This is a general rules page for the NMS wiki.
Summary[]
This article explains the policy for requiring location information which are commonly known as Galactic Coordinates or Glyphs.
You may also wish to review the Best Practices guide for this wiki.
NMS Location Information[]
No Man's Sky location information is used to identify where a star system, planet, moon, Multi-Tool, starship, base or fauna can be located in the NMS universe.
In general, two pieces of information are required to identify the location. First, the galaxy name. There are 255 accessible galaxies (and two inaccessible galaxies). Hence knowing the galaxy is essential. All players start in the Euclid galaxy on a normal playthough, unless they start their save using one of the Expeditions as a couple of them do not start in Euclid. If you dont know your galaxy, then you are probably in Euclid unless you have reached the Galaxy Centre and warped to a new galaxy (most players will know this when it happens).
The second piece of information is either one of the galactic coordinates (also commonly called coordinates) or the portal glyph address. The galactic coordinates are only displayed in the game when you place down a Signal Booster on a planet or moon. The portal glyphs can be displayed by visiting a portal on any planet or moon, or more easily by entering screenshot/Photo Mode, and looking at the glyphs displayed in the lower left corner of the screen.
For most purposes, a galaxy name and either one of the coordinates or glyphs are required to uniquely find a star system. The glyphs will provide an extra layer of detail as they will actually specify the planet or moon in the star system, but this is less essential in general.
A third piece of information which is less essential are the Planetary coordinates. These are the latitude and longitude coordinates on a planet surface. In general these are normally only useful for locating a very specific item on a planet, such as a base, portal, a specific Point of Interest, or a geographic landmark or scenery.
Location Information Use on the Wiki[]
In general, the wiki admin team requests all editors and contributors to the wiki to provide the essential location information for content produced for wiki pages. There is little point in documenting content on the wiki if players cannot find it and visit it in the simulation themselves.
As such, the infoboxes and pre-load templates for many wiki pages, such as regions, star systems, planets, moons, bases, starships, Planetary Settlements and fauna all have fields to complete for either coordinates or glyphs, or sometimes both. We ask that when you make a page for the wiki that you provide this location information.
The pages for bases, settlements, starships and multi-tools will also include an infobox field for planetary coordinates. Multi-tools and ships may be specifically located at certain points of interest and thus it is useful to know where they are specifically located. Bases and settlements are normally revealed by markers or beacons, but sometimes these are not automatically displayed for all players, thus it is useful to know the actual latitude and longitude for those items.
The information is entered in the page infobox in the same format as used by the game:
| axes = yy.yy, xx.xx
As per the following example:
| axes = 20.27, -132.24
The information is available by entering Analysis Visor scanning mode, and the coordinates are entered in the same sequence as they are displayed in the visor scan.
Region Page Location[]
In general, the wiki region page should identify location information in coordinate (not glyph) format. The last four characters should be entered as xxxx since these last four character can be any sequence for a region. The first three sets of coordinates uniquely identify all regions.
The information is entered as in the following format in the page infobox as per following example:
| coordinates = 046A:0081:0D6D:xxxx
It should also be entered under the location subheading on the wiki page itself as per a following example:
The center of this region is approximately 714,924 light years from the [[Galaxy Centre]] in the [[Beta Quadrant]].
{{coords|0820|007B|0104|xxxx}}
Wiki Guidelines[]
- The wiki policy is all pages such as noted above should have the galaxy name, and either coordinates or glyphs at minimum.
- The wiki strongly encourages all Civilized space entities to identify their location as well as their documented systems.
- The wiki admin team recognizes that some civs are concerned about trolls and griefers affecting their civilized space regions, and thus the wiki admin team will make allowance that coordinates and glyphs for ONE designated capital region in ONE galaxy per civilization which can remain classified if desired by the civ owner. The wiki admin team will allow all pages for that region to be excepted from providing location information in such a case (however, galaxy and quadrant must be specified). The wiki admin team will hold the civilization to higher quality documentation standards and require their minimum five star systems to include screenshots of the Discovery screen for each star system clearly showing the system, planet names, and discoverer gamertag. The matching navigation screenshot for each star system must also be provided on the system pages, clearly showing the galaxy, region and system name. Note: This option is only available for civilizations that seek recognition and have documented five star systems. All other embassy pages without coordinates are subject to the next point.
- Wiki pages that do NOT provide location information will have a Missing Coordinates banner attached to the top of their page and will be subject to the wiki admin discretion for deletion if location information is not provided within 1-3 months after page creation. If you have concerns you should raise them to the admin before action occurs.
Legacy Pages[]
The wiki admin team recognizes that many legacy pages on the wiki do not have location information. The admin team is working diligently to add location information gradually over time to these pages, and has made great progress in this regard. We recognize however that many pages, especially before the Beyond era may never have proper location information. The wiki admin team does not plan to retroactively apply the location requirement policy on legacy pages but may apply it selectively on low quality legacy pages that provide little information of value.