Because apparently Trump is magic . <| sep |> I was quite happy when I saw that HG finally announces updates , but seeing that base building is one of the biggest things in it makes my hope quickly go away . NMS needs solid overhauling and many features before base building can be a thing . NMS isn ' t ready for it . I guess it will be filler for 12 hours before it gets boring and that ' s all . 9 weeks of work for it . Keep in mind that they said that they are adding foundations of base building , so if it will add any base building then it will be extremely limited with no customization and no benefits . And with the fact that we can ' t even make a waypoint to a planet we visited before , it will be pointless . Looking at NMS and how many design mistakes it has , base building will also have many design mistakes . When they announced freighters and base buildings , that second one was forgotten quickly because there ' s no reason and no purpose to have base building in NMS . We can ' t even customize our ships and multitools , so base building will be no different . And what ' s the reason of it in NMS ? In minecraft , starbound , astroneer or whatever , base building is a thing because player has to build some structures to have progress . Also , having ship in NMS quite destroys any reason to stay in one place for a while to make base building meaningful . Stationary storage would be useless in NMS because resources are needed only when player is moving from planet to planet . Customization options ? It will be build once , customize how you want , abandon your base forever , freighters would be better for it . And . there ' s is nothing else what can be included in base building . Building an outpost like aliens have but with no alien in it ? Really , NMS is not ready for base building . Freighters would be much better than this . They could instead overhaul factions , overhaul trading , overhaul modifications system so modifications are meaningfuland maybe sidegrade system , add some endgame customization . I hope I ' m wrong and they mean something other by saying foundations of base building . I hope inside that by saying adding foundations they mean overhauling entire gamebut I know it ' s impossible in that short time . We will see what it will be . I wouldn ' t call it The foundation update . I would call it The life and death update because if it will be a good update then it some people will have hope in NMS again . but if it will be really crappy , then even people who hopes that HG can fix NMS will lose all hope that HG can fix it . People who are going to be hyped by this update will be disappointed . Again .