If you can get by in the expedition without using the expansion slots for multitools, your exosuit, and your starship that you are awarded during the different phases of the expedition, you can take them back with you to your main save when the expedition is over, and use them on your main save.

Keep in mind that you can buy one exosuit expansion at the space station and one in the Anomaly in each system you visit during the expedition as well.

Also, despite the end-of-expedition bug that I managed to get around with the photo-mode fix, I really liked how I could take things back to my main save. It was also very satisfying to get a ton of units and nanites to carry over to your main save, not only for the other stuff in your inventories, but also your in-expedition accomplishments, even those not directly related to the expedition itself.

I sometimes feel that the HG devs don’t respect the players’ time with some of their design decisions, but this was the first time I felt like my time was well worth playing the expedition because it advanced my main save as well, and not just with cosmetics and cool building parts.

Don’t get me wrong – seeing action and life in certain places is great – but it is way too frequent and more importantly, it seems way too random. You discover an uncivilized planet at the edge of the system with a few relics from another era. You want to build your base and discover what is there, but every 2 minutes some spaceships fly around close to the surface… doing what exactly?

I would love it if planets and systems had more meaningful parameters for population/traffic density (for example, there is a huge trading platform, so more ships are flying around). But I also like to discover planets that have not been discovered, where you can have your own “edge of the universe” feeling. It is the same with the frequency of pirate ships or massive freighter spawns when you are in outer space…

it feels like the developers were afraid that the game would feel too empty and as a response just let everything randomly spawn everywhere all the time… Perhaps others like this, but for me, it is killing the immersion

Literally shut up ISTG!!! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to cancel a long wiring connection because of this. Literally EVERY time I build a mine. It’ll be 20u from where I’m running it but NOOOOOOOO

Edit: I’m aware I can move my ship, you guys, I just thought I’d share a minor annoyance I thought we all experienced lol. I’m getting shredded, though. I thought this was for the Interlopers to just share opinions but I guess not today o.o