Hi everyone I am absolutely blown away by the response to my post regarding “Ritchies planet” my memorial for my dad it is really amazing and beautiful!! I know the majority of you want me to post the glyphs so you can visit and pay respects which I found absolutely amazing and was on-board with this 100%. Unfortunately there was 1 comment that made me re think this and as much as I’d love for you all to visit, that 1 comment made me realise that for every 100 amazing travellers there will be 1 who wants to ruin it! So for this reason and I hope you all understand, I will be keeping the glyphs private so that my brother and I can build our memorials to our dad without anyone disrespecting it. You have given us amazing ideas to work with and even shared your own stories of loss which has been very touching so thank you! We can’t wait to start our builds so for this I am ever thankfull, I will be posting pictures of the finished build on here eventually we just want to keep it private as we don’t want to risk it being ruined, we hope you all understand and again thank you all so much!! This really is the best community you are all AMAZING!!!

Might be spoiler if you want to explore things yourself. Otherwise read below.

I don’t know if there is any lore related to this, but most likely many of you already saw something similar, and although I explored that planet well enough, I didn’t find them other than in that very spot. They look like some kind of fairy house or something. You can enter inside but there is nothing, but knowing that this is a Gek system, I would say that this was a prehistoric Gek house, before they reached the stars? Or maybe it was some leftover assets left behind by Hello Games to add NPCs to planets?

When I enter the structure, the game detects it as “Inhabited Building [Unknown Inhabitants]”.

Basically this:

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https://preview.redd.it/dvqkt1k0gdzc1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc1bbfebc76586ac63055c7a602ec929b8b347b4

https://preview.redd.it/eku6g2k0gdzc1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb1086135b8b9a29a8cefe7de827c6f4a9fc5de2

Honestly, I’ve played Facebook “City Sim” games with more depth and interactivity.

They bring literally nothing to the table except a time and resource sink with no real return or fun.

Nothing you build can be interacted with or do anything unique, except the “Starports” which require you to pay materials to build a roof, but then just turn out to be a single “Alternative” landing pad that random ships can land on, and have no roof in sight

Nothing you build creates related items that can be harvested, or sold. Markets are completely empty and don’t house traders. The hazard control building is literally just an empty 1×1 box that doesn’t do anything or cause your settlement to act differently if their are hazards. Every building is filled with storage items and nothing else. No unique living quarters.

All the buildings are literally just made from the players base building kit and are incredibly uninspired and pop up with no structure or thought to pathways and lane flow. Citizens just amble around doing absolutely nothing except looking at data pads, hovering 4 feet above the places they try to sit, and have the least inspired Sims style mood indicators that also cant be changed or interacted with and have no actual meaningful purpose.

The output materials your base generate are randomized, un-customizable, and have nothing to do with the building you build or the citizens you hire and they accrue incredibly slowly at rates that make worthless for selling or building.

My base has a Jelly Donut Farm as a status modifier. Is there a farm? No. Is there a restaurant? No. Is there a chef npc somewhere I can talk to to buy donuts from? No. Does it switch Settlement production rewards to donuts for me to sell or eat? No.

Settlements are ugly, hollow, shells that sit around and wait for arbitrary decisions that cost you both resources and hours of your life as it can take up to 4 hours per tier of a building to complete, with each building having 3 tiers. 12 entire IRL hours and decent amounts of resources to build a landing pad that isn’t even a unique asset, that I can plop down in 6 seconds in base building mode for like 25 pure ferrite.

It feels so under-baked, it’s basically raw.

But thanks for the base building overhaul I guess… even though its incredibly buggy now, it was a semi-thoughtful overhaul but still left the base building at “Pretty much pointless after a certain progression and lacking decorative assets.