Originally posted by CombatWombat:

I'm pretty torn about portals. On the one hand I completely agree with you, on the other hand it just gets grindy like hell and drawn out without portals.

What gets grindy? Maybe farming yeah, maybe felling trees but otherwise you travel lighter and build smaller bases, thats less grind to me.


I'm in the middle of a no portal run and its quite fun. Would be great to have few QoL things changed but otherwise vanilla is plenty prepared already for this.

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

The same thought occurred to me, but I've done a playthrough of NMS with the teleporters removed and found it to be a love-hate thing. While the increased sense of adventure, exploration, etc. is nice without a fast travel mechanic, there are times you just don't really want to spend (literally) hours of real time merely to get from one of your own bases to another.

Yeah but we dont need a base per biome or w/e. For 3 biomes straight im using one base now, and im (literally) down like an hour of sailing and time spend on more careful preparation. Well within normal RNG when it comes to finding stuff with portals.

I mean yeah it takes more time, but only farming feels like actually wasted time.


And im solo, this would be exponentially easier with more people... next big patch im 100% gonna push for my "group" to try no-portals, maybe even no-map, but the no map might be a further streach... ooor it could be good because we'd stick together better. :)