Freighter fleets are worse than having pets or kids.

Unless you are just using your freighter as a god-awful expensive floating garage, your fleet needs constant attention. They always need fuel for frigates. They’re always asking for permission to go out. Every other fleet in the galaxy has strays giving you the doe-eyes asking for you to adopt them. And they’re always coming home with random shit you don’t want.

The other day, I was out mining asteroids for tritium. AYFKM? I have A- and S- class upgrades for my pulse engine. I haven’t had to actively mine tritium in I don’t know how long. I get enough incidentally just from shooting asteroids that are in my way. But frigate fuel requires it 1:1 with di-hydrogen, and if the local system isn’t selling it then you gotta go gather it the old-fashioned way.

Freighter fleets are always warping into the middle of asteroid fields. They are surrounded by tritium, there are whole crews in each of my fleet’s ships, but I’m the one who has to go get it.

Freighters these days, geeze. They just have no respect.

I bought this game when it first came out for PS4, without knowing much about it. The concept seemed cool, but I was wrapped up in a few other games at the time. By the time I had time to give it a shot,the internet was teeming with negative reviews and reactions. I decided to pass.

Fast forward 6.5 years, my VR2 shows up on my doorstep. Looking through the limited selection of games available, I see NMS (still sitting on my shelf, gathering dust). Cool– I already own a game that has a free upgrade and VR2 compatibility! I pop it in and… wow! This game is vastly outperforming any expectation I developed over the years.

Now, I am very slightly aware that in the years since its launch, the devs continued to work on making this game what they intended it to be. But I had a lot going on in my life too, and with new games coming out weekly the NMS ship had kind of sailed for me. I don’t think I ever would’ve given this game a shot if it weren’t for the VR2, but I’m oh so glad I did.

Anyway, still very new to the game (~5 hours), so tons left to learn and explore. Just wanted to say hi to everyone and sorry I’m late.