No Man's Sky
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Bandwagon
Kolohe
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I love that these guys turned around an epic failure so well, and continue to do so waaaaay past the point it was necessary for redemption. Ballers.
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Lenas
Trump's Staff
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Small staff and tons of sales, each free update generates new sales. They had sony exclusive money when the game came out as an indie size studio, they're definitely sitting on a huge surplus of cash right now.
zombiewizardhawk
Potato del Grande
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Ya I had fun with it for a decent bit but I think I would've liked it so much more.
ShakyJake
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Yeah, a friend showed me all this stuff he had built. And while it was impressive, it's like no one will ever see this. Why bother?
Why not allow everyone to exist simultaneously in the universe? It's sure as hell big enough. I imagine there could be issues if everyone congregated to the same area, but I'm sure that's easily handled with some common techniques.
Cybsled
Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
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You can find other players - problem is the galaxy is so big that you never run across them randomly. The weekend events usually put everyone in the same system and people start to explore planets from there, so you can come across other players for weeks afterwards
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Dandai
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The first and only time I played I ran into tons of people in the hubs, but outside of events, I don’t believe I ever ran into people on planets I explored. I guess what I’m saying is, everyone does seem to exist simultaneously, but the design of the game is such that everyone is spread pretty thin.
Utnayan
F16 patrolling Rajaah until he plays DS3
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Yeah WAY different now - you wouldn't even recognize it any longer. Tons to do. A gathering hub with tons of quests, tons of crafting options, pirates/space missions, freighters, vehicles on the ground, mech's, etc. And the planets all are very more varied from launch especially all the biotic life from trees and plants and such to animals.
ShakyJake
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How does this work then? Outside of hubs, it seems like one of the players has to host a session.
Cybsled
Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
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Technically you’re always online with randos unless you turn off that feature. You can host games that let you are your friends spawn near eachother, though. You’re still online with randos. You also have to upload your base to the servers to allow other players to find them
It’s scale as was stated. Each galaxy has millions of stars and there are multiple galaxies. The reason you don’t see many people outside hubs or shared expedition areas is because the odds are literally lotto levels
It’s scale as was stated. Each galaxy has millions of stars and there are multiple galaxies. The reason you don’t see many people outside hubs or shared expedition areas is because the odds are literally lotto levels
Downhammer
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I realize saying "millions" is usually adequate when describing something massive, but No Man's Sky is orders of magnitude bigger than that even. 256 galaxies, although almost everyone is in galaxy 1 "Euclid." Within each galaxy there are 4.2 billion regions (unique glyph addresses on the portal). Each region has a couple hundred solar systems, and each system has 2-6 planets/moons. I don't remember where I read it but someone calculated that at peak player volume it would still take over a million years for the player base to discover every planet.
It's a huger than huge play space which is why I think a lot of people like the expeditions since it puts everyone in the same areas.
It's a huger than huge play space which is why I think a lot of people like the expeditions since it puts everyone in the same areas.