The beige sickness which plagued the galaxy has been cured! Planets have color again and are more interesting than ever. But how effective was the cure actually? And how do the planets today compare to how they looked when they were sick?
Mission Statement: On this expedition I'll be revisiting some planets I documented before the cure, just to see how different they look today, if at all. I'll be posting pics of them when they were sick followed by pics of how they look now, for comparisons sake.
This is the fourth (and likely final!) expedition in a series of expeditions (the 5th one would have probably blown anyway):
See my previous thread where I searched beige worlds looking for any inkling of color: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...rch-for-Color!-(sequel-to-The-Wrath-of-Beige)
So without further ado...
Let's start with the system Synuefe XC-L c24-2. The first four planets of this system, all HMC's, used to be very beige and boring. It is also a green system containing all materials required for FSD boosts. Here is how planet A1 used to look:
As you can see it was very beige and monotonous looking, although it did have a few slightly darker beige spots on it. The moon behind it is a rocky world.
Now, here is how it looks today after the cure:
You'll notice a distinct lack of beige! The planet now consists of various shades of gray ranging from very light to dark, but also has olive-green highlights about it's plateaus too. Also notice how much more interesting the rocky moon behind it looks too! Although the physical terrain is unchanged, the colors of the cured planet really do a lot to bring out and highlight the terrain features whereas the old color did not at all.
So how did A2 used to look?
Again, pretty boring and uninteresting. How does it look now?
A2 looks much better now. It is very similar to A1 but without any of the green, and with darker grays as well.
Planet A3 continues the trend.
A3 Before:
A3 After:
Again a marked improvement. Now A3 has similar coloring to A2 but with much more contrast between the dark and light gray areas. I think it looks closer to Earth's own moon than the other two.
A4 breaks the gray motif though, opting for retaining some of it's previous beige coloring but with much more shading and variety to it's surface.
Before:
After:
A4 is now more dark tan than beige, but it has interesting lighter colored plateaus scattered around it, mixed with some teal green mountains that vary in shading. Much of the planet is very smooth and covered in fewer craters than usual, but the mountainous areas are very bumpy in terrain.
Here are a few surface pics of A4, I wanted to see the green mountains up close:
So far so good, the cure seems to have had a very profound effect on this first system. The differences from orbit are spectacular, but in many ways the differences are even more outstanding up close.
More comparisons are needed though, just to make sure the cure has worked properly and that all of the sick planets have been made healthy again!
Mission Statement: On this expedition I'll be revisiting some planets I documented before the cure, just to see how different they look today, if at all. I'll be posting pics of them when they were sick followed by pics of how they look now, for comparisons sake.
This is the fourth (and likely final!) expedition in a series of expeditions (the 5th one would have probably blown anyway):
- Elite Dangerous: The Motion Picture
- Elite Dangerous: The Wrath of Beige
- Elite Dangerous: The Search for Color
- Elite Dangerous: The Voyage Chromatic
See my previous thread where I searched beige worlds looking for any inkling of color: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...rch-for-Color!-(sequel-to-The-Wrath-of-Beige)
So without further ado...
Let's start with the system Synuefe XC-L c24-2. The first four planets of this system, all HMC's, used to be very beige and boring. It is also a green system containing all materials required for FSD boosts. Here is how planet A1 used to look:
Now, here is how it looks today after the cure:
So how did A2 used to look?
Planet A3 continues the trend.
A3 Before:
A4 breaks the gray motif though, opting for retaining some of it's previous beige coloring but with much more shading and variety to it's surface.
Before:
Here are a few surface pics of A4, I wanted to see the green mountains up close:
More comparisons are needed though, just to make sure the cure has worked properly and that all of the sick planets have been made healthy again!