Don't get your hopes up. At most you'll just have a freighter or heavy corvette under your control, and the chances of running into players was counted as so low that Sony and Hello Games decided to allow players to connect online without having a subscription to Playstation Plus.
Best you could hope for would be the AI fleets fighting against each other.
It's a shame they ruined a good game idea by forcing you to interact with other players. Would've made a great single player game. Exploring new worlds loses its magic when you might get a message some idiot with a stupid online handle discovered the world you traveled to before you.
edited 2nd Aug '16 8:06:55 PM by Ghilz
From what I've read, aside from the creatures being named, planets being identified, and major milestones being credited to certain players, they won't have a significant impact on your game. In fact they can't even touch your resources, and vice versa. If you were to visit a planet that's been frequented by over a hundred players, it'll still be like nobody else touched it except you the first time you visit, unless another player is currently within the same server "instance" as you are.
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When you land on a new planet, it'll say the name of the person who discovered it, which in 99% of cases will be yourself. As far as I can tell, it doesn't announce it to anyone else, it just shows it on your screen.
Since everyone's trying to head towards the center of the galaxy, I expect planets discovered by other players to be more common as you go along. Still probably very rare until you get right near the center, but if for some reason you are finding other players' planets and it's bothering you, you could always play offline.
Exactly. When it happens it's more likely to give you an "Oh my goodness, I may not be alone out here!" moment.
Who knows, maybe one of the updates could be for a mothership? Being able to land on one of those cap ships and use that as your barge could be fun for a future update.
I get the impression this isn't Firefly, more 2001 in terms of tone however.
But the fact there are factions and alliance bonus etc means I am also getting a bit of a Drox Operative vibe from it too.
Someone wrote a name generator for No Man's Sky that's fun to play around with: https://bodorkos-adam.github.io/namey-mcskyface/
There's already a fanfic out there about No Man's Sky!
But the bad news? It's... well, a gay pron fanfic. No, really. And apparently it's been around for awhile too.
Read it, and weep for humanity...
Did the game get delayed? Steam is now saying it's out on the 12th. It seems odd to push it back at the last minute.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.The day one patch is changing a few things from what people have been playing with the early console release
All aboard the hype train; destination unknown.

I do wonder if it's due to it being a primarily PS 4 launch game that has influenced this. I can imagine that, had this been a PC release, then we would have seen a different price point.
By comparison to equivalent games, then yes people may be querying the "why". But taken against the broader context of gaming and what's being launched it seems a reasonable price point.