I went in knowing this could be bad.

Welp. It happened. I’m guessing I put in at least 30 hours. I progress really slow, cause I like to farm and grind a lot, my exosuit was still kinda weak with technology. It was touch and go for the first few hours, figuring out how to survive. After getting some batteries and life support cells, I was past the surviving part and moving on to getting the good stuff. I scored on a hot rod star ship and was mostly about getting it maxed out.

I was sure I could brave any extreme planet, I was doing fairly well with keeping a good stock to keep my tech charged. I just left an extreme planet with 606 F super heated storms to get some good resources and made a sweet new animal companion there that was following me around for a couple hours.

So I got what I needed, went to a new system to buy new tech, scanned planets and found a new extreme planet to land on with an extreme storm already happening and thundering. I seized the moment to start getting storm crystals, despite barely being able to see with the storm, but I can see the flashing storm crystals. Then I guess a third storm was announced on top of the two already happening, as soon as I started grabbing storm crystals, which I didn’t think three storms was possible.

It was a wind storm with barely time to react, even if I were to dig a tunnel, I was immediately swept up. I was already a couple hundred meters away from my ship when I got picked up. I knew I was in trouble, frantically trying to use my jet pack as I’m being tossed around trying to avoid hitting the ground. Trying to get out was not happening either. I have been in wind storms before and I purposely jumped in and had fun with it, but this wind, even I tried to run, was not letting me go. Losing sight of my ship, I panicked, fumbling controls; I kept myself from hitting the ground a couple times. I was trapped by a hillside and before long, slammed me on the side of it, I heard “shield down” and the screen faded to black. I took a couple minutes to process what just happened.

Maybe I can take it as a learning experience. Though when you’re in permadeath, anything can blindside you at a moments notice. I’m guessing the lack of exosuit upgrades and underestimating damage taken in permadeath was my fatal mistake. I nearly ended my game when I got overzealous with the jet pack and miscalculated a drop just over a hill. It wasn’t a long drop, but I was down to a sliver of life.

I don’t know if a maxed out exosuit will tank a long fall, or save you from being slammed from a wind storm.

Now that I got that off my chest, I feel a bit better. I guess when you get knocked off, you get back on that horse. Maybe a bit more weary about acting reckless, in permadeath anyways.

I think the next approach, I’ll focus more on maxing out health and damage protection and less finicky about flashy starships. Being more cautious about extreme planets as well. I learned you can be taken by surprise and most threats on other modes are not a joke when playing in this mode. Better luck next time I guess.

I have 80 hrs in the game and have loved it. I think I’m hitting a wall though. I’m starting to feel like money is no longer an issue, and I’m becoming bored. ** **I’ve been doing several things to earn money, to get things I am looking forward to (more frigates, ships, etc). I’ve been trading, buying plants/materials for cheap to make and sell more expensive products, scanning things on planets (with scanner upgrade that gives a ton of money), using distress signal maps to find downed ships to sell, etc.

I’ve reached the point now where I have a freighter I’m happy with, plenty of frigates (though I plan to buy a few more, for about 8 mil units), 2 S class solar sails and S class explorer, and an A class fighter. I do plan on getting a good S class hauler, fighter, and hopefully some exotics. These are expensive, sure, but I’m currently at 130 mil units, and feel like money is getting easy to make between high end products, millions for trade goods with less than an hour’s work, frigate missions, etc. Let alone when my settlement finally comes online.

A lot of my favorite things are becoming boring. Waiting at a trading post to buy cheap trading goods and plant products because pointless. Frigate missions have some interesting items but usually I just sell the items, so these become less valuable. Missions that award credits (and much less than I can make in the same amount of time) feel like a waste of time.

Not trying to be cynical, but just explaining the situation I’m in. I love this game and want to keep playing and enjoying it, but my motivation and interest is hitting a wall as I feel like I’m reaching the point where money is not an issue and I can get everything I want, which leaves nothing left to work for.

Anyone deal with this situation? Am I missing some context? Are there other big purchase things I can try to get?

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TL;DR: money is getting super easy to get, which feels like I’ve reached the end game, and I’m becoming bored. With so much money I can buy anything it feels like, which means I have nothing to work forward to. Anyone deal with this? Is there something I’m missing? Are there expensive things to look forward to besides ships?