A very interesting project is underway with a number of players conducting some virtual world archeology in NMS. Focussed on player bases affected by the change between different version updates of the game and mainly between Pathfinder 1.2 and Atlas Rises 1.3.
For more check out the series on Archeogaming:
Iāve been following this for a while and it intriques me as to what is āleft behindā when we choose to relocate.
It seems that if we leave a location and no one moves into that system, then our base (or at least a version of it) remains for visitors to still see and interact with.
Given I often move around, I find it facinating that others may stumble across one of my long ago āabandonedā bases.
Iām yet to understand if there are any ārulesā as to why a base remains or vanishes upon relocation, but Iād love to know more. Yet another enigma of the NMS universe.
I actually read about this in a story about archaeology. A professor leads a group on digs in NMS. I used to be involved in digs in my state so I thought that was really interesting.
Another excellent old base analysis
That is really awesome. I wonder what will happen after NEXT?
And now published in a book