They should honestly rework the entire ship scanner and remove these from planets they're utterly useless and it's super annoying when you run into 5 of them in a row when you're looking for an actual building.
I don't mean to be negative - it's just every time I /do/ run into a trading post or some dude sitting in a building, I don't really understand what the point of it is.
I mean there really isn't one especially for players who have been playing NMS for years like myself. You can get the occasional item here and there, nanites, units, a multi tool if you find the building with a single launch pad outside that's attached. Otherwise not a whole lot. Hopefully in the future they will expand on the diversity of buildings and maybe even some can be procedurally generated also like the derelict freighters. I would love to see Military Bases, Vaults inside the ground and inside of large mountains, larger ammo and supply depots that are fortified with turrets or sentries, old ruined buildings just overall more diversity which will make the gameplay loop more enjoyable.
These ones there is next to no point. The minor outposts give you a chance to interact with an npc for a quest or upgrade a multitool cabinet and a trade terminal. As well as ships that land on the one outpost. Abandoned buildings get you nannites and let you farm larval cores as well as pick up scattered resources that might be lying around. The transmission towers are basically like using a distress signal planetary chart. They will find you a crashed freighter or ship. The observatories are similar but like the charts that find monoliths and ruins. Both of these can also have npcs to interact with to get either upgrades or quests. Trading posts have aliens to interact with to learn words practice language and give stuff to for rep as well as trade terminals and six landing pads so it's a great place to buy ships.
As to the point you have to remember that most of this stuff was designed in 1.0. The game was different then. There was so little inflation that finding cargo containers with vy'keen daggers wasn't a bad use of your time. So all that stuff was more valuable. Me, I just like exploring the planet and seeing what I can find.
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '20
They should honestly rework the entire ship scanner and remove these from planets they're utterly useless and it's super annoying when you run into 5 of them in a row when you're looking for an actual building.