So a recurrent thing the community complains about is the fact that a lot of the planets became beige after FDev changed the lighting into a better one. I've been thinking about it for a while and I believe I've come up with the perfect solution: Planet packs!
How would this work? Easy, for a small price (I'll let FDev decide that), you'll get a full range of colours (following tradition, I think 6 would be a fair amount), which will be randomly applied to beige planets. Only you would see the different colours of course, unless your friend bought the pack too (you'd both see the same colour, each planet has a unique seed afaik). The gameplay wouldn't change in any way, if you don't buy the pack you can still land on the planets, dock on bases, gather materials... The change would only be cosmetic.
Now I know some of you may complain that you bought Horizons so you should get the planet pack for free. But you didn't buy the colours, you just bought the planets and FDev delivered. Let's look at Frontier's store:
https://www.frontierstore.net/eur/games/elite-dangerous-cat/elite-dangerous-horizons-dlc.html
I don't see any reason why they shouldn't release these planet packs. More money to develop the game, it's completely optional and as with the other stuff in the store, it's just cosmetic, so it doesn't affect gameplay at all!
Of course, some people will complain (they always do) that planets used to have more colours. Well you see, things change during development. They changed the lighting to a better one, and although some may consider the secondary effect undesireable, a lot of people like it as it is now. You see, in real life most planets (especially rocky planets) are actually beige or brownish, so they actually improved the game by making it more realistic. If you want more colours on planets that's totally fine but that was not a part of Horizons so you shouldn't get it for free. It costs money to program and design that stuff after all.
How would this work? Easy, for a small price (I'll let FDev decide that), you'll get a full range of colours (following tradition, I think 6 would be a fair amount), which will be randomly applied to beige planets. Only you would see the different colours of course, unless your friend bought the pack too (you'd both see the same colour, each planet has a unique seed afaik). The gameplay wouldn't change in any way, if you don't buy the pack you can still land on the planets, dock on bases, gather materials... The change would only be cosmetic.
Now I know some of you may complain that you bought Horizons so you should get the planet pack for free. But you didn't buy the colours, you just bought the planets and FDev delivered. Let's look at Frontier's store:
https://www.frontierstore.net/eur/games/elite-dangerous-cat/elite-dangerous-horizons-dlc.html
As you can see, all it says is that you'll be able to land on planets, and you can! I don't see anything about colours there.
I don't see any reason why they shouldn't release these planet packs. More money to develop the game, it's completely optional and as with the other stuff in the store, it's just cosmetic, so it doesn't affect gameplay at all!
Of course, some people will complain (they always do) that planets used to have more colours. Well you see, things change during development. They changed the lighting to a better one, and although some may consider the secondary effect undesireable, a lot of people like it as it is now. You see, in real life most planets (especially rocky planets) are actually beige or brownish, so they actually improved the game by making it more realistic. If you want more colours on planets that's totally fine but that was not a part of Horizons so you shouldn't get it for free. It costs money to program and design that stuff after all.
Last edited:
