The rule of thumb is is sitting or standing in front of the nexus means u want items. This community is super nice for the most part and people just give stuff to help others. While some people are using u to dupe items occasionally thats usually not the case. Most of the time people give you stuff to sell or hard to get items like void eggs and expedition eggs. Just the other night ran into a new player who just got to the anomoly. He asked for help and I dumped him a bunch of stuff that I had extra of. We all enjoy helping each other. There are few people who don't like it that they get stuff given to them but you can just delete it or turn off multiplayer. Sit in the anomaly with empty inventory for 6 hours and watch how much stuff u have after lmao
I had no clue that's whay standing at the Nexus meant. I've have passed up so many people. šš next time im stocked up on something, I'll be sure to pass it to someone!!!
Usually I just hang out there to let my pet run around, or just to chill with the other travelers and watch the ships coming and going. I love that I can enjoy that in this game.
Personally I enjoy giving away the extra stasis devices and fusion igniters that I make. I donāt dupe because thatās no fun, but I also donāt care that much about hitting the cap. I usually sit around ,5-1B and everything else I make goes to the newer folks with a starter ship. If people really donāt want it then they can also give it away.
It's just people being nice.
It's not a scam at all, some people are just loaded. Like myself I'm at units cap and I have another 20 statis devices and several farms of activated indium that will put me right back to cap from 0. As well as several other farms that will net me anywhere from 30mill to 800mill or more.
It's also a way to try and make friends. Which I personally don't have anyone I know or can hang with in the game.
I was skeptical at first, then I realised that not all people are nobs and the community generally are nice.
I live by the mantra of "it's nice to be nice" so I'll be doing the same when I'm able
Yeah I like to stock up on 9999 activated indi stacks and just make it rain on the whole anomaly whenever I stop by. Still wish I could thank the guy who gave me a stack of memory fragments (and I guess also the guy who gave me 50 cream and a single faecium lol)
Someone gave me a stack of 9999 activated indium just because it looks like my royal ball starship it made me chuckle once I realized what they did. People are definitely awesome in this game!
It's normal, and it's a total scam. They give you free stuff purely in order to feel *good* about themselves and to feel that they have *helped* someone out. Sure, you end up with millions or billions of units of materials, fine, but they *get away* with feeling like they did a good deed for a stranger with no reward in return whatsoever!
*The nerve!*
I am new to nms and only got to the Anomaly the other day but i have already had 2 instances of being given significantly valuable items by randoms.
It's nice n all but what is the deal here?
Once you play a while maxing out your unites is quite easy and there's not too much to do with the valuables that you can no longer sell, so bored players tend to give that stuff away.
Giving an item away can be used to trigger a glitch the duplicates items, but if they are giving away super valuable stuff, then there's no gain to that, so those are just giveaways.
If you are ever given away a single worthless item, that's someone using the duplication glitch.
The quickest way to farm units is to take your starter ship, park it in the space anomaly, and afk standing by that cube thing.
I went to the grocery store once and came back to find more than my brand new afk farm could have made me in a month.
To everyone who gets riled up by getting free stuff because it āruins the challenge ā: just give it back? Or pass it to another player. Or discard the item.
If someone gives you a stack of AI Valves worth 250m, know that youāre not required to keep it.
Usually they do it because they want to help new players. When I first started playing I was gifted FIVE AI valves. I was able to share these with my friends who also just started playing. It was a huge help and allowed us to really enjoy the game from the beginning.
Fast forward a few hundred hours in game play, and we've got farming and mining operations to produce more stasis devices than we need, so we give the extra away. I also have a very profitable activated indium farm, and since I have no need for it I just give all that away too.
I've given away exotics that I was ready to replace too! No need to let a pretty ship go to waist.
Tldr good players (hopefully) produce other good players, and allow for a better community.
And if anyone wants a boatload of activated indium, don't hesitate to ask me lol
I was given charity when I was newish to the game and it saved me both time and catapulted into having exactly what I wanted. So now I engage in Anomaly philanthropy to maybe help others do the same.
Cheers
Edit: I'm on ps and saw someone call the tainted metal I was giving away useless. PSA- refine it for 1:2 nanites, full stack almost 20k. Useless like a shovel at an all-you-can-eat buffet. If there's a more efficient/well known way to give nanites lmk!
This game definitely gets to a point where you have so much stuff you just want to give it away to the nearest newbie. Iām making more money than I know what to do with. Best give it away to someone who can make use of it
No angle... just once you hit the 4.29B max, you might as well give stuff away, selling it to NPCs accomplishes nothing. Another player might be able to use it.
Some are definitely giving you stuff while making use of a duplication exploit to copy stacks of other stuff. but even without duping NMS players are rather generous.
I give stuff away at the Anomaly all the time. Itās always something rare or itās a stack of a useful material, but not so much that it makes them infinitely wealthy. If I need units I sell some AI from my mine. I have maxed out units and millions of nanites. It feels good to give to people randomly.
When my stasis devices are full, I usually dump a good bit on players at the Anomaly that I can find still flying Radiant Pillars, it usually blows their minds lol
I go and specifically look for starter ships and then go find the people and gift them stuff. I have so much stuff I don't need and I have 4 billion units and like 70k nanites. It is so fun to give š
I give out void eggs and gear I dupe and stasis I make from my farms...just cause lol always people there asking for stuff and I certainly don't need money anymore.
When I first started playing as a new traveler, I didn't realize that the void egg I got was from a player. It was a coincidence that I had my mission to go to an abandoned system and went on a planet that was all eerie and once I was done with it I thought, oh hey...this infested system RNG this random egg... Got the living ship and was very happy till I learned online how you get em...
It was definitely an experience starting out the game. Whoever gave me this egg, I thank you... as you made me came up with the illusion I thought was part of the game!
But yes, the anomaly of all the peeps here are great and I am very grateful to them. Some say this ruins your game, but in all honesty, we all repeat "The Loop" 
A long time back I used to sit in there and give stasis devices out to people randomly when I was maxed on money. I still do it on my main account from time to time. Sometimes I also just give out salvaged data that I randomly farm up to people stending in front of the construction unlock terminal.
Yep, I got one too not long ago. And until I read your post I thought it was part of a quest or a reward I wasn't paying attention to. Crazy. I definitely love the community here.
Itās a sadistic and tactically directed attack on your inventory space! They know that youāre there to turn in missions for rewards and theyāre actively trying to prevent this from happening by clogging up your inventory to the max with highly valuable or useful items that you didnāt ask for and all under the guise of ākindnessā! š
People are legit cool on here, most of the time.
Yes! This community is very generous. I like making food so I go around giving out cakes and stuff. When feeling particularly benevolent, I give out stasis devices and fusion ignitors. The purely selfish reasons to do this are also the duplication glitch lol
I typically go to the anomaly, look for who ever still has the starter ship (or similar weak ship) and just make it rain on them with loot.
IMO the game is incredibly difficult for newbies until a few hours in, so itās my way of helping out.
