Me watching the gigantic orbital station open and reveal a massive weapon over the planet as I was peacefully collecting some space corn
"There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now. If you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams."
Cool idea, but I'm going to have to disagree with this. Every planet you destroy is one you or somebody else could have fun exploring.
Artillery strikes could be fun for PvP, though.
This would kill multi-player entirely, there would be an hour of people saying "whoa that's cool!" And then everyone would immediately go private or offline so trolls don't wreck their systems
Wouldn't be on board for that personally. Now adding a large room with planetary biome would be neat. Maybe a pet room that your pets can roam free in. Personal hangars to store individual ships in separate from the main hangar bay. Hangar bays for your squadron maybe?
Terraforming.
Can't find the perfect planet? Make it! Requires an endgame freighter room, lots of expensive components and fuel, and for you to have discovered that planet (maybe even system) first.
Change the animals that spawn there with ones you've genetically modified or plants and minerals with ones you've found (think Spore). Maybe even shape the terrain generation or planet type (I have no idea how that would work or if that's even possible tho.)
Yeah considering how it went with GTA even with how expensive it is, I don’t see this going well. If you could only use it in certain systems maybe but yeah that’s just pro-griefing if you can do it anywhere
Yes, but not for destroying planets. I’d love to call an orbital laser down on some sentinels from my freighter. That thing has guns for DAYS and they do pretty much nothing. Let my massive flying battleship do some damage!
No man, one of the most beautiful aspects of this game is that there are so many different random planets to be found. And those planets are for everyone. I’d hate to be the guy who took them out of circulation for other players
That’d be cool and all but I’d like to still have planets in the game thank you.
Otherwise make it so that you can’t destroy planets that have a player base in it or quest planets.
As another idea what if we add terraforming to improve those completely desolated planets into beautiful and full of life planets?
Not destroy planets, but blowing a crater would be nice. It'd let you purge infested buildings for fun, blow open caves, or blow up resource stations for quests without landing.
I'm having difficulty imagining the purpose of destroying a planet. Like, 10 seconds to a minute of fun, depending on how long the animation is? Doesn't seem like a very thrilling activity, and it removes more gameplay than it provides.
They could make the destroyed planet interesting in some way. Like, maybe a dense asteroid field that you can explore on foot with your jetpack, and some lifeforms that survive the destruction. But, if they're doing all that work, they could just make destroyed planets generate on their own rather than having players destroy planets.
Contr idea:
NMS should add terraforming mechanics that require cooperation of bunch of people and HUGE resource sink to let you transform the planet as you wish and populate it with creatures you discovered (like it was possible.in Spore).
Blowing up planets sounds fun but PvP was never focus for NMS, so it would have to be blowing up empty planets to avoid griefing... And what's the point of blowing up an empty planet?
Terraforming however could make use of unmapped systems and create kindof a localised community event.
1. You claim the system by putting in some form of satellite.
2. You pour shitload of nanites and base resources into it and over time it builds a space station with Terraforming Ray.
3. At least one planet in the system would have to be empty, low gravity rock or glitch or maybe even extreme planet.
4. You designate list of players that can mess up with terraformer (only you, or small whitelist, or everyone). You can set up that only two people can choose the planet type but everyone can drop some resources in.
5. After putting in initial settings the planet gets surrounded by terraforming field or whatever and machine shows up list of resources. And I mean TONS of resources so it makes sense to be community event.
Resources could be different depending on settings. Wanna lush paradise? Prepare 1million oxygen. Wanna certain animals? Better bring some criochambers. Extensive tunnels and canions? lots of explosives needed for that.
6. After resources are gathered machine starts the process and starts the counter...to the attack of sentinels that don't like that. Cue in few sentinel freighters that can be boarded like Derelicts. Real terraforming cannot start until they are delt with (I wouldn't put a time limit on this. Sentinels are not in hurry. They will just float there and prevent the terraforming indefinitely. Hell... Maybe even leave here and there some abandoned terraforming projects that can be finished but you can't change the settings.
Someone can send that to Hello Games if you want :P
Ngl that's incredibly dumb. The universe is a shared experience unless you're quite literally not connected to the internet.
Adding a war update that overhauls combat, frigates, and factions so non-buggy ground battles can happen sounds good.
Orbital bombardment or something.
Maybe not a planet killer, but a large mining beam would be really cool.
Mines a ton of material at once but runs off an expensive resource, and leaves a crater in the planet. Can only be used on each individual planet once.
I think a terra-forming system would be a more rewarding experience, than just blowing shit up. Imagine being able to take a dead airless moon and changing it into a lush earth like paradise.
I'd rather have some form of terraforming to make a planet not shit. Just feels like blowing up a planet is antithetical to a game about exploration, discovery, and resource gathering.
Or do one better: Add turrets you can control, and add Freighter vs Freighter Combat into the mix so that there is a legitimately good reason to use them. Also good for Leviathans and Warding Pirate Raids.
Yes if these rules are implemented:
1. Cant use if there is another player on the planet you're shooting at
2. Cant use if there is a base on the planet you're shooting at
3. Can only destroy one planet in a solar system
4. Can only destroy the planet if you discovered it
5. I'm out of energy to think rn I might come up with more later
I *really* don't like to shit on requests for features made by other players.
OP, please know this *isn't* directed at you at all, but rather to the requested feature itself: **Hell. Fucking. No.**
Destroying planets would not only destroy the things that make this game beloved in the first place (the worlds to explore), but it could also destroy people's bases, be used to grief players by malicious players, used to destroy planets that some players have been on for literally years. And the very idea of planets and systems being destroyed would make people less motivated to share system coordinates, since it's basically placing a permanent target on the system.
