I just researched and it seems that No Man’s Sky offers no rewards for killing other players. I just read that you can’t loot other player’s graves or get loot from their ships.

I just bought the game cause I was really, really hyped. I went to a featured base cause hey, it’s featured and it looks amazing!

I spend all my credits that I got from scrapping a couple A-Class ships I found into 150 navigational data (in order to find more ships to scrap) and a bunch of resources to build a base and upgrade my gear. I had no weapons other than the mining beam, and no shields.

I enter the base.

I see a player. I look at them. I prepare to do the hand waving emote. He kills me before I can do it. Chat says I died due to multi-tool combat.

No biggie, I can just grab my items from my grave.

The player searches for me at spawn. Kills me again. Then skedaddles out of there with their ship.

I grab my second grave. No items. I look for my first grave, the one that’s supposed to have my items in it. Not there. There’s random terrain there now. Did they add terrain in to de-spawn my grave? My entire inventory, gone.

Now I don’t even have 50 ferrite dust to repair my now broken multi-tool.

And according to a Google search, this player gained nothing from this.

Why does No Man’s Sky have PvP against everyone enabled by default without telling the players, with the possibility to lose your entire inventory, even though no one gains anything from it?

It just seems like No Man’s Sky is encouraging spawn-sniping and griefing for annoying-new-player’s sake. This is such a bizarre design decision!

I also play WoW and engage in world PvP, sometimes winning, sometimes losing, and even this game which does reward you from PvP has the following features:

1. Rewards for PvP. PvP isn’t guaranteed to be just in order to anger you.

2. Reward the winner, don’t delete the entire inventory of the loser.

3. PvP is disabled by default, and it’s an opt-in feature because not everyone likes PvP and when you are in PvP your player yells “For the Horde!”/”For the Alliance!” so that you very clearly know when PvP is on. You also get an in-game icon when PvP is on so that you know that hey, you could get attacked at any moment.

4. Since the game was built with PvP in mind, there are certain rules for when and how you can or can’t enable and disable PvP so that you can’t just disable it if you feel like you’re losing.

No Man’s Sky has none of these things, in fact has the opposite, and it just seems like they added PvP just cause, without giving much thought about the actual gameplay aspect and experience of PvP.

Isn’t it bizarre? Opt-out, inventory wipe, non-notified, un-asked for PvP.

As a new player, I shouldn’t have to google how to disable PvP, or whether or not the game has PvP, or whether or not you lose your items, and even worse, I shouldn’t have to discover the answer to these questions without even googling it, because it makes the game less enjoyable.

Hello! Hopefully this post belongs here – I did my best to tag it properly, but if the mods feel that this kind of post doesn’t fit the nature of this sub, that’s cool too. This is “Part 1” of my journey of playing through No Man’s Sky. I am a recently recovering addict (lots of questionable life choices), and one of the things that helps make things easier for me is playing video games. I bounced around from game to game for a while, before a youtube video popped up on my feed, talking about No Man’s Sky. I purchased the game at launch, but, like many people, I was severely underwhelmed with the game. I had been following along with the development ever since, and have now and again thought about picking up the game again. I decided that this was the perfect excuse that I needed to finally do a full play-through of No Man’s Sky. So, here I am! My therapist suggested that I keep a journal while I work on recovery, and while I never could really find anything to write about my own life, I decided that I want to try and journal about my experiences playing No Man’s Sky! My goal is to play the game every day for the next while, and try to have different experiences each time, to help distract my brain during my recovery. Then, at the end of each play session, I’ll journal about what I did. I also figured, “why the hell not? Let’s put it on reddit!” in the hope that some make-believe internet peer pressure would help keep me honest.

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To be clear: this is just me uploading my journals of my adventures in No Man’s Sky. My goal here is to try and talk about my adventures in the game in (hopefully) interesting ways. If for some reason anybody finds this to be any kind of interesting and decides to comment, tips and tricks and general advice is always appreciated! (But no story spoilers, please!) If you have any stories that you want to share about your own adventures in-game, I would love to hear them also! Disclaimer: I am not incredibly well-experienced with this game. I know a bit, and the game has been helpful, but I’m not super hip to all of the crazy efficient mining strats or the best way to trade goods or anything like that. (and again mods if this post doesn’t belong here you can just delete, I’ll keep journaling anyhow, maybe post them somewhere else. No biggie.)

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Today actually starts off with a bit of a short entry. I really wanted to get my first session in tonight, but the game had to do some updating, and my internet isn’t the best. I finally started playing around 1am my time, and got in around a solid 40 minutes before I felt like it was time for bed. Hopefully, I will be able to get in a more complete experience tomorrow. FYI, this playthrough is occurring on normal mode, as I want to go for a more conventionally casual experience.

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I started on a planet called Winthalc Omega, a dusty, irradiated world, where orange sand blows on the horizon and strange, tentacled lifeforms grow out of the surface, like the world is some sort of cancerous prison for an eldritch god. I promptly went to work trying to survive, gathering resources to repair my hazard protection and following a mysterious signal to my ship. As I sat in the ruined cockpit, I took some time to add my own personal touch to tho it. After a brief moment of thought, I renamed my ship the Akabane 3000, after one of my more favorite anime characters.

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The next order of business was gathering some resources to repair my ship, and exploring the area. I found a crashed satellite nearby my ship, and when I interacted with it, it sent out a mysterious signal. Very nifty! I spent the rest of the session gathering resources. Crafted some sort of metal plate, so I’m halfway there to repairing my ship! (Sorta kinda.) I also took some time to take some screenshots! (See above.) Got some of the environment and the local flora and fauna – I think that the walking creatures look like mini-cuthulus, so maybe I’ll rename them something in that theme. I also found some cool blue crystals, which I thought looked really nice against the landscape. I also noticed that the sands turn more dark blue at night, which provided a cool contrast to the hot, radioactive sands of the daytime. I finished my day as the planet turned to night, sitting in my ship and staring out into the boundless sky. I finally decided on a name for the planet before logging off: “Az Kaban,” after the prison from the Harry Potter series, both due to my own personal headcanon about the planet’s creatures (see above), and because it was a place that I desperately wanted to get the hell off of. The screenshots I took are attached to this post, all taken pre-name change.

That’s all for today, folks! Stay tuned for my next adventure, I’m looking forward to getting off of this planet and starting to explore the solar system! Thank you so much for taking the time to read this, if you have. Honestly, I don’t really expect very many people to read this, but that’s fine. This was surprisingly more helpful to do than I thought that it would be, so I guess there’s my motivation to come back! Assuming this doesn’t get deleted, there will probably be another installment in the next day or so, we’ll see how it works out.

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First Moments on the planet

A shot of the horizon

Ghot G’yotglorb, amirite? (Seriously tho what is this thing?)

Di-Hydrogen, I think? Pretty anyhow

The ground sprouts tentacles

Az Kaban at night. (Pre-name change)