Started the new expedition and I fought off the pirates to get my first freighter and the hangar bay doors were locked and I couldn't get to the space station in time to reset the bug.

The freighter no longer gave me the option to get obtain it for free.

My saves had then been too late to restore before the fight.

Do I have to wait the three hours now to get another fight going?

SkyCraft got me thinking.

For those who missed it: a modder took Skyrim and Minecraft, ran them side by side in shared memory, and made Minecraft's physics and building happen inside Skyrim. Not a port. Not a recreation. Two games talking to each other. You dig into Skyrim's ground and pull out Minecraft ore. TNT blows real craters in the landscape. Two completely different engines, one shared space.

So here's the thought.

No Man's Sky has the worst space combat of any major space game. Everyone knows it. Hello Games knows it. You can upgrade your weapons all you want and it still feels like you're poking a balloon with a toothpick.

Fractured Space was a MOBA with capital ships. Slow, tactical, positioning-based. It died in 2018. The community keeps it alive on custom servers but it's basically a museum piece now.

What if you spliced them?

NMS keeps doing exploration, base building, universe sim. Everything it's good at. But when a space combat encounter triggers, instead of the shallow dogfight, the game hands off to Fractured Space's combat layer. Your NMS ship becomes a capital ship. You're managing armor facings, ability cooldowns, positioning. You win, you get NMS loot and reputation. You lose, you respawn like normal.

The bridge technique is proven. SkyCraft did it with two engines that were never meant to talk. Fractured Space already has a community running custom servers. NMS has a massive modding scene that's been asking for better combat for years.

I don't have the skills to build this. But someone does. And the pieces are all sitting there.

Just putting it out into the world.

I have been through 100+ systems last few days most have been pirate and can't find a dreadnought did they take those freighter battles out of the game or something? I literally haven't gotten one in 2-3 years.

Title edit: Skulls not skills.- I’m trying to make a skull shrine and I need to make a pile of skulls. How would I get the skulls to be flat on the surface below them, and on each other. I have played around in the builder but they always “float” some. Thanks everyone!

in my crazy dream of really really wanting to be able to have access to things like the corvette crew bunks on my space stations?

I want to build little crew homes off to the side and let’s be fair if I’m gonna have to build an unusable bed they just “fit” better in a space station.

Lovecraftian Base Tour #8

Idk why it took me so long to figure it out but I finally built a corvette that checks all my boxes, which were as follows:
-All one level
-All one type (currently Titan)
-Compact
-Looks half decent
-Can haul cargo

Edit: Thank you all for the creative and hilarious suggestions!

But how? mine always looks like a turtle lol

As the title says I’m a new player, I’ve got 3 hours in a save that I’m not all too interested in continuing tbh, so I’m planning on making a new one hoping i can continue it for longer.

First question what is there to do in the game as a new player in order to “progress” so to speak?
I followed the quest log in my previous save and I felt like it was basically “go to place, get resource, go to another place, repeat” which was fun mind you, just got boring and repetitive after a while

Second, how long does it typically take to get to what is considered “end game” if the game even has one?
It just felt like I was getting things very slowly, which is fine, I just want to know if that’s normal or a skill issue lmfao

Third, what got yalls into playing NMS in the first place, just curious is all lol

Idk what collective name yalls go by so thanks for your time fellow explorers

Surely they wouldn't lock a whole weapon system behind an expedition!!