From what I can figure, there was a clip when he was talking about the maths of things & that was just one part that got a mention.

The clip'll be out there somewhere.

Did a bit of googling around and IMHO this is just a patent troll with a most likely invalid patent trying to rake in some quick cash by patent-bullying. It might drag on for a while, but if the No Man's Sky dev fights it in court I wouldn't be surprised at all if they end up invalidating the patent and making the plaintiff pay all of the legal costs.

Unfortunately we live in a world where the patent systems are understaffed and companies routinely file the most bogus patents imaginable and the patent offices are more than happy to take their application money into their coffers and grant invalid patents under the premise that if there is a lawsuit in the future contesting the patent and it shouldn't have been granted in the first place, it can be invalidated by a court at a later date.

That allows the patent office to rake in the cash and offload checking of the validity of patent claims to the courts, thus opening up a nice booming market for patent trolls (companies that exist solely to buy up bogus patents and sue people but otherwise conduct no other real world business). They are the intellectual property modern equivalent of mafia protection rackets. "Hey, if you pay us $xyz, we can make sure your business is protected... we highly recommend it... you wouldn't want to come to your shop some morning and find out oh... I dunno... that someone has thrown a brick through the window... it could happen!"

Are we talking about this formula mentioned at wikipedia.org?

It would be crazy if you could get a patent on the usage of that thing. It looks like something you could stumble upon if you made a mistake while solving a differential equation during a theoretical physics class.

Great, thanks for the info :)

...and that would result in some person's whose bottom fits it so perfectly that they would claim the idea was stolen.

"Make your game and shut the fuck up"
- John Romero

"When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth."
- George Romero

Seems like curiosity (& HGs complete lack of saying fuck all) is getting folk really piqued.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/56ef4o/for_the_folks_living_in_guilford/

"Can someone go to the "headquarters" of HG and just take a quick peek at a window? Just to see if someone is there? Or maybe if there's a sign on the door "gone exploring

Their office looks like made of old dock containers or something? I'm sure they could already afford a better looking HQ, e.g. buy the old Microsoft Mobile/Nokia HQ building which is probably about the abandoned here in Espoo (as MS stops making phones and is closing its site here):

https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft-talo#/media/File:Nokia_HQ.jpg

Well with all the hate i would move to a new undisclosed location too. So i hope they have indeed left those old premises for somewhere the staff can work in safety without fear of threats from children/crazy people online.

The base game is fine (as of v1.09 patch) and a good base to build on, mods help too. Lots of NMS info in that games thread btw, and i will post any 'news' there as soon as i get stuff worth posting :)

Understandable if they've moved (or been moved), but only themselves to blame.

P.S. NMS update ;)