No Man's Sky

hughtrimble · 7 Jul 2015 at 15:45

Tauren said:
it stays the same. once a planet has been discovered. it stays that planet for the life of the game. you can even name the thing if you want to

Hang on though, here he says it's generated again if you leave as it's automatically regenerated by the algorithms:

00:35 secs into it

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33183508

He also says that nothing is stored anywhere - disc, server, cloud - it's all just being generated when you see it.

Mobius 1 · 7 Jul 2015 at 15:48

hughtrimble said:
Hang on though, here he says it's generated again if you leave as it's automatically regenerated by the algorithms:

00:35 secs into it

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33183508

indeed. but it will be exactly the same planet as when you first found it.

holes you create with your mining weapon wont, however.

edit: if you name a planet, it will save, so future people will see it. when you leave a planet, and come back to it, it will be exactly the same planet as when you first found it.

ps3ud0 · 7 Jul 2015 at 15:54

hughtrimble said:
Hang on though, here he says it's generated again if you leave as it's automatically regenerated by the algorithms:

00:35 secs into it

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33183508

He also says that nothing is stored anywhere - disc, server, cloud - it's all just being generated when you see it.

Just like most things in a game, except instead of art assets it just has the record of the code that initially created the planet and its location.

ps3ud0 :cool:

DAIR · 7 Jul 2015 at 16:23

hughtrimble said:
That is excellent news.

That is hear say

I want some proper release notes from the horse

Mobius 1 · 8 Jul 2015 at 08:36

"Tomorrow at 9am PT on #IGNFirst, Sean Murray from @hellogames shows off how the economy in No Man's Sky works."

https://mobile.twitter.com/DMC_Ryan/status/618656527956623360

Im assuming that'll be 5pm for us folks in bst!

Red and White · 8 Jul 2015 at 08:45

Tauren said:
indeed. but it will be exactly the same planet as when you first found it.

holes you create with your mining weapon wont, however.

edit: if you name a planet, it will save, so future people will see it. when you leave a planet, and come back to it, it will be exactly the same planet as when you first found it.

how does that work if nothing is saved

Dano · 8 Jul 2015 at 09:14

Red and White said:
how does that work if nothing is saved

It will have to save names to a database, there is no way around that. Everything else is procedural generation, which is not random therefore repeatable.

Mobius 1 · 8 Jul 2015 at 09:49

The planet is given an algorithm. Which is set for that planet, for life. That algorithm is loaded everytime a player visits that planet.

Dano · 8 Jul 2015 at 18:17

Video on making money is up on IGN now: http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/07/08/no-mans-sky-how-the-economy-works-ign-first?watch

mid_gen · 8 Jul 2015 at 18:44

Tauren said:
The planet is given an algorithm. Which is set for that planet, for life. That algorithm is loaded everytime a player visits that planet.

Planet is given a seed value spat out of a RNG when someone first travels to it. An algorithm converts that into all the parameters that make up the planet's unique composition.

Obviously they will be persisting the discovered by value somewhere, along with the seed. Not a lot of data involved, easily manageable.

Mobius 1 · 8 Jul 2015 at 18:44

Direct link here.

http://assets4.ign.com/videos/zenco...944b00a820df376d7226-5000000-1436365219-w.mp4

Mobius 1 · 8 Jul 2015 at 18:46

mid_gen said:
Planet is given a seed value. An algorithm converts that into all the parameters that make up the planet's unique composition.

Obviously they will be persisting the discovered by value somewhere.

Yes that's what I meant

thank you. The planet stays the same for the life of the game.

Vinno · 8 Jul 2015 at 22:23

I'm quite liking this IGN coverage. Its getting me a bit more hyped for a game which I had lost pretty much all hype.

Mobius 1 · 8 Jul 2015 at 22:37

Apparently a link to tomorrow's video feature. Might be in Italian.

http://assets2.ign.com/videos/zenco...6c9bd6461a12e1fbe406-5000000-1436367380-w.mp4

Edit: gah. Been taken down.

Huntyz · 9 Jul 2015 at 07:17

Looks insane i cant wait.

Mobius 1 · 13 Jul 2015 at 17:19

New video.

haven't watched it yet.

http://assets3.ign.com//videos//zen...25940b4ba4c01c3e48f8-5000000-1436802551-w.mp4

Vinno · 13 Jul 2015 at 18:00

Thanks for the link to the new vid

MrMoonX · 13 Jul 2015 at 18:19

Tauren said:
New video. haven't watched it yet.

http://assets3.ign.com//videos//zen...25940b4ba4c01c3e48f8-5000000-1436802551-w.mp4

Just saw that pic of their office, it's literally a 10min walk from
my house, maybe go down and ask nicely for the release date lol

beachBOYken · 13 Jul 2015 at 18:26

I'm a bit confused about this goal to reach the centre of the galaxy that Sean mentions.

The way I understand it is the game has many galaxies within a universe so will there be more than one centre of a galaxy to reach.

Or is there only one galaxy.

I'm confused

*actually I think I realise now that no man's sky is just one galaxy featuring many stars with there own planets and moons. It got me thinking as you see the word universe thrown around a lot instead of galaxy.

Mobius 1 · 13 Jul 2015 at 19:48

I think there are multiple galaxies (I'm sure I've heard Sean mention multiple galaxies) , all leading to a central point. Or the "center"