I have 230 hours logged into this game. I have 8 of the 16 glyphs. 3 days ago I had 0. The ONLY reason I have that many is I spent the last 20 in game hours warping, go to space station, find traveler? No. Warp again, go to space station. Find traveler? No. Repeat this process until finally after an hour or 3 you find the traveler. Find his grave, get 1 glyph.

I also get the space suit inventory upgrade, and the one from the annomoly. Only recently found out you can get suit tech slots expanded the same way.

Now my usual thoughts is that warping for the sake of finding travelers/upgrades goes against the whole foundation of this game. But I just got someone new into this game, and I KNOW she isn’t going to find the 16 glyphs fast. I hadn’t made any attempt to get them, and I hadn’t found one in 190 hours.

My only hope is to do the glyph finding fast on my own, and hopefully she can send me a picture of her glyphs using her cell phone. Then I can come to her.

But I don’t feel bad for cheating like that, when EVERYTHING in this game is a grind.

  • ByteOnBikes@discuss.online
    12·
    16 days ago

    Do people see cheating as abusing the game mechanics?

    What you did was part of the game. Maybe something the devs overlooked, or frankly didn’t care if someone did.

    Cheating to me is hex editing your save files, or using a mod that gives you whatever you want.

      • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
        71·
        16 days ago

        That’s called exploitation. Game exploits do not always mean cheating but sort of are. It’s taking advantage of the game mechanics.

      • Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com
        1·
        15 days ago

        This isn’t even that though. This is just playing the game with a singular focus, they’re doing nothing to cut corners or speed up the loop, just not doing other activities in between.

        It’s nuts to me that OP can even remotely consider this cheating.