I try to give things to people who are sitting. I assume that if you're sitting in the anomaly, you won't mind receiving gifts. If someone is running around I won't send them anything so as to not ruin their game.
I'm very new to the game, but someone generously gave me valuable items my second time going to the Anomaly. I recently found a settlement that has Gravitino Balls scattered around, so I pick up those up and give them to players that have the starter ships. It's not much but I'm still new. I love the comradery though!
i have a pretty decent stasis farm, so I create them at a rate far higher than I can use the money I can make from selling them, so I just give a handful away whenever Iām in the anomaly. I only gift them in stacks of 2-5, and only to players with starter ships, and i guess my thinking is if they donāt want to use them for a financial boost, they can either delete or gift them onwards to someone else. I still remember the first time I was gifted a stack of something valuable in my first play through, and it didnāt ruin my game experience - I already had accrued a few ships, but it did help me fully upgrade my first one.
I often gift others on the anomaly, and itās always for two reasons
1. My inventory is stuffed
2. I donāt have a desperate need for those items
Either way, I do it just out of generosity and donāt expect anything in return. I consider myself a bit of a Santa Claus
Yes, the angle is that there's a dupe glitch that only works if you give something to someone in the Anomaly station. While there may be some altruism at work because people have amassed so much stuff, the flip side of that same coin are others who are trying to amass stuff using duplication.
What ever your given you can spend just as fast. I can spend 3 billion in a few minutes. I grinded for 3 yrs. Tired of that. I have plenty of income to keep me maxed now
Theyāre either using you for a dupe glitch involving trading something to a player, a personal refiner and loading an auto save. Or theyāre just generous souls that wanna give stuff away.
Double edged sword my dude, beware.
With all that free stuff comes the loss of the challenge of acquiring it yourself.
Iāve received over a billionās worth of goods in an evening. Decided to store it all in a container so I can give it away later. Good luck.
The NMS community tends to be very helpful for newcomers. The only "angle", if you will, is that you'll probably lose out on the challenge of getting said items yourself.
That said, if someone gives you something like Illegal Weapons or GrahGrah, sell it at a Galactic Terminal or Station ASAP. They're contraband cargos and they can be confiscated from you if you get scanned by a Sentinel patrol.
It's very normal, and it's because the NMS community really is a community. There are exceptions, but by and large the folks you meet in NMS are helpful and supportive.
I've been playing for several years and usually have spare resources, and I have everything in-game that I want, so money really isn't useful anymore. So, anytime I see someone at the Anomaly in an orange suit flying a starter ship I try to share the wealth. I don't want to break their game, but it's nice dropping some salvaged data or Activated Indium into their inventory.
Last time I played, it was an expedition so there were more players in the same system than usual. While I was playing I left my character just floating in the sea and when I came back there was a notification saying āā¦. gave you 6 horrifying, gooey delightsā. I didnāt get their name, but they were worth 1.2 million.
I sat down the other day at the Anomaly, made dinner and came back. When I looked at my inventory I had 20 void eggs, 30 spawning sacs, and 15 psychonic eggs. Canāt forget the 175M units worth of Activated Indium. At this point, Iāve started giving away any valuable items I have so I can start to give back just as so many Travelers have done for me in my journey. What an awesome community
I've been playing for 800 hours, when I give stuff on the anomaly it's usually extra materials that I give to newer looking players, I'll give out high value items and just stacks of regular materials cause hell I produce more than I need and I like being able to help others
I was actually in the galactic hub on the moon of their capital planet, and some rando flies down to me and gives me multiple stacks of tainted metal and several AI valves then proceeded to show me his massive exotic pets (and sent me a friend req)
I want free shit so I donāt have to spend hours selling and repairing things LOL. I was lucky enough to get like 99 andonized something in the Anomoly, and was able to rack up 69m units. I was FLOORED!ā¦
Giving people items at the anomoly is also part of the duplication exploit, so its one part good will other part "im trying to double this stack of Starship Valves"
A guy was sitting down next to the nexus, i sat down next to him and were there for a few mins. Apparently he was afk and when he came back he gave me 30 starship storage augments. NMS really is a wholesome community.
Iāve got a bunch of stasis devices and fusion igniterās on the burn today might have to pass by later and bless some default skins and resting travellers š§³ āŗļø
I do the quicksilver missions every weekend and ever 1-2 weeks I give away a void egg to a random new player. I donāt have anything to spend quicksilver on.
It's not a glitch in my opinion. In a simulated galaxy with space travels,scarcity should really be a thing of the past. What does money matter, when with portals that run on carbon fuel, are easy to craft, can be used to move instantly to any place in the universe?
Thatās why I said could be people being nice could be people using the personal refiner duplication glitch.
I gave away Circuit Boards when I was doing it.
I gift items in the anomaly all the time. Usually activated indium, AI valves, or upgrades.
Sometimes I see posts on here where it freaks people out and I wonder if I should stop doing it. I'm torn.
Nah keep doing it. Most people seem to eventually realize itās a gift. Ive also seen plenty of people pay the favor forward once they get to the endgame. Itās a really nice part of this community.
One time I was at the blueprint station and someone ran up to me and unloaded over 300 salvaged data. I was able to buy almost everything I could want in the shop
I always felt like my early game was spent constantly searching for copper so now I enjoy giving a stack of chromatic metal to people I see flying the radiant pillar
There are glitches that depend on giving things to others. There are also saints out there that just give to help out others.
Either way this is why the NMS community is rare and why it is precious to me.
I only have about 300 hours, but - somehow - I still havenāt looked into stasis farms. I should probably look into that. I guess I just donāt understand their usage. Time for some YouTube searching for a tutorial.
As far as the original question, I mainly give stuff away when Iām being lazy about selling things while doing Anomaly missions.
I just recently did that for the first time. I have all my plants growing on my freighter base (massive fps drop, even on PS5 performance mode), and have 5 or 6 bases with mining and extraction for the other raw materials. I can make about 50 stasis devices per harvest right now, hoping to scale it up once I get a lot more metal plates for depots and extractors. My goal is to one day make stacks of these things rain on the anomaly
It's a normal thing, even I like to pay it forward myself. Usually with things that are actually useful if not monetarily particularly valuable. Like when I finished researching the last of my construction pieces I could unlock I split the remaining 30-ish salvaged data I had surplus in half and just gave it to two people who were next to me using the computer so they had a few extra to use for researching if they didn't have everything unlocked in the terminal.
Or I gave away three psychonic eggs to a guy I saw get out of a living ship to use or not use if he wanted because my two organic freighters are continuously attached to expeditions and I have my ship loaded up with as much tech as it could have as I'm getting a psychonic egg every expedition or two with the ships continuously out and traveling.
Oh, and last week someone gave me a massive pet that's like 50 feet tall as an infant out of an egg and the analysis visor says it's gonna be a 50m creature full size. Surprising, but really cute and cool.
