There is not cities? or civilizations?

[KuroneR]

I want to discover a planet with intelligent life and with his towns and buildings... sorry guys a man can dream xDD

(Sorry for my english)

[Brechnor]

Well, i'm prety sure atlas destroyed their creators to preserve life... so I don't expect much civilisation any where at all. Other than robot floating eye pyramids.

[Shardlake]

Sadly even if half the ppl on these boards landed on a planet, still be no intelligent life, there are towns/space port/factories, I guess most of the inhabitants are of in space though, cities have become defunct :)

[K▲IYOTE]

Instead of cities, there are space stations. The game-lore reason for this is a bit of mystery but it seems like something wiped out terrestrial civilization and the main intelligent races had to flee to space.

[Guillory]

Nope, Sean said this was a team decision early on. They wanted it to feel like the frontier of exploring. And if they added civilized planets like Coruscant from Star Wars it would feel more GTA V than NMS. Sean even made a joke about tagging corners mini game. I was hoping for the factions to have a homeworld that you could just happen across in your journeys at some point. But I get where they are coming from. Its supposed to feel wild and untamed.

[RendCycle]

Hoping their decision will change in the future. "Living" planets, space stations, and other civilized locales feel empty for me. To see a lot more activity and personalities in those places would be nice. Also, finding alien/s on a planet that are travelling, mining, hunting, fighting, or doing some form of activity will make the NMS universe look a little more alive and realistic.

[Brechnor]

Originally posted by RendCycle:

Hoping their decision will change in the future. "Living" planets, space stations, and other civilized locales feel empty for me. To see a lot more activity and personalities in those places would be nice. Also, finding alien/s on a planet that are travelling, mining, hunting, fighting, or doing some form of activity will make the universe look more alive and realistic.

Holy mother of necromancy I actually made a post last year that wasn't criticising this game. Now I'm even more salty about what they did. Glad I got my refund out back then before they unlawfully tried to stop the refunds.

[mrb455]

I have to agree, some sort of towns, cities that could be explored would be nice.

[Haunt Fox]

Well, we know now that the lack of civilization seems to be related to the fact that the universe is in its death throes.

[Brechnor]

Originally posted by mrb455:

I have to agree, some sort of towns, cities that could be explored would be nice.

Lol this thread was made a year ago.... They didn't add cities then and they probably won't now.

[RendCycle]

Originally posted by isengrim:

Well, we know now that the lack of civilization seems to be related to the fact that the universe is in its death throes.

Be that as it may, I think there should still be some Geks, Korvax, Vy'keen, or other sapient lifeforms present outside buildings... It does not need to be as bustling as Skyrim's outdoor world. Just a few folks doing normal activities will do. Maybe a few parked or running vehicles would be great as well. If they will add more than this, meaning new significant features and maybe more story, which will result to a reasonable number of hours more of playtime (but not just pure grinding), I am open to a paid DLC even!

[Mharr]

Originally posted by Numpty:

Nope, Sean said this was a team decision early on. They wanted it to feel like the frontier of exploring.

Well, they failed at that so far. You'd need some variation and a border to the unexplored wilderness for that, but every star system of billions has the exact same space station and population density.

[WarMachine]

There isnt enough life in exsistance (at least in our galaxy) to colonise our galaxy. Likely hood of any Star Trek future of huge planetary metros arn't very likely. They will populate places of saftey and trade, likely not moving from any space stations due to all planets but the ones we were created on would be harmful in some way. No one wants to live their life in a space suit except explorers.

Space is widely populated as would be expected, frieghter armadas are everywhere, and stations pretty much in all systems.

[Mharr]

The thing about life is that it expands to fill the available space. Even without FTL, it would only take humanity a few million years to fill the galaxy after one successful colony world, and the thing is billions of years old. This is why the Fermi paradox is so confusing.

[WarMachine]

Originally posted by Mharr:

The thing about life is that it expands to fill the available space. Even without FTL, it would only take humanity a few million years to fill the galaxy after one successful colony world, and the thing is billions of years old. This is why the Fermi paradox is so confusing.

Cant be true, or alien life doesn't exsist.

I'm simplifying the thought, not contradicting. My thought is space isnt as accomading for life as we all think.

[Haunt Fox]

Originally posted by Mharr:

The thing about life is that it expands to fill the available space. Even without FTL, it would only take humanity a few million years to fill the galaxy after one successful colony world, and the thing is billions of years old. This is why the Fermi paradox is so confusing.

Well, what gets me sometimes, is how people are kind of surprised by recent (within my lifetime) discoveries in paleontology, including and especially the work done since the 1980s.

See, in the 1970s, before Jurassic Park was ever a thing, knowing anything about dinosaurs, even knowing the WORD, was super-nerdy ... and nerds were _not_ fashionable back then.

The thing is, looking back on it, those dinosaur books we had back then were BAD.

Part of the badness is relevant here - one of these was the assumption that the ancient (paleozoic-mesozoic) Earth ecosystems were somehow less "complex", diverse, and "challenging" than modern, mammal-filled ecosystems.

But according to those books that I remember getting beat up over checking out of the school library because I wanted to, there were only maybe a dozen or so known "dinosaurs", and they were generally including the pteranodons/pterodactyls, plesiosaurs/pliosaurs, and ichthyosaurs, which aren't "dinosaurs". Leading to the book-writers to announce that yeah, somehow, primitive Earth was sorely lacking in species, and life in general.

As far as the planets themselves go, the scubbiness seems to be kind of based off of someone's memory of this old impression, and that impression is being carried over to the universe as we see it. The realization that life is actually very explosive once it gains a foothold IS rather new, after all.