Does it mess with your clout? Is the authentication thing not enough for you? Do you have the mental fortitude of a piece of soggy toast and you’re scared you’ll just want to scrap everything you’ll find? Is it a status thing? Do you think finding a ship naturally makes you somehow better than the rest of us?

I don’t get it.

You can still find ships naturally, that never went away. They even come with built-in bragging rights, why are you so mad? What compels you to argue for barring customization for the more exotic ship types?

I’m not trying to be insulting in this post (maybe snarky, but not insulting.) I just don’t agree with you and I don’t see where you’re coming from at all.

I’ve seen a lot of ships in NMS, tore about 20 of them apart at a space station, and have a freighter full of interceptors from different galaxy’s. Would you all be so kind as to show us all your most unique ship ? Even if everyone has seen it before, and you think it’s cool, post it, please. I’d like to see the variations of ships if I could. Here is a small 20-second GIF video of my main interceptor.

Hi,

Not a dig at the game, 100 hours for the price I paid for this game a few months after release is absolutely a bargain in terms of price per hour entertainment. I believe I paid £6 after the initial scathing reviews tanked nms sales, but I believed in the developers statement that they would bring the game closer to their vision, and they have exceeded that.

Now I have started and stopped playing nms over the years, a few weeks ago I finally gave it the focus it deserves, and by coincidence this was just after autophage expansion dropped.

So I’ve done most assigned quests (except call of the deep), I have a decent sentinel ship, an s class exotic, a living ship, and a couple of others.

I’ve built a functional base, I have a full squadron, a full frigate compliment, a decent super capital ship, a fully built settlement and around a billion space bucks that I can’t spend.

My modules allow me to survive anywhere and kill anything the game throws at me with little challenge, I’ve seen all planet types and have a few interesting pets.

Everything that has seemed interesting to me to do has been done, all that is left is to grind for slightly better things that don’t actually matter. And that isn’t fun.

I doubt it’s an especially hot take, but nms is a huge game with unlimited scope with very little to do. There is no end game, there is no reason to get 10% better to defeat a mission or quest. There is no actual depth to anything. Literally all of the available activities could be expanded upon to give a better sense of achievement and depth.

Why can’t my settlement grow into a city?

Why can’t ships be fully modular allowing my own designs? (within reason).

Why can’t I go on missions with my frigates?

Why can’t I engage other freighters / systems with my fleet?

Literally every activity is endless in scope but limited in its execution, there is no need for money, better mods, better shops or weapons. You don’t need a base for any reason, and exploration gains nothing.

But it does take 100 hours to get to this point and that is value for money, but anything further is grinding for the sake of grinding, which I acknowledge some people do still enjoy, but for people like me who have had their fill of grindy games, it’s not good enough.

So, nms, thank you for your time, and you have improved so much, I hope one day you become the game you should be, because you have the foundation already, you just need a little extra push, and I can’t wait for it.

So I pretty much had stopped playing for about a year, after trying out Star Citizen. Missed a few expeditions and a few major upgrades, and returned when Endurance was released. There was a lot of catching up to do.

One of things I decided to do was to get some new ships. Despite the max being increased from 6 to 9 ships, I still wanted to keep the roster clean and decided I was going to switch my explorer to one with a longer range. But that Explorer that I did have served me so well for so long, that I felt bad about just scrapping it. So I decided not to scrap it; I’ll simply trade it for another ship, and let the pilot fly off into the sunset where my old explorer would continue to live on somewhere in the galaxy. I wasn’t even going to strip out the components; I would leave all the weapons and all the hyperdrive mods and everything, and leave the ship intact.

Then, I had another idea.

So I dismissed one of my squadron pilots and started looking for a new pilot who I thought would be worthy to fly my Explorer. Found one, traded ships with them, and then recruited them to my squadron. So now my Explorer lives on in my fleet as a squadron member!

I might do this with the Golden Vector. Although the Golden Vector is special because it’s one of the few ships that doesn’t have a Photon Cannon built in.