Feedback I feel the game would be more fun if habitable planets were much rarer

I am a new player - I've been playing for a couple days and love the game so far. Something I've noticed that, while exploring planets is super fun, exploring galaxy is not and is almost discouraged - stars are so fertile that a given system will have almost everything. I think it would be more fun (and realistic) to make stars full of dead rocks with occasional anomalies - some random mining outposts, research stations, pirate hideouts. This way finding a habitable planet will feel like discovering a rare gem you want to appreciate and explore. What do you think?

 

Balance wise, this is nearly impossible. Since you need to spawn on a lush planet, you'd be in flight for 5 times the amount of time it takes you to find a suitable planet normally if they were 5 times rarer. Make it any rarer than that and just starting the game with a new character would be a chore.

 

That's not a bad idea. More dangerous places, means less settlement, therefore less friendly NPCs need to protect. A good news for players who usually protect friendly NPCs. It is a very tedious task.

 

It would definitely be more reallistic if barren planets became more common and some new planet types with mines and nothing else started cropping up.
I doubt the devs will do anything about it though... Starbound has a nice track record of almost never getting polished up a bit...
There are quite a few aspects of the game that feel lacking in design. I'd like to try and fix some with mods but I'll have to start from scratch since I can only make hats...