I read somewhere that every planet has a portal on it. According to the advertising and the in-game dialog, there are over 18 quintillion planets in NMS total.

If the portal has 16 glyphs to choose from, and there are 12 glyphs in a portal address, that should be 16^12, which is over 281 trillion different portal addresses. So I read somewhere else there are 256 galaxies, and the portals are only intra-galaxy (cannot portal you to a different galaxy than the source), so if we multiply 281 trillion by 256, we get roughly 72 quadrillion portal addresses spread over the 256 galaxies. That’s 3 orders of magnitude shy of 18 quintillion.

Is some of this information incorrect, or am I missing something else? Or could it be that not every planet has a portal? I would think some of the barren ones might not, since they seem to have no other buildings, but I don’t usually spend much time on them.

I would think it’s not realistically possible for anyone to scour an entire planet manually searching for a portal, so it would be extremely difficult to visually prove that no portal exists on any given planet, but unless some of those numbers are wrong, I would think it has to be that some planets don’t contain portals.

Just feeling extra math-nerdy tonight, and was curious if anyone had any information about the claim that every planet had a portal.

Trying to give dude a cupcake. I keep components like plating and tubes in my suit for various things, and I keep creature pellets as well. In my freighter, I have a bunch of surplus eggs that I have no space for in storage.

The extremely limited interface for presenting Cronus with a food item limits you to 3 options. It is counting the carbon nanotubes, the creature pellets and for some insane reason the eggs that are in my freighter and that means there’s no room for it to give me the cupcake as an option to offer him. I’m assuming it’s going alphabetically… But it’s literally letting me offer him nanotubes before it lets me offer him an actual food item. Why is it not just a menu, like the trade rocket, where you can pick what to hand him, or (like people have been asking for) just shove a bunch of food in him at once for nanites? I didn’t realize it was THIS shitty.