Don’t Break the Law
If you thought that the universe of No Man’s Sky was like the wild west, you couldn’t be blamed. Here is a large, open expanse that allows you to freely explore as you make discoveries and mess with some ecosystems, so who is going to stop you? It turns out that the answer to that question is the Sentinels. Sentinels are the robot police that roam the universe looking for anyone trying to do harm. They’re relatively easy to avoid confrontations with, but it’s also easy to piss them off.
Doing things such as killing innocents, messing with animals, mining too many resources, and opening fire on the Sentinels themselves will get you into trouble. No Man’s Sky uses a tiered alert system similar to that of Grand Theft Auto, where the higher the tier (from one diamond to five diamonds) the larger, and more dangerous, the response.
You can fight or flee depending on how you like to play, though fleeing tends to be the much better option. It’s not too difficult to get away. If you’re in space, just use your boost and flee for a nearby planet, and if you’re already on a planet, make a bee-line for your Starship if you want to survive.
