It didn’t take me long (uh, 100h, give or take) to realize that planting cactus in a desert planet and selling that gel you can make with them was the fastest way to get money.

Getting nanites was a real pain, tho, as I decided to play on survival, so stacks were limited to 500 units. Left my game running with a macro to deliver food to the foody alien in the Anomaly several times. Average of 70 nanites per deliver of simple meat recipes

As for the story…

:::spoiler Story Spoiler I found it really meh at best. Atlas is just a malfunctioning “overseer”/guide/admin that controls simulations. Artemis lives in a simulation. Not soon afterwards, you also find out you live (play) in a simulation as well. It was worth a smirk for the meta commentary :::

Lastly, getting to the center of the galaxy was a fucking pain. Not because it was hard to reach the final stars, but because, on PC, you have to do a command you don’t typically do when traversing the stars. I don’t remember exactly now, but you had to aim at the center then press one of the buttons that shows on the top left of the screen to properly plot a course. I had to look that up on the internet.

Set yourself up a base on a dissonant world and upgrade the laser and engines for 1 exocraft and get you some radiant shards. You can pull up roughly a shared a minute and 5 shards is 250 nanites in the refiner. Not to mention the dissonant mirrors, which are 95 nanites each