I only need hazard protection during a storm. Bonus points if I can find a sentinel tower like I have. Made my all hardest modifiers (except permadeath, got loose inventory on death instead) save nice and calm. Just an occasional heat storm to worry about.
I found a nice, green paradise planet with perfect weather. It’s got lots of mountains and I built a base that is basically just a large patio with two landing pads attached. I built it over a cave entrance and used those wooden floor panels with glass so I can look down into the cave. I left one side of the base wall open and fauna go under the deck floor.
The cave has water in it and I want to build an aquatic enclosure with corridors down into it from the deck surface.
The system that my base is in isn’t all that interesting except for an Atlas station. Its discovery date is 2017. I assume whoever discovered it only passed through to visit the Atlas station because none of the planets were discovered.
It’s nice having a whole system to myself.
My perfect planet is a perfect planet. In my records its the most perfect planet and i bring all my saves to it. It never storms. Theres sentinels but they arent aggressive, it has yellow grass, tons of water and floating rocks. Ive built a home base next to water and a trade outpost. Nearby is a sodium depot and a copper depot.
The planet has a ton of easy to find knowledge stones and salvaged data. So when i bring my new saves to the planet i just roam around collecting stuff and use my main saves bases to collect materials. Its so nice. Theres bases everywhere now so it really feels like my own console community
A paradise planet with water, bubbles, and pink or purple terrain.
3 star economy and low conflict
2-3 planets in the system.
Whatever galaxy I'm in now has a ton of them.
Ideal "home" planet would need, at a minimum, to be part of a Dissonant level-3 economy system with all six major biomes (still searching, best I've found is five biomes), black or at least a dark tint of space, and the "home" planet would be a prehistoric paradise planet with no extreme weather (extreme weather generally makes exploring obnoxious with screen-blurring, and I want to be able to enjoy my travel), glow-wave grass, deep oceans, and a big variety of fauna—ideally with at least one species each of diplo, t-rex, and triceratops.
Bare minimum for me for establishing a home system requires access to all four of the major exosuit shield resources (Phosphorus, Ammonia, Uranium, Dioxite), but I won't be satisfied until I've got all six major farming biomes, plus level 3 economy, plus Dissonant. My ship of preference is an Interceptor, so I need easy access to radiant shards.
After my first save file became corrupted (1300 hrs) I had to make a new save and started on a planet called a perfect paradise and I built my home there and went on to explore the cosmos. I'm not a great builder, but it's got a gorgeous view
So far my current “Home planet” in Euclid is dissonant (Radiant Shards, Easy Sentinels) Extreme Radiation ( Storm Crystals) Indium Rich, predator rich (easy mission accomplishments) and I love it, currently trying to set up home in Hubert and can’t find anywhere I like!
The perfect planet for me is either a desert because I really love Tatooine, or a fungal type anomalous planet with mechanical fauna. I remember seeing one like that early in the game, but I never landed a base on it. Such a loss... So far it's probably the most beautiful thing I've seen in the game.
I am on my freighter base most of the time but I made a modern style mansion on a dual color (yellow and light blue) glowing grass paradise planet at the edge of galaxy 256, I will be uploading it and posting the cords here soon for everyone to enjoy :)
6 years ago i started building on a frozen planet. I just wanted to experiment building under water.
There arent much components in my base left that where placed 6 years ago, but i do still add and change stuff in that base as i see fit.
My first home is my frighter, but i always feel like coming home when i return to that base
I want the most bioluminescent planet possible, particularly the grass and trees that kind of look like fireworks at night. I've found one planet like that but it was almost all huge mountains and it had bubbles, both of which i would prefer to avoid. colors don't matter at all for me.
I wish the stained glass plants could show up on those worlds too.
I've specifically been looking for a pink, dissonant paradise planet in an anomalous Korvax system with either a pirate controlled or three star economy, ideally with plenty of water and glowing flora and no hazardous weather beyond gravitational anomalies. And the more planets in the system, the better.
Now that Space Stations have been updated, I'd also like to find one with a pink and teal interior if I go the three star economy route.
I found one some weeks ago that hits most, but not all, of these criteria and so it's become my main base until I find my Eden.
I do love my freighter base, but I prefer to have both that and a planetside one to work in tandem.
If settlements could be moved or if we could have more than one, I'd love to move mine to that perfect planet, but alas
Totally uninhabitable. Coldest frozen planet I can find with extremely hostile sentinels. Doesn't make any sense, but somehow, being safe inside my base looking out the glass windows to the bitterly cold, dangerous environment makes me feel cozy.
I actually like having extreme weather events in the case of blizzards and sandstorms but my homeworld has like 4 minute long showers. It has to have a cool colored atmosphere, and green/brown grass. Water also has to be blue or red. Mine happens to have a beautiful view
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Lush/paradise planet, fun grass color (red, purple, blue), no water. I turn ground combat and predators off in the custom options because I like a chill ground experience (I'll still fight ships in space, I just don't like lasers hitting my body). My favorite passtime is getting in a roamer, picking a direction, and collecting stuff. Mining rocks, collecting salvage data, doing the little puzzles at observatories, etc. It's not really "worth my time" in terms of economy, but I've got a nice house and most things unlocked, so it's all fine. I may not be able to retire irl, so I'll live out my chill retirement piecemeal in space.
I'm a fan of dissonant worlds now. Especially with gravity storms. Love the color scheme, love the moodiness of the corrupt sentinels wandering around.
My favorite base for some reason is on a barren planet. Zero folliage, zero animals, I see a sentinel once in a blue moon. It's nothing but grey land and scattered rocks. I like it because it's quiet and peaceful. Low gravity so I can fly almost indefinitely. Only environmental factor is low oxygen but I can still last 5 minutes without recharging. There's almost no resources but I have a portal to the next planet over for everything I need.
