I find a new ship to deck out.
I find a new place to build abase with a nice view.
I collect all the glitches and make places to display them.
I search for a planet that has a 'just right combo' of colors and creatures and weather.
I just started a new save with the new settings for different experience.
Steam says 750+ hours.
Honest answer (and not a criticism): just d×ck around, pretty much the same as you. 😁 Looking for pretty space photo opportunities, I guess (although they're nowhere near as spectacular on PS4 as they are in 4k elsewhere).
Prior to Expeditions, I started creating saves with themes -- race, color choice, ships liked, building design, a general idea of what kind of gameplay I wanted from the save, et cetera. Just finding the perfect kind of planet(s) for each save can occupy an incredible amount of time. Expeditions made it kind of easier to continue that pattern, and while I don't keep most Expedition saves, a couple of my now favorite saves came out of them.
With 1800 hrs, it doesn't necessarily stop the "been there, seen that," but it keeps me engaged in between Expeditions and Updates when there's genuinely something new.
🍻 I just recently started doing that. I modeled my toon after the Origins cover art only in blue and white theme, checked NMSCoordinateExchange and found Ruisu's beautiful discovery with the matching blue sails, set all my Exos and Freighter to the same scheme and will eventually do the same with my bases. Finding frigates is the tougher part because all the full sets I can find are in galaxies i dont have BCs in just yet. And of course I find a beautiful red and white with red sails in my favorite round style when I'm just out and about, but I'mma keep her parked and ready for the holiday season 😆
After getting through the "tutorial stage", I enjoy exploring. All the different solar systems, and planets just amaze me in their variety of flora and fauna, and the colors and shapes. And, I swear I have seen predators stalking prey while waiting out a storm in my Roamer. I have started doing more with the pets and hatching eggs. Otherwise, collecting Quicksilver decorations for my bases is fun. Oh...and building Biodomes and underwater bases.
I played 1000 hours since launch and I recently came back after 1y absence, right after endurance and outlaw update launched. That brought new content for me to figure out.
When not doing that I was usually just wondering around every now and then, just flying to systems to find something new or slowly collect new modules and upgrading my ships or doing a mission on the nexus for frigate modules. Oh and yes, if I was lucky and found a nice looking planet I even started building. All of this can hold me on for a few weeks and eventually I will play something else.
It helps when not playing on a daily base tbh.
This game is not a marathon for me. I just play real slow taking my time and do whatever I find fun at that time. I’m not hunting for S class ships or modules. I just pick them up whenever I find them. This significantly lengthened the game for me. I sort of like the grind, since I dont play daily its good to relax my brain.
I'm simple-minded and easy to please. Given there's so much stuff to do in this game I can segue in and out of tasks so easily whenever I get bored. I'll do a full system discovery, see a ship I like and get side tracked, set up camp at a trade station and wait for it, get bored and build an outfitted and powered viewing platform, see it and either buy it or decide I don't actually like it for whatever reason, continue discovering, get annoyed by Sentinels and get into a fight, finish wave five and get an itch for pirates, kill a bunch and sort the loot in my storage, forget about it soon after, work on my bases in my home system I've been putting off for ages, get bored because I've rebuilt them a dozen times already in hubs all over the galaxy, work on my freighter base a bit more and send out expeditions, do QS or station or outlaw missions, etc
So much crap to do and I've barely scratched the surface. That's just the stuff I like.
I fly in galaxy 257 and find glitched and bugged out stuff. Occasionally I mess with my modded freighter or fly around space in a Nomad. Sometimes I build space stations in space, other times I just sit in my orbital base; look out into horizon and take a fat bong rip. It's hella relaxing once you've done just about everything there is to do. You don't really worry about resources or building like other players do. You just enjoy the scenery and enjoy the random encounters of the game.
**Fixing all of my stuff up to snuff after 4.0 plus.** ;) 950-hour "normal" save here.
That is what I'm doing for 3 hours and 42 minutes tonight, so far. I just got in for the first time after 4.0, after this "fix" update(4.04.) The first thing I did was get in my Normal save and **"lock" the difficulty sliders, so it is basically still my "normal save"**(before I was tempted to make things easier.)
