I have 230 hours logged into this game. I have 8 of the 16 glyphs. 3 days ago I had 0. The ONLY reason I have that many is I spent the last 20 in game hours warping, go to space station, find traveler? No. Warp again, go to space station. Find traveler? No. Repeat this process until finally after an hour or 3 you find the traveler. Find his grave, get 1 glyph.

I also get the space suit inventory upgrade, and the one from the annomoly. Only recently found out you can get suit tech slots expanded the same way.

Now my usual thoughts is that warping for the sake of finding travelers/upgrades goes against the whole foundation of this game. But I just got someone new into this game, and I KNOW she isn’t going to find the 16 glyphs fast. I hadn’t made any attempt to get them, and I hadn’t found one in 190 hours.

My only hope is to do the glyph finding fast on my own, and hopefully she can send me a picture of her glyphs using her cell phone. Then I can come to her.

But I don’t feel bad for cheating like that, when EVERYTHING in this game is a grind.

  • shiftymccool@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    It’s a single-ish player game with no real competition between players, I’m not convinced there’s a such thing as “cheating”, even save editors are fair play IMHO. If something in a game I’m playing starts turning into work, I’ll see if there are other ways around it. I’m trying to relax in space not work a second job. You do kinda have to watch it in NMS since the game is a journey, not a destination (you can’t really win) so be careful not to “cheat” yourself out of the entire game

  • NMSGalacticHub@lemmy.worldM
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    2 months ago

    I don’t think anyone in the NMS community really cares if other people cheat. (I also wouldn’t even call what you did cheating tbh.)

    But I do wish Hello Games hadn’t combined Normal / Survival / Creative all into one universe. I preferred playing with other people who were subject to the same constraints as me (even if the PC people could easily circumvent those constraints).

    I would just play Permadeath but I’ve been on my Normal save since release night and couldn’t really stand to give it all up.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    If you do the “16 / 16” quest in the main storyline I believe all of the glyphs get handed to you. That relegates the one-at-a-time method of finding the glyphs as a fallback for when you’re on an expedition, provided you care enough to bother to use portals during one. So if you progress the story enough you’ll get them.

    More cheese: You only need the first glyph if you want to warp to the center of any given galaxy. Just spam that first glyph and the portal will error out and default to somewhere approximately near the center, usually just a handful of jumps away. Lather, rinse, and repeat as often as you like.

    While we’re at it, I’m tickled pink to discover that the portable refiner duplication glitch still isn’t patched. That’s cheating, but sometimes you just can’t be arsed to gather up a million of whatever-it-is you need. With the addition of corvettes you can even do it inside your 'vette, even when it’s docked in a station. Maximum laziness! You used to have to at least go down to a planet to do it before.

  • ripcord@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I also still have like 12 refiners at my main base that still work fine after they added the refiner cap.

    I see zero problem with it. The cap is stupid. Assuming it’s still there, I haven’t checked in a while.