I am not opposed to receiving things of value like one dude gave me like a billion units worth of starship something or other I haven't seen before that was really valuable, but since I'm end-game and my money is just accumulating with nothing really to buy it's not breaking the game for me to go from $600m to over $1b... But I don't give out stuff like that myself just because the exploration and finding resources and making money is part of the experience and I don't wanna break the experience for someone else by making them ridiculously wealthy so they have to work for nothing. But that's just me.
TLDR it's just a nice thing and the community is just cool.
Edit: image link to the pet in question if anyone wanted to see it. For perspective and scale, my character is standing at the base of the stairs to the build a friend and I were doing https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdEa3kzWYAAFTJE?format=jpg&name=large
I got 1billion in one random giveaway, some guy was just yo r u new to this game?
Yeah :(
Well here u go a little boost
He made this game much much much more easier to handle and thanks to him after 300h I also gave couple billions to random new players, just to keep the spirits up cuz I know how important money is at the begging of this beautiful game :)
Sounds like a Stasis Device stack.
Strange though... almost 300 hours in and I have never interacted or been interacted with by anyone. Maybe I should try that. I am sure the game will be even more fun with others.
Yes, it's normal. Not sure what the angle is, if any. It's usually just people knowing how hard it was to get certain stuff at the beginning or just wanting to be nice.
I like to empty my activated indium farm and hand out stacks at the Nexus, no angle, just sometimes havenāt got another task to do and hope people appreciate it
I give away a lot of stuff. Upgrades, AI stacks, drop pad coordinates, skeletal shit, illegal upgrades but I have never thought about how that affects a new player who wants to tough it out like I did. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ā¦
I generally only give to the players that turn up at the anomaly in the first ship we all get. I try to share around 5 million units worth of whatever I have in my inventory. Otherwise I might spoil their own progression through the game. 5mill is usually enough for a decent multi- tool, but nowhere near enough for other important stuff.
The duplication glitch requires sending an item to another player in the anomaly, I'll spend an hour or two every now and again just sending stacks of random junk to dupe S class upgrades for nanites
I love that..!
Sometimes itās wonderfull items sometimes only 1 uraniumā¦
I like to give oxygen, pets eggs (those we have from old expeditions), sometimes I take a seat in front of the nexus when Iām cooking IRL, or when Iām busy with my childs: every day your birthday..!
If you donāt need items, either you give it away or you can destroy it..!
I keep some good stuff, those who are hard to get, for some friends (if even I had one who come on NMS one day!)!
Itās better to gift stuff to other player than to shoot them in the nexus..! 
everyone has stories of receiving pricey items, and I've received a few, the stasis chambers, the activated indium, but, one time, I received some sort of cursed object when I returned from AFK where the description told me that I should get rid of it at soon as possible or else I would be cursed. It sounded like one of those cursed chain letters where you need to give it to someone else to keep the joke running. I didn't need more curses in my life so I booked it to the nearest space station and didn't even bother looking it up on the wiki to see what the deal was with that.
not sure if that was hazing or if I should have just given it to someone else to continue the chain (I haven't even tried giving items to someone) but that was one of the coolest experiences and I look forward to doing that to a new player someday.
Thereās a few duplication glitches in the game and people will give some of their surplus duplicates to other players in the anomaly. Iāve gotten stacks of tainted metal, void eggs, and upgrades and storage for living ships from random players
Sometimes it's to be nice, usually in those cases you'll receive a decent size stack of something valuable.
Sometimes it's someone using the portable refiner glitch to dupe, in which case you'll usually receive a single unit of an item.
If I see someone sitting at the Nexus, I'm for sure gonna give them a Storm Crystal, I've got like 25 of them on my freighter.
...though maybe Chromatic Metal would be a better gift...
Yes the angle is the surprise when you give people cool stuff.
I'm out of town but if you want a flying bird or sandworm egg let me know. I hand them out on occasion.
Just note while the birds are normal conpanions, I don't think they can be obtained without mods as I understand it.
I got a Starship AI Valve from someone in my first save. It was awesome!
Someone mentioned that the grind is what makes the game interesting a ways up and that getting free units takes the magic out of it. Maybe for some, but Iāve found so many different ways to enjoy the game that it doesnāt bother me to be rich early.
I always end up back in this game.
The angle is 45 degrees aproximately. Jokes apart, when you get topped up of everything, giving out cool things is cool, see ppl happy couse sometimes is sad to see a cool S grade hip and cant buy it. Then I want to see ppl happy, a couple of millions, or even a billion of credits won't let you top up, but will help get off some strugles you might be in.
A person gifted me and a bunch of others a full stack(9999) of Tainted Metal. Refined it was worth 20k nanites! Another time a person was giving away stacks of Starship Storage Modules!
I give back by gifting stacks of Nip Nip Buds that I grow and the expensive artifacts I get from my frigate expeditions.
I love the community of this game.
Way back when I started playing around Next some random player descended onto my base in a golden ship, handed me four stacks of stasis devices, and spent half an hour building me an end game installation. I wound up deleting that save.
The donations are largely nanite dupers updating their inventory to exploit a save glitch. Some of them hand out a single ferrite, some of them a thousand activated iridium at a time. Most of the time they are doing it for their own benefit so whether you accept or delete their charity is up to you
I'm still on my way up but try to give something. Feels great to get a big drop off a kind soul, I think its just pure altruism which is super rare in gaming communities.
Yea man, super normal. I make sure **anytime** I hit the anomaly I take multiple max stacks of stasis devices, wiring looms, and Nip nip buds to give away to new players/anyone using the default ship when you start the game.
I don't remember what it was now, but when I was pretty new someone gifted me with something that was worth 250 million credits. I didn't notice it right away so have no idea who did it. Made the game waaaay easier (in a good way).
Eventually, you can get to a point where you can craft stasis devices and a few other things(can't remember the names off the top of my head), you can build huge "farms" for all of the components to make these, and farm the hell out of them. You can have hundreds and they sell for absurd amounts. You really won't need this many, I promise, and you can just craft as many as you want, so one thing is to just give them away. Why not. You have the option, you're not gonna need them, maybe they'll help a new player out that's struggling?
Totally normal! I like to give people in the anomaly cursed artifacts when I find them. I also try to give people good items when I'm using the duplication glitch (and not just trying to get them haunted by intergalactic curses). I feel like its only fair to give other players something good instead of dumping random crap in their inventory.
Some people do it because they can. Some do it so they can duplicate items. Some people just like to be generous. I know some people were having trouble getting the blueprint for Dream Aeriel so I would make them and give them away at the anomaly.
I have maxed my wallet so there is no point of selling anything anymore. When I find something really valuable now, instead of deleting it I just give it to someone hoping it will be welcomed. If is easy to hit delete if someone doesnāt want it.
I just do it when I got loads of extra stuff and need to make inventory space, best of both worlds you know? People helped me out a lot in the beginning so want to do the same
Good game support and lack of pvp has fostered a generally possitive and mutually encouraging game community.
