No Man's Sky

[fishepa]

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This game is becoming very frustrating to me.

The waypoint system is TERRIBLE. When on a planet there is no way to tell where you've been. All the structures look the same.

Menu system could use some major tweaking. Why can we only stack elements?

I'm probably 10 hours in and still have the original multi tool. EVERYWHERE I go all I get is the upgrade blueprints and nothing else.

[CMH]

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I've watched some live streams. I see people using a ray gun of some sort to acquire a variety of elements like iron, plutonium and carbon. What do you do with these elements and what are you trying to accomplish? Are you trying to get a better space ship? If you get a better ship what do you do with it?

Are there factions or races in the game which are hostile to each other? Do you risk alienating one faction by befriending a different faction?

The different elements help you craft new technology, repair items, replenish shields / life support / your gun.

All of that improves those things which makes traveling in space easier so you can advance in the story. There is a mission but it would be more difficult, take forever to do it without the elements needed to make upgrades or simply survive.

Yes there are factions. Yes you can gain or lose standing with one or the other depending on who you help or trade with.

[seasprite]

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This game is becoming very frustrating to me.

The waypoint system is TERRIBLE. When on a planet there is no way to tell where you've been. All the structures look the same.

Menu system could use some major tweaking. Why can we only stack elements?

I'm probably 10 hours in and still have the original multi tool. EVERYWHERE I go all I get is the upgrade blueprints and nothing else.

I'm a little further along than you time wise with game, but I am on my third multi tool and I didn't buy 4 of them I have seen.

[CMH]

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Are you given any planet size estimates so you can compare with the planet Earth?

I wonder if someone out there will actually attempt to stream an entire walk all around a planet or moon. Maybe the 'Sitting and Smiling' guy is up to doing this.

No but I thought about this today. Unfortunately I don't know what a second in game play equals in game time.

Making it difficult is the planets don't have similar day night rotations, they are different distances from their sun, and have different rotation speeds. So unless we have that information, I don't know if we can realistically calculate the size of a planet.

But I'm not a scientist.

[fishepa]

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I'm a little further along than you time wise with game, but I am on my third multi tool and I didn't buy 4 of them I have seen.

Thanks, that makes me feel better.

[Kodii Rockets]

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No but I thought about this today. Unfortunately I don't know what a second in game play equals in game time.

Making it difficult is the planets don't have similar day night rotations, they are different distances from their sun, and have different rotation speeds. So unless we have that information, I don't know if we can realistically calculate the size of a planet.

But I'm not a scientist.

You're a step above, you're a physicist. Straighten up and act like it!!!

[PVarck31]

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You're a step above, you're a physicist. Straighten up and act like it!!!

Ugh, can't stand those know it all physicists. Especially the theoretical ones. I am an astronomer. At least my work is tangible. Haha

Ok, well I'm an amateur astronomer. But close enough.

[razorkaos]

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I was on gamefaqs reading about this game and some people (who already "finished" the game) were talking about some things that made me think...



If you're into science and philosophy, you'll like some things that are not explicitly shown by the game. I fact, with one exception, none of these things are gameplay related at all.



And just by looking at the game's box art, i thought of something... And incredibly, i was kind of right about it.



It may not be as deep, gameplay wise, as people (like me) thought it would be. But it is deep in other aspects.

[seasprite]

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Ugh, can't stand those know it all physicists. Especially the theoretical ones. I am an astronomer. At least my work is tangible. Haha

Ok, well I'm an amateur astronomer. But close enough.

I have a telescope from 1986...............

[Burns11]

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No but I thought about this today. Unfortunately I don't know what a second in game play equals in game time.

Making it difficult is the planets don't have similar day night rotations, they are different distances from their sun, and have different rotation speeds. So unless we have that information, I don't know if we can realistically calculate the size of a planet.

But I'm not a scientist.

Seems the easiest way to figure out planet size is use the time to landmark thing. Get a landmark on your compass, fly off planet, land as close to opposite side as possible, approximate movement speed, use time to object to approximate circumference. They are big though, the one planet I found one of the buildings that give you crashed ship signals, when it was marked run speed it was 3 days distance and it was maybe 1/4 of the planet away at most.

Thinking about it like that, if it was 1/4, and assuming 5 minute mile run speed, it was 3500 miles around that planet, earth is just short of 25000 miles.

[PVarck31]

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I have a telescope from 1986...............

My dad still have one from the 80's. We used to look at Saturn's rings and Jupiter's moons. It was awesome. I've been thinking about getting a nice one soon but there is a decent amount of light pollution where I live. So I'm not sure I wanna spend upwards of $500 on a telescope right now.

[ExtremeGamer]

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Where the heck are these people experiencing the "major game-breaking bug" finding a ship without Hyperdrive?! Every one I've run across except for my starter ship had it, whether sitting in the space station, a planet landing pad, or wrecked on a planet surface.

The issue is lack of blue prints for fuel. And I've seen a couple ships without a warp drive.


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[ExtremeGamer]

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My dad still have one from the 80's. We used to look at Saturn's rings and Jupiter's moons. It was awesome. I've been thinking about getting a nice one soon but there is a decent amount of light pollution where I live. So I'm not sure I wanna spend upwards of $500 on a telescope right now.

I had two telescopes. Never could see anything. Never understood what I was doing wrong and gave up on them completely.


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[ExtremeGamer]

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This is the playlist I've been playing on shuffle while I play. The Martian and Interstellar's soundtracks. Works great in shuffle mixxing between the two.



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[Burns11]

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The issue is lack of blue prints for fuel. And I've seen a couple ships without a warp drive.


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Supposedly you can get blueprints for the warp cell components from the factory buildings. I've run across one, broke it, it had some blueprint I already had. Yay.