In light of the most recent top post I feel like I should make a reminder about this. You are very likely not helping by giving new players tonnes of valuable items to sell, money IS a big part of personal progression in this game.

Think of how much you can and often do buy with money? Every gun, every ship every freighter, every fleet, every stack of fuel cells, every upgrade and the list goes much, much further. This is not a unique situation to No Mans Sky in the slightest, plenty of games have their own version of this.

I just came back from playing a game called Fatal Bullet where a good third of the remaining playerbase was near useless because they got carried to max level (often from 65 to 300) and even though they had max level gear they didn’t know how to play the game. Because they became dependent on their carry, they became dependent on their money and did not learn anything about the game or its mechanics. So they got stomped on in all the content they should have been prepared for yet they were not, and consequently ruined everyone elses online experience including their own and then left the game soon after.

People in No Mans Sky will just get bored and never log on again. You made them rich, not everyone is driven by creativity or exploration alone, why would they need to learn anything when they can just buy their problems away?

I get a lot of you are just trying to help a bro or sis out, and I’m not saying to never donate. Just I’d recommend doing so in moderation to be considerate of others, give people little boosts to help them on their way like a couple warp cells, food pellets or possibly a small stack of resources if they ask for it even information is often extremely useful to new players without artificially shortening their experience. But whether you want to come to terms with it or not – making new players rich has a very real chance to taint their experience unless they know exactly what they are in for.

So got this on last sale with gift card from last Xmas, paid like 7$ out of my own money.

This is the most amazing game I’ve ever played. Im on my second save after restarting my 1st save at like maybe 10 hours. My current is about 40+.

I want to thank the random mad lad who gave me like 3 40 stacks of something in the anomaly that when sold I had like 3.5 billion units.

I have a small garage of ships I collect, trying to get one of each of an s-class. I already have a friegtgher I like at c-class and am working on to upgrade or buy better.

So my question is how do others play this game? I basically am a mobile merchant, I buy cheap from one system and sell to another for high profit, and also just explore and do stacked missions.

For example, yes I know it’s mean to kill random animals, but I usually have like 2 cull creatures, a scan mission, and resource gather because I can do all in one trip.

I feel like I’m further in the altas missions than anything else for main because I just talk to them and explore the system and spawn my freighter in because my explore is s-class and just OP.

So second question is am I wrong for this? I feel just reading the atlas and focusing on that makes me feel like I’m just pleasing that entity and it’s wrong because idk the atlas feels like a bad thing but it has some points like the rest of the game lol.

I’ve been playing for about a week. I played a lot when NMS first came out, and a bit after, but there’s sooooooo much new stuff now.

I see lots of people talking about discoveries, building, ships, etc after they’ve logged hundreds of hours.

So now that you’re hundreds of hours into the game, what is something you wish you had known, or done, when you first started?