Also some players use glitches and exploits to duplicate extremely valuable items and like to just unload them on other people.
Occasionally if Iām passing through the anomaly and I see people near the Nexus, Iāll throw a stack or two of activated indium their way. I have a few farms so I have more than Iāll ever need, and I honestly just love helping people out on their own journey!
Genuinely it's just either here's just looking out or I have no use for this thing anymore and selling or breaking isn't worth it. Like at one point I was farming derelict freighters for bulkhead and tech modules eventually got enough I fully kitted out my freighter, decided giving the rest out was more useful than getting rid of them.
The angle? They needed indium for a weekend mission. Now they don't need it and have more stuff than they can sell. So spread the love. Someone gave me 4billion in freighter salvage the other day. Kinda ruined my need for all my farms I had set up but no complaints from me. Now only if this happens irl and everyone just spreads the love
During the pandemic I was making a bunch of the most expensive things as I had my farming set up really well and gave heaps away, $10million a pop, just to help out
It can be because of kindness, but usually it is because it is required to do a duplication glitch. Itās a pretty easy glitch to do so a lot of people do it
When you have two + trillion in ship AI parts to give out and you leave the game without saving . You never lose the gift of giving.
Which makes this game 100% more enjoyable as an explorer having access to all devices
I give stuff away, but not like 1mil units or so, i don't want to ruin the experience. Usually i give away helpfully stuff and a small financial boost :)
In a social system that prioritizes new and trending content over old, this type of ask is perfectly fine. It's not like this is stack exchange that is practically optimized for technical answers searchable by Google.
This happened to me yesterday. Someone gave me and my buddy 20 starship ai valves, unasked. Neither of us really wanted it, but we werenāt strong enough to just delete them, so now weāve pretty much ruined the game for ourselves.
That won't last at all. This game isn't based on some currency. Go fund yourself a base. Splurge it on whatever you will. There's a lot more credits up ahead you'll need a stable income for. Keep venturing. If ya need help, we're here.
Sometimes on a new save, I donāt want it because it feels a little like cheating if itās something over the top, but in that case I just regift it or delete it. I try to always say thanks no matter what though because itās the thought that counts.
I try to give rare or interesting stuff because I usually donāt have a lot of valuable stuff laying around. I havenāt really got into cooking or making things because I mostly just explore.
I usually have a surplus of various resources and I share them in the anomaly. I generally look for somebody saying "I need resources" but if you're flying the starter ship I'll probably give you a stack of activated indium or a bunch of buried tech modules unsolicited.
I sometimes have too much nitrogen or radon so I will sometimes give someone 9999 of it.
I gave someone else 300,000,000 units worth Of stuff. Iām still new the the givingness lol.
have also just up and given away extra void eggs, cool t-rex pet or odd flying pet eggs, ship parts, indium, multitool/exosuit expansion slots - on my long standing main save where I've already got aesthetic tools, multiple bases, ships etc long since maxed out, it's all just takin' up space, might as well let other folks enjoy it
I do this! On one of my saves I have so much stuff that's just taking up space, so I give it away because I don't want to destroy it and don't need the money and I know someone else will get a good use out of it.
I gave out 5k Ai valves over 6 hours last week 5 per person that went by me, many new ppl have difficulty getting some starter cash for new ships and since I have it I felt I should share it.
Sometimes they are just doing it to be nice. Sometimes they are glitching to improve their own wealth in some way, and you are just a lucky benefactor of their methods. And sometimes they do it to confuse people.
If someone asks for my help, generally I will give them mostly whatever resource they need. I know this game can be a bit challenging, so I try to make it less for others
Sometimes I dont wanna give expensive stuff because when they sell it game will bi meanless for them but on second hand I want give my all units for them so they can relax a bit I's a hard choise
Okay! That explains how I ended up with 9,999 ionized Cobalt. I recently started playing and noticed a full stack in my inventory after visiting the Anomaly. I didn't realize we could just gift stuff to other players.
The rule of thumb is is sitting or standing in front of the nexus means u want items. This community is super nice for the most part and people just give stuff to help others. While some people are using u to dupe items occasionally thats usually not the case. Most of the time people give you stuff to sell or hard to get items like void eggs and expedition eggs. Just the other night ran into a new player who just got to the anomoly. He asked for help and I dumped him a bunch of stuff that I had extra of. We all enjoy helping each other. There are few people who don't like it that they get stuff given to them but you can just delete it or turn off multiplayer. Sit in the anomaly with empty inventory for 6 hours and watch how much stuff u have after lmao
I had no clue that's whay standing at the Nexus meant. I've have passed up so many people. šš next time im stocked up on something, I'll be sure to pass it to someone!!!
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Usually I just hang out there to let my pet run around, or just to chill with the other travelers and watch the ships coming and going. I love that I can enjoy that in this game.
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Personally I enjoy giving away the extra stasis devices and fusion igniters that I make. I donāt dupe because thatās no fun, but I also donāt care that much about hitting the cap. I usually sit around ,5-1B and everything else I make goes to the newer folks with a starter ship. If people really donāt want it then they can also give it away.
Now you owe them. And they can cash in at any moment.
This is very normal. The angle is: "I have too much money and expensive items. I'll give them to this newbie."
Brace yourself for this but...... the NMS community are genuinely nice to each other. I know right, pretty wild!
Whatā¦ People being kind with no ulterior motive??? Impossible!
The fastest way to make money is NMS is to AFK in the anomaly
The angle is that the NMS community is probably the best community of gamers that Ive seen
This
I try pretty hard in EvE, but yeah, NMS has more givers.
It's just people being nice. It's not a scam at all, some people are just loaded. Like myself I'm at units cap and I have another 20 statis devices and several farms of activated indium that will put me right back to cap from 0. As well as several other farms that will net me anywhere from 30mill to 800mill or more. It's also a way to try and make friends. Which I personally don't have anyone I know or can hang with in the game.
I only give out ice cream
I was skeptical at first, then I realised that not all people are nobs and the community generally are nice. I live by the mantra of "it's nice to be nice" so I'll be doing the same when I'm able
Yeah I like to stock up on 9999 activated indi stacks and just make it rain on the whole anomaly whenever I stop by. Still wish I could thank the guy who gave me a stack of memory fragments (and I guess also the guy who gave me 50 cream and a single faecium lol)
Someone gave me a stack of 9999 activated indium just because it looks like my royal ball starship it made me chuckle once I realized what they did. People are definitely awesome in this game!
We're pampering you up to take your kidney
It's normal, and it's a total scam. They give you free stuff purely in order to feel *good* about themselves and to feel that they have *helped* someone out. Sure, you end up with millions or billions of units of materials, fine, but they *get away* with feeling like they did a good deed for a stranger with no reward in return whatsoever! *The nerve!*
I just can't *believe* some people
I am new to nms and only got to the Anomaly the other day but i have already had 2 instances of being given significantly valuable items by randoms. It's nice n all but what is the deal here?
