With mentions about the UFT, AGT and Qitanian Empire!

The NMS Japan Community has been the target of a coordinated and multiple actor base griefing and sabotage campaign on their community planet for a number of days now. It has been escalated to Hello Game but it seems the actors are still griefing. Messages on the NMS japan discord server today indicate sustained pvp ambushes are now happening on japanese players that enter their system. I'm available on Discord for civ leaders that wish to discuss, as I'm not an avid reddit user.

The [ZUCC]Lucar901 Problem

Greetings, interlopers, and happy Saturday! I wish I had a more fun announcement today, but it's time for some early spring cleaning.

The Galactic Hub has a policy of "active non-engagement". What this means is, we avoid giving any attention whatsoever to any troll because doing so encourages them to continue. We take the approach that providing attention to a troll is like providing oxygen to a fire.

However, to extend that metaphor, there are some fires which are capable of burning without oxygen or by generating their own oxygen. We are now dealing with one of those, and must put the fire out through other means.

The troll [ZUCC]Lucar901 has been particularly persistent in harassing people in this community. Besides "allowed" forms of harassment, like attempting to PVP people who clearly don't want it, Lucar has also used exploits to harass people - even going so far as intentionally crashing their games or kidnapping them in a modified Corvette to crash their game.

A Possible Solution: Mass Steam Report Campaign

I must preface this with something very important:

DO NOT FILE A STEAM REPORT UNLESS IT IS ACCURATE AND TRUTHFUL TO YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE.

Do not report Lucar unless you have personally witnessed him cheating or harassing someone in-game. You might think you are helping us, but you will actually be damaging the legitimacy of other reports by making their validity questionable. With that said, if you do fit that criteria, PLEASE do file a report.

To file a report, follow this process:

• Sign in to Steam. You must own the game on Steam to report him. If you are not a PC player, you can still help - see the section below.
• Navigate to his profile.
• Under "Years of service", next to "Add friend", click "More..." and then "Report player" and then either "They are spamming, annoying or harassing me" or "They are cheating in a game", depending on which is more accurate for you. If both are accurate, choose "They are cheating in a game."

A Backup Option: Mass Hello Games Report Campaign

Disappointingly, Hello Games has done absolutely nothing despite multiple reports being filed with them. They are aware of the problem - Lucar was first reported in August 2024 - and they have chosen to do nothing to address it. Unfortunately this is not the first time that Hello Games has taken this non-approach with a troll.

If Hello Games continues doing nothing to protect our community from exploits which they have given us no ability to protect ourselves from, I will be raising awareness around this situation and their inaction on the various No Man's Sky subreddits and servers, as well as any gaming media journalists I can get to pay attention. I would prefer not to need to do that, so we will instead try, yet again, to impress upon Hello Games the importance of them actually doing something to protect their userbase.

Unlike Steam reports, please file a report with Hello Games regardless of whether or not you have personally experienced an issue with Lucar. We have already tried reporting the problem and been effectively ignored by Hello Games. This is our last-ditch effort before making it a public issue, which might slightly harm Hello Games' reputation, which I would really prefer to avoid (but will do without hesitation if it's the only apparent way to protect this community). Thus it is in both our interest and Hello Games' interest that they are made to understand the severity and urgency of this issue, and the disappointment surrounding their decision to do nothing so far.

To file a report with Hello Games, follow this process:

• Navigate to the Hello Games Zendesk.
• Report a personal experience with Lucar901 if possible. If you have no personal experience, report that your community is being effected and needs help. Either way, do not provide false information.
• Fill out the remaining fields (basic info like email, game mode, etc)
• If you are comfortable doing so, screenshot the report (just the text part is fine) and send me that screenshot via DM on Discord so I have a record of the report.

That's all for now, for a safer Hub, for a safer simulation. Good journeys interlopers, and stay safe!