TL;DR – Tell me about your different saves. How many? What difficulty? Roleplay or not? Any self-imposed rules or challenges?

I am currently running five different saves, each with a different focus and/or self-imposed rules.

The Traveller (~125 hours):

• On a journey to the center of the galaxy.
• Additional Rules: No portals.
• Origin: Voyagers Expedition.
• Difficulty: Normal

The Philanthropist (~750 hours):

• Builds dairy farms. Distributes hand-baked goods, useful and rare creatures, and hard to find resources to new players.
• Origin: Blighted Expedition.
• Difficulty: Custom (all as Normal except no inventory loss on death).

The Treasure hunter (~25 hours):

-An interstellar pirate on the hunt for the rarest and most valuable artifacts and samples. – Origin: Singularity Expedition. – Difficulty: Normal

The Scientist (~110 hours):

• Travels by freighter using the Singularity Engine to randomly jump systems, scanning all creatures before moving on (even rare underground).
• Additional Rules: Freighter jumps with Singularity Engine only. No freighter hyperdrive usage. Cannot leave a system until all creatures are scanned.
• Origin: Polestar Expedition.
• Difficulty: Normal

The Mortal (~25 hours):

• Life on a single planet with the Anomaly in orbit.
• Additional Rules: No hyperdrive, no pulsing, no teleporters, no space stations.
• Origin: Custom Permadeath save, all difficulties set to max.

I love getting into the headspace of each of these characters and escaping into their worlds.

Started as the Traveller today. A little nip-nip, some Tangerine Dream on the headphones, hopped in the squid ship, switched to cockpit view, and jumped 10,000 units closer to galactic center, with a few space station visits to fuel up and fill out the exosuit inventory.

Then it was off to The Philanthropist, who teleported to multiple bases to lay butterfly, sandworm, and dragon eggs so they’ll be ready for gifting to noobs doing weekend missions. Dealing with mountainous terrain is treat from the air, and sentinels will ignore you if you are riding a companion. Spent a bit of time just flying around on the back of a dragon over my favourite neon landscape. There might have been a little more nip-nip.

Finally I dropped into The Mortal (permadeath) to take to the air on a sandworm and hunt down impulse beans, then farm some eggs and milk to make doughnuts. It’s a quick way for me to generate cash and nanites in relative safety. I am close to being able to afford a hauler I’ve had my eye on.

Anyone else have multiple saves? I’m curious how other players divvy up their focus.

I was travelling through the system when I suddenly came across a what could’ve been a fully oceanic planet. It looked like one from space and when I entered the atmosphere, I saw a vast ocean, I couldn’t land my spaceship to chart it. At this point I’ve actually started to think that I’ve discovered something super rare! I even attempted to park the freighter as close as possible to jump from it and discover the planet on foot and used several maps to find just a single building on the surface…

…except there only was emptiness. A big endless ocean. Every landmark that the game has pointed to me was leading to the ocean. There wasn’t a single island, a single piece of solid surface to land the ship. I was amazed by this rare sight because, well, as you know, usually every oceanic panorama is kinda stained by some weird-looking isles that ruin the view. This time, it was only water. I even managed to “drown” my ship and fly underwater (not sure whether it’s possible under normal circumstances) for a while, took some pics and left because I couldn’t do anything about this planet except openly stare at it and think about the fact that we don’t have an option for water landing yet.

The biggest surprise arrived when I re-visited the system. The planet came back to its normal scorched biome look. Sad. Can we get oceanic planets in the future? pls ^-^

While NMS doesn’t have its own Solaris yet, something really close is nevertheless quite achievable… hehe

That’s me flying underwater. Hope the ship insurance will understand that I’ve got an issue with the air filters…