Actually, he recommends wind. Bessel-3b wouldn't be conducive to solar because it has very long days and very long nights (1 local hour = 58 UTC hours). I have wind turbines set up all over the place.
That's not why they fill up fast. In-game, they take as long to fill on Bessel-3b as they would on Jemison because extraction rates are based on UTC hours. They are blazingly fast
to us in the real world because all you have to do to fill them is sleep on Bessel-3 for one local hour. To us, one local hour of sleep is a few seconds but in-game, those few seconds have 58x the production impact that they would on Jemison because for every local hour that passes, 58 hours pass in-game due to time dilation (which is based on gravity). Mercury is a similar example as sleeping on Mercury for 6 local hours is enough to reset every vendor's credit amount in the game, because Mercury has such low gravity, time moves more slowly. Bessel-3b is a small moon so time passes even slower there than on Mercury.
So, if you were to have you extractor on a planet like Jemison, you would have to sleep for 58 hours to get the same production output of sleeping for one hour on Bessel-3. In-game, 58 UTC hours will pass but to you and me, sleeping for an hour on one planet takes exactly the same amount of our real-world time as it does on another. So instead of having to play for x number of hours to see any significant results, on Bessel-3b, you only need to have your character sleep somewhere on the planet (even in your ship if that's all you have) for one or two hours to fill all of your extractors.
Now, Bethesda's amount of time dilation is an order of magnitude greater than what occurs in our universe, but it's still pretty cool that they have it as an aspect of the game. It's just a little thing that makes it a lot more fun for the person playing.
Well, my outpost on Bessel-3b has five resources within its build circle. I have Aluminum, Cobalt, Iron, Nickel and Water. Credits-wise, having water is especially good because while you have to put mineral extractors on veins, you can put water collectors literally
anywhere in the outpost's build circle.
Well, it depends on what you want out of it. If you want money, then hell no, it's not worth it but it does give you a good amount of XP. If you want money, just farm some guns. If you're unaware of how to do gun farming, it's pretty easy.
1) Get a crap-tonne of Polymer
2) Get a crap-tonne of Titanium
3) Fly to the Masada system
4) Switch to "Very Hard" difficulty
5) Land on any planet you like, wherever you like (I would recommend avoiding the local wildlife on a level 75 world at very hard difficulty)
6) Place an outpost beacon
7) In build mode, go to the displays section, scroll down to weapons case and choose the large/heavy weapons case.
8) Place as many of those on the ground as you have enough resources (Polymer and Titanium) for.
9) Quicksave
10) Load the quicksave you just made
11) All weapons cases will now have high-level weapons+ammo in them.
12) Open every case and collect the weapon and ammo inside them.
13) Go to the Outpost Beacon and delete the outpost.
14) All the Polymer and Titanium you used will be returned to your inventory.
15) Go sell the guns for pure profit.
Now, keep in mind that you should only do this once at a time because it's a lot of mass and while Trade Authority Vendors have 11,000 credits per cycle, other vendors have, at most, 5,000 credits so you might not be able to sell them all right away and that's a lot of mass to be lugging around or taking up space in your cargo hold.
I believe that it's called a beacon because it tells you where on the planet (or moon) that your outpost is.
You have just described the vast majority of games from past 20 years.
I use a gamepad for everything because I game in my living room on my sofa and use my 55" 4K TV as my gaming monitor. It's GLORIOUS!!!
I actually found it ok with a gamepad.
