Well, I did. And I ended up playing for like 8 uninterrupted hours, and I’m having a blast.

So far, I unlocked the advanced mining beam, and I unlocked every single alloy structure. Ended up spending the majority of my time playing making this really cool looking two story alloy base on a “Paradise” planet, I believe it’s called…? It basically looks like Avatar, but red grass. Glowing mushrooms and all that shit.

I unlocked solar panels and a battery, and started wiring up my base. I’m just loving the game so far!

Question: if I can convince my brother to play, how does multiplayer work…? We both have our separate ships at the same base, and can both freely explore the galaxy as we wish? I haven’t seen a human player yet, so I have no idea how this works. Is he able to play with me if I’m not in a “multiplayer” server? I’m just playing whatever the first option is, on normal mode.

. . .is that they need to stop generating my character and starting ship using my name as the seed value. I’m sick to death of having to begin every expedition as a short-ass Gek with the camera angle too close to the ground, and the ugliest, slowest, and least maneuverable hauler I’ve ever seen to fly around in. It even has the same name every time.

It’s especially cruel on expeditions like this one, where I can’t just pop into the space station or anomaly to use the appearance modifier, or buy a new ship.

Even if the character model and ship they start me with didn’t suck so bad, I’d still get tired of them being the same on every expedition start.

I wish they would just make expedition character generation truly random instead of basing it on the player’s name.

Other than this one thing, I enjoy the expeditions quite a bit, but man am I sick of being 3-feet tall.