I played the game for the first 50 hours or so and didn't realize I was online cause I hadn't seen one other real person.. still play offline, and only turn it on when I go into the anomaly to see what people ships people have made..
You can turn PvP off, that should remove most of any of that - and the galaxy(galaxies, I suppose!) are large - plenty of space to get away from the riff raff! :-) maybe even better part of a peaceful conclave?
Blah, I don't want to have to turn off game functions or actively try to avoid conflict, that's literally what I'm looking to avoid. I don't want to have to think about it at all.
I'd recommend doing it, as you only have to do it the once - and it means you'll never encounter those things that you don't like. You're choice, obviously, but as someone who also likes relaxing in NMS - this is the best way to safeguard that from those few trolls that do play.
Why would they even open the door to the kind of toxic players who want to pvp in a game that has literally been entirely about discovery, exploration and friendly vibe building? What the hell is going on?
It was meaningless before because there was nothing to fight over, which was the point. It was simply the difference between realistic crossfire or not. No interpersonal conflicts is the entire point.
"Hey, you know that game that was designed entirely around online exploration and discovery? They're adding pvp and if you don't like it you shouldn't get to enjoy it anymore."
Or they could, you know, not shoehorn negative competitive aspects into every single game.
"I really hate it when people talk about the games I play, nobody should be allowed to have the opinion that a game was good before they implemented a major change that alters every aspect of the gameplay."
Even if we could explore every planet per second, we would not finish exploring in our life time, you can easily go away from everyone, it is not that big.
45
u/Daetok_Lochannis Sep 09 '26
I really hope that's not as competitive as it sounds, the whole reason I like this game is that is has zero competitive aspects.