I recently got into no man’s sky and heard the estimated number of planets (as above) I was floored but felt it’s larger than I’m grasping it and even larger than the way I explain it to others.
I recall from a tiktok or something that if everyone in the world played the game and found a planet 24/7, 365.2425 days, it would take approx 15000 years to find every single planet
Edit: these analogies are super helpful, thank you so much!
Is my time scale accurate also?
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It’s important to remember that not only do those planets not exist in the game, the *number itself* doesn’t exist in the game. It’s an entirely hypothetical number, the number of unique planets the engine can generate, if given a ludicrous amount of time.
There’s not some No Man’s Sky database somewhere that stores quintillions of planets, or even quintillions of seeds to generate planets. Even just storing the full number of possible seeds would take insane amounts of storage.
When players in No Man’s Sky encounter a new system, a seed is randomly generated, which in turn is used to generate the planets in the system.
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