I’ve played NMS a few times since it was released. The first couple of times I bounced off of it (both were fairly early in its history.) The last time I was really, really enjoying it – except grinding for fuel.

*Note: You’ll have to forgive me not remembering all of the specifics or getting a few details wrong. It’s been a couple of years.

Every time I got on I’d end up spending 2/3 of my available time just farming frigate fuel. It ended up killing the game for me – I wanted to explore, to build, to send out missions, but all I ever got to do was either stand there and mine or run from trade terminal to trade terminal. It took most of my free time and sucked all of the fun out of it.

I’ve seen a few cheesy tricks to bypass it, but I really don’t want to resort to silly, anti-immersive cheese (like constantly building and tearing down mini-bases.)

I’d really like to come give this thing another shot, and maybe even get to the center this time – but I want to see if there’s a way I can avoid running into the same problem again.