u/John-Truck-1

Greetings, Citizens of the Galactic Hub!

How well do you really know the regions you've claimed? Did you know that different regions within a single galaxy have different algorithms for generating star colours and other properties?

If so, your wiki pages don't recognise it.

In a recent post to r/NoMansSkyTheGame I showed that:

In some, maybe most, regions, the first 120 systems by glyph code are all yellow. In others, they have no yellow stars but equal chance of Red/Green/Blue. After the first 120, both regions I completely surveyed were statistically alike, with yellow stars the most common.
Outlaw systems are much less common in some regions than others. In starter systems they don't seem to occur among the first 120 at all.
These patterns seem the same for a given glyph address in every galaxy, and the patterns are the same for large blocks of regions, maybe depending on distance from the centre.

These are probably not the only region-to-region variations. For instance, is water more common in some parts of the galaxy than others? Maybe some regions are mostly green stars? It would be really cool if you could check the patterns in your occupied regions and record that on your wiki.

I've surveyed two complete regions in Euclid - and they were much more different than expected. Turns out the first 120 star systems (by glyph address) are handled differently:

Rizfelk Conflux (starting region): First 120 stars are all Yellow, and none are Outlaw systems. Outlaw systems are unusually rare in other yellow stars, only 7%.

Smojas Conflux: None of the first 120 stars are yellow: they are split roughly equally between Red, Green and Blue. 29% of yellow stars are pirate systems - statistically consistent with the 25% quoted by the wiki.

In both cases, the first 120 systems never have less than 4 worlds (planets and moons), unlike the rest where you can get down to 2 worlds.

For normal (i.e., not purple) stars after the first 120, both have roughly 70% yellow and 10% each for red/green/blue.

Smojas has a couple of other oddities: 18 systems in a perfect line, and one system has a "Sell" markup of 38.7%; every other system I've seen has Sell between 40 and 80%.

It looks like both regions are "typical" of their surrounding regions. The regions right next to the centre that I've found are like Rizfelk, i.e. low-numbered systems have yellow stars. The current expedition region, Fenislies Fringe, is also like Rizfelk, maybe because it's at roughly the same distance from the centre, 700 kly. Smojas is in the flyover territory players tend to pass through at speed on the way to the centre.

First impression is that regions in other galaxies with the same glyph address as the regions in Euclid have the same pattern, and also the same Guild. They often have the same number of stars, although the counterpart to Smojas in Calypso has exactly 256 (16 x 16) more stars.

There is no mention of differences like this in the wiki (https://nomanssky.fandom.com/Region). So all this raise a few questions:

How common is the Smojas pattern? Are all regions near 5 kly radius like Smojas, and if so how far out does it go?

Are there other patterns, e.g. first 120 stars all red, all green, all blue?

Have you really explored your regions?

A Tale of Two Confluxes