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Re:No Man’s Sky – Procedural Content by jsingleton on Monday October 17, 2016 @05:49PM (#12730104)
I remember reading that in the original Elite they artificially limited the procedural content. They could have had more but worried that people would get bored or just see it for what it was.
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Re:No Man’s Sky – Procedural Content by vidarh on Monday October 17, 2016 @08:00PM (#12730928)
It was the number of galaxies. Braben and Bell wanted a huge number (something like 2^48) but AcornSoft thought it'd make it too obvious that the content was generated, so they settled for "just" 8.
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