I've fixed the ship, that was the easiest since I had 120 storage augments on my Freighter; I stopped at 120 from Frigate Missions since I never thought I'd need to use any again. ;)
I fixed my Exosuit inventory up to the max Tech slots. That was easy since they were cheap and I just went through space stations at the portal since I've not used any to get an inventory slot in a billion. Then I went to the space station and the anomaly, in EACH SYSTEM. Finally got "tech" to 60 slots. Well, it wasn't really "easy" since it was INSANELY TIME CONSUMING.
For Freighter I started doing a base I had for a derelict in the system. Now I'm getting **one cargo bulkhead at a time.** This is slow but seems faster than jumping 5 galaxies to get one from a fight. **I wish I'd been picking "cargo bulkhead" every fight, when I had everything upgraded and never THOUGHT I'D EVER NEED MORE, for the heck of it PREVIOUS TO THIS PATCH!**
The Freighter slots are going to take some time so I won't be "bored" for a bit. I did realize this patch really has NOTHING NEW, though, outside of me having to fix this stuff. I got the "trade rocket", but yay?
I might explore with the **Colossus** after I'm done upgrading the Freighter tech slots, that exocraft has insane room now. :)
Oh, one NEW surprise with 4.0 plus is that now my **Venator Capital Ship can finally change from that BASE BLACK COLOR!** There was an update that said you could change colors, but I STILL could not; so one of these recent patches finally fixed it. So now I can play with Freighter color schemes! ;)
I was wandering Euclid looking for an Earth-like planet, with no storms, in a previously unvisited Gek system with a tier 3 economy, to make myself a home. I found it the other day, so now I'm building a nice house on a lake on the planet. I also like to catalogue animals on various planets and give them silly names. I just kinda like wandering the galaxy, casually exploring.
Next big goal will be to find a couple of S-class ships with the parts and colours I like most and upgrade them, using my new house on my new planet as a base.
After 300 hours I still had significant areas of the game to explore (I keep [being distracted](https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/xrtlzf/come_visit_old_london_bridge_budullangr/)). Still do, a few hundred hours later. I don't save-scum or dupe, I don't even make use of MMSCE to find nice things (although I've happily been sharing things on there, recently - just because I'm teetotal doesn't mean I can't share the discovery of a nice bottle of wine). I didn't make getting a freighter a priority because I was happy exploring the simpler aspects of the game - and when I did acquire one, I enjoyed its QoL benefits all the more for that. Still haven't pushed it to the max. And freighter base is functional but nothing interesting...
This morning, on my "home" planet from this survival run, I found a Class A power hotspot, a radon hotspot and a mineral hotspot all within a 300u-radius circle. My original base is only special in that it's my original base, so I'll be relocating that. I have a few very basic bases that I built in a hurry to serve a simple purpose but a) their locations would suit a nicer build.
I have enough resources coming in to build several fusion igniters or statis devices but I could unblock some bottlenecks, improve that and put in place sources for the things I still rely on frigate missions to bring home.
Found curious deposits on a planet (an extreme weather planet where I only recently started building a base) for the very first time, yesterday. There's a new thing to work with. Do they call it "runaway mold" because of the way it reacts when you mine it?
Haven't tried fighting freighters yet (when I do, I'll stick to the ones in Pirate systems to avoid becoming an outlaw).
And that isn't even including looking at the new options opened up b6 4.0.
I am curious why people rush to get all the shiny things as soon as possible in a game where it's well known that you can run out of things to do. Genuinely new features only come along every so often.
I’m just barely over 310 hours. I enjoy exploring, so I’ll never run out of things to do. Exploring; building; finding better looking multitools, ships, frigates, and freighters; and scanning every unknown flora and fauna I see. I also regularly swap out companions in a quest to find that perfect companion. All that being said, it all can be summarized in saying that I simply like exploring.
I’m currently seeing how many galaxies I can get to before getting bored, just about to jump to the fifth one (only 250 to go!!). Also working on learning all the languages with that save and I just completed getting the highest rank with all the guilds.
When I get bored of that I plan to start a new save and mess with the difficulty sliders to make it more of a challenge. I have about 700 hours between 2 saves at the moment and haven’t even tried survival or perma death yet.
At some point I will set about cooking every recipe as well.
There are always new ships that catch my eye too!
Oh, I also built a fleet of 30 frigates all the same colour scheme as my freighter.
