NMS....

Having gotten the freighter and done some more research and testing on how to use and run it, I'm not as excited as I was when I got it. It's more awkward to setup as a mobile base. At least in my view. It also turns out to be a freighter on the lower end of the scale. I feel less happy to have one now. That feeling gets worse when it turns out that pretty much everyone gets a version. Nothing special about it. Add all that on top of the running cost grind and it's very off-putting. Recruiting frigates is also costly, they cost even more than a freighter itself.

Previously I'd said that my potential interest in the game was with a mobile base. Seeing the reality of that now leaves nothing.
I feel my worth in the game, like my interest in it, has crashed through the floor. Freighter ownership feels like a burden. It's a lot more grind for more of a longer-term payoff but that's not gonna keep my interest going.

I've no interest in the new challenges system or player interaction. But I did take a look at the portal's, and activated the local 'stargate' in system and popped through.

Yes there were other players to interact with but having them to interact with, felt strange.

I got too used to the game being solo. So I turned network play off. Back to solo play for this solo carebear.

I had my journey, it was taken from me. All the hard work/adventure/grind for nothing. Being plucked from my old base and randomly placed into the universe with the NEXT patch and starting again hasn't done anything for me. Getting the freighter, considering the mobile base options and the work it needs is a motivational downer.

Whats left.... Get the the center of the universe, joke that it is and start all over again.. Again.... And again(again)...

If only this version had been the launch version....

.....Fade to black.