No Man's Sky - Procedural space game
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Soldato
No they dont reset, you make a hole on a planet its there for life of the game unless someone messes with it.
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Is there any information to support either of these?
I'd love it to stay there however it does mean that someone can come along and completely destroy a planet (and given the chance someone will).
You sure about that? I'm pretty sure the deltas aren't persisted once you leave the planet, it was mentioned in one of the videos (can't remember which).
Maybe it's changed?
Soldato
No chance, the algorithms will not be able to cope with that at all and it will be something that cant just be tagged in a database table.
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This was my thinking.
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I just read it on a website that said it, let me look.
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/03/03/you-can-do-much-more-than-fly-around-in-no-mans-sky
Thats where i saw it mention altering the surface is permanent.
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/03/03/you-can-do-much-more-than-fly-around-in-no-mans-sky
Thats where i saw it mention altering the surface is permanent.
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Soldato
I believe it's permanent for your game, as it's saved locally, but if another player visits the planet later it won't be there for them.
The only way it would be visible to another player is if you are both on the same planet in the same spot at the same time. Then it would have the changes you made saved to both yours and their game saves
At least thats what I understand it to be.
The only way it would be visible to another player is if you are both on the same planet in the same spot at the same time. Then it would have the changes you made saved to both yours and their game saves
At least thats what I understand it to be.
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Thanks.
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Also didnt I read if you discover a planet that no one else has been to you can name it what you want ?
Not sure about that. See the IGN video from earlier this month, at about 15.00 he says "now that I've flown away from that planet everything that we just saw is thrown away, if I fly back down everything will be regenerated. All those creatures, all the terrain, trees, grass, everything".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-uMFHoF8VA
So permanent for you yes, but only as long as you're on the planet. You leave and it's gone.
Ok yeah it seems its a bit confusing.
What we can guarantee is that changes you make won't be there for other people who come to that planet.
The jury still seems to be out on wether changes you make will still be there when you come back later. There seems to be conflicting statements on this.
My understanding was that the game regenerated planets when you fly to them without any cached changes, but its possible a local file could be retaining your changes.
What we can guarantee is that changes you make won't be there for other people who come to that planet.
The jury still seems to be out on wether changes you make will still be there when you come back later. There seems to be conflicting statements on this.
My understanding was that the game regenerated planets when you fly to them without any cached changes, but its possible a local file could be retaining your changes.
Soldato
Dunno why it matters about others seeing it because according to the devs the universe is too huge no one will ever meet and if they do then the chance of that happening is greater than winning the lottery.
Also the way i take the whole persistence thing is that u can fire a hole in the ground it is permanent and when u go away from the planet the planet is turned into pure data and so is destroyed more or less as not needed right now, when you try to go back to the planet the planet is regenerated as in built by the last known config of the planet so the hole will be there still but chances are you probably might not find the same spot again where you landed as a planet is really (apparently) the real size of a planet.
Also the way i take the whole persistence thing is that u can fire a hole in the ground it is permanent and when u go away from the planet the planet is turned into pure data and so is destroyed more or less as not needed right now, when you try to go back to the planet the planet is regenerated as in built by the last known config of the planet so the hole will be there still but chances are you probably might not find the same spot again where you landed as a planet is really (apparently) the real size of a planet.
Pretty immaterial anyway, it would be a hell of an engineering headache to store the deltas of every single deforming interaction the player makes, in a robust way anyway.
The gameplay clearly strongly discourages staying in one place though....the chances you'll ever end up back at the same spot are pretty slim.
The gameplay clearly strongly discourages staying in one place though....the chances you'll ever end up back at the same spot are pretty slim.
Soldato
Stuff you do that's not insignificant gets cached locally. Someone visits a planet you've taken a dump on won't see it. When you come back, the damage done is still there, or that's what I took from watching an interview with the lead dev
I'm not sure of the whole premise that you aren't actually in the same game, I mean the best bit of Eve was messing with other people's plans/escaping an ambush by the skin of your teeth. NPCs just aren't as fun or unpredictable
I'm not sure of the whole premise that you aren't actually in the same game, I mean the best bit of Eve was messing with other people's plans/escaping an ambush by the skin of your teeth. NPCs just aren't as fun or unpredictable
Soldato
another vid, building the hype 
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Playstation again! Where the **** is the PC footage?
Can you VPN on Steam to get a cheaper pre order?
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The end game is reaching the centre of the universe, to what end is a mystery
Question is though, can you even reach the centre of the universe, given its vast scale , or is it one of those realistically unattainable goals. This is my biggest problem at the moment, yes I know about planets and procedural and graphics and creatures, but I still dont know what the 'game' of the game is.