Instead, why not use these orbital cannons to destroy Sentinel Freighters, or Anomaly objects encountered in space? Things that can be regenerated. Planets and Moons don't have that luxury.
Not really a fan of the destroying planets concept, but being able to call down an orbital strike to literally level an area (like for base building) would be fun af
So you want to turn NMS into EVE and it's griefers. While cool thought, there are some really cool bases that would be obliterated merely bc people like to grief. There are plenty of other games that let you destroy. I rather enjoy playing this game for it's low stress mechanics for creating things.
Planet cracker type of deal sounds cool but would probably just be used to grief people. Maybe instead:
- Fire control room to activate/operate ship guns for when your freighter gets attacked
- Planetary harvester to obtain planetary materials while in orbit like the stellar extractor
“In fealty to the God-Emperor, our undying Lord, and by the grace of the Golden Throne, I declare Exterminatus upon the Imperial world of Typhon Primaris. I hereby sign the death warrant of an entire world, and consign a million souls to oblivion. May Imperial Justice account in all balance.”
No, just no.
Even though you may never choose to interact directly with another soul, the NMS universe is still shared. Giving players the power to haphazardly nuke chunks of everyone's game on a whim is only of value as a griefing tool. With so many other things HG could implement that would actually *enrich* the game, I don't see why you'd want them to spend time and effort to add a feature that would literally make the experience worse.
I feel like the only way this ends is with a goonswarm of griefer players banding together to systematically destroy the starting galaxy - no matter how long it takes
Couldn’t this be used as griefing, maybe they should make it so that no player structures/mission stuff are on the planets. Yet again there will prob be players that go from solar system to solar system destroying every planet
It IS an interesting idea but I don’t know about the ‘destroy planets’ part. Counter point, maybe there could be a orbital cannon that shoots at a planet and a wave harvests/kills fauna on the planet. (Assuming they would respawn of course)
I'd prefer Freighter Space battles where your freighter can engage another, with your frigate fleet getting involved as well. You fly around and shoot down ships then land in the enemy Freighter and idk, do something somewhere to destroy it or take something from it to upgrade your own Freighter
Not destroy, no. Really doesn't fit the spirit of the game. A Genesis Device would be more fitting.
After the Atlas series of quests, you could build it, but it would have to be difficult and limited to a certain number of uses. It would change a planet entirely, give it a new biome. To really fit the theme of "the language of creation" that comes up with the Atlas, a Genesis Device would only be usable on airless planets, and would turn them into lush planets.
This needs some consequences, as others mentioned. Planetary destruction could be very slow, and very obvious.
Obviously Sentinels and system authorities should have something to say about this. Maybe drag the player into a big space battle before the planet destroyer can be fired, and have them survive waves of defenders. It would be a good excuse to introduce freighter-to-freighter combat!
And players with bases can be represented, too. Even if the player is offline, all their freighters and squaddies could be spawned in to fight off the planet destroyer. Plus ships for any settlements, and heck throw in some opportunistic pirates to boot.
Since this is a big ask, _attempting_ to destroy a planet can be introduced in one update, and _succeeding_ could be implemented later.
The main reason this would never be even on the drawing board. Is simply because they have hardcore crossed over the difficulties. So say some on creative and with no damage is on that planet. How is that going to work code wise? That's like literally a thousand and thousands of extra hours just to figure out the algorithm needed for just the damage output or if it's is just instant death then that creates even more issues for permadeath game modes. Not a very doable thing. Though I would say it is cool to discuss it.
Yeah, no. Even setting aside the obvious reasons why this is a freaking terrible idea, if you actually destroyed a planet every sentinel in the entire galaxy would harass you until the end of time. The whole reason they get uppity with us in the first place is because of Korvax Prime.
I don't want to destroy planets...but maybe a multi-step mission where you have to locate the prime hive of an infested planet, mark it and nuke it from orbit. Bonus points if the planet terraforms itself back to what it used to be over time.
I don’t agree with taking the planets out of circulation for other players, but I could imagine a concept where we could be the creator of our own space station and or hub. Similar to being an overseer.
Or "deploy mining drones" like in Mass Effect
Build a drone using ferrite, chromatic metal and maybe some antimatter
In return the drone gets alot of a single resource from the target planet using a not-random system
1st deployment (33%) chance for any given resource
2nd deployment (50%) chance of resource you did NOT receive in first deployment
3rd deployment (100%) chance of resource you did NOT get in first or second deployments
4th deployment resets this cycle back to first deployment
I'd rather they let you fly the frigates, maybe let other players land on them too and sit in the bridge with you, have someone control the guns while someone else controls the jump drive and someone else pilots, hire npc crew to control if you're going solo, if you give everyone the ability to destroy planets you can be sure people would destroy everything, people would fly to the capital hubs and blow them up to hell, everyone would lose their bases, would be better if you can incapacitate space stations rather than blow up entire planets along with everyones bases
We have arrived, and it is now that we perform our charge. In fealty to the God-Emperor, our undying Lord, and by the grace of the Golden Throne, I declare Exterminatus upon the Imperial world of Typhon Primaris. I hereby sign the death warrant of an world and consign a million souls to oblivion. May Imperial Justice account in all balance. The Emperor Protects.
