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✪ xRR Jul 30, 2022 @ 1:57am
Duping bannable?
Hey guys,

as the title says - is duping items bannable in NMS? Some say yes and some no. I know there is a small multiplayer aspect in this game BUT most of the time it is basically a single player.
Is there something official? 95% of the reddit users say that you dont have to worry about because of said reason but I personally am not quite sure about that. I didnt find anything in google that someone got banned for it either...
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Kryldost Jul 30, 2022 @ 2:02am 
You can use save editor freely. Which can give you any item you want lol. Duping isnt a problem. In fact, its probably more trouble to achieve than to use save editors xD
Last edited by Kryldost; Jul 30, 2022 @ 2:05am
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SaD-82 Jul 30, 2022 @ 2:05am 
NMS is a singleplayer game at heart. Even when having multiplayer tucked upon it.
You are safe to do whatever you want if it doesn't interfere with other players.
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✪ xRR Jul 30, 2022 @ 2:06am 
did the dev say anything about it?
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SaD-82 Jul 30, 2022 @ 2:09am 
Originally posted by xRR:
did the dev say anything about it?

Not that I'm aware of. But they don't need to say anything about it - acts (or the missing of those) are saying more than words.
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jagholin Jul 30, 2022 @ 2:09am 
nobody cares
all the data are on your computer, hg cant detect if you manipulated anything even if they tried
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tempast2003 Jul 30, 2022 @ 2:26am 
It is only logical that if modding is not shunned in the game, which it is not, then duping would be no different. Why dupe an item when you can simply mod the item in at x=value x referring to the the item on player and value referring to the number of said item wanted. if there were competition in this game as the above posters mentioned then this would be very problematic. Personally I choose not to dupe or mod in my experience doing such deprives me of the push to explore and find new things, without that this game would merely be an empty aquarium so to speak. Others can do as they like it's there experience and preferences.
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wkitty42 Jul 30, 2022 @ 3:04am 
Originally posted by xRR:
Hey guys,

as the title says - is duping items bannable in NMS?
no... there's no score keeping and no competition... why anyone would yuck someone else's yum is beyond me... play your game your way and leave others to play it their way...

NOTE: the above is not directed at you, specifically... i'm using the generic inclusive form of "you"...
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wkitty42 Jul 30, 2022 @ 3:15am 
Originally posted by НЕТ ВОЙНЕ:
nobody cares
all the data are on your computer, hg cant detect if you manipulated anything even if they tried
are you absolutely sure about that? when you start the game, it contacts the servers... it could easily transmit your current inventory and stats for HG to record in their databases... then a simply comparison query could turn up anomalies like "user exiting game with X count of Item Y but started next play with Z count of Item Y"... without actually capturing the network traffic and decoding it, one can not be sure what HG can and cannot see about one's game play...

me? i generally assume all game devs can see stats about a player's time in-game... i mean, if your phone can surreptitiously listen to your IRL conversations and cause your web browsing to start showing you ads about things you have talked with someone about, why can't game devs do the same with the game data?




oh, and BTW, not all the data is on your computer... star system and planetary discoveries are stored on game servers... this is how the game can tell you that someone else discovered system X or named some plant a generic body part... granted, if you play in offline mode, you get the game's generic generated names for everything but once you connect online, they'll change... go offline again and they'll change back...
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Chaosolous Jul 30, 2022 @ 3:25am 
Originally posted by wkitty42:
Originally posted by НЕТ ВОЙНЕ:
Nobody cares;
all the data are on your computer, HQ can't detect if you manipulated anything even if they tried.
Are you absolutely sure about that?

Even if no one is 100% sure, the thing is that the game mechanics are not designed for "competition" (beyond like, trying to get a specific star ship, but even that, in the end, is only effecting you). There would be almost no negative effect for anyone else if you take 1 Gold Nugget and turn it into 1000 Gold Nuggets.

For me the fun is in the journey to get other things, duping them or modding them in sort of takes the fun out of this particular game for me. Seeing as how it's less of a Star Citizen/Eve/Elite Dangerous and more of a Minecraft/Subnautica. I mean, if you duplicate or mod to have everything you want... what is the point of playing after that? I like this game, but the loop is in the journey not the end. At least for me.
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SaD-82 Jul 30, 2022 @ 3:27am 
Originally posted by wkitty42:
if your phone can surreptitiously listen to your IRL conversations and cause your web browsing to start showing you ads about things you have talked with someone about

That's a lie!
Those ads for potency pills aren't there because I talked about them! No! Absolutely not! It's just a coincidence! I swear! Don't trust those machines! They just want to get world domination by doing this!
(Tracking things and data in these times in one of the easiest things to do - either in general or in regards to games. HG can see the data - otherwise they wouldn't be able to stop real griefers such as those that wreck havoc in the Anomaly. Regarding other things they just don't care - there is no reason to care at all.)
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Xatso Jul 30, 2022 @ 4:24am 
Since the game doesn't have microtransactions, ingamecurrency, lootboxes, skins, nft's or heavily monetized you have nothing to worry about.
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RiChuF Jul 30, 2022 @ 4:28am 
Originally posted by xRR:
Hey guys,

as the title says - is duping items bannable in NMS? Some say yes and some no. I know there is a small multiplayer aspect in this game BUT most of the time it is basically a single player.
Is there something official? 95% of the reddit users say that you dont have to worry about because of said reason but I personally am not quite sure about that. I didnt find anything in google that someone got banned for it either...
no but why would ya :steammocking:
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Carnatux Jul 30, 2022 @ 4:47am 
I hope not. It's fun helping people out who removed something they needed or need an egg or such.
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Guyver8 Jul 30, 2022 @ 5:49am 
anyone that told you that you could be banned for duping was pulling your leg.

NMS a chilled sandbox game and HG has shown no interest in trying to 'police' anyone's method of play
HG included the option to mod the game and while they don't encourage or discourage the use of mods it pretty much means 'policing' wouldn't be viable.

PS...Sean was apparently very amused at the 'everybody is sean' mod
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Zekiran Jul 30, 2022 @ 7:30pm 
Dupin rares?


this what happened in the last game i played hackers ruined it for everyone dupin rares and gold and just anything to cheat there no extened maintenance there trying to catch the hacker and we pay for it so unless people don't let GM'S know of wrong doing's in the game it we ruin it and there we not be a COH IT WELL BE GONE TO THE AMERICANS!!!!!!!






god bless uniquedragon. every time I see anything about 'duping items' I remember the time he went on that rant. https://cityofheroes.fandom.com/wiki/UniqueDragon
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