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I have played Starfield.
The planets being mostly empty is fine. In fact, I think they're too full if anything. You're not meant to travel on the planet's surface for long. You explore a bit if you think you want to build an outpost there, but otherwise you just move on. Most of the "content" is in pre-built areas. Enemy encounters almost always take place in hand crafted facilities, and usually it'll be for some kind of quest so you land right near it.
The outpost system is where the procedural planets come in. You need to explore some to find the right spot to build with the resources you want. The content there is the building, not the planet. The landscape will effect it some, but mostly it's whatever you make of it.
That said, the outpost system fucking sucks right now. You have to send resources between outposts with "links", which take goods into a container and store them in linked containers. All solid goods go in one type, and the same for liquid, gas, and manufactured. I have all of my resources trickling into a main base, so I have all resources available there. This has caused my storage to back up and there's no way to filter out items you don't want. Then no resources can come in so you have to go to your storage and clear whatever is clogging it. There's also no way to delete items as far as I'm aware, so you just dump the excess resources on the ground where they'll remain forever. It's really stupid. This is my storage solution for now.
All the crates flow into the next one, so it's functionally one massive storage container, but with 15 seperate inventories I have to go through to get anything out. There's also no stairs object you can build, or anything like it, so I stacked cabinets into a sort of access staircase. It's really bad, but it's what works for now.
Just a tip if you start playing and build a main base, build it on a low gravity planet so you don't have as much of a problem if you stack stuff like this.
How the fuck did Beth have stairs in FO4/76 but forgot to add them in a game set hundreds of years in the future? What the seventy-dollar fuck?
That's the future Telvanni want!
At least if the Telvanni got their way I'd be able to levitate up to my crates! (I just realized, I may TCL to use the crates because there isn't a good alternative built into the game systems.)
Yeah, outposts seemed to me to be the thing that Starfield was designed and marketed around, but it's so jank. So many basic things missing and so many quality of life failures. It's like they didn't even test it themselves first.
Does it eventually give you a purpose or guide you to making an outpost, I haven't felt much of a need yet.
There's one part in the story that you need to build a thing in a shop or an outpost, but it doesn't require you to really build an outpost. I did it so I can have any supplies for upgrading things without too much effort. I think that was a mistake, but now I'm too invested. Lol.
I hope not, i came for the RPG, if i wanted to play worse version of minecraft i would just go play minecraft.
This sounds like factorio without the biters
Yeah, and without any way to actually manage the resources. I want to like it, but I see so many issues that should be easy to solve that they just didn't. Sure, it'll be fixed with mods and maybe DLC, but that shouldn't be required for basic UX.
Another one of my big gripes with outposts is that there is no way to view your existing outposts. There's not a list, and definitely no way to view what an outpost is producing. Hell, you can't even view what an outpost is producing when you're there. It'll tell you the total quantity produced of everything combined, but not of what. It's bad.
I gotta be honest this looks like Minecraft construction but even in Minecraft there are ways to sort out and destroy unwanted items
[accidentally attracting Satisfactory fans intensifies]
That reminds me of how annoyed I get with Satisfactory as well...
As a Factorio player, this could all be handled so much better in both games, but Starfield is particularly bad. It's like they never even tried building outposts before launch. So many basic functions are missing.