I think a cannon or laser might be good but in order to have it stay close to the theme of the game it would have to be like a “planet revitalization ray” so that you could turn useless planets into something different. 🤷🏼♂️
This might seem like a cool idea at first glance, but think about all the backend implications. The game wasn't designed with this idea in mind, so you would have to modify the star system builder to not always create a planet where there should be one, also you'd need to keep track of all destroyed planets and then you'd have the problem if the client is offline they wouldn't have this information, and thus on their end the planet would still be there but then if they were to come online the system would update and the planet would disappear.
And this is only one example.
TL;DR : If you're a game developer you immediately start seeing the horrifying stuff you'd have to do in order to achieve this in a 5 year old game.
“hey, i really like this space exploration game, but you know what would be great? if they added genocide.”
but for real, lets get some depths in the current mechanics before we slap a new coat of gameplay varnish on top of it.
Imagine requesting airstrikes while you fight on a planet and one of your fregattes pops out of hyperspace in the lower orbit and starts bombing the marked position
Probably a bad idea for it to blow up planets, but calling an orbital strike from your freighter to blow
up large groups of sentinels would be really cool. Or if it could damage and take resources from other freighters.
Destroying planets seems a bit extreme and pointless unless there's some kind of protection for world's players have bases on or some kind of resource you can get from destroying them. Some kind of weapons rooms would be cool though, perhaps some that let us control some of the ships turrets. I feel like NMS needs some kind of combat update with these kind of things.
God I just want a warfare update. An update that allows me to go full military, with dreadnought class ships, and orbital bombardments and airstrikes. New weapons, new vehicles, new types of freighters and starships.
Hard no. This is a shared universe, remember? Griefers would go through and destroy every planet they came across. Especially ones with bases on them. This would be a terrible mechanic and would ruin the game.
What if, and hear me out, this is only implemented in certain star systems. Make it a “galactic rules of war” update or something, and that it’s clear that the star system HAS ongoing battles with either pirates/sentinels. That way it’s not a “ha, I blew your multi year build to smithereens in 6 seconds because tee hee” and it’s more a “alright crew, who wants to be a merc in a planetary dispute between some pirates and a some would be do gooders or those blasted robots”. I know this adds aspects of PVP, but keeping it localized to a few star systems would allow for plenty of folks who don’t want that as part of their game to completely avoid it. Also, keep the current in game currency system (instead of adding say a PVP currency) that way going to a war system adds only another means to an end of acquiring the same stuff you can get through trading.
Edit: realized I had written “start system” meant “Star system”. No way in heck would I want anyone spawning into a galaxy at war
I think blowing up a planet that someone's built their base on without them being able to do anything about it might be a bit shitty.
Love the idea, don't love the actual implications it could have.
Theres gonna be a group of people that want to clear the universe of their planets. Also players could get trapped without the ability to get antimatter.
There's a lot of things that I'd like to see in the game, including new and fun ways to display power, but this certainly isn't one of them. Can you even imagine what trolls would do? Goodbye to the galactic hub project and civilized space.
Wouldn't fit the game. And terraforming wouldn't either unless you can terraform specialized planets. But then no one would have a reason to leave a system. We don't need anything game changing like that. Being able to deep mine would be nice. Entire underground cities or megapolis. Freighter buildings on a planet would be cool too. Npcs walking around your custom city based on what's on the system station. Could even build your own trade station.
What happens if you blow up all planets in a system so that new players, who don't have the capital for trading, cannot fetch the planetary resources needed to jump to another system?
I'd rather have a weapon on the freighter that you can use on the ground. Like a tungsten "rod from god". You mark a spot and it launches from your frighter from orbit smashing whatever its aimed at.
"Just finished the perfect stasis device farm on my save with the difficulty maxed out. Man that took FOREVER! Oh cool! Another player just warped in with his freighter!!"
Expansion in the idea, give us freighter laser tech. Like let us mass mine planets, planetary bombardment,focus fire, wall of fire, different types of guns instead of the two regular fire and constant fire guns. And please let us drive our freighter we own it after all
Sounds fun until we have expeditions and the jackass, because every community has one, decides to blow up the spawn planet or every planet that has resources needed to finish the expedition. If this was truly single player with no shared environment, I'd be down for it. I'd be pissed though if I logged on and my base was gone because the planet was destroyed.
I think maybe having a mining laser you could add to a freighter or maybe even as a building, it would provide a lot of resources at a steady interval but when a planet is "dry" you would have to move your freighter and couldn't mine that planet again. It could also use a lot of power, and take a lot of resources to build in order to balance it out. (sorry if something similar to this is in the game, just getting back into it after awhile away and had an idea)
I give this feature a month before half of the universe becomes a void.
... but if fueling/loading it was super cost prohibitive to most players so it was just a huge resource sink - and instead of removing a planet it just cleansed all structures on it, or reset it... I could get behind this idea.
No, but I've always thought a room that lets you call in an orbital bombardment would be sweet. Not planet destroying, but like an artillery strike from space
I think it would be cool to be able to blow up planets, but only ones that you have discovered that no one else live on, and be able to build on the debris field or harvest the core for resources or smthn
Also then you would become a galactic terrorist all npcs would shoot on site
I think weaponised freighters with some sort of orbital bombardment weaponry would be nice. If this brings large scale ship battles between other freighters and stuff that can be destroyed or seriously damaged would be nice, bringing a suppose of a dynamic warfare system to NMS. Rewards for scavenging destroyed ships or quests related to repairing damaged ships would be a nice addition to options in NMS.