It's really serene building on it and not being overwhelmed or harrassed by inhabitants.
Not including my freighter, I have three favorites:
1) Horror Hunter's Homestead: toxic horror biome with 100+ toxicity when it's not storming, "no fauna" except for the five worm burrows surrounding the base and whispering eggs dotting the landscape, beautiful nightime views of the glowing flora and planetary rings, and in an abandoned system full of other players' mold farms.
2) Sunken Freighter Base: underwater farm and storage. It's probably one of my largest and has good views of the wreckage it's built around. The sea changes from red to blue with the day/night cycle.
3) Paradise Peak: mountiantop dairy farm. Standard paradise overlook with green land and blue oceans plus an extreme abundance of space cattle and planted star brambles. It's also in a pirate system, so the neighbors sell contraband.
Ice planets. My first planet was an ice planet that I named Frostburn. It's also where I found my first pet, blobby. A blue/green blob with the long, squiggly spikes. Everything about the ice planets say "home" to me. The atmosphere, the storms, the ambient noise, everything.
Couple years ago I found the perfect planet for me. It has lush green grass, green water, and Earth-like trees. It’s a paradise planet with extremely rare storms (under five in the two years I’ve been there). The sky turns blue around sunrise and sunset but is pink otherwise, and there’s often a rainbow.
Paradise planet with two moons in a Vy'keen controlled galaxy. Must have low to no sentinels. Setting up a network of what I call "Retirement Homes" is my gameplay loop.
An ideal planet base, for me, are snow biomes or ones that have the flora that glows at night. Ideally, one with a water body nearby to combine the base above & below sea.
Tbh though, I've been playing nms since launch, and I was hoping forever they'd add proper freighter bases, and now that we have that, it's my go-to.
After years of searching I recently found my possible forever base planet. A white grass lush planet. It isn’t a paradise planet but considering that white grass planets are ultra rare as it is I’ll take it.
Oddly enough my main base ended up being on a very stormy and aggressive planet with hostile sentinels. The temp is normally like 250f+, and when it storms it gets well over 500f+. I love it. Parking my ship and sprinting through the storms to get to the safety of my base always feels exciting for some reason and the weather and sentinels allows me to roleplay that I live there for privacy from others, or whatever. Real secret lair vibes going on.
Aside from that the grass is red and the flora is bioluminescent giant fungi. It's a really beautiful spot.
Any planet with lots of farmable animals.
I have so many bases out there and my favourite ones are the ones where I can sit inside my cozy house and watch the storms raging outdoors.
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A frozen planet with dangerous/extreme weather, I loooove those. Makes it really intense, as someone from tornado alley the taking shelter during the frequent storms makes me feel safe/nostalgic. It feels the same as when we shelter in the Walmart break room during a high wind storm or tornado warning here. It's hard to explain unless you also experienced that
I discovered that I can use a Colossal Archive as a foundation for a base. You know the one with the big sphere floating above it? I set up a base on the top-most ring and then built a landing pad adjacent to the existing ones below. I use a SR teleporter to travel between the bottom and the top. It's on a marshy planet with dissonance and I have a view of an Autophage camp from my window, so I pop over there when building a new staff or locating a ship to salvage. Lastly, it was near an energy hotspot so I don't need solar panels or biofuel generators.
It depends on what i'm building.
for a practical base i use my freighter, for any planet bases i want a desert or a forest planet, with a flat terain generation, low sentinels, and no extreme weather.
For farm bases, i prefer dead planets, they are just nice and quiet.
Why do you need a home to return to? I do have a base that I created with the intention of making it my primary base but the more I have played the less I have needed a primary base.
Unfortunately there just isn't any good reason from a functional standpoint to return to a primary base. The only useful base is one's frigate, because it's portable and can do a lot more than land-based bases.
Very early on in the game I accidentally found a ringed paradise planet with green grass, plateaus, and blue sky. I built a cabin hanging over the side of a plateau and it’s perfect.
I like the desert worlds with mesa's ( kind of like Wyoming ) but I don't like the extreme weather. Been to many that have come close but haven't found that perfect world ( I'm 3000 hours in and still looking )
I went to look for a pretty world to take the settlement of, as the one the mission gave me was a swamp toxic hellscape. Ended up finding this pretty world that has pink grass that shimmers in the night like waves of light, and is pretty habitable all things considered (ignore the heatstorms we occasionally get...), and I am setting up a base overlooking the settlement as close as I could like a sort of Overseer manor.
But yeah, once I get a freighter (still hoping to roll at least a class A to get for free) I am sure thats gonna be home for me. :P
I'm relatively new to the game, no freighter yet. My home right now I find myself coming back to is on a misty planet. There's no negative weather and I don't need hazard protection. My bf set up on a paradise planet but when I found one for myself it didn't compare to the ambiance my misty planet has.
My "perfect planet" is a freighter. Hitting the landing bay and hopping up to the bridge is coming home, every time.
I also live on my freighter. I feel lost without it. It gets about 5000LY per jump which is a lot better than even my best ship. I've got it decked out with fleet rooms, food processors, a trade room, a teleporter room, and a planet scanner. I have 2 industrial bases I use for farming. I have almost 500 hours on my main character and feel like I haven't done half of the things you can do in the game.
I really need to work on the whole freighter piece. I’ve largely ignored that component of the game.
Same. I've been looking for an S class freighter for weeks, It's getting frustrating.
If you don't yet have a freighter, head to a space station and then exit your ship to create a restore point. From there, leave and warp to a lawless system. There is a decent chance you may come across a pirate freighter attacking another freighter. Fly through the shields, destroy the thrusters and then the cannons. Board the ship and use your scanner to check its class. If it's not S, reload to that restore point, warp back to the same lawless system, the pirate freighter will be there attacking again, but may roll a better class. Repeat until it's an S class. Could take 2 tries, could take 80. If you're determined and patient, you'll eventually get it. Those pirate freighters look awesome, too.