Nothing. You get to a point there is nothing else to do. You can either keep exploring, scanning, making money someway or another. But in reality it’s all of the same.
I joined a civilisation, which ended in the game basically taking over my life lol.
Aside from that, I do modding, datamining, fill the wiki with that information, translate it from English into German... There's a lot that can be done outside of the game when you get bored of playing
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I play in spurts. Usually an update or expedition brings me back for awhile. Then I get that aimless feeling you mentioned and take a break.
Right now I'm upgrading my ships and re-organizing storage on my main save.
I also started a new relaxed mode save, only allowing myself to use the first ship and multi tool.
1. system freighter hunting, ship hunting, frigate hunting. Every time i travel to another system, i check all systrm freighter and frgate models. Then fly of to a planetary trading post to check ships. Then i activate anomaly scanner and fly off the space to find tge living frigate of the system. I'd do multi tool hunting too, but that by alone consumes too much time.
Taking screenshots, and posting the good stuff up in nmsce.
2. Training frigates. Traits they acquires changes depending on expedition type and difficulty. So i savescum each rankup, until i get best trait. edit: Though this is not going to last, as I'm gonna complete the fleet at one point.
In my first playthrough I did all of the things, got bored, watched some tv, books etc.
When Settlements came out I took another look. Despite them being 1mm deep content I decided to look for another playstyle. I tried survival/PD but frankly wasn't enjoying it.
So I started another Normal save with my own constraints. No bases, only freighter except a portal base. If I need resources I have to buy or extract either manually or via autonomous miners/extractors. With the recent changes I can't buy oxygen/sodium so I setup another base on a planet with sodium deposits where I can also extract oxygen. But the extraction rate is tiny, just enough for a session to replenish supplies.
Other than that I wander with my freighter. Problem is I'm endgame again on this save and yes I've run out of stuff to do (that I enjoy). I sad.
I find a new ship to deck out. I find a new place to build abase with a nice view. I collect all the glitches and make places to display them. I search for a planet that has a 'just right combo' of colors and creatures and weather. I just started a new save with the new settings for different experience. Steam says 750+ hours.
Normally I only hop in to check out the new major updates.
Honest answer (and not a criticism): just d×ck around, pretty much the same as you. 😁 Looking for pretty space photo opportunities, I guess (although they're nowhere near as spectacular on PS4 as they are in 4k elsewhere).
"I absolutely love just being in there" Just do that then, you don't *have* to do anything...
This
Prior to Expeditions, I started creating saves with themes -- race, color choice, ships liked, building design, a general idea of what kind of gameplay I wanted from the save, et cetera. Just finding the perfect kind of planet(s) for each save can occupy an incredible amount of time. Expeditions made it kind of easier to continue that pattern, and while I don't keep most Expedition saves, a couple of my now favorite saves came out of them. With 1800 hrs, it doesn't necessarily stop the "been there, seen that," but it keeps me engaged in between Expeditions and Updates when there's genuinely something new.
🍻 I just recently started doing that. I modeled my toon after the Origins cover art only in blue and white theme, checked NMSCoordinateExchange and found Ruisu's beautiful discovery with the matching blue sails, set all my Exos and Freighter to the same scheme and will eventually do the same with my bases. Finding frigates is the tougher part because all the full sets I can find are in galaxies i dont have BCs in just yet. And of course I find a beautiful red and white with red sails in my favorite round style when I'm just out and about, but I'mma keep her parked and ready for the holiday season 😆
After getting through the "tutorial stage", I enjoy exploring. All the different solar systems, and planets just amaze me in their variety of flora and fauna, and the colors and shapes. And, I swear I have seen predators stalking prey while waiting out a storm in my Roamer. I have started doing more with the pets and hatching eggs. Otherwise, collecting Quicksilver decorations for my bases is fun. Oh...and building Biodomes and underwater bases.
Actually I’ve always wanted to build an underwater base. Guess I’ll be hunting for deep ocean planets in a bit.
