Quote Originally Posted by Rudy View Post
I think the game will be a lot less realistic and more geared for gamers from what I saw and that is smart imo. Some guys were whining on OS that there weren't enough barren planets. They wanted 98% to be barren for realism. I would have quit that game in a second if it was like that.
From the article that I posted above:

This game would be pretty boring if all those 18 quintillion planets were uninhabited and uninteresting, but luckily Hello Games is designing them to be both diverse in landscape and in life. Don't expect to find life on every planet, or even most of them, though: Hello Games has confirmed that there'll be simple life (plants, maybe small animals) on about 10 percent of the planets. Complex life will show up less frequently, on about 1 percent of the planets. But very complex life--civilizations, perhaps--will only appear on roughly 1 in 100 million planets.