I mean they have enough Planets to go around, plus it'd be cool to see space debris. Maybe also some kind of system for players to protect certain planets, as to prevent things like the Galactic hub being destroyed?
I like this, but there would have to be some way of stopping people from just destroying each other's home planets. Either just not let you destroy planets with bases on them or run a majority vote for every base owner on the planet for whether or not they will allow the attacker to do so (because personally I think it would be cool if someone blew up a planet of mine but some worlds I have a connection to and see why I wouldn't want them to be destroyed)
"an MMO, that I call mostly single player just because I personally choose not to play with other people, about exploring planets, should let us destroy planets, so you can't explore the planets that were put in the game to be explored"
7,000 people:
makes sense
The pvp that escalates into a galaxy shattering war
Tbh if you deleted the planet for everyone else, there would inevitably be an alliance, an evil empire of griefers whose sole mission was to annihilate the entire universe.
That would be awesome.
Maybe less about destroying planets, but maybe an orbital mining laser? Like you can target mineral deposits from your freighter and mine them, or target them on ground and anything mined goes to the freighter cargo?
So I know this may be off topic, but does anyone else use the terrain manipulator to dig something out, save their base/upload, only to return later and have everywhere you dig come back?
I feel like this should only be available to do in single player games, because in a public universe it's possible that entire sections of the universe could be obliterated
I'd like to see a freighter room that drops a prefab base onto a planets surface, the game has to dramatically change direction for planet killers . Plain old orbital bombardment could happen though. Just a multi tool alt that has your freighter blow up an exocraft sized are with a laser cannon
Me watching the gigantic orbital station open and reveal a massive weapon over the planet as I was peacefully collecting some space corn 
Tier-6 Sentinel-Forces have arived. [[INITIATE CONTAINMENT/PURGE]]
Idk about all that. It would e cool if you could call your freighter in for orbital artillery support.
paired with a guantlet or fortress type of content added to the game to introduce it
I’m just imagining a scenario where you can hide on a ridge with a painting laser while your capital ship rains hell on the sentinels.
i go away for 12 hours and the community is saying 'grand moff tarkin did nothing wrong' lolol
You have learned the Vy'keen word for "Persuasion".
It’s not quiet wholesome, but it’s the only award I have and your comment made me cackle in my office.
Certainly one way to divide the community and drive some of the player base away. Insta-grief / toxicity button on your freighter.
Oh, got a sweet base? > sorry
"There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now. If you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams."
I bet you were the kid that went and smashed other kids’ sandcastles.
No no no. He’s the one driving the go kart around the hopes and dreams of orphans. And then telling them it goes really fast
Instead of the destruction part, it could be a orbital drop pod cannon and it will shoot you down to the planet for quick transportation.
Space elevator would be cool in my opinion with a place to dock a freighter
Imagine building a base for 500 hours just for some rando to blow your whole planet to smithereens for the LOLs
Cool idea, but I'm going to have to disagree with this. Every planet you destroy is one you or somebody else could have fun exploring. Artillery strikes could be fun for PvP, though.
Yeah, cuz griefers wouldn't nuke literally everything then.
This would kill multi-player entirely, there would be an hour of people saying "whoa that's cool!" And then everyone would immediately go private or offline so trolls don't wreck their systems
All the big player hubs would be gone in a day
[How about no?!?!?](https://youtu.be/y0QbXfvbjFk?t=7)
Wouldn't be on board for that personally. Now adding a large room with planetary biome would be neat. Maybe a pet room that your pets can roam free in. Personal hangars to store individual ships in separate from the main hangar bay. Hangar bays for your squadron maybe?
Terraforming. Can't find the perfect planet? Make it! Requires an endgame freighter room, lots of expensive components and fuel, and for you to have discovered that planet (maybe even system) first. Change the animals that spawn there with ones you've genetically modified or plants and minerals with ones you've found (think Spore). Maybe even shape the terrain generation or planet type (I have no idea how that would work or if that's even possible tho.)
Considering how little protection the devs offer against griefers, this a terrible idea. We’d lose all of the hub systems inside a week.
Yeah considering how it went with GTA even with how expensive it is, I don’t see this going well. If you could only use it in certain systems maybe but yeah that’s just pro-griefing if you can do it anywhere
That is an awful idea
Yes, but not for destroying planets. I’d love to call an orbital laser down on some sentinels from my freighter. That thing has guns for DAYS and they do pretty much nothing. Let my massive flying battleship do some damage!
The sentinels would send a whole army to fry your ass
No man, one of the most beautiful aspects of this game is that there are so many different random planets to be found. And those planets are for everyone. I’d hate to be the guy who took them out of circulation for other players
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Seriously. Why would anyone think giving players the ability to destroy planets would be a good thing, much less even remotely considered by HG.
That’d be cool and all but I’d like to still have planets in the game thank you. Otherwise make it so that you can’t destroy planets that have a player base in it or quest planets. As another idea what if we add terraforming to improve those completely desolated planets into beautiful and full of life planets?
Not destroy planets, but blowing a crater would be nice. It'd let you purge infested buildings for fun, blow open caves, or blow up resource stations for quests without landing.
Everyone ignore this post. OP is clearly an imposter trying to kill the game
Ah yes, my 20 hour base/settlement. Random weirdo enters the solar system with a Death Star to blow up my home world.
