How base building could be great with the current state of the game and how it could be even better with some tweaks

So I've seen a few posts saying they don't think base building is suited for the current state of the game, I disagree and have some examples of how it could make the game better.

 

crafting your own shelter in a hostile environment. This could make you feel more like a real explorer, setting up base camp. Make them destructible by sentinels for some extra fun.

 

Build your own terminal. You've found that sweet spot, beautiful and dotted with vortex cubes, you've set up your base now build a terminal to really cash it in.

 

Build a terminal that shows all the lore you've collected so far. Let us see every piece of lore we've collected in the game from momoliths, plaques, ruins and the atlas station.

 

Ship recall beacons. I know I'd much appreciate the ability to roam freely without the hassle of finding a place where I can recall my ship.

 

Additional structure so grand, it really makes the sentinels angry. I think if you build big enough, it should trigger the sentinels to keep on coming past 1 wave at 5 stars. I love fighting these guys so a way to get them to keep on coming would be awesome, I know it can't be infinite but make it a long battle and let us build something to call the sentinels back for a fight too whenever we want.

 

Tweaks they could do to make this even better, make the planets more empty. I think this is pretty popular opinion already, the planets have way too many outposts and the like. Make it so the majority of planets are completely empty, or at least a lot more empty then they are now. Now base building becomes important since we need places to sell things and find shelter. As an added bonus they could take whatever bases the player makes and have them there for any other weary traveler that happens to find the planet, a gift from your fellow wanderers of the stars.

 

Portals could take you back to your home base. This seems to be another fairly popular idea. I think it would be cool to be able to save several planet coordinates so we can travel back to them via the portals and then back to the planet we activated the portal on. In addition to this building a landing pad on your base so we could have a spare ship on the other side of the portal would be awesome.

 

Hiring aliens to work at the outpost you built. Add a few more npcs to space stations that you could hire to work for you. This could give reputation a meaning too, as the availability and number of workers you could hire depends on your relationship with the species. Depending on what kind of outpost they are working at they could locate crashed ships, monoliths, ruins,plaques, etc... this would work really well if they remove the majority of preexisting outposts.

 

Research facilities. Building a research facility to store flora/fauna from another world. The alien you hire to man the station could send you on quests to bring back stuff from various places. Either specific star classifications, carnivores, aquatic life, from a certain number of light years away... the possibility of quest criteria are endless. We'd get to see the flora in a special growing area and the fauna in a special caged area. I remember from my friend playing mine craft, he had a little farm set up for animals that gave him good resources, I think something similar to this would be awesome as well, so we could farm the animals with valuable poop xD or just keep a bunch of stuff you like the look of.

 

So these are some things I thought of for now, what do you guys think? If love to here some of your ideas too :D I tried posting this on the other reddit but it kept getting deleted, apparently this is too repays but all the refund posts are fine x_x anyway sorry for the little bit of salt, but I'd love to discuss this and other ideas with you guys.