The former NMSCE subreddit mods and myself have recently cut ties with r/NMSCoordinateExchange due to the NMSCE subreddit founder recently returning after 4 years of being MIA and deciding to run things with an iron fist (as if they never left) and abusing their power as a moderator.

Two mods were removed from their positions and banned from NMSCE for disagreeing with the founder on community related matters. Both mods had been mods for 3 years each and were and gone in an instant without the rest of the mod team even being consulted.

Another mod was removed from their position and banned from NMSCE for posting to another similar subreddit. That member was the NMSCE 2021 member of the year and was one of the top 5 of posters of 2022.

ALL of the former mods who left on their own were also later banned from NMSCE despite not breaking any community rules. Why ban us if we’ve done nothing wrong and you have nothing to hide?

As a subreddit founder, you have the right to run the community how you want. But that doesn’t give you an excuse to act like an ass. Especially if you haven’t put in any hard work in building the community yourself. Instead the founder wishes to call all the shots while others do everything else for them. That’s a hard pass for us!

Since the founders return (again, after a 4 year absence) in one months time, the entire mod team was either fired or quit, all were then later banned. The bans being an abuse of power due to lack of legitimate cause. (Not the first time we’ve seen the founder retaliate in a petty manner.)

The former NMSCE subreddit mod team (excluding the founder) built that subreddit from 4K members to the massive 229K members it has today. The founder had absolutely no hand in building the community in their 4 year absence. Most of the mods have never even spoken to the founder until they returned.

It pains us to leave something we’ve spent years and thousands of hours each building, but we will not continuing working for somebody who treats us like absolute garbage and takes credit for something they had no hand in building.

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I have been playing NMS since its release in 2016 and it’s procession from the game it was to what it is now has been tremendous, but I feel one are of the game has been completely overlooked. More than half of the planets in the game feature water, but there isn’t much to do there. Most ocean have the same life, regardless of what type of planet it is on and the variety of sea life is shockingly inadequate. To add to all of this, did you know there is a submersible and base pieces for underwater bases? Great, however there isn’t really much incentive to build here as most seas are very shallow and it isn’t much fun to take your submersible to a depth of 20′.

It would be great to really “dive” into the potential for the ocean, seas and lakes found all throughout the galaxies. Deeper ocean, carverns, cliffs and other underwater features could be cool to explore. If they made the oceans VERY deep (600m+), to the point that you count feasible explore without a submersible, that could be cool. A greater variety of sea life, some that could even be rideable underwater could be fun to experience. Lastly, there is great potential with the base parts designed for water areas.

I know exploring space and planet-side is the big draw to the game, but I wonder how much of this is driven simply based on the fact that water in this game is more of a hassle than an experience. What do you all think about the possibilities of a water-based update?

I’ve found great planets to build bases on, but for some reason I can’t find the inspiration to build a cool base. Or any type of base, really. How do y’all do it? Do you have different types like a “cozy house base”, farm base, resource extracting base, etc?