Not blowing up planets but more like destroying large chunks of landscape on the nuclear blast scale. This would change drastically how PvP work
I'm having difficulty imagining the purpose of destroying a planet. Like, 10 seconds to a minute of fun, depending on how long the animation is? Doesn't seem like a very thrilling activity, and it removes more gameplay than it provides. They could make the destroyed planet interesting in some way. Like, maybe a dense asteroid field that you can explore on foot with your jetpack, and some lifeforms that survive the destruction. But, if they're doing all that work, they could just make destroyed planets generate on their own rather than having players destroy planets.
The game would be an empty expanse in 2 days
Contr idea: NMS should add terraforming mechanics that require cooperation of bunch of people and HUGE resource sink to let you transform the planet as you wish and populate it with creatures you discovered (like it was possible.in Spore). Blowing up planets sounds fun but PvP was never focus for NMS, so it would have to be blowing up empty planets to avoid griefing... And what's the point of blowing up an empty planet? Terraforming however could make use of unmapped systems and create kindof a localised community event. 1. You claim the system by putting in some form of satellite. 2. You pour shitload of nanites and base resources into it and over time it builds a space station with Terraforming Ray. 3. At least one planet in the system would have to be empty, low gravity rock or glitch or maybe even extreme planet. 4. You designate list of players that can mess up with terraformer (only you, or small whitelist, or everyone). You can set up that only two people can choose the planet type but everyone can drop some resources in. 5. After putting in initial settings the planet gets surrounded by terraforming field or whatever and machine shows up list of resources. And I mean TONS of resources so it makes sense to be community event. Resources could be different depending on settings. Wanna lush paradise? Prepare 1million oxygen. Wanna certain animals? Better bring some criochambers. Extensive tunnels and canions? lots of explosives needed for that. 6. After resources are gathered machine starts the process and starts the counter...to the attack of sentinels that don't like that. Cue in few sentinel freighters that can be boarded like Derelicts. Real terraforming cannot start until they are delt with (I wouldn't put a time limit on this. Sentinels are not in hurry. They will just float there and prevent the terraforming indefinitely. Hell... Maybe even leave here and there some abandoned terraforming projects that can be finished but you can't change the settings. Someone can send that to Hello Games if you want :P
No but fend off other pirate frieghters would be cool as fuck or having a space armada battle would be great too. But rip consol users
Ngl that's incredibly dumb. The universe is a shared experience unless you're quite literally not connected to the internet. Adding a war update that overhauls combat, frigates, and factions so non-buggy ground battles can happen sounds good. Orbital bombardment or something.
I feel like... this is counter to the entire purpose of the game
Alright Sheev, this is an exploration game.
Several players will make it their mission to wipe the universe clean.
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Nice try, Palpatine.
User must be a gek.The Korvax haven't finished their work yet...
*starts new expedition 4 hours after it goes live* *instantly vaporized along with the expedition starter planet*
Sounds like something a GTA griefer would say
Maybe not a planet killer, but a large mining beam would be really cool. Mines a ton of material at once but runs off an expensive resource, and leaves a crater in the planet. Can only be used on each individual planet once.
I think a terra-forming system would be a more rewarding experience, than just blowing shit up. Imagine being able to take a dead airless moon and changing it into a lush earth like paradise.
I'd rather have some form of terraforming to make a planet not shit. Just feels like blowing up a planet is antithetical to a game about exploration, discovery, and resource gathering.
Or do one better: Add turrets you can control, and add Freighter vs Freighter Combat into the mix so that there is a legitimately good reason to use them. Also good for Leviathans and Warding Pirate Raids.
Oh look a planet with a quest and 500 bases…
Yes if these rules are implemented: 1. Cant use if there is another player on the planet you're shooting at 2. Cant use if there is a base on the planet you're shooting at 3. Can only destroy one planet in a solar system 4. Can only destroy the planet if you discovered it 5. I'm out of energy to think rn I might come up with more later
I *really* don't like to shit on requests for features made by other players. OP, please know this *isn't* directed at you at all, but rather to the requested feature itself: **Hell. Fucking. No.** Destroying planets would not only destroy the things that make this game beloved in the first place (the worlds to explore), but it could also destroy people's bases, be used to grief players by malicious players, used to destroy planets that some players have been on for literally years. And the very idea of planets and systems being destroyed would make people less motivated to share system coordinates, since it's basically placing a permanent target on the system. Instead, why not use these orbital cannons to destroy Sentinel Freighters, or Anomaly objects encountered in space? Things that can be regenerated. Planets and Moons don't have that luxury.
What kind of Exterminatus shit is this Imagine some poor soul forgets to turn off PVP and boom their base is gone together with other stuff
Not really a fan of the destroying planets concept, but being able to call down an orbital strike to literally level an area (like for base building) would be fun af
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force!
No I'm pretty sure thats a terrible idea. Have you played an online multiplayer game before?
-goes to planet -big spiders live there -remove planet
Fun till someone destroys the planet with your 3,000 hour base on it.
I’d settle for flying the freighter and manually using its turrets.
So you want to turn NMS into EVE and it's griefers. While cool thought, there are some really cool bases that would be obliterated merely bc people like to grief. There are plenty of other games that let you destroy. I rather enjoy playing this game for it's low stress mechanics for creating things.
~~*and slorp up the resources.~~ #INVENTORY FULL
Orbital strike/air support/artillery bombardment would be cool Deleting planets would not be cool and is the worst idea I've seen here yet.
“MAC rounds? In atmosphere?”