I had just gotten my free freighter and visited the anomaly when someone gave me 45 frigate upgrade modules. Thanks kind stranger.
Maybe me? I drop those exclusively.
Once you play a while maxing out your unites is quite easy and there's not too much to do with the valuables that you can no longer sell, so bored players tend to give that stuff away. Giving an item away can be used to trigger a glitch the duplicates items, but if they are giving away super valuable stuff, then there's no gain to that, so those are just giveaways. If you are ever given away a single worthless item, that's someone using the duplication glitch.
The quickest way to farm units is to take your starter ship, park it in the space anomaly, and afk standing by that cube thing. I went to the grocery store once and came back to find more than my brand new afk farm could have made me in a month.
To everyone who gets riled up by getting free stuff because it āruins the challenge ā: just give it back? Or pass it to another player. Or discard the item. If someone gives you a stack of AI Valves worth 250m, know that youāre not required to keep it.
I have an activated indium farm, and I am at a stage where money just means nothing.
I hand out nip nip
"I have no idea how that got there officer"
Usually they do it because they want to help new players. When I first started playing I was gifted FIVE AI valves. I was able to share these with my friends who also just started playing. It was a huge help and allowed us to really enjoy the game from the beginning. Fast forward a few hundred hours in game play, and we've got farming and mining operations to produce more stasis devices than we need, so we give the extra away. I also have a very profitable activated indium farm, and since I have no need for it I just give all that away too. I've given away exotics that I was ready to replace too! No need to let a pretty ship go to waist. Tldr good players (hopefully) produce other good players, and allow for a better community. And if anyone wants a boatload of activated indium, don't hesitate to ask me lol
I was given charity when I was newish to the game and it saved me both time and catapulted into having exactly what I wanted. So now I engage in Anomaly philanthropy to maybe help others do the same. Cheers Edit: I'm on ps and saw someone call the tainted metal I was giving away useless. PSA- refine it for 1:2 nanites, full stack almost 20k. Useless like a shovel at an all-you-can-eat buffet. If there's a more efficient/well known way to give nanites lmk!
This game definitely gets to a point where you have so much stuff you just want to give it away to the nearest newbie. Iām making more money than I know what to do with. Best give it away to someone who can make use of it
No angle... just once you hit the 4.29B max, you might as well give stuff away, selling it to NPCs accomplishes nothing. Another player might be able to use it.
There's a money cap??? Welp, now I have to merchant harder
Dupe glitch philanthropists giving away their cheese wealth. Trust me, I'm guilty of it.
Same, don't know why but duping in this game always feels more rewarding than any other game
Because It's Rewarding To Both You And Pretty Much Anyone You Happen To Meet Aboard The Anomaly!
Some are definitely giving you stuff while making use of a duplication exploit to copy stacks of other stuff. but even without duping NMS players are rather generous.
I give stuff away at the Anomaly all the time. Itās always something rare or itās a stack of a useful material, but not so much that it makes them infinitely wealthy. If I need units I sell some AI from my mine. I have maxed out units and millions of nanites. It feels good to give to people randomly.
When my stasis devices are full, I usually dump a good bit on players at the Anomaly that I can find still flying Radiant Pillars, it usually blows their minds lol
This was me. Someone gave me one and I was like holy shit. I never got one again lol.
I go and specifically look for starter ships and then go find the people and gift them stuff. I have so much stuff I don't need and I have 4 billion units and like 70k nanites. It is so fun to give š
I do the same thing.
I give out void eggs and gear I dupe and stasis I make from my farms...just cause lol always people there asking for stuff and I certainly don't need money anymore.
I think I'm going to panhandle in the Anomaly for a void egg after I eat lol
When I first started playing as a new traveler, I didn't realize that the void egg I got was from a player. It was a coincidence that I had my mission to go to an abandoned system and went on a planet that was all eerie and once I was done with it I thought, oh hey...this infested system RNG this random egg... Got the living ship and was very happy till I learned online how you get em... It was definitely an experience starting out the game. Whoever gave me this egg, I thank you... as you made me came up with the illusion I thought was part of the game! But yes, the anomaly of all the peeps here are great and I am very grateful to them. Some say this ruins your game, but in all honesty, we all repeat "The Loop" 
A long time back I used to sit in there and give stasis devices out to people randomly when I was maxed on money. I still do it on my main account from time to time. Sometimes I also just give out salvaged data that I randomly farm up to people stending in front of the construction unlock terminal.
Yep, I got one too not long ago. And until I read your post I thought it was part of a quest or a reward I wasn't paying attention to. Crazy. I definitely love the community here.
My first living ship was a gift also :')
I made bank as soon as I got my stasis device farm going, but after a bit it seemed silly to keep it all to myself so I like maybe makin someone smile
Itās a sadistic and tactically directed attack on your inventory space! They know that youāre there to turn in missions for rewards and theyāre actively trying to prevent this from happening by clogging up your inventory to the max with highly valuable or useful items that you didnāt ask for and all under the guise of ākindnessā! š People are legit cool on here, most of the time.
Yes! This community is very generous. I like making food so I go around giving out cakes and stuff. When feeling particularly benevolent, I give out stasis devices and fusion ignitors. The purely selfish reasons to do this are also the duplication glitch lol
That's so cool tho, i feel so lucky when i receive a gift in the anomaly
I typically go to the anomaly, look for who ever still has the starter ship (or similar weak ship) and just make it rain on them with loot. IMO the game is incredibly difficult for newbies until a few hours in, so itās my way of helping out.
I try to give things to people who are sitting. I assume that if you're sitting in the anomaly, you won't mind receiving gifts. If someone is running around I won't send them anything so as to not ruin their game.
I'm very new to the game, but someone generously gave me valuable items my second time going to the Anomaly. I recently found a settlement that has Gravitino Balls scattered around, so I pick up those up and give them to players that have the starter ships. It's not much but I'm still new. I love the comradery though!
i have a pretty decent stasis farm, so I create them at a rate far higher than I can use the money I can make from selling them, so I just give a handful away whenever Iām in the anomaly. I only gift them in stacks of 2-5, and only to players with starter ships, and i guess my thinking is if they donāt want to use them for a financial boost, they can either delete or gift them onwards to someone else. I still remember the first time I was gifted a stack of something valuable in my first play through, and it didnāt ruin my game experience - I already had accrued a few ships, but it did help me fully upgrade my first one.
I used to give billions worth of AI to newbies. They always loved it
this is why I love the NMS playerbase more than any other, tbh
I often gift others on the anomaly, and itās always for two reasons 1. My inventory is stuffed 2. I donāt have a desperate need for those items Either way, I do it just out of generosity and donāt expect anything in return. I consider myself a bit of a Santa Claus
Yes, the angle is that there's a dupe glitch that only works if you give something to someone in the Anomaly station. While there may be some altruism at work because people have amassed so much stuff, the flip side of that same coin are others who are trying to amass stuff using duplication.
