BUG WARNING to NMS Players.
SAVE GAME CORRUPTION BUG
(pardon, for shouting ... just thought it to be important ... to not loos your game progress)
There is a save game corruption bug. Sometimes when you alt tab out of the game or for not particular reason at all, the game could yet crash on you. Afterwards when you want to reload the game, you are suddenly back on the re-initialise screen.
If that happens:
DO NOT INITIALISE.
Potential sollutions here under this threat.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/1/360672304897008888/
Following worked for me, but is not an official fix.
1.) Make a Backup of the save files.
C:\Users\[your name]\AppData\Roaming\HelloGames\NMS\st_76561197985574951
2.) Redownload the game.
3.) Place the oldest of the three save game files "storrage" and "mf_storage" back into the save game location. (for me it was 2, for others it was 1 or 3)
4.) Open the game with Steam in offline mode.
{this is key, as there is a potential interference with the steam cloud backup}
5.) When it starts back into the game without re intialisation, save the game, exit and make another backup of your now recovered save game.
Even if it did not happen to you (yet and hopefully wont at all), ...
I recommend you to make backups of your save game every time you log off, until a fix has been announced.