Meanwhile, on reddit, thread getting upvoted about how they shouldn't be calling the proceedural planets procedural, they should be called handcrafted.
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitize...ouldnt_call_our_moonsplanets_procedural_they/
Seriously, you can't make this up. This is really strong denial.
Its ok SC fans to have procgen planets. It really is. Its a good idea! 100% handcrafted would have meant the game releasing in... well... never. They could have stuck with 100% handcrafted with limited landing locations, but yeah, even CIG realized that was a bit pants. Like many of CRs wonderful ideas, not everything is practical or... wonderful.
So its fine to have them procgen, and then slap down POIs that are handcrafted. ED does it this way, and i know, i know, you don't want to be compared with ED after all the putdowns you've put against ED over the years, and how SC will kill it.
Yes, ED doesn't have many handcrafted locations, a lot of it is assisted along by the procgen. But there is a bit more scale difference between ED and SC. Its going to be hard for CIG to handcraft all that, FD simply can't afford that option, and not just financially, it would take decades or centuries to do for ED. But with 5-10 systems at... erm.. some point, and 100 systems at some vague point further in the future, you have a chance of this.
And if CIG has the time to manually craft hundreds or thousands of POIs on a planet, that's cool. But you still don't get to call the whole thing handcrafted, because that's complete nonsense.