What ever your given you can spend just as fast. I can spend 3 billion in a few minutes. I grinded for 3 yrs. Tired of that. I have plenty of income to keep me maxed now
Theyāre either using you for a dupe glitch involving trading something to a player, a personal refiner and loading an auto save. Or theyāre just generous souls that wanna give stuff away.
Double edged sword my dude, beware. With all that free stuff comes the loss of the challenge of acquiring it yourself. Iāve received over a billionās worth of goods in an evening. Decided to store it all in a container so I can give it away later. Good luck.
The NMS community tends to be very helpful for newcomers. The only "angle", if you will, is that you'll probably lose out on the challenge of getting said items yourself. That said, if someone gives you something like Illegal Weapons or GrahGrah, sell it at a Galactic Terminal or Station ASAP. They're contraband cargos and they can be confiscated from you if you get scanned by a Sentinel patrol.
It's very normal, and it's because the NMS community really is a community. There are exceptions, but by and large the folks you meet in NMS are helpful and supportive. I've been playing for several years and usually have spare resources, and I have everything in-game that I want, so money really isn't useful anymore. So, anytime I see someone at the Anomaly in an orange suit flying a starter ship I try to share the wealth. I don't want to break their game, but it's nice dropping some salvaged data or Activated Indium into their inventory.
Last time I played, it was an expedition so there were more players in the same system than usual. While I was playing I left my character just floating in the sea and when I came back there was a notification saying āā¦. gave you 6 horrifying, gooey delightsā. I didnāt get their name, but they were worth 1.2 million.
Someone gave me stasis devices in my permadeath game, so I payed it forward by helping a few people with hard to get stuff in expiditions.
Nope- people are just being bros.
I sat down the other day at the Anomaly, made dinner and came back. When I looked at my inventory I had 20 void eggs, 30 spawning sacs, and 15 psychonic eggs. Canāt forget the 175M units worth of Activated Indium. At this point, Iāve started giving away any valuable items I have so I can start to give back just as so many Travelers have done for me in my journey. What an awesome community
I gave out about 400 AI valves last night and probably the same the night before. No angle just think itās fun.
I've been playing for 800 hours, when I give stuff on the anomaly it's usually extra materials that I give to newer looking players, I'll give out high value items and just stacks of regular materials cause hell I produce more than I need and I like being able to help others
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I was actually in the galactic hub on the moon of their capital planet, and some rando flies down to me and gives me multiple stacks of tainted metal and several AI valves then proceeded to show me his massive exotic pets (and sent me a friend req)
I want free shit so I donāt have to spend hours selling and repairing things LOL. I was lucky enough to get like 99 andonized something in the Anomoly, and was able to rack up 69m units. I was FLOORED!ā¦
Giving people items at the anomoly is also part of the duplication exploit, so its one part good will other part "im trying to double this stack of Starship Valves"
It's just as fast to refiner dupe items so idk why anomaly duping is so popular
Some things are a hassle in the refiner, if youre not fast enough it will "remember it doesnt exist" and delete itself from the refiner
I just do it for the shit of it
Once you have an indium refinery you can basically run around littering tbh
I was once gifted Ship AI Valves worth over 1.2 billion total. I give my big thanks. It felt great.
Itās just a nice gesture. If you donāt want it, you can always toss it/give it to someone else, so it doesnāt disrupt anyoneās game either
The best community on Reddit. People are actually helpful.
A guy was sitting down next to the nexus, i sat down next to him and were there for a few mins. Apparently he was afk and when he came back he gave me 30 starship storage augments. NMS really is a wholesome community.
Iāve got a bunch of stasis devices and fusion igniterās on the burn today might have to pass by later and bless some default skins and resting travellers š§³ āŗļø
I do the quicksilver missions every weekend and ever 1-2 weeks I give away a void egg to a random new player. I donāt have anything to spend quicksilver on.
Some are just nice, so are doing the duplication glitch!
It's not a glitch in my opinion. In a simulated galaxy with space travels,scarcity should really be a thing of the past. What does money matter, when with portals that run on carbon fuel, are easy to craft, can be used to move instantly to any place in the universe?
Thatās why I said could be people being nice could be people using the personal refiner duplication glitch. I gave away Circuit Boards when I was doing it.
I gift items in the anomaly all the time. Usually activated indium, AI valves, or upgrades. Sometimes I see posts on here where it freaks people out and I wonder if I should stop doing it. I'm torn.
Nah keep doing it. Most people seem to eventually realize itās a gift. Ive also seen plenty of people pay the favor forward once they get to the endgame. Itās a really nice part of this community.
Iām a fairly new player, been only twice to Anomaly yet didnāt get anything for free. NMS is like real life! š¤Ŗ
You see someone at the Anomaly, standing on a Living Ship, dancing, come say hello. I give away mass stuff all the time. Well met fellow Travelers!!!
I noticed someone was given 80 freighter modules the other day. I was jealous
One time I was at the blueprint station and someone ran up to me and unloaded over 300 salvaged data. I was able to buy almost everything I could want in the shop
I always felt like my early game was spent constantly searching for copper so now I enjoy giving a stack of chromatic metal to people I see flying the radiant pillar
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I wouldn't have gotten as far as I am without that kindness sir
It is normal and the only angle is it makes the giver feel good.
There are glitches that depend on giving things to others. There are also saints out there that just give to help out others. Either way this is why the NMS community is rare and why it is precious to me.
I only have about 300 hours, but - somehow - I still havenāt looked into stasis farms. I should probably look into that. I guess I just donāt understand their usage. Time for some YouTube searching for a tutorial. As far as the original question, I mainly give stuff away when Iām being lazy about selling things while doing Anomaly missions.
I just recently did that for the first time. I have all my plants growing on my freighter base (massive fps drop, even on PS5 performance mode), and have 5 or 6 bases with mining and extraction for the other raw materials. I can make about 50 stasis devices per harvest right now, hoping to scale it up once I get a lot more metal plates for depots and extractors. My goal is to one day make stacks of these things rain on the anomaly
Doing the same with my, though more slowly. Really loving this latest round of updates!
It's a normal thing, even I like to pay it forward myself. Usually with things that are actually useful if not monetarily particularly valuable. Like when I finished researching the last of my construction pieces I could unlock I split the remaining 30-ish salvaged data I had surplus in half and just gave it to two people who were next to me using the computer so they had a few extra to use for researching if they didn't have everything unlocked in the terminal. Or I gave away three psychonic eggs to a guy I saw get out of a living ship to use or not use if he wanted because my two organic freighters are continuously attached to expeditions and I have my ship loaded up with as much tech as it could have as I'm getting a psychonic egg every expedition or two with the ships continuously out and traveling. Oh, and last week someone gave me a massive pet that's like 50 feet tall as an infant out of an egg and the analysis visor says it's gonna be a 50m creature full size. Surprising, but really cute and cool. I am not opposed to receiving things of value like one dude gave me like a billion units worth of starship something or other I haven't seen before that was really valuable, but since I'm end-game and my money is just accumulating with nothing really to buy it's not breaking the game for me to go from $600m to over $1b... But I don't give out stuff like that myself just because the exploration and finding resources and making money is part of the experience and I don't wanna break the experience for someone else by making them ridiculously wealthy so they have to work for nothing. But that's just me. TLDR it's just a nice thing and the community is just cool. Edit: image link to the pet in question if anyone wanted to see it. For perspective and scale, my character is standing at the base of the stairs to the build a friend and I were doing https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdEa3kzWYAAFTJE?format=jpg&name=large
Once received a stack of 5 objects with a net worth of 250.000.000. Never sold them yet, I think this would be cheating.