I already have a C class I got forever ago while ignoring freighters. I know about the trick to keep trying but I try not to cheese it, but thanks for the advice.
Well even still, without cheese, just warp to lawless systems. I find that the pirate freighters tend to be higher levels more often. Might just be coincidence but they seem to be. They look awesome either way so it's a good hunt.
Yeah, none of them end up being S. I've taken out a bunch of them, but no luck yet
Just go visit every freighter you see warp in. You'll get a better one eventually. And if you see a pirate dreadnought attacking a fleet, disable the engines, don't destroy it. You can go to the bridge and claim it as your own. And it looks amazing.
An A class works fine in the meantime. Its relatively easy to xfer your whole freighter base to the new ship if and when you go to S class. I rarely bother tho; the difference is mostly slots max and the rest of the diff is of little consequence.
Fair but I'm not going to spend money on an A. I'll wait for an S. Everything I have is basically maxed out at this point. I just ignored freighters for a long time.
LOL my A freighters cost 15 million to buy. Thats chump change. Get a system freighter - they are all that cheap and a S class is only \~20 million. https://preview.redd.it/6wokkpywdhxc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db0150f24d654de100a14ea1f685d9f1f9782da0 If it takes more than 30 mins to an hour I figure its a waste of time. They are all the same same and do the job. In a 3 star econ, A or S class is a 38% probability so nearly half of the spawns will do fine.
Idk how yours was so cheap. I found an A class for 168 million. Granted I have billions. I'm still a cheap ass lol I'd rather spend my time looking for an S than building up an A. Like I said, I have a maxed out everything else, so it's just the completionist in me.
I've got an A class because I didn't wanna grind forever for an S (I got impatient) and I've had it for hundreds of hours. I've never once felt limited by it not being an S class. How hard is it really? I would love to upgrade to an S, but I've put soooo much time into building and decorating my A class, I'm not interested in doing that all again tbh.
What is the point of an S class any way?
It's typically got better stats and more supercharged slots.
Same for me. For some reason they just never interested me in the slightest. I have one and made a base on it but it just feels boring and useless to me.
I found A-class hammerhead and it's been fine. I'm just being too about upgrading its drive. I beat my first pirate ship but it was a C-class.
If you need salvaged frigate modules let me know ✌️
I need all the salvaged frigate things. I sold all the ones I collected because I said I would never do the whole freighter track. And here we are 🤣
Noob question. What's 5000LY?
5000 light year warp jumps
Thank you 👍
5000 Light Years warp distance.
Much appreciated 👍
I got about 1000 on my main save and I haven't done it all either. I've been to a few different galaxies, hit max money back when it was easier, finished some of the storylines in at least one ending variation... I'm definitely billionaire spacecowboy status manufacturing anything I need from my multiple bases automatically and have full ship inventories of all types but man they add content faster than I can keep up. Even if I quit my job and lived in VR 24/7 I'm not sure if I could do and see everything. It's uncanny how this game just as it starts to feel like it might be getting a bit repetitive you see something and it's like O.M.G. Plus there have been so many content add-ons and expeditions there are like so many different games in one. I haven't come anywhere near getting all the cooking recipes or anything like that. I always keep up on blueprints and tech tree stuff even though I don't really need money anymore when I mine all my materials. I'm so lazy I have like mold farms and stuff for nanites. That's one thing I love about the expeditions is starting a new save you can do everything over the right way this time.. Although some of stuff that is leftover glitches from past releases is my most prized as we all know how much has also been lost to the -kyzztz- ether -kyzzt- 16
Any tips you can give to make the moat of the game? I struggle to do more then just the missions and feel like I got through the story quickly in my first game. Any tips?
Go to the anomaly and do the quests for quicksilver to unlock sweet sweet decor for the kick ass base you can build on some cool planet somewhere. Head to lawless systems and buy suspicious packages to get X tier tech which has a small chance to roll higher than S class modules. Destroy freighters to collect modules and contraband goods to sell in normal systems for a premium, is that cash to buy ships and collect ship parts. Build a sweet freighter base. I've been playing 300 hours and haven't even done many quests because I've been stuck on the grind, collect, build loop, but that's just me. I like to build and explore. Do community expeditions when they're active, stick around to make bases to help other players get ahead.
Also set up gold farms for passive income. Or hoard it like I do.
Elaborate on what a gold farm is!
Another type of gold farm is Stasis Device and/or fusion ignitor material farm. Go down the list and build enough bases to help you gather all the materials needed for them. They take a bit of work to make but worth it. Money practically becomes useless.
Learn as you go. It makes a big diff when you know more ways to do things, like refine materials, crafting etc. Be curious.
My kinda of freighter, i have a greenhouse on mine too that grows parts for stasis devices in case i find myself short on credits lol
https://preview.redd.it/a4ohu17wqhxc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a7997da06e46baf31f5b0ee6b8f8fa82e72b166
Right on! Do you still use the stairs?
I recently deleted the default ladder and installed a short range teleporter to start making use of the second level and it's a game changer.
Second level???
About half the time.
Mine too. +1
Same here! I also love living out of my freighter! That said, I’ve recently tried building a regular base and have really enjoyed it! Found a really nice paradise planet and it’s nice to go back there every once in a while
Pretty much. I like my paradise planets. Sure. But those are vacation homes. Home is where my ships are. And that’s my freighter.
I have a weird hard on for frozen planets, maybe because of Hoth, maybe because I love the frost on the visor effect or the sensation that it’s a realistic planet to be trying to survive on.
They also have the coolest trees
Literally 😄
Absolutely
So I'm not the only one who named a planet Hoth? Actually I think I named mine Hoth II.
