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Claude1864: Ok i watched that video. There was no starting alien for me. I did not receive anything from anything or anyone. Also i used my pre order ship from the start. Nothing in that video applies to me until i can get to a second system. Like i said i didnt get to talk to an alien at the start. I had to explore the whole planet i finally got to talk to 2 different aliens on the first planet. I blew down several doors and only received faction. That has to be a bug. PLus My discovered and named solar system and planets have been renamed (mysteriously a) and the creatures i discovered are not showing up when you hit "ESC". Even the discovered areas on the planets are not showing up. Only the little green icon that lets you know that you uploaded the discovery, are visible. That has to be a bug. IS there anyway i can go into the NMS folder and rename my discoveries to the names i gave originally?
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Wishbone: Other people have mentioned that the preorder DLC is buggy. I haven't used it myself, so I can't comment. One thing the video does mention that you didn't seem to notice is that you can buy antimatter from the galactic market or from traders. Have you tried doing that?
Yes. I have tried the market and nothing

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misscrabtree456: What I did was, I hung out at the dock at the space station and ask the ships that came in for antimatter, and bought it off the NPCs. I was able to get plenty that way.
How long did you have to wait before an npc landed at the station? I was there maybe an hour before i ent back to the planet.
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zarqoon: The preorder ship had one warp cell charged into its starting hyperdrive.
I guess if you changed ships before using it you will not have that charge anymore.
I've never bought antimatter from traders but it seems likely that some stock it. I've never seen the space station itself stock antimatter that I can remember.
I never did use the starter ship. I went straight to my preorder ship
Post edited August 28, 2016 by Claude1864
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Claude1864: I never did use the starter ship. I went straight to my preorder ship
So did I, still found the stuff. It`s hard to know what`s wrong in your case without going to your home and playing your game for you. I really suspect it`s something you`re missing. This might be an extreme solution, but maybe restart from the beginning and this time follow the instructions up to getting the Warp\anti-matter stuff?
Post edited August 28, 2016 by Socratatus
misscrabtree456: What I did was, I hung out at the dock at the space station and ask the ships that came in for antimatter, and bought it off the NPCs. I was able to get plenty that way.
How long did you have to wait before an npc landed at the station? I was there maybe an hour before i ent back to the planet.

It didn't take long, they were already there coming and going. Guess I hit it at they right time.
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misscrabtree456: misscrabtree456: What I did was, I hung out at the dock at the space station and ask the ships that came in for antimatter, and bought it off the NPCs. I was able to get plenty that way.
How long did you have to wait before an npc landed at the station? I was there maybe an hour before i ent back to the planet.

It didn't take long, they were already there coming and going. Guess I hit it at they right time.
LOL! I just talked to 6 or 7. They finally poured in, but! No antimatter :-(
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misscrabtree456: misscrabtree456: What I did was, I hung out at the dock at the space station and ask the ships that came in for antimatter, and bought it off the NPCs. I was able to get plenty that way.
How long did you have to wait before an npc landed at the station? I was there maybe an hour before i ent back to the planet.

It didn't take long, they were already there coming and going. Guess I hit it at they right time.
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Claude1864: LOL! I just talked to 6 or 7. They finally poured in, but! No antimatter :-(
Try the market, I think bought one there too. I loaded up, before I got the blueprint, which came fairly quickly.
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Claude1864: Im also noticing that the planet i am on, where i have completed all the objective (the first planet i discovered and named) Is showing up as another planet in the system. I went to the other planet a couple of days ago and discovered a couple of new creatures. I named that planet also. I went back to the first planet i discovered . Thats where i have been for the past couple of days. Now when i hit "ESC" it acts like im on the other planet sjhowing me the things i discovered on that planet, not the ones im on now. I click to see the view the planet im on now and nothing shows up. Like i said in an above post only the green icon letting me know i have uploaded the creatures or areas. Could this be a server error?
This is a list retrieval error of some sort locally. Not completely sure about the conditions for triggering it, but it seems to happen if you go from one planet in a system to another one there is a local entry of. It's possible you need to lose server connection in between or something like that, because it's not consistent. Also sometimes pulls a partial list. And then it appears normally again if you leave and come back sometimes.

If you select another planet in the list, retrieve that data (hold a, etc.) and then switch back, it seems to retrieve the right list again most of the time.

The warp-fuel "mission" threw me off at first as well. Mechanic is something like this: you need to not have the blueprint for either warp-cores or antimatter, as well as the warp-drive. And then scan while cruising in space in the planet system. The mission that triggers then will specifically reward you with a warp-core. And the blueprint for anti-matter and warp-cores can be retrieved in the next system you travel to.

There is potentially a break-condition if you fail to break down the door in that specific plant (say, you dismantled the boltcaster or ran away from the sentinels). Or if you maybe have completed the location before and the mission-target you get is the same as the console you already used.

But I restarted the game early on and tried a couple of times to break the starting mission (don't judge), and couldn't do it. Basically, the mission will start over again even if you delete the warp-core you get. And both the initial "space-scan" reward that nets you the warp-drive and the warp-core, and the subsequent blueprint missions in the next system, will trigger over and over again if the conditions are met.

Optionally, you can raid manufacturing plants until you get the right blueprint. But this is obviously going to take forever. And it is intended that the first "space-scan" mission you get (which the game prompts you to do everywhere, as well as says you should fly into space right now while you're on the planet, and then scan), is going to give you the warp-tech.

So what I think may be happening is that people don't scan in space. Possibly because the preorder ship notification is stuck over it. And there is supposedly a way to interrupt a segment of the warp-tech mission once it starts, if you land and change to the pre-order ship (which comes with a warp-drive, possibly skipping the second part of the quest).