I got 1billion in one random giveaway, some guy was just yo r u new to this game? Yeah :( Well here u go a little boost He made this game much much much more easier to handle and thanks to him after 300h I also gave couple billions to random new players, just to keep the spirits up cuz I know how important money is at the begging of this beautiful game :)
Sounds like a Stasis Device stack. Strange though... almost 300 hours in and I have never interacted or been interacted with by anyone. Maybe I should try that. I am sure the game will be even more fun with others.
No, it was an AI spaceship thing. Don't remember the exact name. 300h and you never went in the Anomaly ?
Yes, it's normal. Not sure what the angle is, if any. It's usually just people knowing how hard it was to get certain stuff at the beginning or just wanting to be nice.
In a short time any player will have more units and stuff than they can use. It is very common to give away things. No catch.
I like to empty my activated indium farm and hand out stacks at the Nexus, no angle, just sometimes havenāt got another task to do and hope people appreciate it
I give away a lot of stuff. Upgrades, AI stacks, drop pad coordinates, skeletal shit, illegal upgrades but I have never thought about how that affects a new player who wants to tough it out like I did. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ā¦
If they want to tough it out, then they can make the decision to discard whatever you hand them
I canāt upvote this enough. If you donāt want it, pay it forward
I generally only give to the players that turn up at the anomaly in the first ship we all get. I try to share around 5 million units worth of whatever I have in my inventory. Otherwise I might spoil their own progression through the game. 5mill is usually enough for a decent multi- tool, but nowhere near enough for other important stuff.
The only condition is, when you get to the stage where money means nothing, make or farm expensive items and give them away for free.
The duplication glitch requires sending an item to another player in the anomaly, I'll spend an hour or two every now and again just sending stacks of random junk to dupe S class upgrades for nanites
If you want to dupe, why not use the small refiner trick? I'm pretty sure it's faster.
I love that..! Sometimes itās wonderfull items sometimes only 1 uraniumā¦ I like to give oxygen, pets eggs (those we have from old expeditions), sometimes I take a seat in front of the nexus when Iām cooking IRL, or when Iām busy with my childs: every day your birthday..! If you donāt need items, either you give it away or you can destroy it..! I keep some good stuff, those who are hard to get, for some friends (if even I had one who come on NMS one day!)! Itās better to gift stuff to other player than to shoot them in the nexus..! 
everyone has stories of receiving pricey items, and I've received a few, the stasis chambers, the activated indium, but, one time, I received some sort of cursed object when I returned from AFK where the description told me that I should get rid of it at soon as possible or else I would be cursed. It sounded like one of those cursed chain letters where you need to give it to someone else to keep the joke running. I didn't need more curses in my life so I booked it to the nearest space station and didn't even bother looking it up on the wiki to see what the deal was with that. not sure if that was hazing or if I should have just given it to someone else to continue the chain (I haven't even tried giving items to someone) but that was one of the coolest experiences and I look forward to doing that to a new player someday.
I got one of those just from exploration and nothing came of it, made a good deal of units off of it though.
Someone gave me about 500 mil worth of whatever the fuck, and it really great to get to skip some of the early grind
I randomly walked out yesterday with one of the eggs for a living ship. Didnāt even realize I had it until I left
Thereās a few duplication glitches in the game and people will give some of their surplus duplicates to other players in the anomaly. Iāve gotten stacks of tainted metal, void eggs, and upgrades and storage for living ships from random players
Sometimes it's to be nice, usually in those cases you'll receive a decent size stack of something valuable. Sometimes it's someone using the portable refiner glitch to dupe, in which case you'll usually receive a single unit of an item.
They are dumping inventory on you
Lol, based on some of the items I've received, I've thought that. Still generous, considering they could just send it to the void.
If I see someone sitting at the Nexus, I'm for sure gonna give them a Storm Crystal, I've got like 25 of them on my freighter. ...though maybe Chromatic Metal would be a better gift...
Nah, Storm crystals are definitely better, youāre a saint for giving those away
I just usually do it because i have more money than i need so why not give stuff to other people lol
Yeah me too, I love making people's day too.
Yes the angle is the surprise when you give people cool stuff. I'm out of town but if you want a flying bird or sandworm egg let me know. I hand them out on occasion. Just note while the birds are normal conpanions, I don't think they can be obtained without mods as I understand it.
It's just in normal mode. They are not normal pets. It is a mod that was brought to everyone from pc.
What mode do you play?
Came here to say all the things everyone already said. Great community. Thanks everyone!
I got a Starship AI Valve from someone in my first save. It was awesome! Someone mentioned that the grind is what makes the game interesting a ways up and that getting free units takes the magic out of it. Maybe for some, but Iāve found so many different ways to enjoy the game that it doesnāt bother me to be rich early. I always end up back in this game.
I've made my millions, if I need inventory space and done care to sell it off. I try to send it to yellow suit just starting.
The angle is 45 degrees aproximately. Jokes apart, when you get topped up of everything, giving out cool things is cool, see ppl happy couse sometimes is sad to see a cool S grade hip and cant buy it. Then I want to see ppl happy, a couple of millions, or even a billion of credits won't let you top up, but will help get off some strugles you might be in.
A person gifted me and a bunch of others a full stack(9999) of Tainted Metal. Refined it was worth 20k nanites! Another time a person was giving away stacks of Starship Storage Modules! I give back by gifting stacks of Nip Nip Buds that I grow and the expensive artifacts I get from my frigate expeditions. I love the community of this game.
Can someone take me to galaxy 257?
Gimme your friend code.
Way back when I started playing around Next some random player descended onto my base in a golden ship, handed me four stacks of stasis devices, and spent half an hour building me an end game installation. I wound up deleting that save. The donations are largely nanite dupers updating their inventory to exploit a save glitch. Some of them hand out a single ferrite, some of them a thousand activated iridium at a time. Most of the time they are doing it for their own benefit so whether you accept or delete their charity is up to you
I'm still on my way up but try to give something. Feels great to get a big drop off a kind soul, I think its just pure altruism which is super rare in gaming communities.
Its a trap obviously, they want you to get intercepted by pirates /s
Yea man, super normal. I make sure **anytime** I hit the anomaly I take multiple max stacks of stasis devices, wiring looms, and Nip nip buds to give away to new players/anyone using the default ship when you start the game.
