Online Services status?

Anyone else having issue with the lovely 'You have lost connection to online services' message today?

I am in the same boat, issue startet a few hours ago. Glad I am not the only one.

Same here...

Seems Steam users are getting it as well. The online service, the only value to playing, since single player offline does not permanently save is being flaky garbage today.

Been off all day today and yesterday, rendering the fix to the Glactic Map search functionality meaningless.

Since when does it not save? Mine has always saved as I refuse to use "galaxy" to play online.

Same here since a day or two. If I had to guess it has been like this since the latest update of NMS.

BTW: I'm able to save my game but the online services connection is gone.

Why is it importend?.. only thing that matter is naming planets/animals/plants things, chance that someone will see your named planet or even a system is so small it don't matter anyway.

Plus when you move on your naming things also don't matter you never can go back.

Online or offline is almost the same.

I'm here on GOG because i don't care about online service thats why i did not not buy it on steam so i have DRM FREE game pure offline.

This seems a good place to ask.

So if you do play the game fully off line, does it save things locally? And do you get the credits for your discoveries etc?

I ask as it seems with the occasional connection to the server issues, it is not clear. Sure the whole point of the online mode is to upload and share your discoveries with other people, but how does that work in the SP game, do we lose money for not playing it online?

Personally i can think of nothing worse than sharing planet and creature data with the wider internet. Just watching a couple of let's plays (from youtubers i enjoy watching, they are mature and thoughtful gamers, not screaming drooling children!) and seeing what people are naming things, just confirms my fears that the online part of this game is just hugely immersion breaking, we are not going to awed by other peoples names for stuff!

So in that i really, really, very desperately, want NMS as a pure single player experience (that i will mod up as time goes on) but do not want to be punished for choosing that option. Is that possible or are we forced to be online to get the full game experience (and rewards)?

As for the online connection issues, i suspect this will happen a lot. Hello Games and NMS have been targeted by gamergate types, so i would expect DOS and everything else those people enjoy being part of. It might be a good idea to just adjust to enjoying the SP game (if it works as a full experience as per my questions above), as their servers are going to be targeted by the hate mob.

Awesome :) Thanks for the clarification. Once i get the game i will look where the name 'Explorer' is kept, and then let people here know where to go to edit that given title.

Please do. I`ve tried, but I`m not that savvy with program files, hopefully you are.

The offline name is hardcoded in the .exe file.

Changing it is very easy, just search for the ASCII string "Explorer" in the NMS.exe file using any decent Hex editor (some advanced text editor might also work but I wouldn't recommend it) and overwrite the letters with the name of your choice.

If your name is shorter than "Explorer" you need to overwrite any existing letters of that string with NULL characters.
If its longer than "Explorer" you should be careful not to overwrite the data after that string, it seems like there is space for a maximum of 15 letters (excluding the final NULL character).

I can't guarantee if this works reliably or if any issues might arise with an existing savegame (at least your name in the menu screen changes properly) so you should be doing this at your own risk.

Also this is probably obvious but you'll need to redo this every time you patch the game (or if the .exe file gets updated).
And it might not work for the Galaxy/Steam version if the integrity of the file gets checked every time you launch it (but this shouldn't be applied to those anyway).

@ Zapeth, awesome info and thanks for that. Hopefully we get the ability to change it more easily in some later patch update, but for now that sounds about as simple as it gets, cheers :)