According to the game lore there are hundreds of ELW populated... Do you think that people live only on orbital stations?
Why can we only Land on Barren Planets after almost 5 years?
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In Elite Dangerous all ELW are all habitable so there's no such difference in the game.
The point I was trying to make is that ELW by their very nature will look like Earth (and I think CMDR-ss47ply was also making that point). Terraformed worlds would also resemble Earth.
I’d hope to see human-habitable worlds in the game of a more exotic and alien nature, but then they couldn’t be really described as Earth-like anymore.
Some Rocky Ice Planets look really exotic and also HMC's looks very interesting. Rocky and Ice planets are instead all very similar. So if there will be some nice variation I think it will be for the first 2 types.
This is an exotic Rocky Ice Planet with atmosphere:
I’ve done quite a few close fly-bys of various atmospheric worlds with avaricious eyes - lava worlds have been something I’ve been hoping for since Horizons dropped (I think the hinted at volcanism turned out to be our spitty farty campfires) - recently playing Vader Immortal, the opening sequence features a descent onto Mustafar and it’s spectacular. I’d love to experience that in Elite.
I've played that too, the intro is really awesome!
If only they could physically sit in our cockpits...
I want to land on Ammonia Worlds.
Don't worry, we will all see it soon:
https://www.livescience.com/57305-ammonia-detected-in-atmosphere.html
Earth itself has some very exotic places. I hope that Stellar Forge makes realistic ELWs when the day comes. Warmer ELWs would be more jungle like, whereas colder ones might look more like Alaska. Of course multiple biomes on a single planet would be nice. I can even see different color vegetation based on star color and intensity. Higher gravity worlds would have trees with thicker stalks and branches, and low gravity worlds with be thinner and vine-like, etc.
What I don't want is just RNG whatever like NMS has. On the other hand, NMS does a decent job at giving us some variety (even if it is Mr. Potato Head), which I'd much prefer over ED's copy-n-paste of brain trees of different colors.
Aye indeed, I’ve been very fortunate in visiting some amazing and diverse places over the past few decades.
Given the Stellar Forge proc-gen involved in the current planets, with simulated tectonic plates to establish mountain ranges, chemical composition to give the colours etc. I truly hope that atmospherics will get the same level of thought put into their creation, as well as any life forms, as per your ideas above.
NMS was created from the outset to look like classic sci-fi book covers, which is one of the reasons why it has static planets close together. It can have some truly awesome vistas (as well as RNG you what?’s). Elite however has always gone for Galaxy-sim, so I’m hoping for stuff that’s a bit more Earthy on our Earth-likes.
That's where ED could make the difference. Lord Braben is aware that this is possible and that's apparently how Stellar Forge creates the planets (with ice at the poles for example)
What else is it? There are 30 something spaceships to fly in it and nothing else, really. Oh, you mean that wretched SRV? LOL.
Your faith in Lord Braben is touching, but I think he's too busy enjoying real biomes in his kickstarter-funded yacht to care much about ED these days.
BLASPHEMY!
I know you aren't serious, but just for the record...
Kickstarter added 1.578.316£ to the development budget. That's less than a quarter of the initial development costs of the base game.
Elite: Dangerous creator says crowdfunding covered less than one-quarter of its total cost
Elite: Dangerous drew in nearly £1.6 million—that's roughly $2.6 million—on Kickstarter, and that's a lot of money by just about any measure. Yet it was only a slice of the total development budget, and not even a particular large slice at that.
I know you aren't serious, but just for the record...
Kickstarter added 1.578.316£ to the development budget. That's less than a quarter of the initial development costs of the base game.
Elite: Dangerous creator says crowdfunding covered less than one-quarter of its total cost
Elite: Dangerous drew in nearly £1.6 million—that's roughly $2.6 million—on Kickstarter, and that's a lot of money by just about any measure. Yet it was only a slice of the total development budget, and not even a particular large slice at that.www.pcgamer.com
For Balance do you know how much a Yacht costs?