This is an unpopular opinion by me. It’s OK if you don’t agree. Please be civil in the comments. Also I’m on mobile so apologies for any strange formatting.

TLDR: We should not actively ignore griefers, we should instead think and talk about why and how bases are getting griefed, and how Hello Games could implement systems to better prevent it in the future.

The problem: Popular and iconic bases within player groups are getting griefed because of an exploit. Defending your base is next to impossible due to the way PVP and base building is currently implemented.

Possible solutions:

“Captian Obvious: Bug Fixes!”: Make it known to Hello Games that the base griefing exploit is a real and tangible issue that needs to be addressed as soon as possible. Build permissions should be set to OWNER ONLY by default to help noob players.

“Sorry, we’re closed!”: Allow Base Owners to “Lockdown” their base, preventing any players from entering “locked” doors. Exiting should still be possible to avoid players getting locked in cages, another form of griefing. One way doors? “Emergency escape” hatch?

“Sorry, no multi-tool building allowed inside!”: For larger or “tourism” based builds, allow base owners to place “zones” where your Multi Tool Build Menu is inaccessible (Pressing up on the D-pad doesn’t open anything), like in Space Stations or the Anomaly, and building anything is impossible. Basically like a spectator mode but you can still mine rocks if you need resources. This one does not prevent the Terrain Manipulator grief, maybe disable the terrain manipulator while in range too? I dunno!

“PVP overhaul or update”: Personally, I don’t want fully realized PvP in NMS. It leads to toxic behavior and bullying in sandbox games like this. (Think ARK survival evolved alpha clans for example). Instead have PVP damage disabled by default, and allow players to enable it if they want to duke it out for fun with their friends.

Do you have any ideas? Please share them below. Remember this is a discussion thread, please keep it civil. Thank you for reading!

a meme I made to try to keep things light hearted

I appreciate how much HG has put into NMS, not that unpopular of an opinion. Though, one thing that still REALLY irks me with NMS is the bugs, and I wish they gotten fixed sooner. Not really much else to say here, but I’ll suggest some big bug fixes and QOL features to be implemented.

1. Planetary Zoology: This feature could be fun, but finding an underground creature is metaphorically impossible, and finding a third underwater creature is LITERALLY impossible. No kidding, there’s a bug that prevents the third, fourth and so on underwater fauna from being spawned. Wouldn’t hurt to tweak underground spawning to be less of waiting around twiddling your thumbs too.

2. Exosuit mute: I beg of you, very specific situation, but when building an underwater base on an extreme cold planet, the exosuit NEVER shut up. It made me incredibly annoyed and stressed due to the sheer amount of times it said the same message over and over “Extreme temperature detected” “Extreme water temperature detected” “Thermal protection falling” “Extreme temperature detected” “Extreme cold damage detected” It fucks with me a lot.

3. A big one, saving edited terrain: I don’t know why HG can’t do this, if its a limitation in code I completely understand, but I’m sure every interloper would love this change.

4. Egg sequencer: Would it kill for the display to say what color it will be instead of “unstable”? very minor change but I love the egg sequencer.

5. Rocket boots: THE MOST ANNOYING THING FOR ME BY FAR. When im trying to climb up something but the rocket boots just keep jumping up instead of satisfyingly rising up. Why can’t they make it so rocket boots and only be initiated by ONLY double tapping? whenever you land and you’re holding space, it makes you jump anyway!

Those are just some features I’d like to tweak, there are many minor bugs that I would like this update to be dedicated to, like floating on chairs for some reason? Anyway, please do put any suggestions in comments that I didn’t even think about.