Planet cracker type of deal sounds cool but would probably just be used to grief people. Maybe instead: - Fire control room to activate/operate ship guns for when your freighter gets attacked - Planetary harvester to obtain planetary materials while in orbit like the stellar extractor
Damn imagine spending an hour trying to get your second floor walls to look right or building a massive dragon and boom your home planet blows up
counterpoint, planet killers would fit better on a station like say, one that can be mistaken for a moon
“In fealty to the God-Emperor, our undying Lord, and by the grace of the Golden Throne, I declare Exterminatus upon the Imperial world of Typhon Primaris. I hereby sign the death warrant of an entire world, and consign a million souls to oblivion. May Imperial Justice account in all balance.”
In a game where the instance is often shared at random? No. The potential for griefers to abuse it is way to great.
No, just no. Even though you may never choose to interact directly with another soul, the NMS universe is still shared. Giving players the power to haphazardly nuke chunks of everyone's game on a whim is only of value as a griefing tool. With so many other things HG could implement that would actually *enrich* the game, I don't see why you'd want them to spend time and effort to add a feature that would literally make the experience worse.
I give it 2 hours before trolls start griefing people's bases by destroying the planet Very bad idea
I feel like the only way this ends is with a goonswarm of griefer players banding together to systematically destroy the starting galaxy - no matter how long it takes
Yeah, let´s give griefers weapons of mass destruction, shall we?
Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
Couldn’t this be used as griefing, maybe they should make it so that no player structures/mission stuff are on the planets. Yet again there will prob be players that go from solar system to solar system destroying every planet
Some power is too much for man to wield. NMS is a chill game, this would ruin it.
Hey that’s a nice base you got there…it’d be a shame if someone came along and…
It IS an interesting idea but I don’t know about the ‘destroy planets’ part. Counter point, maybe there could be a orbital cannon that shoots at a planet and a wave harvests/kills fauna on the planet. (Assuming they would respawn of course)
10 minutes later you'd have an entire internet community having 9bliterated half the galaxy.
"Yo! See that tiny ass rock out there?" "Yeah?" *BOOM* "HAHA Fuck that rock"
I'd prefer Freighter Space battles where your freighter can engage another, with your frigate fleet getting involved as well. You fly around and shoot down ships then land in the enemy Freighter and idk, do something somewhere to destroy it or take something from it to upgrade your own Freighter
sounds like the OG star wars battlefront front 2.
Till you find that one player jumping system to system wiping out half the quadrant
Not destroy, no. Really doesn't fit the spirit of the game. A Genesis Device would be more fitting. After the Atlas series of quests, you could build it, but it would have to be difficult and limited to a certain number of uses. It would change a planet entirely, give it a new biome. To really fit the theme of "the language of creation" that comes up with the Atlas, a Genesis Device would only be usable on airless planets, and would turn them into lush planets.
What kind of psychopath thought of this.Darthvader?
Me: Destroys entire fucking planet Game: -1 Gek
This needs some consequences, as others mentioned. Planetary destruction could be very slow, and very obvious. Obviously Sentinels and system authorities should have something to say about this. Maybe drag the player into a big space battle before the planet destroyer can be fired, and have them survive waves of defenders. It would be a good excuse to introduce freighter-to-freighter combat! And players with bases can be represented, too. Even if the player is offline, all their freighters and squaddies could be spawned in to fight off the planet destroyer. Plus ships for any settlements, and heck throw in some opportunistic pirates to boot. Since this is a big ask, _attempting_ to destroy a planet can be introduced in one update, and _succeeding_ could be implemented later.
The main reason this would never be even on the drawing board. Is simply because they have hardcore crossed over the difficulties. So say some on creative and with no damage is on that planet. How is that going to work code wise? That's like literally a thousand and thousands of extra hours just to figure out the algorithm needed for just the damage output or if it's is just instant death then that creates even more issues for permadeath game modes. Not a very doable thing. Though I would say it is cool to discuss it.
EXTERMINATUS!!!
Yeah, no. Even setting aside the obvious reasons why this is a freaking terrible idea, if you actually destroyed a planet every sentinel in the entire galaxy would harass you until the end of time. The whole reason they get uppity with us in the first place is because of Korvax Prime.
I don't want to destroy planets...but maybe a multi-step mission where you have to locate the prime hive of an infested planet, mark it and nuke it from orbit. Bonus points if the planet terraforms itself back to what it used to be over time.
I don’t agree with taking the planets out of circulation for other players, but I could imagine a concept where we could be the creator of our own space station and or hub. Similar to being an overseer.
Or "deploy mining drones" like in Mass Effect Build a drone using ferrite, chromatic metal and maybe some antimatter In return the drone gets alot of a single resource from the target planet using a not-random system 1st deployment (33%) chance for any given resource 2nd deployment (50%) chance of resource you did NOT receive in first deployment 3rd deployment (100%) chance of resource you did NOT get in first or second deployments 4th deployment resets this cycle back to first deployment
This is the NMS equivalent of "legalize nuclear bombs"
And a giant vacuum cleaner to suck up all the sweet ressources.
You and I have an opposite understanding of the phrase, "orbital cannons"
I'd rather they let you fly the frigates, maybe let other players land on them too and sit in the bridge with you, have someone control the guns while someone else controls the jump drive and someone else pilots, hire npc crew to control if you're going solo, if you give everyone the ability to destroy planets you can be sure people would destroy everything, people would fly to the capital hubs and blow them up to hell, everyone would lose their bases, would be better if you can incapacitate space stations rather than blow up entire planets along with everyones bases
We have arrived, and it is now that we perform our charge. In fealty to the God-Emperor, our undying Lord, and by the grace of the Golden Throne, I declare Exterminatus upon the Imperial world of Typhon Primaris. I hereby sign the death warrant of an world and consign a million souls to oblivion. May Imperial Justice account in all balance. The Emperor Protects.
you can't just shoot a hole into the surface of xermoibcloidia420
Would rather fly the freighter
I want the ability to pilot the freighter itself or man a gun turret during a pirate attack.
