10 Video Games That Are Better When You Break Them
5. No Man's Sky
There isn't a person out there that has played The Sims and not once entered the word "motherlode" into the text chat to suddenly gift your electronic self a cool 50,000 Simoleons. We're all guilty of the infinite money trick. Go live with your billionaire Sim dreams!
The infinite money exploit is hardly contained to just The Sims though and any game with an economy can typically be exploited.
No Man's Sky is all about exploring unchartered space, which is a lot easier to do when you've got loads of cash.
After investing research into a Medium Refiner, it's possible for explorers to combine two materials. As it turns out, oxygenating things is the short way to victory. Simply plugging a tonne of oxygen into the refiner alongside chloride or cobalt will spit out more of the resource than you started with - and it can all be sold back to line your own coffers.
It's like how when you go to a bar and all the soft drinks are watered down despite the prices being raised. You're doing that, but there's no victim. Sure, this will technically crash the game's economy but you'll be in the money for way longer than it takes to balance back out so you can do it all again.