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What is Aeon City?
Aeon City is the Galactic Hub's upcoming Hubtropolis - a multi-base city featuring skyscrapers, roads, and otherwise proper city architecture. Aeon City is the successor to the now-defunct New Ziki City.
Aeon City will feature a variety of multiplayer activities (many of which can also be participated in solo):
- PVP in the Rust Dome - Fight other players in an arena designed to emulate FPS-style combat within NMS. Functional capture points enable game modes like Domination or Search-and-Destroy to be played as well.
- Starship Racecourse - Fly through a compact racecourse in the sky, outlined by floating, illuminated checkpoints which are proven to render even at starship-speeds.
- Exocraft Racetrack - Race other interlopers across a handmade (rather than terrain-based) racetrack which requires players to dodge obstacles and coordinate their exocraft being launched out of a DK Mountain-style cannon (Mario Kart).
- Traveler Hockey, Blasterball, and Gravolley Ball - Compete against other interlopers in these sphere-based sports, all originally invented by members of the Galactic Hub!
- Shield Wrestling - Push your opponents off of an elevated platform using the Personal Forcefield. This sport, also original to the Galactic Hub, is inspired by sumo wrestling.
- Clover, Neutron Cascade, Roulette, and 8-Sided Dice - Test your luck in these gambling minigames found in Caesarus's Palace Casino! Some have an element of skill, while others are pure chance.
- Various Minigames - Minigames, including Mini-Anomaly Darts (shoot an exocraft off a ramp and land on a horizontal dart board), Hoopsphere (basketball), Bumper Nautilons (bumper cars), and other small carnival-style minigames can be found around the city!
- Art Days - Biweekly events will be hosted in the city's Aeon Museum of Interloper Art where interlopers are able to add their own statues and canvasses to the museum.
There are also plenty of attractions to go with the activities - learn about Galactic Hub history in the History Museum, grab some NipNip at Aeon Community Collective, get spooky in Club Dissonance, stroll the Honor Garden where prolific interlopers are honored with permanent statues, speak to the NPCs found in the city with all-original dialogue, or check out one of the city's parks!
How Can I Join?
Now for the bad news: remember earlier, when I mentioned that Aeon City is the successor to the now-defunct New Ziki City (NZC)? NZC was open to the public, and too many players ignored the rules which forbid uploading bases in the system. The city uses the entire system's complexity budget (16,000 parts), so any additional bases uploaded will cause the city to be invisible for other visitors. This problem developed to such an extent that, along with the relocation of the Galactic Hub civilization as a whole, it was decided that NZC would no longer be maintained.
And these weren't people with any malicious intent (in most cases). They were probably people who found out about NZC from a Youtuber who failed to mention our rules forbidding base construction, or kids who are too young to understand why those rules matter. So I can't really blame them, but at the same time, I have to avoid that outcome repeating itself.
Unfortunately, I see no way around this except to make Aeon City accessible on an invite-only basis. This means you need to establish yourself in the Galactic Hub community - joining chapters, building bases, and generally demonstrating that you're invested in the community - before you're able to be admitted to Aeon City.
I do intend on making a public version of Aeon City, but it will not conform with the terrain like the original does. Instead, it will be located on floating platforms. This will allow me to easily relocate the city to a different system if too many bases are uploaded, preventing it from being permanently ruined like NZC was.
Aeon City is NOT open yet! I currently expect it to open in March, but I'm advertising it now so people interested in visiting can begin establishing themselves in the Galactic Hub community.
What is the Galactic Hub Project?
The Galactic Hub is a civilization (organized multiplayer group with specific in-game practices) founded on October 30th, 2016. We've been playing together since before NMS received a single update!
Check out the Galactic Hub Wiki for information on the Galactic Hub, and don't miss the Guide on How to Join.
Copied this from one of my announcements so excuse the highly-formal tone:
There are a number of strong rationales in favor of relocating. It's not a decision I take lightly, but after reviewing all points, it seems inarguable to me that the benefits of a move will outweigh its detriments.
It also seems that, for everyone except PS5 players (due to Sony blocking USB save backups), we will be able to provide a service to relocate bases to the new Galactic Hub space claim. PS5 may also be able to access this service once cross-save opens to all players. This will be an imperfect solution to the issue of base-loss, I know - bases which rely on terrain will need to have foundations constructed or some other method of adaptation to their new location, and bases which rely very heavily on terrain or natural features (ie treehouses) may not be feasible to relocate at all. But it beats a total loss of all bases!