I could go back to that Blissful moon and see about getting its portal address…
A distress signal led me to an exploration vessel that crashed on a desert planet. The ship is too damaged for me to repair at this point but there are some interesting lifeforms around. Such as tiny bipedal rhinos.
Tiny bipedal rhinos?
I think I found a candidate for my new home system. Nice variation in elevation, good vistas and inland lakes, some interesting animals (no mega-fauna, sadly), and a whole bunch of really pretty planets visible in the sky including a ringed planet.
But, and this is most important, orange and blue-striped trees. I didn’t even know this was something I needed until I saw it.
Pretty close, yeah.
I have still been putting a ton of time into it, so I figured out some things that make it a lot easier. The tutorial system is still lacking severely.
Most notably, making money is a lot easier now with farming a lot of the right stuff, been buying better ships. I came across an exotic and could’t pass it up. Ugly-ass yellow bubbley thing, but at only 20 slot not that expensive, so I bought it for the bonuses. I figure I can pimp it out as an explorer with tons into hyper drive modules.
Still bugged out on the first freighter quest though. The patch notes keeps saying they are hitting all around my problem, but no luck for me on that one so far.
I also found a planet with 6 meter parrot-faced-turkey beasts. Terrifying looking.
Annnnnnnd I am a complete moron.
Trying to figure out if they are fixing my bug, I finally realized ,for the first time,that the game has Freighters and Frigates . My freighter is fine I guess, It’s the frigates that are screwed up.
Went back to the moon with the orange grass. It’s a tropical biome so it’s a good source of paraffinum, which I have a mission to source 250 units of. Also discovered all 9 fauna, first time I got a complete discovery anywhere.
Will post the coordinates if I can find a portal.
My frigate has only managed to successfully complete one mission. Every other time I’ve sent it off, it got damaged and had to return. Saving up for to buy more frigates; up to five can be sent off at a time.
I tried, once again, to get back into NMS with the Next update. And although I find that the game is better, I just cannot play it for more than a few hours before I get frustrated with how much of a chore it is to play.
For me, the UI is clunky but I suppose this is because it is the same UI as for the console version. The game could be improved, if for PC, they were to add quick keys.
But even ignoring the clunky UI, I feel like when I’m playing the game much of my time is spent not playing the game. Dropping a refinery to refine something into something else, and then standing there waiting for it to finish. Or running away from sentinels because I had the audacity to harvest some carbon from a plant while it was watching (the horror). Etc. etc. etc. I don’t know, I guess the game just isn’t for me. Too bad, I was really excited for it prior to release.
I really like the exploration aspects, but everything else just doesn’t work for me. Oh well.
Don’t harvest when they’re looking! 
The red spires that are scattered about are now a type of carbon, the same type one gets by refining regular carbon. Great for powering stuff so the regular carbon can be saved for crafting.
Just picked up a combat frigate for less than two mil. That should help.
A trade frigate was for sale in the same fleet but that thing was over 8 mil!
Made my first jump with a Cadmium Drive. Found a Planetary Anomaly (i.e.: a synthetic moon).
Got enough cadmium there to install an Emeril Drive. Now I’m on the weirdest planet I’ve seen yet.
Brown ground, orange sky, azure lakes, and very many tall inverted conical buttes, with smaller inverted conical buttes attached to the tops, standing every which way. Weirdest thing is the family of creatures I just discovered; these things would be right at home in a Lovecraft story! They’re like camels, with Spinosaur backs, and tentacled heads. No visible eyes, ears, or mouth.
Didn’t notice at first: those Lovecraftian camel things have horse legs & hooves.
Oh, and the info panel says they have no stomachs.
I love the info panel “misc” stuff. It’s always worth a read; most of the comments are patently ridiculous.
I got back into NMS. Apparently it has been over a year since my last save. On a lark (okay, actually it was by accident) I loaded my old save and it kind of flipped out saying there was some kind of anomaly with my game. So I went back to the main menu and deleted that save, no big loss.
I’m running around in a new save game. I like a lot of the changes. My most favorite new thing so far is being able to see my character and customize his appearance. I’m not sure how long ago they added that but I love the over-the-shoulder POV, it’s a minor thing but makes things feel more “personal” if that makes sense.
Same system, found a great planet for a base. Blue skies, massive blue ocean with interconnected islands covered in green grass, palm trees, giant mushroom trees, orange-ringed alien trees, nicely varied landscape, etc. I’d build atop one of the massive mesas if not for the occasional superheated drizzle and the space station being abandoned.
Simply hiding in a cave works. 
Got my first rank while hiding in a cave of my own creation during a superheated rainstorm.
Visited a few more systems, mainly because missions sent me there. Found an Ancient Ruin on a rather nice tropical world; first beast I saw there was like a cross between a Scrubbing Bubble and this thing from Dark Star. Yellow with black spots.
Anyone who happens across one of those things will now see C. Karayildiz.
C. for John Carpenter and Google translate says kara yildiz is the Turkish equivalent of “dark star”.