Hello Travellers and Possibly Hello Games! I have a few suggestions I’d like opinions on!

⚠️WARNING: May contain spoilers!⚠️

I have a few suggestions I’d like to share, as well as some setting changes I’d like to see! I’m looking for opinions and not hate. If there’s something you don’t like. Tell me maturely please!

Customizable Ships/Walk-Through Ships:

• Imagine a ship between the size of a ship and a frigate that you can fully customize and walk through.

• Up to 4 players can attach/dock together with their “Shipgates,” allowing you to access each other’s ship seamlessly and walk around and build inside.

• Each player can dock their own starship on their own “Shipgate” for easy access.

• The ability to play mini arcade games with friends on the ship, such as games similar to Space Invaders, Space Racer, Xaind Saleena, Metroid Prime, Space Marshal’s, chess, or card games.

• When pirates attack, players can pilot turret guns outside the ship for fun.

Co-Op:

• The ability to build bases with friends where both players can register and build, even if one player is offline.

• Each player has full ownership and control over the base.

• Ability to add bases to a favorites list at the teleporter list.

• A universal storage bin for group players to quickly share and use crafting materials if all players have ownership of the base.

• Creating custom player factions that players can add friends to, with faction leaders controlling permissions for building and ranking, as well as custom-made faction badges.

• 2-4 seater Exocraft where friends can hop in and be transported on planets.

• Better icons and the ability to change the colors and size of co-op players for easier identification and location.

BUILDING:

• Stairs/ramps for wood, alloy, and stone that can connect to the bottom part of extensions.

• Implementation of a shrink/giant ray or edit option.

• Water gun or above-ground water building attachments for creating giant pools or water-filled holes using the terrain manipulator.

OCEAN Factions/Boats/Ocean Ideas:

-Sea Pirate Reputation.

• Addition of BOAT’S and Warship! (Warship=Ocean Freighter) buyable boats or crashed boats we can find on water planets that can either go above and slow water.

-Boat Modules that allow us to keep our boats under water longer, weapons modules, War Ship Modules.

• Above water platforms that allow us to build from atop the water as if we were on land, adding new walls, doors, ports, docks, and decorations that relate to an ocean aesthetic.

• With boats, I’d like and Exocraft Boat that all 4 players can ride together.

• Fishing and the ability to catalog and save fish in homemade aquariums and for recipes.

• Hoverboards/Sails for gliding over water.

• “Moon Shoes” that can walk on the ocean floor and the surface of the water.

-Submarine “Frigates”

-Submarine “Squadrons”

ENEMY NPCs:

• NPC enemy from each faction that are hologram, possibly holograms created by sentinels using data collected from each race in NMS.

• NPC ocean pirates/sentinels/holograms that can attack you on the sea in boats.

-Underwater Sentinal/Pirate/Hologram NPCs that you have to fight off or summon your Submarine Squadron.

• Ocean sentinel capital ships if your wanted level is up that come to attack you with a locator at the end.

• Pirate ocean capital ships that we need to destroy to protect other factions also.

• Introduction of flying monstrosities and small leech monstrosities that players need to shoulder bump off.

-Bio Engineered Enemies Like Monstrosities/Sentinels. Similar to the corrupted but now they have been corrupted by Bio animals.

SETTLEMENTS:

UTILIZE Settlements more!

• Missions from settlements that lead you to find a crashed “Shipgate” or “Shipgate” parts, “Submarine Parts” etc.., as well as missions to find mini games, new songs, glass colors, decals for settlement/bases, and different types of bait, cooking ingredients and hunting mats to make recipes.

BASES:

• Base trackers to see how many people have visited your base.

• Mailboxes to leave messages to other players when visiting their base like own pals.

• Real orbital base building components.

• Base NPCs that walk around, interact with things, and talk with one another.

• Ocean freighters that we can build inside. Similar to the Freighters we have now, except a giant War Ship

QUALITY OF LIFE SETTINGS:

• Ability to change group color with various options.

• Cursor setting for consoles, allowing movement via touchpad sensor.

• East and west points on the top compass.

• Toggle wheel option instead of D-Pad for easier access to specific options.

-D-Pad used for hotkeys instead

• Increased FOV.

• More than 3 custom character saves.

MISC:

• New bio Alien ships with Alien features

• Giant space bosses that we have to destroy that leads to Bio Alien Starships, Like the Sentinel ships!

• More interaction options with pets.

• Additional recipes to make food more viable, efficient, and fun.

• Player-driven recipes and the ability to create new recipes.

• Hunger or thirst meters &/OR..

-.. Parasitic Alien Virus’/ Illness caused by Fauna, Flora, Types of Exposure…this will give cooking and recipes a whole entire meaning. Of course people can opt out of this option in the settings. I think this would bring much more to the table of survival. It can even be a “No Man’s Sky Survival Expedition” or New Game Mode!!

• Wings on the Aeron Turbo Jet to go down when not using Jetpack.

• Current mission display when using the wheel.

• Underwater mounts.

• Gene splicing to create custom companions.

• An updated egg sequencer with better descriptions.

• Walking boosters for the Minatour exocraft.

• More variety of fauna, flora, and minerals.

• Increased presence of predators on land and in water.

