Timeline for Is starbound a single world with different characters?
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| Feb 6, 2014 at 23:48 | comment | added | BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft | "the whole thing seems to be procedurally generated from a nonrandom seed" - Close; the coordinates themselves are the seed. The difference is that this way they didn't have to pre-generate millions of worlds... | |
| Dec 14, 2013 at 3:07 | comment | added | millimoose | @dlras2 — Also, interestingly, the notion of MMO-style kind of breaks down (or will break down) in games like No Man's Sky. Which uses a universe that's procedurally generated in the above way, but also has indirect multiplayer interaction similar to I'd say Dead Souls, where changes to a planet will actually be visible to other players, even if you never meet them. | |
| Dec 14, 2013 at 2:58 | comment | added | millimoose | @dlras2 — The starting state of each game is completely identical, the whole thing seems to be procedurally generated from a nonrandom seed. Since the planets are where you play, and the starting state of each star system is generated from its location, this means you have a bajillion "randomly" generated planets. Anyone who you share coordinates with will see the planet as you first saw it – anything you mine out or build etc. is stored locally. | |
| Dec 13, 2013 at 18:43 | vote | accept | Jonathan Pitre | ||
| Dec 13, 2013 at 18:36 | comment | added | Billy Mailman | @dlras Neither. All games played on the same server/computer are tied together, as 3ventic described, but what millimoose was saying is that every single system will generate the same worlds with the same initial layout at the same coordinates. | |
| Dec 13, 2013 at 18:34 | comment | added | dlras2 | Also, your link grabbed the period at the end. You want http://starbounder.org/Notable_Coordinates, no period | |
| Dec 13, 2013 at 18:33 | comment | added | dlras2 | @millimoose As someone who's interested in but not played the game, do you mean all games ever are in the same universe, MMO-style? Or all games you play on your computer? | |
| Dec 13, 2013 at 18:32 | history | edited | Once Upon a Dev | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 13, 2013 at 18:23 | comment | added | millimoose | All games have the same universe. You can share coordinates with other players. (In Minecraft parlance, the coordinates are the "world seed" for the sector location: starbounder.org/Notable_Coordinates.) | |
| Dec 13, 2013 at 17:54 | history | answered | Once Upon a Dev | CC BY-SA 3.0 |