All they do is break your ships technology and for what? to maybe get an average of 1k light-years closer to the galaxy center? What a waste of time trying when you can either just gun it to the middle or just use regular portals. Even if you don’t have portal coordinates to the center, it’s risk free to just try random coords on the portal than jump through countless black holes.

Really hope that Sean/the dev team see this.

I love the idea of Companions, but they desperately need a TLC pass to be better. Here are a few ideas that hopefully would be kind of easy to implement:

1. MORE SLOTS – when you include the recent Twitch drops and the last 2 Expeditions, we’ve been given more Companions than we have slots for, and that doesn’t even allow for any that we may have “found” during exploration. We really need more slots – at least 12, if not maybe 24?
2. AUTO SUMMON – I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been playing for an hour or two before I remember “Oh yeah, I got a cool pet the other day” and go summon it. I should be able to set a default/primary pet (and change it easily) that automatically pops out whenever I’m in a situation that supports it.
3. FUNCTIONAL GEAR – Many of the attachments or whatever look really cool, and their names/descriptions suggest that they could be really handy. Unfortunately, they’re completely non-functional, which is a complete waste.
4. BUILDABLE ENCLOSURES – It would be awesome if there was a new building part(s) that allowed me to build various enclosures for my pets. Functionally this would be similar to the existing specialist stations. I’d love to be able to have a zoo or menagerie on either a planetary base or my freighter. I could stock these up with pellets maybe for an auto-feed, and they could also serve as a breeding chamber.
   1. BONUS #1 – even better if there were different variants of this for the different types of pets
   2. BONUS #2 – would be handy if I could also unlock and construct an egg sequencer on my base
5. SIMPLE GAMES – can I please, for the love of Atlas, just play fetch with my Diplo?

I started Expedition 2 today, and I’d just repaired my ship when I saw someone else spawn on the planet. I thought I’d welcome him with some starting-out resources, so I flew over, walked up to my fellow interloper and gave a wave and a thumbs-up.

He shot me in the face until I was out of sight.

My flabbergasted friends, behold a dude with no ship, no exocraft, no resources, and he attacks a friendly traveler like me… when I’m standing next to a starship with rocket launchers.

…Poor guy never saw it coming.

Here’s hoping he learns some jolly cooperation soon! 🙂