• Cool underwater storms that create whirlpools or lightning patches.

If we can add missions to get ship skins, customizable docking frigates, crashed boats, and the ability to customize ships with attachments and colors, it might solve people wanting customization and satisfy those who still want to ship hunt.

Bonus:

I’d also love to see a whole new underwater race, with new clothes and character customization, as well as a new “Fishing Rod Multitool” or “Trident Multitool” with different looks that can do extra damage to ocean pirates and NPCs. (I say bonus because I know we just got the new Autophage race with the Echos update, just a future idea!!)

*Also if anyone says “It’s a Space game not an “Ocean Game” I understand that. However No Man’s Sky has almost become more then that. We already have water building for under and above water. I don’t see why we couldn’t get something more implemented more when it comes to Water/Ocean “life”.

**Edit: I’d also like to add I know this isn’t an Official NMS page. If I do have a suggestion to send it to Zendesk or Hello Games UK email. Which I have.

Me:
Do you know the game, no man’s sky?

ChatGPT:
Yes, “No Man’s Sky” is a well-known video game developed by the British studio Hello Games. It was first released in 2016 and is available on various platforms such as PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The game is famous for its massive, procedurally generated universe, which includes over 18 quintillion planets, each with its own unique environment, flora, and fauna.

The core gameplay involves exploration, survival, combat, and trading as players journey through the universe. Players can upgrade their ships, suits, and weapons as they discover different planets and interact with various alien species. The game was initially met with mixed reviews due to the lack of promised features, but it has since seen numerous updates and expansions that have significantly improved the experience and added new content, such as base building, multiplayer, and improved story elements.

As of my last update in April 2023, “No Man’s Sky” continues to be a game that evolves, with Hello Games regularly releasing updates to enhance the game and keep the community engaged.

Me:
how many stars in that game?

ChatGPT:
In “No Man’s Sky,” the number of stars corresponds with the number of planetary systems players can explore. The game is built around a procedural generation system that allows for over 18 quintillion planets, which means there are nearly as many stars since each star typically hosts at least one planet.

This near-infinite number of stars and planets is one of the most prominent features of the game, as it provides a practically unlimited space for exploration. The number is so large that players collectively have only discovered a small fraction of what the game has to offer, and it would take many lifetimes to visit every star system in the game personally.

The 18 quintillion figure comes from the 64-bit seeding algorithm used to procedurally generate the game’s universe. It’s a number that is often cited to give an idea of the scale of the game’s universe, even though it’s not expected that every single star or planet will be visited by players.

Me:
How long would it take one person (given they are immortal) to visit every star system in the game?

ChatGPT:
To estimate how long it would take one person to visit every star system in “No Man’s Sky,” we would need to make several assumptions. Let’s say for simplicity:

• Each visit to a star system is very brief, just a flyby, taking about 1 minute on average (this is an extremely conservative estimate considering that even the fastest possible visit would likely take much longer due to loading times and the need to travel between stars).
• The player is engaged in this task 24 hours a day, without taking any breaks.

Given these assumptions:

1 minute per star system × 18 quintillion star systems (18 × 10^18 star systems)

= 18 × 10^18 minutes

Now, let’s convert the total minutes to years, knowing there are 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, and 365 days in a year (ignoring leap years for simplicity):

18 × 10^18 minutes ÷ 60 minutes/hour ÷ 24 hours/day ÷ 365 days/year

= 18 × 10^18 ÷ (60 × 24 × 365)

≈ 18 × 10^18 ÷ 525,600

≈ 34.2 × 10^12 years

So, it would take approximately 34.2 trillion years for one immortal person to visit every star system in the game, assuming one minute per visit with no breaks. This time frame is several orders of magnitude longer than the current age of the universe, which is about 13.8 billion years.

Me:
What if the entirety of humanity were to participate and map each system, how long would it take to map every star system?

ChatGPT:
To estimate the time it would take for the entire human population to map every star system in “No Man’s Sky,” we’ll need to continue with the assumption that it takes about 1 minute to map each system. The current global population is approximately 8 billion people. For simplicity, we’ll use this number for our calculation.

Let’s continue from the previous calculation, where we determined that it would take approximately 34.2 trillion years for one person to visit each of the 18 quintillion star systems, provided they spent one minute per visit.

Now, we’ll divide that number by the current human population:

34.2 trillion years / 8 billion people = 4.275 million years per person

This is a rough estimate and assumes that every single person on the planet could and would dedicate their time to mapping star systems in “No Man’s Sky” non-stop, without accounting for the vast differences in access to technology, interest in participation, or any other logistical concerns.

In reality, the time it would take could be considerably longer due to many factors, including game mechanics that may limit how quickly star systems can be mapped, the fact that not everyone has the game or the necessary equipment to play it, and the reality that people would need to spend the vast majority of their time doing things other than playing the game.

It’s also worth noting that the actual gameplay mechanics of “No Man’s Sky” would not allow for such an organized and simultaneous mapping effort. There are in-game limitations to consider, such as travel time between stars, loading times, and the actual activities required to consider a system “mapped.” The process of discovery, documentation, and travel within the game is much more complex and time-consuming than a simple one-minute flyby would suggest.