Annoyingly, I’m actually getting a bit hyped for the FRONTIERS update. Not sure why but it just seems exciting with so much complexity available now.
What are they going to do next?
Trying to guess which direction HG might go this time:
My brain jumps from one outlandish direction to another as to what they might’ve come up with for this update.
I am hoping it isn’t more multiplayer orientated stuff & instead gives more in the way of story or discoveries.
I’m even making arrangements to allow me lots of dive-in, immersive time, once it drops.
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Well, this is the update speculation thread, so no need to keep your imagination in check in here. Speculate away, no matter how crazy.
It’s quite an exciting word - frontier. Will we be at the frontier, or beyond? Trapped inside or breaking through?
Many that play want to find the perfect planet, like earth it seems - blue skies, green grass, no rain. Maybe if we break through the frontier, we’ll be able to make our own planets? I could see that being very, very popular with the many players who like/want to build a home planet.
Or will we be trapped at the frontier, discovering and fighting and/or puzzling our way slowly through it to get to the promised land - NMS 2? A giant expedition?
Will the update match our imagination? Probably not. 
Personally, not sure what I want from the update that isn’t in the game already.
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Since they said that this is something they had always wanted to do, and we currently got non-functional AI cores in space stations that are apparently supposed to regulate traffic and stuff, I’m going to go out on a limb and guess we finally get interactive factions that do their own things as was teased in that E3 trailer a long time ago… That would certianly produce an appreciable number of frontiers in NMS…
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“But Sean… if you don’t surrender… hmm… I ran out of cleverness.” 
I’m sure it’s going to be a nice update, but I’m hoping there was a lot of underselling involved. Or that once again, it’s the foundations for some great things to come. More plot and Lore stuff. Alien space babes. Rivers and waterfalls. Hey, spend enough time on code, and you can get it to do some amazing things. 
Well, I’d better slave over a hot painting or it will never get done. I’m learning that I forgot a lot about how acrylics behave. And misbehave…
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Forgive me if you had already realised this.
I just figured out what the eyes emoji means. You won’t like it.
Just as Sean used an orange symbol to mean Origins (because oranges and origins sound similar),
So the eyes looking at you means Horizons -as in “Hor-EYES ON-s”.
There’s no deeper meaning. That’s it.
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Being front facing sensory organs, they could be literal front ears too
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Now, I get all the front ears comments! 
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Two eyes… two = multi…
Multi-tools…
Multi-swords…
Multi-EYES…
Customizable eyes confirmed.
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I am going to run with @jedidia 's idea. Since it seems we were supposed to have an Expedition that led into the update, I think our biggest clues are right in front of us.
Expedition, Pioneer, Beachhead, Frontiers…the question is, what was the 3rd expedition going to be called? If we knew that, we could see if it fits the theme
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Having factions does make a lot of sense to be in the next update, it is a feature that was missing at launch so it is something HG will likely add at some point.
Also, considering how HG is known to poke at Elite Dangerous with their titles and features, I can see them adding a feature similar to ED with that station A.I. core. and factions. In ED, a faction can “own” a station and “upgrade” it. Although, its not as exciting as it sounds. I cant remember how it works as I haven’t played Elite in a long time but I would imagine that the station A.I. would play a similar part.
However, factions would be somewhat useless if it didn’t bring in fun perks and new gameplay mechanics with it. Money isnt enough of an incentive for most veteran players but I would imagine being able to base build close to others in the same faction as you would be a good incentive as a group can create a real lived-in city/town with purpose. Maybe even have a unique faction banner for yourselves and a unique faction title near your name.
Edit: and have your faction’s logo on your freighters and ships. 
okay that sounds cool.
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The ‘factions’ idea does sort of fit with the FRONTIERS name if it is taken in the context of the early American settlement days.
Starting settlements in new & hostile environments with allegiance bias in various directions. Science colony, pirate bases, military outposts, mines… that sort of thing.
In NMS that could even mean terraforming! That’d be cool!
Sean’s 
could suggest lots more to see, which also ties in with exploration.
Maybe we’ll get more random scattered goodies &/or be sent on more complex survey type missions combining new bases, surveying & mining under a new factions umbrella.
I quite like the idea of being sent to a dead world to set up a long term terraforming platform & colony for a particular faction.
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There’s a really good LOL screencap on Steam and related to the eyes emoji Sean has been using…
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That’s what I was hoping for as well. By starting out in a new galaxy/universe then finding a planet, land, gather materials, build terraforming machines, make a world your own. I suppose it’d be easier for HG just to use existing dead planets. edit: I have no idea how they make the galaxy. Some kind of random seed which is then stored in db once someone lands?
(found on steam discussions)
Also, another update on steam.db. Does that mean anything? It’s now on sale as well.
https://steamdb.info/app/275850/depots/
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Ok, what if eyes = ice?
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At some point, I’m hoping that this universe offers us the opportunity to scavenge artifacts and lore of the previous age. There were countless races inhabiting these galaxies in the Civilized Age, as I’ve been calling it. There should be some sort of remains from these beings, considering how many inhabitable worlds there are. And in particular, I want to come across traces of the Ancients as mentioned in my story.
In fact, there should be small remnants of SOME of these beings who survived the genocidal rule of the Gek First Spawn. We Travelers have explored almost nothing of these galaxies. I sincerely doubt that in Euclid alone, we’ve explored even one-trillionth of the planets in it. There MUST BE things yet to be discovered in this galaxy. If there is some sort of Void, or pocket universe, parallel or whatever, there simply must be something unusual to encounter. Not another fetch quest that doesn’t further some grand story, that simply gives us another cool helmet or yard decoration.
I’m posting another chapter. Paintings are taking too long, and I want to celebrate another installment of Nijol In Space - which has been done for a month. I’ll bother Devilin about updating it later. Nicely.
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Because he retweeted himself a few times , together with the two eyes, and the word frontier, My speculation vote is on that behind some new frontier there is the entrance to a mirror universe. 
(Or why don’t they put these Boundary Failures to good use? They look like stargates already.)
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IMHO, terraforming runs against the games’ rebuilding and restoration processes. Drones check for needed planetary repairs, for example.
Planets and moons are for all travellers. I’d hate to see people to make extensive, lasting changes to a planet or Moon.
It’s not My Man’s Sky, it’s No Man’s Sky.
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