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bananaking21 on 29 December 2014
Aeolus451 said:

I've been watching some more vids on this game. Here some of the stuff I learned. There's no tutorial. Each player starts on their own planet. If you're the first person to find a planet, you'll be credited for it. You can discover animals and plants. The closer you get to the center of the galaxy, the harder and more rewarding the game gets. Space stations function like cities where you can buy new stuff. Each space station is unique. You can write messages on the ground where other players will see it.

 

If you die in space, you lose your ship and will be sent to nearest planet via escape pod then you'll have to gather more resources to buy another ship. If you die on the ground, you'll respawn next to your ship but lose what resources you were carrying. You have to walk back to your ship when on a planet. There are twin stars but they are rare. There's no gas giants. The game could end up supporting VR helmets. There's night and day cycles on the planets. Any stars you see from the surface of a planet are other planets other players are on.

 

You can only have one ship at a time. You can kill/grief other players. Planets' surfaces are the actual size of planets. There's no npc's walking around. You can swim.

ughh this game sounds so good. i hope they pull it off. thanks for the info :)



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Captain_Tom on 29 December 2014
bananaking21 said:
Captain_Tom said:


1 - No.  There won't be gas giants, but there will be plenty of dead planets, toxic gas planets, ice planets, and whatever else.  Expect a lot of diversity.

2 & 3 - Not sure about orbiting.  I know there are night and day cycles so I assume there is some form of orbital mechanics.

4 - Yes.  It is incredibly rare, but they do happen in the game.

 

Any other questions?  I have been following this game crazy closely lately.

what about weather conidtion, or more importantly, extremely weather conditions? 

and different types of stars? or will they all be "sun like"?


I'm not sure how extreme it will get.  I know they say that weather will be dynamic, and that some places will have very dangerous environments.

 

There will be many types of stars including difference colored ones that will effect what color the lighting is on its planets (The liquid of the ocean and atmospheric gases should also affect this).  They created their own periodic table for this game!!!



archer9234 on 29 December 2014
Chazore said:
I'm honestly not really bothered by the always online since games like Diablo3, Starcraft II and others require me to be online at all times, that and playing them on PC with little down time is good enough for me so NMS being always online on a PC won't really bother me much.

My problem is that the game becomes useless when the service is discontinued.



Dr.Henry_Killinger on 29 December 2014
Captain_Tom said:
bananaking21 said:

i think the greatest draw to no mans sky is the ability to explore the universe and having an interstellar journy. but that raises the question about what types of things we will see that really exist in space.

 

ill start off with the more reasonable questions

1- will every planet be a "modified earth". by modified earth, i mean will every planet have similar charastricts to earth? water, solid land, the same atmosphere? will every planet feel like its "almost the same"? in reality there are planets that are just water, frozen planets, scolding hot planets, gas planets (for obvious reasons this would be useless gameplay wise). could we see a huge canyon like on mars? or is everything gonna be "earth like" for the most part?

2- will planets, moon and stars be stationary, or will they have orbits? will planets orbit stars? with there be moons to orbit planets? will the stars orbit the black hole we are supposed to reach?

or willl every planet stay in its same location, while nothing really orbits anything? also is there any word on planets having any moons?

3- if there is or no orbiting. will there be a day/night cycle? will all planets be lit all over its surface, or can i explore the dark side as well? 

4- can there be a planet with two suns? this is actually a reality and accurs in our universe. planets with two suns in its horizon, could we see such a thing in No Mans Sky?


1 - No.  There won't be gas giants, but there will be plenty of dead planets, toxic gas planets, ice planets, and whatever else.  Expect a lot of diversity.

2 & 3 - Not sure about orbiting.  I know there are night and day cycles so I assume there is some form of orbital mechanics.

4 - Yes.  It is incredibly rare, but they do happen in the game.

 

Any other questions?  I have been following this game crazy closely lately.

In reality, Binary Pairs are common and stars that have been by themselves an entire lifetime are rarer.



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garywood on 02 January 2015

A genuine technical question I'd want to ask the devs is whether the planet surfaces are actually curved. Or when you pass through the atmosphere, does the previously curved planet turn into a flat plane? I'm guessing it's the latter.