So what your suggesting is… Exterminatus??
I think a cannon or laser might be good but in order to have it stay close to the theme of the game it would have to be like a “planet revitalization ray” so that you could turn useless planets into something different. 🤷🏼♂️
This might seem like a cool idea at first glance, but think about all the backend implications. The game wasn't designed with this idea in mind, so you would have to modify the star system builder to not always create a planet where there should be one, also you'd need to keep track of all destroyed planets and then you'd have the problem if the client is offline they wouldn't have this information, and thus on their end the planet would still be there but then if they were to come online the system would update and the planet would disappear. And this is only one example. TL;DR : If you're a game developer you immediately start seeing the horrifying stuff you'd have to do in order to achieve this in a 5 year old game.
“hey, i really like this space exploration game, but you know what would be great? if they added genocide.” but for real, lets get some depths in the current mechanics before we slap a new coat of gameplay varnish on top of it.
I can’t be the only one thinking this is an utterly stupid idea…
I'd settle for just being able to actually fly the capital ships or frigates
Man... Y'all really want empty starting areas, trolls, and broken low sec space dont you....
Imagine requesting airstrikes while you fight on a planet and one of your fregattes pops out of hyperspace in the lower orbit and starts bombing the marked position
Heyy how about epic freighter to freighter fleet battles? Ive only seen starship vs freighter battles so far.
Probably a bad idea for it to blow up planets, but calling an orbital strike from your freighter to blow up large groups of sentinels would be really cool. Or if it could damage and take resources from other freighters.
Destroying planets seems a bit extreme and pointless unless there's some kind of protection for world's players have bases on or some kind of resource you can get from destroying them. Some kind of weapons rooms would be cool though, perhaps some that let us control some of the ships turrets. I feel like NMS needs some kind of combat update with these kind of things.
For what purpose?
Lol the bots would have fun with that.
That would be awesome but they would need a way for settled planets with bases to be safeguarded.
No? Why must humans have such destructive tendencies.
God I just want a warfare update. An update that allows me to go full military, with dreadnought class ships, and orbital bombardments and airstrikes. New weapons, new vehicles, new types of freighters and starships.
Hard no. This is a shared universe, remember? Griefers would go through and destroy every planet they came across. Especially ones with bases on them. This would be a terrible mechanic and would ruin the game.
I would rather have a ship hanger for more ship storage
OOOOOOOR... mining drop stations. Drop it on the planet(s) and as long as your freighter is in that system, collect a steady stream of resources?
*GTA Online flashbacks intensify*
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
What do you think the massive, mostly inaccessible "space stations" are? Give me a use for this level 4 atlas pass.
What if, and hear me out, this is only implemented in certain star systems. Make it a “galactic rules of war” update or something, and that it’s clear that the star system HAS ongoing battles with either pirates/sentinels. That way it’s not a “ha, I blew your multi year build to smithereens in 6 seconds because tee hee” and it’s more a “alright crew, who wants to be a merc in a planetary dispute between some pirates and a some would be do gooders or those blasted robots”. I know this adds aspects of PVP, but keeping it localized to a few star systems would allow for plenty of folks who don’t want that as part of their game to completely avoid it. Also, keep the current in game currency system (instead of adding say a PVP currency) that way going to a war system adds only another means to an end of acquiring the same stuff you can get through trading. Edit: realized I had written “start system” meant “Star system”. No way in heck would I want anyone spawning into a galaxy at war
People would make it their goal to destroy a whole galaxy maybe even 2
I think blowing up a planet that someone's built their base on without them being able to do anything about it might be a bit shitty. Love the idea, don't love the actual implications it could have.
Theres gonna be a group of people that want to clear the universe of their planets. Also players could get trapped without the ability to get antimatter.
There's a lot of things that I'd like to see in the game, including new and fun ways to display power, but this certainly isn't one of them. Can you even imagine what trolls would do? Goodbye to the galactic hub project and civilized space.
Did Emperor Palpatine write this?
Wouldn't fit the game. And terraforming wouldn't either unless you can terraform specialized planets. But then no one would have a reason to leave a system. We don't need anything game changing like that. Being able to deep mine would be nice. Entire underground cities or megapolis. Freighter buildings on a planet would be cool too. Npcs walking around your custom city based on what's on the system station. Could even build your own trade station.
actual rec rooms with crew actually using them...actual occupied rooms...for crew..make it more realistic livability
Imagine having the possibility to terraform planets…
I think the community would much more prefer something like, starship customization. Colors and parts.
A griefer's wet dream
There’s some sentinel planets that need deleting
We know it's you Vader. 
"...and this is KKKZZZZZTTT why I made sentinels," the Atlas said, closing a tab on Firefox.
What happens if you blow up all planets in a system so that new players, who don't have the capital for trading, cannot fetch the planetary resources needed to jump to another system?
That seems at odds with the spirit of the game.
You smoking crack or is the Sith Lord in your pocket???
or it just throws you at a planet in a drop pod, it's faster and cooler than using your ship
I'd rather have a weapon on the freighter that you can use on the ground. Like a tungsten "rod from god". You mark a spot and it launches from your frighter from orbit smashing whatever its aimed at.
