

The big bonus to this money-making method isn't just the amount of units you receive, but also it gives you a very real goal when you land on just about every planet. You can check in the Discoveries menu at any time, but I recommend you check when you first land. There are some planets, specifically those mostly barren of both flora and fauna, that don't pay anything at all. I've yet to see a planet that will pay out less than 175,000 units once you have finished uploading everything a planet has to offer - but don't quote me on that. I didn't even notice the 'Upload and Receive' prompt until I finally finished a planet's discoveries. If you check out the Discoveries menu (Options button on PS4) you get a look at the interface that's going to not only let you name and upload all your discoveries, but also pay up large sums of units for your hard work.įor the first few hours of the game I was sated enough with with units given for uploading discoveries, but the couple hundred to couple thousand units reporting discoveries gives just didn't cut it. There have been a few easy money techniques floating around the internet, but in my experience so far the best technique is the most obvious and fulfilling: 100% species discovering every planet I come across.

Crazy, right? Maybe not so crazy if you like staking your claim to the sections of the universe and seeing what there is to see. You can play No Man's Sky a number of ways, and one of those ways just happens to be exploring planets and analyzing everything you come across.
