In No Man’s Sky, there is a rumor that all discoveries will eventually be deleted. What is behind this?
In No Man’s Sky, it’s all about discoveries: You are solitary explorers flying through a gigantic universe, discovering planets and encountering all sorts of plants and creatures. You can name all your discoveries creatively. If one day another player lands on one of your planets, they will see the “footprints” you left behind. According to a statement by Sean Murray, the founder of Hello Games, all discoveries are “indelible”.
Now, however, a discussion has erupted on Reddit questioning exactly this. The Redditor Dark_Nexis started it: He reports that after his long journey towards the center of the galaxy, he started the return journey to his home planet. And when he arrived there, most of his explorations were deleted. Only the names of the system and planet remained.
Other Redditors immediately checked this and brought similar experiences into the discussion. The user Ultrasilvanus writes that the discoveries are even deleted in chronological order. This is not random; there is a system behind it. Homesickalienz agrees. Every time a discovery is deleted, he makes another one.
But what is behind this? Many users attribute these annoyances to server problems. Is it just a glitch?
The Redditor Retracts
In the meantime, the Redditor Dark_Nexis has spoken up again. Allegedly, all his discoveries are back. He was able to fix the problem by reinstalling the game and reloading it – and then he waited.
He assumes that it might be something like “server bugs” and that the servers simply take a while to load the former discoveries. The servers are just lagging terribly.
So far, there are no similar solutions from other players, but let’s hope that it is really just an annoying server glitch/lag. Many players would otherwise be more than just disappointed if all their discoveries were “in vain”.
There has been no official statement from Hello Games yet.
