You can become incredibly powerful in 'No Man's Sky' without ever leaving your home planet

The gigantic new PlayStation 4 game "No Man's Sky" is steeped in the mystery of space. It offers 18 quintillion (18,000,000,000,000,000,000) planets, many of which are full of alien life, to explore.

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And there's good incentive to explore. The further you venture into the stars, the better stuff you'll find: better starships, improvements for your space suit, and other sweet gear.

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But one player chose instead to see how far they could progress their character - their exosuit, their starship, and their multi-tool - without ever leaving their very first planet. And it turns out you can get really far without ever leaving terra firma. "How far?!" you ask?

This far:

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Whoa indeed. And that's to say nothing of their ship, which went from old and busted to new hotness across 25 hours of play:

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And just look at this maxed out multi-tool - the in-game mining tool and "gun" - with all these sweet attachments:

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It's unclear if this is the max number of slots a player can have, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Regardless, it's an incredible achievement considering the player outright skirted the main conceit of the game (explore!).