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No Man’s Sky: A Game Of Ships, Part 2

No Man's Sky_20160831184104I was thinking Blue Dyson Fan was going to be “it”.  She was blue, had a good view out of the cockpit, and while she didn’t have the proportionality I look for in a ship, I figured she was “good enough” to keep me away from the Transmission Towers.  Maybe I’d buy something if I ever saw something really good, it was 48 slots, and I had the money.  But with the “Gek Transmission Tower” bug fixed, I didn’t think I’d take the time to look for the “needle in the haystack.”

I was wrong. Continue reading No Man’s Sky: A Game Of Ships, Part 2

No Man’s Sky: A Game Of Ships

In any game where you can advance a stat, it often involves grinding.  In No Man’s Sky, this is what I’ve termed “The Run To 48” (ignoring the fact that the max slots on a Multitool is 24).  Your suit inventory and your ship inventory spaces max out at 48.  For the suit, this is strictly a grind involving getting money and finding drop pods (or the odd other place to get a suit slot).  For ships … it eventually becomes the practice of finding a crashed one that has one more slot and leaving your old ship behind. Continue reading No Man’s Sky: A Game Of Ships

No Man’s Sky: The Diversity of Strange Life

In my adventures in No Man’s Sky I’ve seen a variety of alien creatures.  None yet have really made me go “Wow!” as much as several of the creatures on what I named “BF Togte II” (the system is named “BF Togte I”, the “I” being a mistake because I thought I was naming the first planet I landed on in the system, and “Togte” meaning “This One Goes To Eleven”).