The treasure values have been rebalanced so they don't go that high anymore unfortunately. It was RNG, but it used to be between a few hundred thousand up to 20 million; I think they dialed back the ceiling to a couple million. They're not a bad way to make a little money, but there are much better ways now. To find them, use your Signal Booster to scan for Artifacts which will locate an alien structure, and then use the alien structure to seek knowledge of the past.
Once we've done the portal quest, any new flora we scan counts, right?
Try to make sure your fleets' strength rating is always one star or more higher then the mission requirement; that'll cut down on a lot of repairs.
Yeah, I stopped doing equal-level runs and things are going a little better.
Problem with having infinite planets and expanding biomes over 20 updates is nobody knows what they are actually talking about. This is a 'grass is always greener' situation by people that dont have good memories. First version of NMS that people seem so nostalgic about, well first they are a vocal minority, and second there was even less diversity among the available biomes than there are now, and many of the planets were straight up boring, and ended up looking exactly the same. I think people remember them being 'brighter', but that was also because texture quality was crap and image rendering was worse. The old menus are also clunky looking now compared to the sleeker menus.
Yeah no. You'll need to be on foot. Also, water animals only dpsem if you are submerged or swimming below for a few seconds.
My planet doesn't appear to have any bodies of water on it. Luckily I just found the last animal, so I'm abandoning this dirt ball. I landed in a large depression and some of the animals spawned at night, along with my first Sentinels. I decided to attack a Sentinel and kill it, but now I've attracted a ton of them. I'm just chilling in my ship right now trying to think of a good name for the last animal.
I'm pretty sure this happens to me too, I don't think it treats it as an active slot when you're mining or something.
Mods are pretty dang safe to use, imo. There's a text file you remove to enable mods and almost all mods are just drag and drop. If worse comes to worst you can just clean install and your save will be safe.
As far as I can tell you keep what you've earned until you've spent it, I have the same amount of Quicksilver I've had for like a month now.
