IMPORTANT VIDEO THE DEVS MUST WATCH

[Yoghurt]

This video is from Z1 Gaming
I think you should watch it carefully as many people agree with his thoughts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8txRsgSythY

[Zarinthal]

it's the same stuff people have been telling them for a long time, and the hope is that they are going to release actual new content eventually, but they don't want to UNTIL they get all the tools in the game, like the new generators, vehicles etc. but if that was the case.....I feel like they would at least say that much, but they haven't said anything about it, at least not to a large enough audience for it to circulate. I only play the final early access build still, but not the new one because the old planets were more fun and the new toys are not fun because they serve no purpose, there is nothing that the new scale actually scales TO.

[Yoghurt]

Originally posted by Zarinthal:

there is nothing that the new scale actually scales TO.

True

Here are a few ideas for them -

1. Introduce alien races that start to travel through the system

2. Introduce a new scanner tool that allows the discovery of new planets, comets, asteroids, and 'abandoned' space cruisers and ships.

3. Have alien creatures roaming the new planets

4. Craft story lines

5. Add RPG elements including NPC's and a list of tasks that need to be accomplished

6. Add routine projects such as trading, farming, recon work, transporting materials

7. Add Alien command bases - either moons, spacestations or large cruisers

8. Have the battle between these alien races to be material or research based and multiplayer involves players being split between them so there is a stats monitored race between players as to which alien race does the best
The research tree for this need not be things that a player actually uses, but maybe after 10 tree progresssions a spacestation module is unlocked for example.

9. Add regular comets that fly through the system - only certain resources can be collected from them during this time window

10. Add new technologies that are only available from alien ships flying through the systems on preset routes.

11. Add interplanetary navigation - going from planet to moon to planet can be automatic, as is, but to connect to a spaceship needs to be more challenging, so manual flight

12. Add a new rocket that has docking ports

13. Add the ability to create a spacestation

14. Introduce a whole collection of spacestation modules so players have the ability to have fun and live in space rather than on planet / moon surfaces

15. Have space anomalies

16. Enable mulitplayer AI, so people like myself can play against the computer

[Killer]

Hmm good suggestions.....
...Wait a minute, you're asking them to make a no man's sky wannabe!

I agree with the video in which more contents should be added (as in more planets and stuff) but I don't think it should be similar to another game. Astroneer has its own uniqueness and i think the devs should continue adding content in the same fashion instead of introducing overused concepts from other games.

[Yoghurt]

Originally posted by Killer:

Hmm good suggestions.....
...Wait a minute, you're asking them to make a no man's sky wannabe!

Nope. They can create this stuff in their own unique way.
I'm not a No Man's Sky fan.

[Zarinthal]

no mans sky isnt the only game with those features, and certainly didn't invent them, it just seems like natural requests for things in an otherwise dead solar system. comets and asteroids for instance, that would be amazing, and they wouldn't even have to ask Surviving Mars for permission to make a way to protect your base from falling rocks.

[Yoghurt]

One thing that is needed is an animation to interact with. Either a robot, a hologram person, a pet, or something that can act as a companion. A great example is Skyrim with their AI based companion system.

Ultimately the Devs need to introduce new content and expand their vision of the game as new games are arriving on the scene which will overtake their market share, unless this is done.

[Hexenhammer]

Every time I see the spaceship/station on the menu screen, I wish there was a way to build it and use it to fly to other locations; alien solar systems, asteroid fields, etc. it could be like a game+ option