Add Earth and our solar system.

[mirzacamran]

Would love to roam around Earth,

[Dirak2012]

Not possible without huge changes in how the game works.

[umop-apisdn]

There are many Earth-like planets, in that they have blue water, blue skies, and green grass.

Unfortunately, the number of planets per system is capped at 6; there can be no "Solar system".

[Dirak2012]

Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

There are many Earth-like planets, in that they have blue water, blue skies, and green grass.

Unfortunately, the number of planets per system is capped at 6; there can be no "Solar system".

Well, "roam around Earth" implies a bit more than a generic blue/green planet.

[SirProsik]

Would you want 'google' Earth, Moon, Mars detail? If so you are looking at a much larger game file size. It would be cool to see but you are looking at least 40gig just for those three.
And it would be cool for a simple version but how many times would you visit?

I think it would be trivial to add the inner solar system 255 times and have to use a portal code to go to it. But without any buildings or signs of civilizations I think it would be boring.
I suppose you could make it a community planet. How would you divide it up for colonization without pissing off lots of players? Some might want to place a house on their RL location :)

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Originally posted by mirzacamran:

Would love to roam around Earth,

And maybe go to a 24 hour coffee shop about 2 am? You really have not read the story provided have you?

[Dirak2012]

This is something that always puzzles me. You have an entire universe of alien planets, and everyone seems to go crazy trying to find "earth"
Why don't you look out from your window or something?

I want planets with different gravity, planets that are pitch black at all times, planets with bottomless oceans, continent wide hurricanes. Storms of melted iron, places that could kill you if you get your head out of your vehicle.

[<RED>Sentinel Soldier<>]

they should of added our system 1st then expanded

[ShoGunOni]

the other problem with adding earth is planet's
in the game are alot smaller then planets in the real world

[UncreativelyNamed]

Originally posted by Dirak2012:

This is something that always puzzles me. You have an entire universe of alien planets, and everyone seems to go crazy trying to find "earth"
Why don't you look out from your window or something?

I want planets with different gravity, planets that are pitch black at all times, planets with bottomless oceans, continent wide hurricanes. Storms of melted iron, places that could kill you if you get your head out of your vehicle.

I agree 100%!

I guess I can understand if people have a little role-play going on in their heads, where an "Earth"/Sol system in the game would go along with that, but for me? I'd like as non-Earthy as possible.

There are already planets with different gravity at least some of the time. Some dissonant planets have those gravity storms, and gravity is lower all the time on dead, airless worlds, but it would be cool to have some lush (or whatever) planets where gravity is reduced all the time. It'd also be nice to have some higher-gravity planets where your jetpack wouldn't work at all and maybe it takes a lot more fuel or a special upgrade for your ship to be able take off from the surface, but you could maybe be rewarded with new items to find that aren't available on any other kind of planet.

Planets with permanent storms would be cool, too. There could be some that are less severe (like the equivalent of an extreme weather planet) and some that are just nightmarish and very difficult to survive on even if your hazard protection is super-upgraded but that might have really good stuff on them that, again, wouldn't be available on any other kind of planet.

There's so much that could be done. I get that the procedural generation puts limits on things, but surely little things like this could be done? Though I don't know if adding planets types would require a reset of the whole universe.

[Nostromo]

I hope HG never adds Earth or our actual Solar System to the game.

As it is now, it's a fantasy universe. I'd prefer to see it stay that way.

With no Earth or our Solar System, there is no legitimacy IMO to the complaints about any so-called "maleness" or "femaleness" in the game. They're all just ALIENS that who knows their "genders".

Bring in Earth - and then all the "where's my male / female / trans / whatever models? The game is sexist" and all the accompanying political crap, will come like a destructive tidal wave.

Leave out Earth and "our actual reality"; and those complaints are really just hot air. Which is how I prefer it - no politics in the game.

For me, it's "No to Earth in the game". Hope HG never goes for it (in this game at least).

[Lazy Ape]

NMS planets are small, more like large asteroids. Try Outerra for a 1:1 scale Earth to roam around on.

[Raven]

NMS has its roots in the sci-fi of the 1960s and '70s – the era of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Silent Running, Dark Star and Solaris. Its use of lurid colours, its strange flora and fauna, and its stark, lonely worlds, capture the feel of movies and novels written during the psychedelic era. It is a game of cosmic exploration, an opaque narrative about the origins of existence, and a nod to the possible problems of AI. No place for 'Earth' here at all.

[ZanyScum]

I like the planets, but I hate the story and the way it is told.
Because of my dislike towards the story I'd like to ignore the main quests, but I guess I'd lose on content that way :-(

[momopovich]

Originally posted by ZanyScum:

I like the planets, but I hate the story and the way it is told.
Because of my dislike towards the story I'd like to ignore the main quests, but I guess I'd lose on content that way :-(

Not really, that quest is just something you do in your first 10 or 20 hours on a save to unlock some stuff and get it out of the way. You can safely ignore it. Even the rewards are obtainable by different ways.

[knighttemplar1960]

Covid's over. Turn your computer off and go roam.