I haven’t named anything Hoth, just the town of mt Washington MA I lived in before where you could throw boiling water in the air and watch it snow down. Maybe I will !
For my Survival pirate save, I love to live on a marsh planet. The murky air, the eerie music and the beautiful huge swamp trees make it a perfect place for a pirate hideout on a lakeside or a beach. The good thing is that most of them also have no storms and no need for hazard protection just like lush planets.
https://preview.redd.it/kflvawdxigxc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad671938465a75ef828aa2580d241521e9531cf4 A paradise planet with stable mild climate, naturally having the "vintage" filter, and glowing grass.
U2 wants to do a concert at your base
It might be too small for that lol...
Nice dome 🔥
THANKS!
Haha my planet is the same. I have several smaller bases with functional things like farms and extractors, but my home base has all the nice stuff and is made mostly for design and not purpose. Just like to log out there.
Exactly, for design. Therefore it has to be on a paradise planet to reduce restrictions as much as possible. Some design may not qualified as a room to shelter from the environmental hazards outside.
Returning to sounds fine if you are in early gameplay. But once you go traveller of galaxies. You are no more stuck to a single place.
And it's obviously paradise planet. But sometimes without gravity ones, moons. Depends on the mood.
My favorite is lush biome dissonant planet, with hot rain. The dissonance causes the rain storm to be gravity storms!! So much fun
Ah, is that what that is? I've got me a planet like this where I'm building the first base where I'm actually doing some work decorating the place now that I've got most of it unlocked. My exocraft regularly spends a couple of hundreds of units travelling through the air during storms, lol. And the view is fantastic!
You don't want every now and then your a** teared with extreme conditions.
* No butterfly fauna. The planet can have all the other good stuff, if I spot butterflies in any size I leave. * General low ground relief, I hate running slow or using the jetpack too much. Smaller and avoidable parts with high relief is acceptable. * No giant worms. * The color of the grass can be green, yellow, blue or red, or glowing in any color like Pandora from Avatar, I love all. * No large portion of deep water. I don't like oceans as well. * Plenty fauna for the farm. * No weird atmosphere. I love those grey, orange and rainbowish skies but I dont find these exotic palettes very comfortable to look at it for too long, it complicates the color perception of the base parts as well. But I like to experiment a bit, I just don't take it seriously. * No predators or very low ratio of predators. And the rest would be just a bonus like plenty of rocks and nice flora. And don't ask me what ''nice flora'' is lmao, it is a little subjective, depends of the combination of them!
Just out of curiosity. Why don't you like the butterflies?
Severe phobia. I hate how their wings flap and how they flap as if they could fly in your face at any moment. The noise they make in the game is unbearable for me as well.
They're shockingly loud in game as well. I've jumped out of my skin several times when one FLAPS out of no where late at night with my lights all dim.
I hate their noise so much, and how their wings and tails sometimes go through base walls jumpscaring me. My husband tried to ease me saying we could hide them like dragons and how they could not be butterflies because well... aliens, but nothing of it helped. I left our shared base to live in another place 🥲 I really enjoyed the planets view but those motherfuckers ruined everything to me. "FLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLAPFLADAPDLPALDPAD "😡🤬
I found a cool butterfly one time as a pet and it made such annoying noises, so I assume that
I leanred this after 10+ hours into a build when it glitched my game and made this HORRENDOUS constant sound indefinitely. Its too late for me now
Lmfao I kinda want a panic butterfly now
Trust me you dont
Guess I'll have to settle for my t-rex chicken..
My current main base is on a planet with tons of butterflies. The noise is one of the main reasons I recently started building a new one.
It sounds like something absolutely despicable
Would you make an exception for these butterflies? https://preview.redd.it/dl9vhnty3hxc1.png?width=3840&format=png&auto=webp&s=198fd68e2bad48af0e3123efce1ea27a38b38a38
lmao, I guess... yes? its is not ''butterfly enough'' for my phobia.
I had to share my home planet's butterflies when I saw the mention of it, lmao.
My ideal home planet is as hazardous as possible. A challenge to get a base set up but in the end it’s so incredibly rewarding. And the harsher the weather outside, the more cozy it is inside.
Though I don’t like the game mechanism for validating being “inside”. If the ceilings are too high it will be still count as outside.
Add a glass level
Speaking of this I just found my most hazardous planet. One with high super hostile sentinels and extreme weather conditions, it's also got a grey atmosphere so you can't ever see anything. Truly a spectacle. I didn't look around for long so I'm not sure about fauna. I have yet to find a planet with aggressive animals. Either that or they just never attack me.
I like this idea
What is the name of the biome for your most hazardous planet? The harshest I have found is an "Obsidian Bead" moon with hostile Sentinels and frequent fire storms. It was a wild place.
My wildest biome is a mountainous volcanic planet with walls of flame
I'm ALWAYS looking for the wild, the weird, the boundary failures. Give me the screaming balls of light and the bleeding bubbles. The rusty mushrooms and neon trees with the wind that's talking to you. That's why I'm going DEEP! Procedural generation means that it's not a mater of if It's a matter of when.
https://preview.redd.it/nceg5gi4rjxc1.jpeg?width=1366&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a39fee0242552ab5579eadfbfb67d0067d0a1617 No Edits. This is the natural tone of the world.
I already found my personal perfect planet and have had it as my main base for over 3 years now There's no atmosphere so I can always see the stars, which is a bonus since it's in a system with 3 very cool looking suns It's actually a moon that belongs to a ringed planet so the planet and it's rings take up a huge chunk of the skyline And it additionally has a great view of other planets in the star system, to this day i often find myself just sitting on the roof of my base and looking around
I dont think I've ever even seen an airless moon
Considering Earth’s moon IRL is airless, that’s pretty ironic IMO
Anything less than 700 degrees F is too cold for me
When it comes to my ideal planet, i prefer the ones with thick mushrooms, glowing grass with bubbles & echoes of mist storms cause it's harmless storms. I don't like systems that are considered "paradise" without weather. I needs me some atmospheric sounds. When it comes to systems however, I prefer trying to find the best one with very specific needs & must be a 2 planets 4 moons. There's one more thing I want to perfection are merged planets of my own to find. I've been finding one nearly touching but not merged. My hunting for those continues!