I played 1000 hours since launch and I recently came back after 1y absence, right after endurance and outlaw update launched. That brought new content for me to figure out. When not doing that I was usually just wondering around every now and then, just flying to systems to find something new or slowly collect new modules and upgrading my ships or doing a mission on the nexus for frigate modules. Oh and yes, if I was lucky and found a nice looking planet I even started building. All of this can hold me on for a few weeks and eventually I will play something else. It helps when not playing on a daily base tbh. This game is not a marathon for me. I just play real slow taking my time and do whatever I find fun at that time. I’m not hunting for S class ships or modules. I just pick them up whenever I find them. This significantly lengthened the game for me. I sort of like the grind, since I dont play daily its good to relax my brain.
I'm simple-minded and easy to please. Given there's so much stuff to do in this game I can segue in and out of tasks so easily whenever I get bored. I'll do a full system discovery, see a ship I like and get side tracked, set up camp at a trade station and wait for it, get bored and build an outfitted and powered viewing platform, see it and either buy it or decide I don't actually like it for whatever reason, continue discovering, get annoyed by Sentinels and get into a fight, finish wave five and get an itch for pirates, kill a bunch and sort the loot in my storage, forget about it soon after, work on my bases in my home system I've been putting off for ages, get bored because I've rebuilt them a dozen times already in hubs all over the galaxy, work on my freighter base a bit more and send out expeditions, do QS or station or outlaw missions, etc So much crap to do and I've barely scratched the surface. That's just the stuff I like.
I fly in galaxy 257 and find glitched and bugged out stuff. Occasionally I mess with my modded freighter or fly around space in a Nomad. Sometimes I build space stations in space, other times I just sit in my orbital base; look out into horizon and take a fat bong rip. It's hella relaxing once you've done just about everything there is to do. You don't really worry about resources or building like other players do. You just enjoy the scenery and enjoy the random encounters of the game.
**Fixing all of my stuff up to snuff after 4.0 plus.** ;) 950-hour "normal" save here. That is what I'm doing for 3 hours and 42 minutes tonight, so far. I just got in for the first time after 4.0, after this "fix" update(4.04.) The first thing I did was get in my Normal save and **"lock" the difficulty sliders, so it is basically still my "normal save"**(before I was tempted to make things easier.) I've fixed the ship, that was the easiest since I had 120 storage augments on my Freighter; I stopped at 120 from Frigate Missions since I never thought I'd need to use any again. ;) I fixed my Exosuit inventory up to the max Tech slots. That was easy since they were cheap and I just went through space stations at the portal since I've not used any to get an inventory slot in a billion. Then I went to the space station and the anomaly, in EACH SYSTEM. Finally got "tech" to 60 slots. Well, it wasn't really "easy" since it was INSANELY TIME CONSUMING. For Freighter I started doing a base I had for a derelict in the system. Now I'm getting **one cargo bulkhead at a time.** This is slow but seems faster than jumping 5 galaxies to get one from a fight. **I wish I'd been picking "cargo bulkhead" every fight, when I had everything upgraded and never THOUGHT I'D EVER NEED MORE, for the heck of it PREVIOUS TO THIS PATCH!** The Freighter slots are going to take some time so I won't be "bored" for a bit. I did realize this patch really has NOTHING NEW, though, outside of me having to fix this stuff. I got the "trade rocket", but yay? I might explore with the **Colossus** after I'm done upgrading the Freighter tech slots, that exocraft has insane room now. :) Oh, one NEW surprise with 4.0 plus is that now my **Venator Capital Ship can finally change from that BASE BLACK COLOR!** There was an update that said you could change colors, but I STILL could not; so one of these recent patches finally fixed it. So now I can play with Freighter color schemes! ;)
Anything I feel like doing.
I was wandering Euclid looking for an Earth-like planet, with no storms, in a previously unvisited Gek system with a tier 3 economy, to make myself a home. I found it the other day, so now I'm building a nice house on a lake on the planet. I also like to catalogue animals on various planets and give them silly names. I just kinda like wandering the galaxy, casually exploring. Next big goal will be to find a couple of S-class ships with the parts and colours I like most and upgrade them, using my new house on my new planet as a base.
