Finding Another Person's Base

[caseyas435943]

I've not played a ton of hours. About 600. I'm sure a lot of you have logged more.

I've never come across another person's base. Sure, you can beam to them. But I've never just stumbled on one.

Has anyone you guys found a base just being out and about. I never have.

I guess it shows how big the game is planet wise. Yet you think you'd find one sometime. I sure haven't.

[Dirak2012]

Unless you are in an expedition that puts everyone in the same area, it's almost impossible to find a player's base in the wild.

[Grimmslayer73]

I've found a couple out in the wild over the years. Nothing special, just a prefab and some solar panels. Most likely someones first base. Other than expeditions, your best bet to find them is in transit systems at a galaxy core. I usually see at least a dozen or more. Another good way to find them is the 1 glyph portal addresses. I usually find lots of bases in those systems.

[UncreativelyNamed]

I have about 1700 hours in, and aside from when I'm doing Nexus missions, I've never seen another player planet-side and have never come across anyone's base in the wild. Given the size of the universe in NMS, with billions upon billions of planets in NMS, and the fact that probably only a few million people** have ever played the game and only a relative handful are ever playing concurrently, it's very unlikely, though not impossible, that you'll ever see such things unless you actively seek them out.

**number pulled straight out of my ass because I'm too lazy to do any kind of research, so if anyone has some actual numbers, feel free to correct me.

[Guh~hey~hey~♫]

2270h in. Never came across a player base unless it was during the old community events, during nexus week-end events, at a location for a rare spawn with the coordinates available on the web or at the edge of galaxies where the last star system before jumping to the next are limited.... in short locations where lot of players are gathering.

Not impossible but you gotta make sure you're warping into a star system that's tagged as already discovered by another player first.... going to un-discovered system cant get you that.

So the difficulty is to find an already discovered star system first.
Doing it at the edge of a galaxy is probably the easiest method.

[Adam Sandler]

Played over 5000 hrs have seen dozens of bases in that time.

[Sethioz]

Originally posted by caseyas435943:

I've not played a ton of hours. About 600. I'm sure a lot of you have logged more.

I've never come across another person's base. Sure, you can beam to them. But I've never just stumbled on one.

Has anyone you guys found a base just being out and about. I never have.

I guess it shows how big the game is planet wise. Yet you think you'd find one sometime. I sure haven't.

haah nah, finding one randomly literally has less chance than finding a needle in earth-sized haystack.
as far as i know, there's 18 quintillion planets, even if 8 BILLION people would get the game and play it for 100 years straight, you would probably never stumble on one.

HOWEVER you should be able to see markers in galaxy when free roaming, which makes it easier to free fly and find a system that has somebody's base.

i think highest chance of stumbling on random base, is near the center of first dimension.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

If you travel to one of the galactic hubs you will find them but they are rare to find just by random exploring. I found a severely damaged one near the center once.

Apparently the poor interloper built a base and terrain manipulation or one of the galaxy revisions just ruined it. It was mostly buried and in pieces- no longer connected to each other in some areas. That is the only time I have found one that was not in the original configuration as built. I wish I had taken some photos, but did not think of it at the time.

[wkitty42]

in my Expedition saves, i hang out near and the expedition's area of space... slowly working my way toward the center of the Galaxy... i drop into some systems and see numerous player bases on the planets... some are nice and functional... others are apparently abandoned... i've seen a few players, too, but never chatted with them...

i remember i was building a beach house in a very pretty bay with a nice wide white beach... turned around to do something and there was a Gek standing there watching me... i kept building and it took me a minute or two to realize it was another player... that has never happened again...

in my two or three non-Expedition saves, i've come across systems discovered by others a few times... sometimes i'll see a base on one of the planets... when i do, i generally visit... mainly because it is hopefully a safe place where i can duck into a building if i need to for some reason... but i also like seeing what others have built... it get lonely out there some times...

[Sentient_Pickle]

I had one save where I started in a system right next to a system I'd discovered in a prior save from 2 years prior. Did the first jump for the tutorial stuff where you're starting the Artemis stuff and when I came out of it, I discovered I'd discovered it lol. But yeah, you're chances of randomly encountering another player in the wild or their base is already pretty low when you consider the amount of planets, systems and galaxies in the game and that when each of us load into the game, the game isn't loading each and every base ever built by players for us to find. It's entirely possible to be at a location where someone's built a base, but for us, it's not there, but will be if said player loads up that save. Chances are higher near hubs and galaxy centers and such, but planets are still big. Maybe if you like, use a monolith and race relic to pinpoint a portal, a portal is something on a planet that if another player has been there, it's a more likely spot they may have put a base computer down at than other random places on the planet. Yeah, it's rare

[Prescient Stones]

This made me think. "Can you find a base that you don't see on your HUD?" As far as stumbling goes you have a visor w. HUD how could one just roam up and see a base?

There are rando Base Computers waiting to be claimed, I've only seen 3.

[Prescient Stones]

Gawd, lets not get our names conjoined.. hey pickle!

[Sentient_Pickle]

Just to add, I'm at maybe 19K hrs in NMS and I think I've found random player owned bases maybe low double digit amount of times, and the amount of actual live random player encounter was maybe single digits, and it was in systems and planets only a couple systems away from a galaxy center.

[Ben]

Last year, i was traveling to another player system using coordinates and layline gates. After 2-3 hours playing in the same zone, i lost connection to steam temporarily. All bases that were not mine disapeared until I have connection to steam network again.

My belief so far is, in order to see someone else base, you need to be in the same system at the same moment he is connected. its like a peer2peer multiplayer.

[Grimmslayer73]

Originally posted by Ben:

My belief so far is, in order to see someone else base, you need to be in the same system at the same moment he is connected. its like a peer2peer multiplayer.

If the players base is not uploaded to discovery services then yes you have to be online and in the system at the same time. If it's uploaded then you should be able to see it without them online, provided discovery services is actually working correctly.

[Sentient_Pickle]

yeah, was gonna say, cause it's not like they haven't had issues with the discovery services and builds being lost