I bought No Man Sky when it first launches. I wasn’t a fan of it so I uninstalled until last night. I recently ran out of good games to play so I was browsing my library and saw no man and remembered the Cinderella comeback I read about.

I installed the game at 4 pm yesterday and started to play. I was blown away at how much smother the game seems to unfold and how well the main story teaches you about all the systems in the game. I was having so much fun building a base and upgrading my star ship.

After getting to a new part of the story looking for Artemis I looked at the time and it was God damn 2 am!!! I had to go to sleep and wake up at 6 am for work!

It’s been a long time since a game hypnotized me like this in a long time. Hopefully my journey will continue to be this entertaining! See you all in space! Named Toadz on PC if anyone runs into me.

By now, a lot of the original promises for NMS have come true, and we are even getting new features that we haven’t dreamt of at release. However, there is still a fundamental gameplay element that’s missing. We need real physical stars, with planets oribitng around them. It’s so weird playing a space game in which stars are a skybox.

• Functioning orbits would add a lot of realism. I am convinced that this one change would make space travel a lot more visceral and enjoyable in the game.
• Imagine the potential for gameplay elements, like solar ships gaining speed near the star, or lore potential, with space megafauna being more common near the stars, etc.

• It would also allow adding asteroid belts orbiting stars like our Kuiper belt, instead of asteroids being spread throughout.

  I am curious to hear what are your ideas for gameplay mechanics, lore, and content that could be made possible by adding physical stars with functioning orbits into the game.