If you find a good crashed ship, you can mark the site with a comm ball (an activated base computer should work, too).
If you then post the details here, other people can go there and claim their own copy of the ship. Everybody wins.
The details you need to post are:
The computer you’re using (PC, PS4, XBOX etc);
The mode you’re playing in (Normal, Permadeath, etc);
The galaxy you’re in;
The portal address of the planet the ship is on;
A picture or description of the ship.
Remember - enjoy crashed ships responsibly. When the fun stops, stop.
OK, let’s start this off. This one’s not great - only really fit for scrap - but if I’m going to start a thread, I need something to put in it, and this was the first half-way valuable one I found today.
I’ve had a think about @Clemm’s suggestion for using latitude and longitude coordinates.
Whilst I agree with @sheralmyst that navigation by coordinates is an absolute pain in NMS, it does have one huge benefit - it makes the locations discoverable regardless of your computer system or play mode.
If I locate something on PC, and mark the spot with a comm ball or base, people on PS4 can’t see it. But the coordinates will be exactly the same. OK, finding it will be a bit long-winded, but it’s possible.
And if the first person who navigates to the spot then drops a comm ball…
So from now on, (if I remember!) I’ll be including latitude and longitude.
Trouble is, it’s quite difficult to use - and it’s only available when you’re on foot - which isn’t a lot of help when you’re trying to search a whole planet from your ship.
Do you know, I’ve been looking at that thing for months, and I didn’t realise what it was. I thought it was showing height above sea level, or something equally useless.
Now you point it out, it’s blindingly obvious what it is.