I just thought about the chance (in %) to meet another person in no mans sky. I tried to solve this mathematically.
There will be 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets in the game. So even if the game will sell 50 mio copies (which will be as much as GTA V sold) that would be ~ 368.934.881.474 planets per player. So theoretical you have to visit 368.934.881.475 planets to get to a planet where at least another player WAS. The chance to visit a planets at the same time another player is at the planet is 1/368.934.881.475^2. Thats a chance of ~0,00000000000000000000000136 %.
The chance to win some millions in lottery is 0,000000000714 %.
And thats just the chance to be on the same planet. The planets will have realistic sizes. So just think about how big the chance is if you are in New York and another people is in tokio that you both will meet. Planets are giant.
So to be honest its impossible to visit another player in a realistic sized universe like no mans sky.
I doubt many people cann imagien the size of the game. Think about how large the earth it. And know take this size x 18,446,744,073,709,551,616.
Im not even sure if there would even be the possibilty to meet another player. Why should they develop such a system if it will never happen?
Even the chance that another player will visit a planet you named before is 1/368.934.881.474 (with a 50mio playerbase).
Thats 0,000000000000271%. That will most likely never happen^^. Again: The chances to win 1Mio$ in lotterly is bigger.
In my opinion all this multiplayer features (name planets, animals and co) is only marketing. Your thoughts?
Edit:
They said it will take a single player 5 billion years to visit each planet if he visit a different planet every second.
So if 5 billion people will play the game (thats almost the whole world population and very very unrealistic) and everybody would visit each seconds another planet, it would still take 1 year till each planet got visited ONCE. No sleep, no food, no not gaming in the full year for 5 billion people to visit each planet ONE SECOND.
The conclusion i get from this is, that 99,9+% of all planets in no mans sky will NEVER be visited by any humans at all. It will never happen, even with a 50mio people playerbase.
If we have 50 mio player and each player will play the game 100 hours average and visit 10 planets per hour, each player would visit 1000 planets at all.
That would be 50.000.000.000 planets at all ever visited liftetime.
18,446,744,073,709,551,616 - 50.000.000.000 = ~ 18,446,744,068,709,551,616 planets that will NEVER be visited at all.
