What is the purpose of a base in NMS? [Discussion]
The last survival game I played was Ark. Bases in Ark housed numerous essential stations, storage, farms, nurseries, and often dozens and dozens of tamed creatures. They were your safe place to place a bed to respawn. And yes, many people built cool and creative bases strictly for the art too.
But in NMS now… I don’t see much of a use for bases. I’m still fairly early (around 150 hours). So maybe I’m missing something obvious to you long timers. I can see the use of the 0-9 storage vault, I guess. But I can access those from my freighter. I guess the material farms would be useful. But aren’t those all spread out over planets and systems?
At the moment I have one base computer and a teleporter set up next to a portal so I can quickly go wherever. I haven’t figured out a reason to build anything further yet.
Do you have a base? What do you use your base for? What are the most useful things in your base? Have you seen any exceptionally cool or useful bases?