My hyper drive is maxed and I’ve spent an hour now just warping along the expedition route. WHY?! This literally adds nothing to the expedition other than pointless time sink. Every 3 jumps I check the space station to see if there’s magically a station or base warp at R5 and there never is. ARGH

So my brother got No Man’s Sky and encouraged me to get it so I can play with him. I’m more of an JRPG fan who plays a ton of single player, narrative-driven games that deep dives into character relationships (e.g. Xenoblade Chronicles, Nier, Persona).

I used to play FPS multiplayer games when I was younger but not really anymore. I never played an open sandbox game and the game’s visuals looked great. I love the sci-fi and space genre and the game was on Steam, sale so why not?

Unfortunately, I find the whole mining/crafting and base building pretty tedious, boring and a monotonous grind. Conversely, my brother loves it. He’s already spent 40+ hours on it. I’m only 9 hours so far.

I changed a lot of the settings to Free for Crafting, Purchases, Blueprints etc. because I hate grinding (even in RPGs and other games). But now, I’m not sure what to do now that I can just get everything for free.

The one thing I do like is the exploration. Seeing new planets. Traversing the different systems and taking in the visuals. Admiring the landscapes, fauna, animals, etc.

I hope this doesn’t sound like I’m bashing the game. I genuinely want to find a way I can experience this game in a way that’s fun for me and enjoy it with my brother or solo. But feel free to call me out too if you think this isn’t the game for me.

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Hey folks,

I’ve been sitting on this game for a real long time, got it during launch day and then left it until now. I see that it’s been completely revamped and beyond what it was originally supposed to be. A crazy success story!

Either way, now that the game has completely changed I’ve been getting back into it bit want to see what wisdom the space captains can share to a newbie.

I have the general gist of things, just reached the Anomaly Orb last night. Really early on. Learned I missed out on a lot of those expeditions haha.

Thank you all in advance!