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It’s easy to forget that these things are called games for a reason. Play. Have fun.
If it’s entertaining you, and not giving you an unfair advantage over other players, then relax and enjoy yourself. It’s not like you’re using an aimbot in PvP or something.
Well....thats the thing. I'm NOT enjoying this method.
But I also don't want to wait 400 hours of someone else who's casually playing the game to find glyphs.
So I want to get this done within a week.
Have you thought about simply not, and then just going and playing a game you'll actually enjoy instead?
What you're doing sounds like work—IDK about you but I have a personal policy against working for free—especially if you're not even enjoying the work.
Well, good luck! I hope it goes as fast as possible!
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
I think this game had trouble deciding whether it wanted to be an open world sandbox thing or have a narrative/progression. I never felt like it did well at trying to be both.
Yeah they need a compelling survival mode that just completely removes the "story" but still give you some goals to achieve.
I've "cheated" to get rewards for expeditions I missed. Because that FOMO shit is absurd and completely unnecessary.
Do people see cheating as abusing the game mechanics?
What you did was part of the game. Maybe something the devs overlooked, or frankly didn't care if someone did.
Cheating to me is hex editing your save files, or using a mod that gives you whatever you want.
i always called this cheesing. Like beating a big boss by perching somewhere they can't hit and range attacking.
That's called exploitation. Game exploits do not always mean cheating but sort of are. It's taking advantage of the game mechanics.
So... Sniping is cheesing? Exploiting the mechanics of the game is what led to the invention of ranged weapons, much less weapons at all. For example. 🤷🏼♂️
There are a ton of examples of how exploits/bugs became features or developed into other things.
This isn't even that though. This is just playing the game with a singular focus, they're doing nothing to cut corners or speed up the loop, just not doing other activities in between.
It's nuts to me that OP can even remotely consider this cheating.
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.
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.
Does NMS not have multiple saves?
It does.
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.
Wait until you find out about duplication glitches
I find myself doing similar BS in Elite Dangerous trying to obtain items necessary for crafting mid and high tier RNG upgrades and doing a lotta end game content. It's all just RNG and so what you would do is find a relatively small base, or biome that contains what you want, strip it bare, leave and come back to reset it.
It simply isn't fun spending multiple real world days trying to grind out progress on something when everything needed is a random roll of the dice if it even graces your inventory.
Jesus. People still play that? Oof. I tripled and noped TFO right after the Void Diamond & Flagship BS. 🤷🏼♂️🤓
If you find a portal on a planet, which you can find with alien maps from space stations, you can use at least 1 glyph to get all of them if you use the right coordinates, which xaine was nice enough to put on his site
https://www.xainesworld.com/no-mans-sky-portal-glyphs-fast-travelers-graves/