So, how is everybody making money in 1.3?

The margin at the stations seems to be all in favor of the house and I haven't found any visiting ships (yet?) that are selling anything low enough that I can sell at the station trading terminal with a reasonable profit.

Best I've been able to do so far is about 650 K Units from finding all animals on a few planets. (And, as usual, giving up after hours of searching for the last remaining "red dots" on some planets.)

So, units are scarce and things are expensive. I did manage to warp into a freighter vs pirate fight with my wimpy Class C and somehow survived. It wasn't a great freighter (27 slots, Class C) but the Captain wanted 301,500,000 units for it! Dang!

300 million units was about where I max'd out on the Pathfinder story line after building a nice base to harvest Albumin Pearls. At this rate, if a baseline freighter is 300 M Units then I might as well just find a nice spot with good weather and passive Sentinels to retire at because it's going to take a looooong time to collect enough units to really do anything.

The economy of this game has always been set for a grind, and with each new major patch/revision it just get more and more bad. With this latest Atlas revision the economy is utterly FUBAR.

It is if HelloGames is mad at the progress people made in the initial game and were angry enough to just make things more and more of a grind.

I am glad I have saved every single revision and patch since the start, along with the third party mods that made it less of a grind fest, sure these new features are nice, but the game had enough bugs already and not it is far far worse.

Is the declining state of this game revenge from a butt hurt S.M. ?

I would hardly call it declining with all the features that have been added. As for being more grindy, I earned 1,000,000 units before I left my first system. That said, 100,000,000+ units for a freighter is pretty high but they do sound pretty useful.

It's quicker than in previous versions but I'm not earning as quickly as I would like. That's the way it usually goes. :) The game is declining SO HARD. *eyeroll* Another 100,000 copies have been sold since 1.3. That's just for Steam's version. I'd love to know how many people bought it from here and Sony. Almost a million Steam copies in total have been sold. 76% of reviews from the last 30 days are mostly positive, now.