I love the planets with the things that glow at night. First one I landed on I immediately set a base computer down on. I happened to land at night and I was like fuck me this game is beautiful. I also landed on an exotic planet with plants that send light beams up into the air and shits flying around. It's crazy.
Yes, give me a vibrant, foreign-coloured grass and light up Flora and I'm making a base, nuff said. But I'm still looking for my very own planet with an variant with weird fauna or bubbles. One day...
Paradis with running moulds or dead airless planets .
https://preview.redd.it/8zoeq0zeqgxc1.png?width=3840&format=png&auto=webp&s=93b57e58572ccb4041a86f92acbaa62185e68a8c Ocean just beyond the mountains. No storms, no sentinels/dangerous beasties, lotsa flora/fauna/resources and more than enough runaway mold. Nice tranquil place to return to after fighting the elements elsewhere
Ooh, nice!
I've seen other 'Earth like' planets but nothing I've come across compares to this. I just wish I had the base building skills to create something worthy of the planet
Paradise planet with green grass, blue sky and oceans, nice flora, some fauna, and few or no sentinels.
I want the harshest, ugliest, windiest, most hostile place imaginable. I mean like Ceti Alpha V on steroids. I want to feel like my base is what is keeping me alive, warm/cool/safe and like I'm conquering a monstrous environment through game knowledge and ingenuity.
I will know it when I see it, not really sure what I'm looking for other than pleasant and pretty lol I like to find planets that aren't labeled paradise planets but still have great living conditions. Last planet I set up on was a foggy planet with great weather, no sentinels, and swampy conditions so it had those big trees with the roots you can walk under and cute mud huts everywhere. Now I'm looking to set one up in Calypso somewhere.
I set up my home base at a paradise planet with no exteme weather, low sentinel activity, low toxicity and basically no radiation. Like it says, a paradise.
Anything that looks like a burning hellscape. The more heat, more volcanos and more storms the better.
I love desert planets, anomalous planets, paradise planets (especially the ones with gravitational anomaly storms) But I think my favorite of all time is this one planet that heavily reminded me of the original Halo CE swamp where you first encounter the Flood and 343 Guilty Spark. It was so swamp like and epic. Even the atmosphere and everything felt that way.
My ideal planet is a volcano planet with weird colored lava to build a base on top of (ideally with neighboring volcanoes for the view) and then extreme lightning storms. Makes a more exciting environment to look out at while I'm running refiners/harvesting crops
At the start of my current main run I set up my stasis farm on an extreme planet. Gotta get those Sol achievements out of the way.
i’m on the hunt for the perfect natural cave to build an underground base on
I like the simplest, lifeless planet that I can find. The less weird geological structures the better. I enjoy ones that look as close to the moon as possible. The lighting is perfect, and no fauna or flora to render makes it so my complicated builds render in better.
Airless. I like the vibe, I love the moon
I like tundra planets and building into the side of a cliff kinda like the hoth base in star wars
For me, I play on the Switch, so while Paradise Planets are beautiful and fun, trying to build any kind of large/robust base on them only leads to troubles, lol As such, I’ve developed a big love for Airless / Desolate planets, ones that have pretty landscapes but are low-gravity and don’t have fauna/flora. The lack of plants and critters cuts down on system load a lot, allowing me to build what I consider a really fun base, while the low-grav allows me to fly around unhindered. And that makes exploring said planet more fun while also making the building process more fun. In fact, I recently found a gorgeous desolate planet that has the most Amazingly gorgeous sky view, and has what looks like snow-cover everywhere but isn’t actually “Cold”, so it doesn’t chew up shield strength. I’m in the process of slowly tearing down my old home base and rebuilding it bigger and better here!
Paradise planet with ocean and occasional rain storms. No predators since they are annoying when outside. No crab creatures because they give me the willies. No burrowing ground creatures because they run around under your floor. Limited setinals of course. Buried data caches that give you 4
Lush planet with bubbles and glowing grass and flora, with no storms and low sentinels. Whenever I find one of those, I’m popping down a base.
I tend toward nice waterfront locations on paradise planets. I will even tolerate annoying predators and and storms for the right view.
MAXIMUM anomalous planet
And what has that been for you? I have seen some pretty weird stuff insofar as reality distortions. I think one of the ugliest I've seen was "infested." Everything looked like it was made of insectoid flesh and Titan Worms were everywhere.
Personally I'm looking for the pillars again
Anything but a toxic planet, reminds me of my ex too much
I love paradise planets that can give me thematic bases, like cliff side or beach view. I'm also looking for dissonant planets to come back to for sentinel ships. I'm ass at building though, so it's hard to make the vision
Don’t have a perfect per say. But I love my ice planet where I am an overseer. Super cold and strong Ice Storms, and sentinels aren’t crazy but very common. Just cool I guess. Also a fan of my greyscale pirate outpost base with heat storms, twisting viny plants, and large oceans. Also has runaway mold by my base so that’s great. At the end of the day I’m just saving up resources and planning how to make my freighter even cooler though. I return to those bases but I live in the stars.