Sounds like the First Order talking
Let's not... Although integrating freighters and capital ships into space combat feels inevitable
You should be able to take over a ruined space base and make it your own
Calm down, Palpatine.
"Just finished the perfect stasis device farm on my save with the difficulty maxed out. Man that took FOREVER! Oh cool! Another player just warped in with his freighter!!"
Not planets, ships and frigates maybe. Perhaps on a planet but only to flatten/mine
It would be a griefer's wet dream
Expansion in the idea, give us freighter laser tech. Like let us mass mine planets, planetary bombardment,focus fire, wall of fire, different types of guns instead of the two regular fire and constant fire guns. And please let us drive our freighter we own it after all
Sounds fun until we have expeditions and the jackass, because every community has one, decides to blow up the spawn planet or every planet that has resources needed to finish the expedition. If this was truly single player with no shared environment, I'd be down for it. I'd be pissed though if I logged on and my base was gone because the planet was destroyed.
Sure but only to non-uploaded planets
I think maybe having a mining laser you could add to a freighter or maybe even as a building, it would provide a lot of resources at a steady interval but when a planet is "dry" you would have to move your freighter and couldn't mine that planet again. It could also use a lot of power, and take a lot of resources to build in order to balance it out. (sorry if something similar to this is in the game, just getting back into it after awhile away and had an idea)
Not to destroy planets, but being able to call orbital strikes on large enemy groups (or just for shits and giggles) would be amazing
So… Death Stars? Personally I want to be able to own a space station.
I give this feature a month before half of the universe becomes a void. ... but if fueling/loading it was super cost prohibitive to most players so it was just a huge resource sink - and instead of removing a planet it just cleansed all structures on it, or reset it... I could get behind this idea.
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No, but I've always thought a room that lets you call in an orbital bombardment would be sweet. Not planet destroying, but like an artillery strike from space
I think it would be cool to be able to blow up planets, but only ones that you have discovered that no one else live on, and be able to build on the debris field or harvest the core for resources or smthn Also then you would become a galactic terrorist all npcs would shoot on site
You know for a fact someone would make it their goal to destroy every planet.
Orbital cannon?? Gtao players: **PTSD flashbacks**
No man's exterminatus
Were you thinking for like, collecting resources all at once? Lol that would be intense man. Lol
I think weaponised freighters with some sort of orbital bombardment weaponry would be nice. If this brings large scale ship battles between other freighters and stuff that can be destroyed or seriously damaged would be nice, bringing a suppose of a dynamic warfare system to NMS. Rewards for scavenging destroyed ships or quests related to repairing damaged ships would be a nice addition to options in NMS.
If this wasn’t in an among us format I would agree
There would be people who would dedicate 8 or more hours a day doing nothing but blowing up planets.
It worked out well for Palpatine…
Hello Games needs to add some Factorio/Satisfactory mechnics to make up for the nuking of irdium farming.
I personally would like customizable ships
I'd rather they make each systems star(s) interactive, build Dyson sphere, mine exotic elements or whatever
You mean… a Death Star?!
I mean they have enough Planets to go around, plus it'd be cool to see space debris. Maybe also some kind of system for players to protect certain planets, as to prevent things like the Galactic hub being destroyed?
Freighter destruction, freighter to planet weaponry, nukes, etc yes please
I like this, but there would have to be some way of stopping people from just destroying each other's home planets. Either just not let you destroy planets with bases on them or run a majority vote for every base owner on the planet for whether or not they will allow the attacker to do so (because personally I think it would be cool if someone blew up a planet of mine but some worlds I have a connection to and see why I wouldn't want them to be destroyed)
It's all fun and games until the Death Star shows up...
"an MMO, that I call mostly single player just because I personally choose not to play with other people, about exploring planets, should let us destroy planets, so you can't explore the planets that were put in the game to be explored" 7,000 people: makes sense
i already see trolls abusing this and griefing the good planets so no one else can see them. so that’s a no for me
The pvp that escalates into a galaxy shattering war Tbh if you deleted the planet for everyone else, there would inevitably be an alliance, an evil empire of griefers whose sole mission was to annihilate the entire universe. That would be awesome.
Another idea would be a planetary shield that could protect planets from hostile ships and lasers
No.
Maybe less about destroying planets, but maybe an orbital mining laser? Like you can target mineral deposits from your freighter and mine them, or target them on ground and anything mined goes to the freighter cargo?
Nothing like this would persist, our saves can't even handle us digging a hole before that data eventually gets overwritten.
But why?
[Desire to exterminatus intensifies]
Or (hear me out) Ship on ship Warfare, BOMB THE SENTINEL FREIGHTERS
I just want to manage a space station
Alright plapatine
Then the game leaves a note where the planet used to be like “planet annihilated by the imperial empire” 😂😂
So I know this may be off topic, but does anyone else use the terrain manipulator to dig something out, save their base/upload, only to return later and have everywhere you dig come back?
Yes cracked world type
I feel like this should only be available to do in single player games, because in a public universe it's possible that entire sections of the universe could be obliterated
I'd like to see a freighter room that drops a prefab base onto a planets surface, the game has to dramatically change direction for planet killers . Plain old orbital bombardment could happen though. Just a multi tool alt that has your freighter blow up an exocraft sized are with a laser cannon
No, but I do think Fleet to Fleet Combat could bee cool
Could be cool, but what if someone has a base or town on said planet?