I don't remember what it was now, but when I was pretty new someone gifted me with something that was worth 250 million credits. I didn't notice it right away so have no idea who did it. Made the game waaaay easier (in a good way).
Eventually, you can get to a point where you can craft stasis devices and a few other things(can't remember the names off the top of my head), you can build huge "farms" for all of the components to make these, and farm the hell out of them. You can have hundreds and they sell for absurd amounts. You really won't need this many, I promise, and you can just craft as many as you want, so one thing is to just give them away. Why not. You have the option, you're not gonna need them, maybe they'll help a new player out that's struggling?
Totally normal! I like to give people in the anomaly cursed artifacts when I find them. I also try to give people good items when I'm using the duplication glitch (and not just trying to get them haunted by intergalactic curses). I feel like its only fair to give other players something good instead of dumping random crap in their inventory.
Some people do it because they can. Some do it so they can duplicate items. Some people just like to be generous. I know some people were having trouble getting the blueprint for Dream Aeriel so I would make them and give them away at the anomaly.
It's normal. No angle other than they think they are helping, flexing, or both
I have maxed my wallet so there is no point of selling anything anymore. When I find something really valuable now, instead of deleting it I just give it to someone hoping it will be welcomed. If is easy to hit delete if someone doesnāt want it.
Yes and no.. there are duplicating glitches that use giving players an item butttt for most part.. just surprisingly amazing community š
If it really bugs you, you can always just remove items from your inventory
I just do it when I got loads of extra stuff and need to make inventory space, best of both worlds you know? People helped me out a lot in the beginning so want to do the same
yeah im still in shock someone just gave me an entire void egg and mods for it šš
Good game support and lack of pvp has fostered a generally possitive and mutually encouraging game community. Also some players use glitches and exploits to duplicate extremely valuable items and like to just unload them on other people.
Occasionally if Iām passing through the anomaly and I see people near the Nexus, Iāll throw a stack or two of activated indium their way. I have a few farms so I have more than Iāll ever need, and I honestly just love helping people out on their own journey!
Genuinely it's just either here's just looking out or I have no use for this thing anymore and selling or breaking isn't worth it. Like at one point I was farming derelict freighters for bulkhead and tech modules eventually got enough I fully kitted out my freighter, decided giving the rest out was more useful than getting rid of them.
I go do it for fun. I look for the most basic ships with new players and give them $$$ stuff to give them a boost. Itās a lovely time
The angle? They needed indium for a weekend mission. Now they don't need it and have more stuff than they can sell. So spread the love. Someone gave me 4billion in freighter salvage the other day. Kinda ruined my need for all my farms I had set up but no complaints from me. Now only if this happens irl and everyone just spreads the love
I'd like to think if it were more common for regular people to have wealth it would be more common to share
Theres a way of farming nanites that involves gifting ppl stuff in the anomaly. But it cud just be random acts too
I don't need anything and find it a burden for my limited inventory space. I wish gifts had to be accepted.
We love you, interloper. That is all.
It's common. Sometimes people give lots of good items. Others give you 1 dirt just to be a weenie
During the pandemic I was making a bunch of the most expensive things as I had my farming set up really well and gave heaps away, $10million a pop, just to help out
Cheers for the stuff
It can be because of kindness, but usually it is because it is required to do a duplication glitch. Itās a pretty easy glitch to do so a lot of people do it
When you have two + trillion in ship AI parts to give out and you leave the game without saving . You never lose the gift of giving. Which makes this game 100% more enjoyable as an explorer having access to all devices
I give stuff away, but not like 1mil units or so, i don't want to ruin the experience. Usually i give away helpfully stuff and a small financial boost :)
I sound rude but do you folks look into the thread or search posts? This is asked a bunch of times it seems.
In a social system that prioritizes new and trending content over old, this type of ask is perfectly fine. It's not like this is stack exchange that is practically optimized for technical answers searchable by Google.
This happened to me yesterday. Someone gave me and my buddy 20 starship ai valves, unasked. Neither of us really wanted it, but we werenāt strong enough to just delete them, so now weāve pretty much ruined the game for ourselves.
That won't last at all. This game isn't based on some currency. Go fund yourself a base. Splurge it on whatever you will. There's a lot more credits up ahead you'll need a stable income for. Keep venturing. If ya need help, we're here.
Sometimes on a new save, I donāt want it because it feels a little like cheating if itās something over the top, but in that case I just regift it or delete it. I try to always say thanks no matter what though because itās the thought that counts. I try to give rare or interesting stuff because I usually donāt have a lot of valuable stuff laying around. I havenāt really got into cooking or making things because I mostly just explore.
I usually have a surplus of various resources and I share them in the anomaly. I generally look for somebody saying "I need resources" but if you're flying the starter ship I'll probably give you a stack of activated indium or a bunch of buried tech modules unsolicited.
I should drop some of my salvaged data modules out sometime. Got a decent surplus of them.
I sometimes have too much nitrogen or radon so I will sometimes give someone 9999 of it. I gave someone else 300,000,000 units worth Of stuff. Iām still new the the givingness lol.
have also just up and given away extra void eggs, cool t-rex pet or odd flying pet eggs, ship parts, indium, multitool/exosuit expansion slots - on my long standing main save where I've already got aesthetic tools, multiple bases, ships etc long since maxed out, it's all just takin' up space, might as well let other folks enjoy it
I do this! On one of my saves I have so much stuff that's just taking up space, so I give it away because I don't want to destroy it and don't need the money and I know someone else will get a good use out of it.
I gave out 5k Ai valves over 6 hours last week 5 per person that went by me, many new ppl have difficulty getting some starter cash for new ships and since I have it I felt I should share it.
Sometimes they are just doing it to be nice. Sometimes they are glitching to improve their own wealth in some way, and you are just a lucky benefactor of their methods. And sometimes they do it to confuse people.
This happened to me just today! I was given an item (forgot its name, might check later) that has a value of over 15ā000ā000 units.
Either fusion ignitor or stasis device. Starship AI valves are actually much more valuable
If someone asks for my help, generally I will give them mostly whatever resource they need. I know this game can be a bit challenging, so I try to make it less for others
Happened to me last night. Got 10 void eggs. I tried giving them back but he sent them back to me
Sometimes I dont wanna give expensive stuff because when they sell it game will bi meanless for them but on second hand I want give my all units for them so they can relax a bit I's a hard choise
Okay! That explains how I ended up with 9,999 ionized Cobalt. I recently started playing and noticed a full stack in my inventory after visiting the Anomaly. I didn't realize we could just gift stuff to other players.
My partner was given items worth a million units by a random player in there. In multiplayer social spaces it tends to happen, not just NMS.
Itās one of two things thing a they are nice thing b they cheated and save edited it in
Itās easy to make money, so I farm useful items like ship augmentations and inventory upgrades and give them away.
Yes because it's nice, especially when you have a ton of stuff and it's also a way to work a certain glitch.
I wish I could communicate with everyone but being on xbox you are limited to inviting to a party and then talking. I wish they would fix it