The players of No Man’s Sky have made their own civilisations and governments, and even had their own wars. What’s next? Their own time zone.
King Hova is the leader of the No Man’s Sky civilisation The Galactic Empire of Hova, as well as their ambassador to The United Federation of Travellers, which is basically No Man’s Sky UN. Hova’s civilisation thrives on fan-made lore; players write their own accounts of interactions with other civilisations in character as citizens of Hova. One problem with this is that it doesn’t feel very science fiction to say that an event happened on January 3. Hova’s proposed solution is to create a Galactic Standard Time, a way of measuring the passage of time specific to No Man’s Sky.
“The calendar has 12 months just like calendars IRL, mostly just for simplicity’s sake, and the names are derived from some in-game references or just meant to sound ‘alien’ in nature,” Hova said over Reddit private messages. The calendar will also be marked to celebrate events such as Unity Day, a fanmade holiday where players celebrate togetherness, or the Vestroga War, a clash between The Kingdom of Hova and Vestroga in which Vestroga was wiped off the map.
The current mock up of the lore calendar.
The calendar will use what Hova calls the Accelerated Time Scale. In the current model, one real life day will equal four No Man’s Sky days. That means an event such as the Vestroga War, which only lasted a couple of days in our world, would have taken a month of No Man’s Sky time. “So for lore purposes we would say the Vestroga War lasted all of the month of Ellion even though it only really took a few days,” he said. “This is actually very fitting because it would put the end of the War right alongside Unity Day.” Unity Day, if you’re wondering, takes place of the the 30th of Ellion – that’s December 30.
Hova and the people he’s working with haven’t quite ironed out all the kinks yet, but they hope to create a full mockup calendar to make dates easy to transpose. Not every civilisation’s ambassador is on board, however. Hova floated the idea for Galactic Standard Time last year, but he didn’t have any defined plans and it was shot down by other ambassadors. This time around, most civilisations in the Federation seem behind it, though some seem to think it’s more trouble than it’s worth.
Pahefu, the ambassador to the Federation from Galactic Hub Hilbert, said in a Reddit post on the topic, “We humans cannot achieve uniform date standards in real life, so I won’t ever see this with good eyes.” In a Reddit private message, 7101334, the founder of the Galactic Hub, said, “Since it’s not a potentially harmful idea, just unnecessary at worst and interesting at best, I’ll probably vote in favour of its final incarnation.” Even if it turns out Galactic Standard Time is unnecessary, as 7101334 says, it’s one more example of the ingenuity of the No Man’s Sky community.
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8 responses to “No Man’s Sky Players Want To Make Their Own Calendar”
How do you have a war with people you can’t see, fight or talk to?
If I recall somebody likened this to fantasy football.
Are you living in 2016?
Of course you can see and talk to other players in the game now. I don’t know how they managed to have a war when there is still no PvP and I doubt there ever will be.
Maybe it was just conquering regions of space and stealing their bases and stuff like that. Current “multiplayer” is kinda limited.
I actually looked the war up last night and it sounded interesting, mostly conquering and renaming planets/systems that were surrounding the enemy to drive them insane (by making navigation far more difficult).
Not living in 2016, I knew there were updates but I thought you could only see structures from other players, not players themselves.
So basically they want lore for free instead of having to hire writers like Star Citizen did.
You know this is just a couple dozen people fooling around and roleplaying on reddit right?
Pretty telling that an RP community outside of NMS is getting all the publicity.
They have literally run away with the game to bolster their own fun somewhere else.
At least someone is having fun in this game. God bless their little socks