What are you all playing right now?

[emjay]

There's nothing quite as satisfying as putting down your first thumper (ie mineral extractor) in No Man's Sky. It's the first step to a truly, and potentially limitless, passive income in the game, as well as laying the foundations for mass industrialization. All the work that goes into setting it up... researching and producing the tech, finding the right site, optimising placement to get the best yield, making sure it's all adequately/efficiently powered (eg working out the maths for the right combination of solar panels vs batteries (if you can't find a local electromagnetic power source), to keep it running uninterrupted 24/7... it's just all so satisfying and by far my favourite aspect of the game, and I can only think of one other game that has anything vaguely similar, and that is Astroneer, which also has what I call thumpers for extracting resources from the ground and making the earth move when it does

Anyway today it's one thumper netting me 250 copper per hour (as opposed to all the hard work of scouting for deposits and mining them manually, which is what you have to do without thumpers), and where copper is needed to make more thumpers... so the sky's the limit from now on... slowly, incrementally, you can build up your empire from such humble beginnings to having hundreds of them for every resource, netting you thousands per hour of anything you could need, and being completely and utterly self sufficient... and a great journey to get there, so yeah, absolutely love this game!