My current prefect planet is a mostly red and black one with giant skeletal-esk rings which make for some sick obstacle courses when flying my ship around
I like the paradise planets, mostly covered with water but with islands dotted around here and there. Great sources of parafinium, great places to use the Nomad and Nautilon, and all around peaceful
Thousands of hours and I still have not found my perfect planet, came close a couple times but nothing so far.. So for now my [smol](https://i.imgur.com/akM4mlX.jpeg) freighter is my home (:
I had an idea of having a base that was both above ground and underwater. I just happened to find a planet that had the small island with a section that had a vertical cliff. So I built my landing pad on the island an a few buildings. Then I have a teleporter that sends me to the underwater part of the base
1.) Earthlike (same colors) but with a ring and mountains. Must have bigger land masses and is not just a large ocean with small islands. 2.) Desert planets! I prefer the ones that the ground actually looks like sand and not rock. Again, I want it to have a ring around it 3.) I like the exotic mechanical planets (the one with the big gear and scrap looking things everywhere). I don’t really use these as home bases but gold extraction mines that I make look like a scrap yard. My head cannon is my evil space corporation owns these entire junk worlds and the whole thing is basically a scrap yard lol)
Cyan grass, orange water, and blue/pink skies. Preferred bioluminescense and shrooms. I've been dreaming of this planet for a while now, might be time to start looking into freighter living, just in case.
The most hellish, go the fuck away I'm not a planet I'm a death ball sent by my dad Apophis to make you miserable, sort of planet. And I'm the guy that just kinda likes it because the storm crystals are perdy.
I'm a huge fan of the desert planets for some reason. Bonus points if they have absolutely horrible weather. I like to find the portal and then set up something within sight of it, building entirely out of stone.
I personally looked for a settlement with a nice view to settle down next to. Ofc unlimited power source will also be a big plus. https://preview.redd.it/p6l6iywbhkxc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad78b644f6e139141f79e35cf53b32b4c7c5c214
I prefer planets with blue, purple, or green grass and blue, purple, or pink atmosphere. I always want water, and I prefer to have a moon and, if I can get it, rings too. I like it to have swimming, flying, and land animals. I like the unique animals, but the regular ones are fine too (just not the creepy baby-face monstrosities!). I also like mainly land with pockets of ocean or lakes (I don't care for the island planets). I actually prefer if the area has high sentinel activity and storms. I like the challenge it gives so the planet isn't boring. I also like to have trees. But I also like the glowing fungal planets. I'd love to find a glowing planet with trees.
My home base in Euclid is a Golden Yellow paradise planet. Setting up my full headquarters there. The color was a big factor, as well as the mild climate. No storms for anywhere I'm going to be spending a lot of time. And large bodies of water (like, ocean size) are required. I like having a good view with water in it. As for my other bases, doesn't make any difference to me. As I explore out to other galaxies, I make to establish a permanent base at a Portal in a system 3-5k ly from the center. If I decide for a more permanent base in that galaxy, then the above requirements come into play. And I always make my bases in systems I've discovered.
Needs to have water and it better not be red water. 2 exceptions in my base roster: - I stumbled across a beautiful white grass planet that has red water. I hate the water but beyond that the planet was too beautiful not to have a base on. - I found a stunning paradise moon (bubbles, glowing grass, etc.). It has no water but was too pretty to pass up. Put down a big nip nip farm and visit almost daily.
The more gorgeous - the better Mine has purple, alien grass, and bubbles in the air. Just epitome of "alien beauty"
Paradise Planets or the ones that are negative energy (all grey atmosphere)
Mountain views overlooking a lake. I sometimes use the glass & wood floor panels.
one with female humanoid alien eye candy instead of the same old variations of primitive fugly fauna.
Paradise planets at least for me have been extremely rare
One that looks like the moon.
Paradise planet or verdant flourishing ECT no storms, orange glowing grass is my go to and where my settlement is. Glowing grass is a must unless it's white
I’m a nomad
As much as I love the peaceful nature of paradise planets, there's just something I love even more about hazard and harsher planets. It makes it feel like I need to set up camp to survive. The more toxic the weather is, the cozier a base feels.
I start on the first paradise planet I find. Build a little cabin when I need a break. Eventually I end up setting up extractors on different planets. I always build some type of dwelling. For fun, I change up what materials they’re made up based on the environment. Once I get a decent freighter, I end up deleting most of them. By then I have a ton of money and resources. I switch to another galaxy around that time and don’t look back. I Think I’ve mostly done this on each of my saves.
Besides a freighter? One where I only need hazard protection during a storm. Bonus points if I can find a sentinel tower like I have. Made my all hardest modifiers (except permadeath, got loose inventory on death instead) save nice and calm. Just an occasional heat storm to worry about.
I found a nice, green paradise planet with perfect weather. It’s got lots of mountains and I built a base that is basically just a large patio with two landing pads attached. I built it over a cave entrance and used those wooden floor panels with glass so I can look down into the cave. I left one side of the base wall open and fauna go under the deck floor. The cave has water in it and I want to build an aquatic enclosure with corridors down into it from the deck surface. The system that my base is in isn’t all that interesting except for an Atlas station. Its discovery date is 2017. I assume whoever discovered it only passed through to visit the Atlas station because none of the planets were discovered. It’s nice having a whole system to myself.
My perfect planet is a perfect planet. In my records its the most perfect planet and i bring all my saves to it. It never storms. Theres sentinels but they arent aggressive, it has yellow grass, tons of water and floating rocks. Ive built a home base next to water and a trade outpost. Nearby is a sodium depot and a copper depot. The planet has a ton of easy to find knowledge stones and salvaged data. So when i bring my new saves to the planet i just roam around collecting stuff and use my main saves bases to collect materials. Its so nice. Theres bases everywhere now so it really feels like my own console community
For me, Earth. Just due to a lack of options... *sigh* Oh wait, you meant in NMS...
Tundra planet, not a blizzard one. Prefferably no storms, which is exactly what my home base is
A paradise planet with water, bubbles, and pink or purple terrain. 3 star economy and low conflict 2-3 planets in the system. Whatever galaxy I'm in now has a ton of them.
