I was on an Ice planet checking out the various animals and came across a ground creature that would dive underground, travel around and then pop up and look around. It was a pretty big creature, and looked like the prehistoric squirrel Scratch from the Ice Age movies, and I very much so wanted it as a pet.

Well I try to interact with it, but the button wouldn’t show up. So I tried to do this over and over for about 2-3 minutes, following it as it travelled. A jaguar like creature suddenly charged at me and I used a plasma grenade to kill it, accidently hitting the ground creature I had been following, for all this time across an open frozen wasteland, and a good long ways from my ship. Well it seemed to take offence to me hitting and and started attacking me.

It would drop under the ground and pop up and hit me and it did a stupid amount of damage. I have fought off hordes of sentinels with no problem, but this thing… it was no joke. I couldn’t hit because it kept dropping under the ground. I tried using my jet pack but it would stay underground until I landed and then start attacking again. I had no shields multiple times as I ran, jetpacked, and shot, geo grenades, plasmas, and everything else I could at the thing, just so I could make it back to my ship.

I finally make it back to my ship and think ok I’ll wait in here for about 5-6 minutes and go back out and do what I was doing… nope it was waiting for me. I had to bounce around get back in my ship. Finally I stood on my ship and just shot and dropped everything I could and finally killed it.

It was a strange and thrilling fight for my life, in a game I have at least 2 saves over 300+ hours on each, that I haven’t had in a while.

I went traveling around planet again and not, 2 minutes later a smaller version of the Ice Age squirrel Scratch popped it’s head up…

There are a number of player formed civilizations in NMS, but the game itself doesn’t have any kind of system for forming and joining civilizations. Given the current state of multiplayer, with most players having access to the same universe, now would be a good time to implement such a system. Not entirely a new concept, but some features might include:

• The ability to form a civilization and recruit other players. Civ names can appear next to players’ gamertags/usernames that are members of a civilization.
• A governance system where players can create ranks that have different privileges.
• Players could create custom flags for their civs.
• Claiming starsystems and planets as part of a civilization.
• co-ownership and management of bases, settlements, and freighters.

Now a system like this would probably go hand in hand with a major settlement overhaul, as part of the same or separate update. Settlements could act as the hearts of civilizations as players work together to grow, maintain, and defend settlements across their civs. A settlement update might include:

• More freedom over where a settlement is established, what players can build in a settlement, the layout of settlement specific buildings, and the number of settlements a player (or civ) can own.
• Settlement requirements like food, water, hazard protection, life support, power, and housing.
• Implementing the existing farming, mining, power, and cooking mechanics in the game.
• The ability to establish trade routes via frigates between settlements and bases. Trade routes may need to be defended against pirates from time to time.
• Settlement building that serve specific functions and can be damaged or destroyed during sentinel attacks.
• Set up defenses against sentinel attacks.

What do you guys think? Is this an update you’d like to see at some point? Are there any other features you’d want implemented in a civilization update?

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