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If it were "Gas Giants", i think it would be an emoji of clouds.
But since it's an Earth, think it would have more to do with planetary Proc-gen changes, which conversely is the opposite of "easiest" since as with the NEXT and then VISIONS updates, they dramatically changed many players home planet biom's and terrain around bases. So, since player population has grown immensely since then, there would be MANY more effected if they do not find a way to save builds in a way that does not p-off thousands of players...
But maybe as with NEXT and VISIONS, even if a major update does mess-up many builds, maybe they won't mind that much if the changes are dramatically positive ones, like waterfalls rivers and multi-biome planets.
However, that was before the Vulkan API Update and MANY optimizations... so who knows if they could implement proc-gen changes that won't mess with anyone's bases and builds, now.
Too me, showing an Earth emoji says something about possible "global changes" or "terrestrial changes" with flora and terrain-features, a more representative diversity of biomes as what's on Earth?... hence my guess for update name, "Terrestrial" :)
At the Game Awards reveal, he did also mention they have alot more in store for NMS this year and beyond... maybe they found a way to make every planet in NMS like an LNF planet save the MASSIVE size... that change would be astounding, to say the least.
"Acclimation"
"Domain(s)"
I hope the emoji means that. About the name, no clue. But I'd exclude "terraforming" since we already have that in the MT.
That being said, -Global save system is the update.
Can't remember which interview it was i read but, Sean said in no uncertain terms, that nothing would be taken away from No Man's Sky continued development, during development of Light No Fire and going forward after LNF release.
However, it all depends on how much more content they're able to technically implement in the current NMS Universe Build... maybe that's why "it appears" as if they are diminishing focus in dev of NMS...
Maybe they have hit a technological wall, where there is a whole lot of ideas for NMS waiting in the wings for the day they decide to change the Universe Build.
Again, i and others have posted an opinion about this... maybe the only way they can jump the technological hurdle and do a Universe Build reset, possibly wiping everything ever built/edited, would be if the changes are SO dramatically fantastic that not a single NMS'er would mind losing there stuff...
But lets hope with the Vulkan core API and some excellent engineering, they can awrite software that allows players to save their builds and reinstall them into the new Universe build (should they desire to do so).