>>79177135the area where you fly above a planet is where you do most ship stuff, of which the majority is shooting other ships who happen to be there
sometimes theres debris fields and asteroids you can mine
you dont fly while inside the planet, no, once you touch down your supposed to explore on foot, though you can use the time to look at your ship from outside
aside from quest-relevant planets, the random generation of planet content operates on a "point of interest" system, akin to radiant quests
each time you land, several points are generated automatically, this can be your normal cave with loot and monsters, or a random outpost which suddenly gets attacked when your there, it varies in terms of style but the gameplay loop is the same
people call it "a whole lot of emptiness" which is true, there are a select few large settlements on certain planets with a bunch of people for questing and such, all the rest of it is procedurally generated space and planets where you can build
