I don't think this game is for me. After restarting my game and getting a much better starting world, I still feel pretty bored after exploring a dozen or so other worlds. I found a really pretty pink planet lush with trees; then I lasered through a few of them for carbon, found an outpost with one alien just sitting in his chair like every other outpost, and learned the word for "toxic" from a pillar, which pretty much sums up how I feel about this game right now.
Man. I'm sure just seeing weird stuff will be enough for a lot of people, and that's totally fine. To me though, the game just feels hollow. Every discovery is just surface level. No matter how strange an object is, I'm still just here to harvest the same stuff I got on other planets.
Think I'm gonna put this down for a bit, maybe give it a whirl later and see if any of this is just my mood or something. I'm not having fun though.