The worst building exploit (this will ruin your game, possibly forever read at your own risk)

[Kitet]

Today I noticed something. If it is already a widespread knowledge (I don't read anything about NMS outside this forum, so I don't know), then I'm sorry.

Today, since I now know this cheat exists and it's super-easy to do, this game is ruined for me. Since I feel bad it's only me, I decided to write this to ruin someone else's game, too. Read at your own risk.

Anyway, I was wondering for a few weeks if glitch building was still a thing after Frontiers. Someone mentioned it still is, and is supposedly easier. I tried today and I noticed I could build anything and anywhere with cable glitch. That's all good and all, it was so until now and people created extraordinary buildings using this technique. Since it required some research and much more getting used to, I considered it a Good Thing (capital G, capital T).
But today I noticed I could build anything, even most senseless things, like plants on vertical, outside walls of my base, which would actually grow there (sic!), but also I didn't have required materials. So I press Q to enter cable placing mode, then, in quick succesion I press Q again and LMB to place a venom urchin sprout and BOOM! It grows on the floor of my base. I didn't have emeril to build my Indium Drive, so I deconstructed the sprout and now I have 100 emeril. Since I needed 250, I repeated the planting 3 times and now I have my indium. Same with huge activated indium farms. All I had to bring to the 30 chromatic metal for the base computer, the rest I managed to build from nothing.

Goodbye

[zaphodikus]

EvilPolygons eredeti hozzászólása:

So why post the exploit here instead of filling out a bug report on HG's Zendesk?

The fact that you can raise a Zendesk ticket every single week for a year week and never get a single one of them addressed or fixed perhaps makes this pointless. The game should however not be broken "by default", that's the real source of unhappiness. It's a great game, just spoiled by a lack of ownership.

[japp_02]

"So I press Q to enter cable placing mode, then, in quick succesion I press Q again and LMB to place a venom urchin sprout and BOOM! It grows on the floor of my base. I didn't have emeril to build my Indium Drive, so I deconstructed the sprout and now I have 100 emeril. "

This is nothing else but a bug to report, please do it by joining your savegame. But first delete your cache files in the save folder to see if still it repeats in your game, such malfunctions happen often after removing mods or after a game update with corrupted download files.

[japp_02]

zaphodikus eredeti hozzászólása:

EvilPolygons eredeti hozzászólása:

So why post the exploit here instead of filling out a bug report on HG's Zendesk?

The fact that you can raise a Zendesk ticket every single week for a year week and never get a single one of them addressed or fixed perhaps makes this pointless. The game should however not be broken "by default", that's the real source of unhappiness. It's a great game, just spoiled by a lack of ownership.

HG seems to have a priority list about bugs to resolve, some bugs are forever at the end of this list, for example the bugs with the Refiners, or the bug with non-paying pirate bounties in space and whatnot else, these bugs are in the game for years now, the devs don't seem to care unaware of the many reports. Other bugs are quickly resolved if the devs take the time to do it.
I also notice that the patch notes are full about resolved bugs that nobody ever mentioned in the forums, so how's that, how are they working...

[SumGumption]

japp_02 eredeti hozzászólása:

zaphodikus eredeti hozzászólása:

The fact that you can raise a Zendesk ticket every single week for a year week and never get a single one of them addressed or fixed perhaps makes this pointless. The game should however not be broken "by default", that's the real source of unhappiness. It's a great game, just spoiled by a lack of ownership.

HG seems to have a priority list about bugs to resolve, some bugs are forever at the end of this list, for examples bugs in the Refiners which are in the game for years now, the devs don't seem to care unaware of the many reports. Other bugs are quickly resolved if the devs take the time to do it.

The right boot on body type 3 is finally fixed. And I know that they are working on the bases filling up with plants and dirt. Not all are forever.

[zaphodikus]

HG have about 900 tickets per week raised in their tracker. I assume they track other games in the same tracker, and that includes "dud" tickets that are not actually real properly filled in tickets. So no I do not feel that any harm is done by raising yet another ticket, and yes, I'm pretty sure they do eventually get fixed. The gripe I have is that I only bought this game a few months ago, since it's been released for over a year now, I'd not expect some of the regressions. That said "dupe" bugs like this are not really game breakers that cause players to "loose" progress, issues that cause loss of progress really need more love.

[gpcstargate]

No .. Mostly they are saying .. Play the way you want .. I play with a few cheats .. BECAUSE I'm Old and just want to Enjoy the Game with all it's bugs and issues. So Be It
Have Fun and Enjoy .. Tomorrow may not come, as so many have learned this past year