What are the chances of getting banned for editing a save file?

[God of Tea]

To be more precise, I want to give myself salvaged data as hunting for them is very boring and tedious, I hate it, I want to skip it.

[Geldric™]

It's confirmed at 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000% chance

[Xautos]

none. you can edit your single play effort without issue.

[Jaggid Edje]

No chance at all, but if you think you may play a new game ever you could save yourself the time of having to edit your save every time by just using a mod that gives you a lot more when you dig them up, like this one: https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/2341

[Krash Megiddo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjUBlDCEYNQ

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Originally posted by Geldric:

It's confirmed at 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000% chance

also know as... 18 Quintillion to 1

[Raven]

Ahhh, but a chance of 18 Quintillion to one comes up 9 times out of 10.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

There is no competition in the game so no reason to ban someone. The worst you can do is ruin your own challenge by getting too greedy with the editor. Best to use it with a very light touch.

Especially late game, it can be nice to do stuff like get your squad all the same type ships, have your settlement produce something useful, or just clean up extra tools or ships you never use (without producing any more credits).

At some point, we all hit the barrier of $4B+ credits. It is a good tool to reduce your balance to something more reasonable. At least for me, seeing it never change is kind of a drag.

[PeaceMaker]

Yep. Mod yourself to have a zillion things. Don't come back complaining when you're bored though cos you completed everything in one go and have no sense of accomplishment.

[japp_02]

In your save there is nothing that could directly interfere with the gameplay of other players, so you are asking the wrong question.
Maybe you will get banned for making intense abuse of the Chat or doing some base spamming all around in very popular systems, but if I were you I wouldn't get active to verify the truth of this statement.

[Krash Megiddo]

Originally posted by japp_02:

Maybe you will get banned for making intense abuse of the Chat or doing some base spamming all around in very popular systems, but if I were you I wouldn't get active to verify the truth of this statement.

Has anyone ever been officially banned from NMS? How would they do that?

[frazzled]

Nil.

However, you can't expect even the remote chance of technical help from HG concerning adverse effects of that modification.

[NZ.Zero]

Originally posted by God of Tea:

To be more precise, I want to give myself salvaged data as hunting for them is very boring and tedious, I hate it, I want to skip it.

agree. thats why i first edited my save file. save yourself some pain and just do it. games are meant to be fun.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Originally posted by Krash Megiddo:

Originally posted by japp_02:

Maybe you will get banned for making intense abuse of the Chat or doing some base spamming all around in very popular systems, but if I were you I wouldn't get active to verify the truth of this statement.

Has anyone ever been officially banned from NMS? How would they do that?

I doubt it. The only scenario would be the person is actively disrupting their servers or inserting malicious code into the game. I have a feeling those would go through legal channels and we might never hear anything about it. That player would just not be playing anymore.

[Jaggid Edje]

You guys must not read gaming news.

There was a story on several of the bigger game news site a while back (maybe 6 months or so ago) about a player that was banned from, not just No Man's Sky, but from whatever platform he was playing on. HG turned over his username to the platform, and they took care of it.
I read it on either Rock, Paper, Shotgun or Kotaku, most likely, seeing as those are the only two gaming news site I regularly read.

The reason for the ban was that he was a Neo-Nazi troll wreaking havoc in the Galactic Hub's space.