I’m relatively new to this game and playing solo (PS4 VR).

I don’t really understand the “solo” concept in NMS and hope you can help.

So i entered a system with dozens of player bases (about 90 all over the 5 planets).

I decided to go check 2 base and was surprise to be able to enter both (an underwater base and a farming base).

Inside it has farming stuff with robot-like-arm for collecting. I collected it all which worth few millions (also collect 5 “achievements” in 10 seconds and now i’m an “expert” at farming… just like that).

The underwater base was open too and the was an marine exocraft standing right there free to collect (i try to take it but missing an element to make the fuel).

Is it normal playing “solo”?

Most important thing, did i screw up the other player?

Just wanted to show my latest freighter base.

Looking at the bridge

heading to the restaurant/eatery

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Heading to the industrial hallway

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Looking into the eatery, near warehouse

Warehouse area

Logistics area for warehouse

Heading out to the garden

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Overall view

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Pond

main entrance/exit with rain effect

The pyramid garden

Inside the pyramid. It’s intentionally dark so bioluminescent plants light up visibly

Sometimes NMS will give me a small existential crisis, not a huge panic attack or anything, but just a thought that comes and goes every once in a while when I’m playing. The game ha so many world that it would take the player almost 900 billion years to see them all. The game has about 18 quintillion planets after all. This makes me just think for a moment about how small we are and how impossibly have the universe is, and how we will never even leave our system in our lifetimes, and how the chances of this happening to anybody in the future are slim. We will never get to see any of this, we just get to see this tiny rock we live on. But about a minute later, this thought fades away and I continue mining for copper, waving to other players in VR, fighting space pirates, or whatever I was doing before. I appreciate NMS for giving us the chance to see all of this that we otherwise never would have.

TL;DR NMS sometimes gives me a small existential crisis where I am reminded about how big the universe is, how small we are, and how we will never explore any of it.

Now, since this is a discussion, have you ever felt this way while playing?