Number of Planets In a Single Galaxy

[Mitch]

So I was poking around the NMS wiki and it says that each galaxy is split up into regions, and each region contains about 540 star systems. I checked Euclid (starting galaxy) and it has 460 regions. Lets say 3 planets on average per system, that means there are almost 750,000 planets. Given how rare it is to come across a planet discovered by anyone else, this number seems way to low. How can that be if millions of people have played this game, wouldn't Euclid have run out of systems to start people in?

[Hyrule]

18 quintillions

[EMCM Magellan]

Originally posted by Mitch:

So I was poking around the NMS wiki and it says that each galaxy is split up into regions, and each region contains about 540 star systems. I checked Euclid (starting galaxy) and it has 460 regions. Lets say 3 planets on average per system, that means there are almost 750,000 planets. Given how rare it is to come across a planet discovered by anyone else, this number seems way to low. How can that be if millions of people have played this game, wouldn't Euclid have run out of systems to start people in?

Your math is broken and No, they wouldn't have.

[Hyrule]

There is way more than 460 regions by the way. If you looked up the ones that are listed on the Wikia that's outdated and entries were added by users. I've seen many many regions that aren't listed, my friend's system is at 1.5 million light years from me while the core is only at 500k light years. There's just too many planets and systems I wouldn't even bother with the maths

[Caduryn]

No Man´s Sky contains 18.000.000.000.000.000.000 Planets


Even if you discover a planet every second, it would take 585 billion years to find them all!

[morph113]

I did the rough calculations once and it's about 60 quadrillion planets per galaxy. That's 60,000,000,000,000,000. Has to be in that ballpark at least considering that there are "only" 256 galaxies and 18 quintillion planets.

[Mitch]

Okay thanks, it makes sense that the wiki is innacurate, shouldn't have trusted those numbers haha