“Changes the player makes are saved locally,” Murray explained. “So if you start destructing the terrain, that’s saved on your own machine. And if you try and make -- what we would consider -- really significant [changes], some of those [changes] are stored on the server, along with the discoveries that you make. But in general, a lot of what you’re doing is considered insignificant. If you kill a creature, we scratch that, we save that that’s happened, but we don’t feel the need to like, kill that creature for everybody.”
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“The reality is that you can burrow holes and things like that, but what you’re doing in terms of the scope of a planet-sized planet is tiny. There are things like attacking space stations and things like that that we want to be shared because they are significant for the gameplay, but actually, your tiny little hole that you burrow, it might seem huge to you, but it’s not in the grand scheme of things.”