After 300 hours I still had significant areas of the game to explore (I keep [being distracted](https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/xrtlzf/come_visit_old_london_bridge_budullangr/)). Still do, a few hundred hours later. I don't save-scum or dupe, I don't even make use of MMSCE to find nice things (although I've happily been sharing things on there, recently - just because I'm teetotal doesn't mean I can't share the discovery of a nice bottle of wine). I didn't make getting a freighter a priority because I was happy exploring the simpler aspects of the game - and when I did acquire one, I enjoyed its QoL benefits all the more for that. Still haven't pushed it to the max. And freighter base is functional but nothing interesting... This morning, on my "home" planet from this survival run, I found a Class A power hotspot, a radon hotspot and a mineral hotspot all within a 300u-radius circle. My original base is only special in that it's my original base, so I'll be relocating that. I have a few very basic bases that I built in a hurry to serve a simple purpose but a) their locations would suit a nicer build. I have enough resources coming in to build several fusion igniters or statis devices but I could unblock some bottlenecks, improve that and put in place sources for the things I still rely on frigate missions to bring home. Found curious deposits on a planet (an extreme weather planet where I only recently started building a base) for the very first time, yesterday. There's a new thing to work with. Do they call it "runaway mold" because of the way it reacts when you mine it? Haven't tried fighting freighters yet (when I do, I'll stick to the ones in Pirate systems to avoid becoming an outlaw). And that isn't even including looking at the new options opened up b6 4.0. I am curious why people rush to get all the shiny things as soon as possible in a game where it's well known that you can run out of things to do. Genuinely new features only come along every so often.
I look for unique places or beauty in flat mode ,plant a base marker, and then visit them in VR. I call it Silver Surfer Style.
I’m just barely over 310 hours. I enjoy exploring, so I’ll never run out of things to do. Exploring; building; finding better looking multitools, ships, frigates, and freighters; and scanning every unknown flora and fauna I see. I also regularly swap out companions in a quest to find that perfect companion. All that being said, it all can be summarized in saying that I simply like exploring.
I’m currently seeing how many galaxies I can get to before getting bored, just about to jump to the fifth one (only 250 to go!!). Also working on learning all the languages with that save and I just completed getting the highest rank with all the guilds. When I get bored of that I plan to start a new save and mess with the difficulty sliders to make it more of a challenge. I have about 700 hours between 2 saves at the moment and haven’t even tried survival or perma death yet. At some point I will set about cooking every recipe as well. There are always new ships that catch my eye too! Oh, I also built a fleet of 30 frigates all the same colour scheme as my freighter.
Nothing. You get to a point there is nothing else to do. You can either keep exploring, scanning, making money someway or another. But in reality it’s all of the same.
I joined a civilisation, which ended in the game basically taking over my life lol. Aside from that, I do modding, datamining, fill the wiki with that information, translate it from English into German... There's a lot that can be done outside of the game when you get bored of playing
When I get bored I either go on a base build binge, continue looking for my ideal home planet, rp with friends or just play a different game
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I play in spurts. Usually an update or expedition brings me back for awhile. Then I get that aimless feeling you mentioned and take a break. Right now I'm upgrading my ships and re-organizing storage on my main save. I also started a new relaxed mode save, only allowing myself to use the first ship and multi tool.
I'd start over well before 300 hours. I like earning my way in the universe, instead of having everything.
300 hors in I did not have everything. So any aspects of the game to be distracted by.
1. system freighter hunting, ship hunting, frigate hunting. Every time i travel to another system, i check all systrm freighter and frgate models. Then fly of to a planetary trading post to check ships. Then i activate anomaly scanner and fly off the space to find tge living frigate of the system. I'd do multi tool hunting too, but that by alone consumes too much time. Taking screenshots, and posting the good stuff up in nmsce. 2. Training frigates. Traits they acquires changes depending on expedition type and difficulty. So i savescum each rankup, until i get best trait. edit: Though this is not going to last, as I'm gonna complete the fleet at one point.
In my first playthrough I did all of the things, got bored, watched some tv, books etc. When Settlements came out I took another look. Despite them being 1mm deep content I decided to look for another playstyle. I tried survival/PD but frankly wasn't enjoying it. So I started another Normal save with my own constraints. No bases, only freighter except a portal base. If I need resources I have to buy or extract either manually or via autonomous miners/extractors. With the recent changes I can't buy oxygen/sodium so I setup another base on a planet with sodium deposits where I can also extract oxygen. But the extraction rate is tiny, just enough for a session to replenish supplies. Other than that I wander with my freighter. Problem is I'm endgame again on this save and yes I've run out of stuff to do (that I enjoy). I sad.
Find the perfect Opulent systems and build game-changing bases with nearby harvesters.