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[Lrdfancypants]

Barkley said:

Lrdfancypants said:

I don't know.  They stated what you discover is visible to others.  I see other named planets discovered by people I'm not sure why you think bases won't be seen. 

There's a big difference between storing names and storing complex structures with physical positions over a universe with 18 quintillion planets.

No Man Sky uses seeds to generate planets client side, the server doesn't store any physical information on the appearance of the world, it'd be absolutely impossible. The universe in no man sky doesn't exist as data, it is simply a long number, most likely an 89 digit numerical seed, as this would allow 18.4 quintillion combinations.

You cannot store information for the physical position, attributes, cosmetic appearance and any mechanical variables that would also be required for potential bases existing anywhere in a universe of such insane size.

I think it's quite reasonable to think that maybe other players will not be able to see your bases (at least if you assume that said bases can be built on any planet, and that players can have structures on more than one planet)

The data needed for other players to see your bases could be sent by the owner to any nearby players, however this means that people would only be able to see your base while you're online of course.

But I think the much more likely scenario is you will not to be able to build willy nilly wherever you want as much as you want. I believe there will be specific places you can claim as your own and build a base their, with a scenario such as this it's much more feasible that other players would be able to see your base even while you are offline.

Yeah, I would think building bases would be limited in scope to make it work.  Such as 1 per person not 10000 per person and at certain places only available otherwise it would be pointless.  By pointless I mean as the poster stated everything you do on a planet gets reset when you leave.  There'd be no point in building a base if once you leave its wiped.

the conversation then shifted to only the person building being able to see it.  You explain well why that might be the case.

if in fact a base is wiped once you leave a planet like he said then the whole idea of adding base building loses any point for me regardless of the MP aspect involved in it.