No man’s sky frontiers is a great idea but like most things hello games does it’s way too shallow and bare bones.

The settlement building stuff is great and I don’t even mind the timers if they just gave us more stuff to do in the settlements. The timers should be based on productivity. The higher the productivity the shorter those timers should be.

They need to add more things like we get in those theme park rollercoaster games.

For example, we are able to make a market place, but no one goes into the marketplace and there isn’t even an alien who selling things. It’s just an empty building. There should at least be a vendor in there even if only the NPC’s can buy things. But it would be even better if we were allowed to put things we gathered in the marketplace and set our own prices. I’d also like to see the NPCs interacting more with the buildings we are making. You do see it sometimes but those are rare instances.

Also, while we wait for the buildings to complete the prompts tell us to go around explore the galaxy or talk to the NPCs in our settlement. But the only option we ever get is to “leave”. We should be able to interact with the NPCs. Sometime you see they are unhappy, so why not give us a mission to go get them something to make them happy. Those NPCs could be another type of mission type similar to the ones we get in the space stations. Only instead of getting rep for doing them, it goes toward our happiness meter for the settlement.

There is so much more they should have added to these settlement’s the more you play this update the more you see how it’s not very well fleshed out, and for this being the big anniversary update, I would have expected it more fleshed out if this was the only thing it was. I just hope this isn’t like most things HG does and they will move on to something else and leave it bare bones like the did with the whole food mechanic.

Hello games biggest issue with NMS has always been adding all these great ideas but not fully fleshing them. I’d love to see them take the next year and stop adding new features but just flesh out the ones they have. NMS is in dire need of a good gameplay loop especially for end game stuff. The settlements could be one of those things if they can flesh it out like those theme park games.