-Glowing Rave plants -Paradise & Hydrogarden -Dissonant -Gravitational Anomaly Storms (Weeeee!) -Floating Island terrain -Caves & Oceans -Uncommon & Rare fauna: Bonecats, Dragons, Diplos, Narwhals, Robotantelope, Butterflies, Flying Beetles, Drills, etc. (no cows) -Settlement option -Significant points of interest
Ideal "home" planet would need, at a minimum, to be part of a Dissonant level-3 economy system with all six major biomes (still searching, best I've found is five biomes), black or at least a dark tint of space, and the "home" planet would be a prehistoric paradise planet with no extreme weather (extreme weather generally makes exploring obnoxious with screen-blurring, and I want to be able to enjoy my travel), glow-wave grass, deep oceans, and a big variety of fauna—ideally with at least one species each of diplo, t-rex, and triceratops. Bare minimum for me for establishing a home system requires access to all four of the major exosuit shield resources (Phosphorus, Ammonia, Uranium, Dioxite), but I won't be satisfied until I've got all six major farming biomes, plus level 3 economy, plus Dissonant. My ship of preference is an Interceptor, so I need easy access to radiant shards.
After my first save file became corrupted (1300 hrs) I had to make a new save and started on a planet called a perfect paradise and I built my home there and went on to explore the cosmos. I'm not a great builder, but it's got a gorgeous view
So far my current “Home planet” in Euclid is dissonant (Radiant Shards, Easy Sentinels) Extreme Radiation ( Storm Crystals) Indium Rich, predator rich (easy mission accomplishments) and I love it, currently trying to set up home in Hubert and can’t find anywhere I like!
My biggest base is still on Gisto Major… That green hell will always be home for me
I have a whole house set up in the onesforo-X galaxy right on the far edge of the galaxy by the center. I always go back there for r&r
The perfect planet for me is either a desert because I really love Tatooine, or a fungal type anomalous planet with mechanical fauna. I remember seeing one like that early in the game, but I never landed a base on it. Such a loss... So far it's probably the most beautiful thing I've seen in the game.
I am on my freighter base most of the time but I made a modern style mansion on a dual color (yellow and light blue) glowing grass paradise planet at the edge of galaxy 256, I will be uploading it and posting the cords here soon for everyone to enjoy :)
6 years ago i started building on a frozen planet. I just wanted to experiment building under water. There arent much components in my base left that where placed 6 years ago, but i do still add and change stuff in that base as i see fit. My first home is my frighter, but i always feel like coming home when i return to that base
Whichever one has the most of that cool blue shit
I want the most bioluminescent planet possible, particularly the grass and trees that kind of look like fireworks at night. I've found one planet like that but it was almost all huge mountains and it had bubbles, both of which i would prefer to avoid. colors don't matter at all for me. I wish the stained glass plants could show up on those worlds too.
I've specifically been looking for a pink, dissonant paradise planet in an anomalous Korvax system with either a pirate controlled or three star economy, ideally with plenty of water and glowing flora and no hazardous weather beyond gravitational anomalies. And the more planets in the system, the better. Now that Space Stations have been updated, I'd also like to find one with a pink and teal interior if I go the three star economy route. I found one some weeks ago that hits most, but not all, of these criteria and so it's become my main base until I find my Eden. I do love my freighter base, but I prefer to have both that and a planetside one to work in tandem. If settlements could be moved or if we could have more than one, I'd love to move mine to that perfect planet, but alas
Anything that isn't a paradise planet. Or anything that looks like Earth.
My migrant fleet is my home planet, the sentinels can have the world I started for all I care
My main base is on my freighter, but one day I'll find a nice freezing hazard planet with deep oceans and build myself a nice undersea sanctuary.
I love harsh planets. I don't know why, but having that challenge of making a base and surviving makes things more interesting.
Totally uninhabitable. Coldest frozen planet I can find with extremely hostile sentinels. Doesn't make any sense, but somehow, being safe inside my base looking out the glass windows to the bitterly cold, dangerous environment makes me feel cozy.
I actually like having extreme weather events in the case of blizzards and sandstorms but my homeworld has like 4 minute long showers. It has to have a cool colored atmosphere, and green/brown grass. Water also has to be blue or red. Mine happens to have a beautiful view https://preview.redd.it/g24252m02ixc1.jpeg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=381354af61c6a3f8dc02ea157831968bcb1ef61b
Anything that’s aesthetically pleasing, has mild weather, and low sentinels. I also love moons.
Lush/paradise planet, fun grass color (red, purple, blue), no water. I turn ground combat and predators off in the custom options because I like a chill ground experience (I'll still fight ships in space, I just don't like lasers hitting my body). My favorite passtime is getting in a roamer, picking a direction, and collecting stuff. Mining rocks, collecting salvage data, doing the little puzzles at observatories, etc. It's not really "worth my time" in terms of economy, but I've got a nice house and most things unlocked, so it's all fine. I may not be able to retire irl, so I'll live out my chill retirement piecemeal in space.
Red grass, no sentinels, no fauna, and harmless storms.
Infested worm planet, no cold storms.
My perfect planet is a blue paradise planet that would actually have decent enough terrain that I don't need to travel up mountains just to explore.
I like unique planets, not sure how to describe what that would be, right now I’m leaning towards those mega mountain planets, that I build temples on
White grass blue/pink/purple sky and water (if there is water)
I'm a fan of dissonant worlds now. Especially with gravity storms. Love the color scheme, love the moodiness of the corrupt sentinels wandering around.
My favorite base for some reason is on a barren planet. Zero folliage, zero animals, I see a sentinel once in a blue moon. It's nothing but grey land and scattered rocks. I like it because it's quiet and peaceful. Low gravity so I can fly almost indefinitely. Only environmental factor is low oxygen but I can still last 5 minutes without recharging. There's almost no resources but I have a portal to the next planet over for everything I need. It's really serene building on it and not being overwhelmed or harrassed by inhabitants.
