DIY cartography
Sandbox games are more about finding your own way to have fun rather than the developer handing it to you. For me this has been true in all games I played.
When it comes to NMS, I feel like a lot more could be done about planet exploration.
The games gives us coordinates, whether we're in a ship or in a exocraft (i.e. Minotaur).
With this in mind, last night I started mapping a planet, writing down the coordinates of each Point of Interest in a spreadsheet and then using a scatter plot chart in order to create a map. Just for fun, I setup my base just close to the 0,0 coordinates (centre of the map).
Looking at the scatter plot chart, for example, I can tell that a drop pod, and encampment and a crashed ship are not too far south west of the base.
This can also help organizing your exploration and mapping my quadrants/octants etc.
It can obviously be improved a lot with labels or specific icons on the map instead of dots, but it's a start.
