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I'm about 1/3 in, and every system has been abandoned.
I stopped farming nanites because there wasn't much need. I don't need to bring in my old ship because progression is focused on corvettes and you get enough parts from awards. My multitool has already got plenty of upgrades too.
So far it seems like an easy expedition.
Have you finished at this point? How did it go?
Yeah, it was one of the quicker expeditions. Mostly straightforward, but the black hole was a nice surprise.
Yeah, this one didn't feel too tedious. There were a couple things that slowed me down, but nothing terrible.
The rewards are pretty cool. I can already see all of the "Where did you get those corvette parts?" posts from new players.
I just finished the expedition last night. Aside from distracting myself with corvette building, there were a couple things I ran into that delayed me getting done sooner.
Expedition Tips
Hope that helps!
There is no way to sell technology upgrades without NPCs. There are functional trade terminals in the stations for selling off commodities and items for units, but you can't do anything with the upgrades except use them, discard them, or I guess schlep them back to your main save and sell them there. The payout for that is probably not worth it.
And yes, in this expedition all of the systems are indeed abandoned.
Side note, if you need nanites during the expedition and don't feel like visiting any of the inevitable runaway mould farm bases built by other places that pop up all over the route like mushrooms every time, you can refine larval cores into 50 nanites each and basically every single building on every planet in the expedition is an abandoned one festooned with whispering eggs. Including the one you start at.
Each building has at least 16 eggs around it, and 16 larval cores equates to 800 nanites. Don't worry about the biological horrors that spawn when you break an egg. They're slow and stupid, and you can just gather up all the cores and then run away. In fact, running away is preferable to fighting them even if you can deal with them easily, because they don't drop anything worthwhile and squishing them all is tedious.
Also! Stop-Having-Fun-Guys need not apply to this one:
If you feel your time is actually valuable, note that the portable refiner item duplication bug is still not patched in this update. Although I notice one small change made to the mechanics now is that you can no longer pick up a refiner whose output slot has something in it. You can still dupe anything in its input slot, though, which means all this does is slow you down slightly as you can only duplicate the cores and not the nanites directly. Still, you only need one core and two refiners to get started with and you can generate hundreds of thousands of nanites an hour easily by doing this, which ought to hold you for the entirety of the trip and then some.
I finished this expedition in one sitting today, about four or five hours. It's much more linear than the last few. What with the lack of vendors everywhere you're relying pretty much entirely on milestones to get the technology you need to do what you've got to do, so doing most of them out of order is completely impossible. None of the achievements are too tough and, as usual, enterprising scrubs have already slapped visible-from-space signposts all over the planets along the route where the specific items/creatures/biomes/etc. you need are.
Have you gone back and visited the systems now that you completed the Expedition? There are a couple odd changes.
System Changes
I'm sure there are other changes I just haven't noticed yet.
Side-note, but how does one do 'earlier' expeditions? I'm wondering how to get the sandworm flying animal.
You have to wait for the annual reruns, or - if you are on PC - you can use a mod (I think it is this one?) to rerun them offline