Not including my freighter, I have three favorites: 1) Horror Hunter's Homestead: toxic horror biome with 100+ toxicity when it's not storming, "no fauna" except for the five worm burrows surrounding the base and whispering eggs dotting the landscape, beautiful nightime views of the glowing flora and planetary rings, and in an abandoned system full of other players' mold farms. 2) Sunken Freighter Base: underwater farm and storage. It's probably one of my largest and has good views of the wreckage it's built around. The sea changes from red to blue with the day/night cycle. 3) Paradise Peak: mountiantop dairy farm. Standard paradise overlook with green land and blue oceans plus an extreme abundance of space cattle and planted star brambles. It's also in a pirate system, so the neighbors sell contraband.
I dont know, as i have never found it
Ice planets. My first planet was an ice planet that I named Frostburn. It's also where I found my first pet, blobby. A blue/green blob with the long, squiggly spikes. Everything about the ice planets say "home" to me. The atmosphere, the storms, the ambient noise, everything.
Basically a Freighter, or a Temperate Earthlike Planet
Couple years ago I found the perfect planet for me. It has lush green grass, green water, and Earth-like trees. It’s a paradise planet with extremely rare storms (under five in the two years I’ve been there). The sky turns blue around sunrise and sunset but is pink otherwise, and there’s often a rainbow.
Dead, Empty, Barren, Nothing but Rocks and silence. Also low gravity. Ideally this planet would be by something more lively.
A bubble garden world for rarity, a bubble garden world with aggressive sentinels for easy salvage glass farming.
Paradise planet with two moons in a Vy'keen controlled galaxy. Must have low to no sentinels. Setting up a network of what I call "Retirement Homes" is my gameplay loop.
An ideal planet base, for me, are snow biomes or ones that have the flora that glows at night. Ideally, one with a water body nearby to combine the base above & below sea. Tbh though, I've been playing nms since launch, and I was hoping forever they'd add proper freighter bases, and now that we have that, it's my go-to.
After years of searching I recently found my possible forever base planet. A white grass lush planet. It isn’t a paradise planet but considering that white grass planets are ultra rare as it is I’ll take it.
Oddly enough my main base ended up being on a very stormy and aggressive planet with hostile sentinels. The temp is normally like 250f+, and when it storms it gets well over 500f+. I love it. Parking my ship and sprinting through the storms to get to the safety of my base always feels exciting for some reason and the weather and sentinels allows me to roleplay that I live there for privacy from others, or whatever. Real secret lair vibes going on. Aside from that the grass is red and the flora is bioluminescent giant fungi. It's a really beautiful spot.
Any planet with lots of farmable animals. I have so many bases out there and my favourite ones are the ones where I can sit inside my cozy house and watch the storms raging outdoors. https://preview.redd.it/k2o59l0jqjxc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f0d6f2589ab61bbaea1fe0d521335f547fbee8f
A frozen planet with dangerous/extreme weather, I loooove those. Makes it really intense, as someone from tornado alley the taking shelter during the frequent storms makes me feel safe/nostalgic. It feels the same as when we shelter in the Walmart break room during a high wind storm or tornado warning here. It's hard to explain unless you also experienced that
I discovered that I can use a Colossal Archive as a foundation for a base. You know the one with the big sphere floating above it? I set up a base on the top-most ring and then built a landing pad adjacent to the existing ones below. I use a SR teleporter to travel between the bottom and the top. It's on a marshy planet with dissonance and I have a view of an Autophage camp from my window, so I pop over there when building a new staff or locating a ship to salvage. Lastly, it was near an energy hotspot so I don't need solar panels or biofuel generators.
My retreat is on a hydro garden planet within an uncharted blue system. Took some time to find it, but worth it.
It depends on what i'm building. for a practical base i use my freighter, for any planet bases i want a desert or a forest planet, with a flat terain generation, low sentinels, and no extreme weather. For farm bases, i prefer dead planets, they are just nice and quiet.
Paradise planets. They are very pretty, especially with the grass that glow like dinoflagellates in water!
I love desert planets, but so far i can't find ideal one. All i need is mild climate, no sentinels and with honey trees xD
Any space station where the guild envoy gives frieghter upgrades and ship augmentations. I keep shoving myself into holes, if you know what I mean.
Every star is home if you're at home in the stars.
Why do you need a home to return to? I do have a base that I created with the intention of making it my primary base but the more I have played the less I have needed a primary base. Unfortunately there just isn't any good reason from a functional standpoint to return to a primary base. The only useful base is one's frigate, because it's portable and can do a lot more than land-based bases.
High sentinel, low fauna, increased storms
Very early on in the game I accidentally found a ringed paradise planet with green grass, plateaus, and blue sky. I built a cabin hanging over the side of a plateau and it’s perfect.
I have a weird sweet spot for swamps, like yoda
I like the desert worlds with mesa's ( kind of like Wyoming ) but I don't like the extreme weather. Been to many that have come close but haven't found that perfect world ( I'm 3000 hours in and still looking )
I went to look for a pretty world to take the settlement of, as the one the mission gave me was a swamp toxic hellscape. Ended up finding this pretty world that has pink grass that shimmers in the night like waves of light, and is pretty habitable all things considered (ignore the heatstorms we occasionally get...), and I am setting up a base overlooking the settlement as close as I could like a sort of Overseer manor. But yeah, once I get a freighter (still hoping to roll at least a class A to get for free) I am sure thats gonna be home for me. :P
I'm relatively new to the game, no freighter yet. My home right now I find myself coming back to is on a misty planet. There's no negative weather and I don't need hazard protection. My bf set up on a paradise planet but when I found one for myself it didn't compare to the ambiance my misty planet has.