It's just that the mission happily triggers again in a new system, or if you reload after quitting, once the conditions for triggering the quest for warp-fuel is met again. I.e., finding or purchasing a ship in a new system without a warp-drive while not having the blueprints for anti-matter, fuel or warp-drive, and then triggering the space-scan).

But the second part of the mission won't trigger until you have jumped the first time. I.e., you're not going to get a warp-core blueprint in your first system, unless you grind all the manufacturing plants for all 900 blueprints, or whatever it is, and randomly get the right one.
edit: and yes, you can skip the quest/tutorial for the antimatter blueprint by just buying anti-matter. And still trigger the quest again on the next planet. First blueprint you get still will be for anti-matter.
Post edited August 28, 2016 by nipsen
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Claude1864: Im also noticing that the planet i am on, where i have completed all the objective (the first planet i discovered and named) Is showing up as another planet in the system. I went to the other planet a couple of days ago and discovered a couple of new creatures. I named that planet also. I went back to the first planet i discovered . Thats where i have been for the past couple of days. Now when i hit "ESC" it acts like im on the other planet sjhowing me the things i discovered on that planet, not the ones im on now. I click to see the view the planet im on now and nothing shows up. Like i said in an above post only the green icon letting me know i have uploaded the creatures or areas. Could this be a server error?
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nipsen: This is a list retrieval error of some sort locally. Not completely sure about the conditions for triggering it, but it seems to happen if you go from one planet in a system to another one there is a local entry of. It's possible you need to lose server connection in between or something like that, because it's not consistent. Also sometimes pulls a partial list. And then it appears normally again if you leave and come back sometimes.

If you select another planet in the list, retrieve that data (hold a, etc.) and then switch back, it seems to retrieve the right list again most of the time.

The warp-fuel "mission" threw me off at first as well. Mechanic is something like this: you need to not have the blueprint for either warp-cores or antimatter, as well as the warp-drive. And then scan while cruising in space in the planet system. The mission that triggers then will specifically reward you with a warp-core. And the blueprint for anti-matter and warp-cores can be retrieved in the next system you travel to.

There is potentially a break-condition if you fail to break down the door in that specific plant (say, you dismantled the boltcaster or ran away from the sentinels). Or if you maybe have completed the location before and the mission-target you get is the same as the console you already used.

But I restarted the game early on and tried a couple of times to break the starting mission (don't judge), and couldn't do it. Basically, the mission will start over again even if you delete the warp-core you get. And both the initial "space-scan" reward that nets you the warp-drive and the warp-core, and the subsequent blueprint missions in the next system, will trigger over and over again if the conditions are met.

Optionally, you can raid manufacturing plants until you get the right blueprint. But this is obviously going to take forever. And it is intended that the first "space-scan" mission you get (which the game prompts you to do everywhere, as well as says you should fly into space right now while you're on the planet, and then scan), is going to give you the warp-tech.

So what I think may be happening is that people don't scan in space. Possibly because the preorder ship notification is stuck over it. And there is supposedly a way to interrupt a segment of the warp-tech mission once it starts, if you land and change to the pre-order ship (which comes with a warp-drive, possibly skipping the second part of the quest).

It's just that the mission happily triggers again in a new system, or if you reload after quitting, once the conditions for triggering the quest for warp-fuel is met again. I.e., finding or purchasing a ship in a new system without a warp-drive while not having the blueprints for anti-matter, fuel or warp-drive, and then triggering the space-scan).

But the second part of the mission won't trigger until you have jumped the first time. I.e., you're not going to get a warp-core blueprint in your first system, unless you grind all the manufacturing plants for all 900 blueprints, or whatever it is, and randomly get the right one.
edit: and yes, you can skip the quest/tutorial for the antimatter blueprint by just buying anti-matter. And still trigger the quest again on the next planet. First blueprint you get still will be for anti-matter.
Thanks for the reply. Thanks for all of the info. I did try going to other planets and then returning to the original planet . the names i give them still havent returned. Also! The star system name i gve it hasnt returned. Im still getting "discorvered" Instead of "you have already discovered this" when i put my cursor over the planets . I am about to move to my next astar sustem. Fuel up and return to my starting system to see if that changes (if i can lol)
Np :)

But if you get undiscovered in the hud/in-game (and not just the pause-menu list), that is something else. For example write-protected save location (the user-folder should be full of discovery location files). If it's placed in the gog-directory on the galaxy-free install, for example, then by default in win10 (whether you have multiple users on the boot or not) the save-file can probably be created and updated (because the launcher owns the user-files), but no new files can be created by a user-process without elevated privileges (i.e., nms.exe). Could also be some rescue operation happening with the save-file location, or some other quirk with the separate installer - they create some other user-folder here (see the whole "why is my name Explorer" thing).

So maybe find out where your user-folder is (should be /users/[name]/appdata/roaming/HelloGames/NMS/.. ). And try Gog-support if this happens in the next system. Should be a thing they'd want to know about.
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Claude1864: I never did use the starter ship. I went straight to my preorder ship
I meant Change from the preorder ship to something else. The preorder ship has one warp charge loaded. If you buy a different ship or fix up a found one without traveling one system first you waste your warp charge
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Claude1864: I never did use the starter ship. I went straight to my preorder ship
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zarqoon: I meant Change from the preorder ship to something else. The preorder ship has one warp charge loaded. If you buy a different ship or fix up a found one without traveling one system first you waste your warp charge
Ok i see, thanks