Will I be able to see where my Steam friends are in the GOG version, and will named discoveries be seen across different versions?

Name discoveries will be global...

The game is mmo... just that it is so massive huge univerise it is unlikely if every single person in the world was playing.. you would ever run into anyone else.

No friend list for in game... no way to meet up and "team" up.

For all purposes it is single player ... but you might run into discoveries someone else made or another person
if you are very very lucky.

Go watch some ign videos this is all explained.

I'm already well aware that I won't be meeting up with anyone, I just couldn't find information on whether or not I'd be able to see the location of friends who bought the game on Steam. I remember reading something about being able to see where friends are located in the universe (but of course not making an effort to actually travel to them since that would take way too long), but I may very well have read something wrong.
I don't fell like IGN would explain the differences between buying on GOG or Steam, honestly :/

No...
watch this please... really
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSUp_MBEU-U

There is so much misconception.

It isn't that you can't meet up with your friend...

It is just the odds of that happening are less likely than winning the lottery.

First off, I never really claimed that I was saying "right stuff" or anything like that, I even said that I may have misread something at some point. However, I already know that the chances of actually seeing someone in person are slim, and I have no desire to actually meet up with anyone. I'm not of the disillusioned belief that this is going to be some magical space mmo where I can lead my friends on wacky space adventures.

I've done enough research to know what this game is.

I was just wondering if there was any information on whether or not I could know the location of my Steam friends, because I thought I had read an article stating that there would be some kind of friend tracker in game. That's where I said maybe my information is "wrong stuff" and was just looking for clarification.

That's a BS statement and doesn't mean anything. It's been proven time and time again it would be super simple to meet up. With thousands of players you will always be within a few hours of other players. That's assuming the rough calculation using the 40 hrs radius to the center that we were told about previously. You could even start over a few times to make sure you and friend are on same quadrant of galaxy and start working your way closer as you move in.

I truly hope you can meet up but honestly would not expect that to be possible. I'm not sure why they would put in the code to allow both parties see each other and the changes you're making to each world in real time if the chances were really that slim. My guess is you can't see each other or your changes to the world's (only naming of stuff). I would be glad to be wrong even though I will be offline anyway.

I'm not watching any of the released stuff because I don't want any spoilers but can someone verify if anyone has seen another human in game yet or not since it's had plenty of time

No it isn't ... that is one of the goals of the game is to be isolated while not being a lone.

Just hours before you made this post you were claiming you couldn't meet up with players..
Now you claim this is going to be world of warcraft.

Why is misinformation so common with specific type of egotistic people?

Ugh. I said "would be" simple to meet up, as in, if there was any multiplayer, which we are 99% sure there is not. I am just saying I don't think it is multiplayer, at least in the sense that you can ever see another human.

My point was that you cannot possibly say it's near "impossible" to meet someone else because the galaxy is "too large". Either you can or you can't, size has nothing to do with it other than it may take a bit to find and meetup, and from what I've seen and heard (now from people actually playing the released PS4 version) I have never seen a single developer or player ever see another person in game. It simply is not multiplayer. There are some shared names in game but that is about it from what the dev has said.

I hope I am wrong, but if I was a betting man I would say the game does not have any way to meet or see another human, meaning no multiplayer in the traditional sense. Just a shared name database of discoveries from what we have seen and heard. To say the game is "too large" to meet people is silly, would be better to just say yes you can meet but it may take you a few hours to find each other. Never once have they said that to my knowledge. They seemed to actively avoid that direct question, but have said to not think of it as multiplayer or you will be disappointed. I get tired of people spreading false hope that it is multiplayer. It's not.

Considering the earth's sun will burn out before every single planet is ever visited in game....
Size does usually play a role. What they mean by no multiplayer in traditional sense is that the game will make you isolated by the size.

You just don't get it, size means nothing, nothing! Say after the first week, many people will be nearing the center, there will be thousands of people within a few hours of each other. I'm not talking "random chance", I'm saying people would want to meet up. They won't be able to because you can't since it is a single player experience, by design. Jeesh

Like I said they is all conjecture until we know for sure until we try for ourselves. I do hope to be wrong but I really doubt it at this point to be completely honest.

No you are missing the entire point. I never said it wasn't huge with lots of planets. I'm talking time to meet in the middle of where you and your buddy are.

Say you are 15 in game hours apart, you could assume it would take about 7.5 hrs to meet if you went straight towards each other and didn't stop. Say 8 or 9 hours if you stopped for fuel or whatever a time or two.

If I was able to meet a friend in game, i would not fully explore every planet in between us. I would fly right on by.

They said roughly 40 hrs from the start to reach the center. Assume spherical just for approximation. That means 268k cubic hours of play area. Say 27k players online, you would have 10 cubic hours of play area per player if evenly spread out. In reality you would be much closer to some, and further from others. So you post online where you are, and 15 other people are nearby and you decide to meet at the pole of a small planet, or at a base on a large island by the equator or whatever etc. Not that big of a stretch. Say there were 270k players online and you're much much closer together. On top of all that when you get say to the middle 1000 cubic hours of the galaxy tons of people would be nearby at most time after the game has been released a while.

If, as you stated in another post, we each have our own galaxy then this all goes out the window. I never heard of that until you said it. Frankly that would be even more of a single player game, unless you gain the ability to meet up later in some way.

No I completely understand how big of a moron you are...
What is your problem on single core processor computer with less than 500mb of memory and raging?

You have not been right on one single thing.... and go fight against all public information known about game.

lol, ok good night

Wasn't there already a live stream for the PS4 people where 2 people actually tried to meet up on the same planet but nothing happened?

They:
1.) Were at the same ground station in front of the same door.
2.) Didn't see each other
3.) One person was in "night" while the other was in "day"

http://kotaku.com/its-still-not-clear-why-players-cant-see-each-other-in-1785084794

Guess we'll see if this is a bug or something else.