I submitted this request to Hello Games for settlement improvements (I include it merely for anyone who wishes to read it). What ideas do you all have to make settlements more relevant and fun?

I really love the idea of settlements. Even though this is technically an MMO it can get quite lonely in space. I like the idea of being in charge of something and helping it grow. Unfortunately, it feels too disconnected. Trying to interact with the citizens only gives you the option to leave. When there is a matter to be discussed, it is never in person. Any visitor, dispute, or proposal is done through the comms system. It would be great to have citizens show up at the office with their complaints, to go to the town hall and see everyone voting on proposals. To attend farewell and welcome events for missions. It would be great to be able to use things like the dance hall. That was another thing, inconsistency. It had me build a dance hall but dancing was still banned. It would be nice instead of waiting for options f we could inact them. I would love to make the active choice as overseer to unban dancing and not just wait for that option. I’d also love to be able to live at the settlement. I would love to have a place of residence that I can modify and expand (like a freighter). Having to cheat by building a base on the outskirts and moving inwards isn’t as fun. Making settlements a lot more dynamic would be a ton of fun. Being able to allow friends to buy homes there would also be cool.

Let me preface by saying that any new free content, on a game of No Mans Sky age, should be welcomed and appreciated…regardless of what’s entailed within it. So I am very appreciative of Hello Games continued support and development of No Mans Sky.

With that out of the way let’s get down to the reason behind this post. I am a day one player of NMS, and own the game on (3) platforms. I love where it started at ( yes even on day one amazingly ) and I loved almost all, if not all, content drops since.

Let’s be real though, NMS hasn’t really given its veteran community any substantial content in the last (2) content drops. Some would contend that expeditions are content, and sure they are, for those that enjoy expeditions….some don’t and I’m real big against time locked rewards of any kind…especially if those time locked rewards are pit behind tedious repetitive content walls.

I understand that Hello Games needed to address Switch players problems and bring that version into line with other versions, as well as PSVR, but what about is that have been around for years?

Ultimately limited content updates like this one will not keep me from playing one of the most impactful games of the last decade, but Id be remised if I didn’t say I was disappointed. We all love this game and want this game to continue to grow, let’s just hope that sooner than later we get an update that actually adds content for the vets still playing the game.