Are You Buying No Man's Sky?

[SWORDF1SH]

GribbleGrunger said:

SWORDF1SH said:

Interesting stuff. I'm actually surprised that they don't store the data of generated planets, instead calculations will keep generating the planet exactly in the same way no matter how many times you or other people visit it.

I love the fact that planets are generated taking into consideration how close they are to their Sun. So if they are the right distance away from their Sun it will be a "Goldilocks" planet with liquid lakes, clouds and atmosphere. To close it will be burnt to a crisp and further away it will be cold. It's not randomly generated and a lot of thought has been put into how everything is created on the fly.

There's so many algorithms at work, it's incredible. Even the colour of the sky is dictated by the moisture in the air and the moisture in the air is dictated by how much water is on the planet, and how much water is on the planet depends on how close it is to the sun. Then you have the animals and their behavior which is also dictated by the above and what flora grows there. Mindblowing stuff.

Sean's "incompetent" though, end of story /s