A solution to the beige planet problem: Planet packs!

Mengy

Mengy
Beige is the new Black.

I think Frontier should also sell Beige paint jobs for all of the ships and SRV's. They could call it "Space Camo", meant to allow ships to hide in plain sight. And Beige uniforms for commanders now too! It's such a lovely and popular color, why not utilize it more to generate revenues?

Stop fighting the beige, embrace it!!!!! Love it!!!!!!! Caress it, and cherish it. [heart]
 

Martian Successor

Martian Successor
Bran Tse Mallory said:
Despite the reasons behind this thread it's made me wonder if the atmo worlds will be offered as a pay to land feature i.e. you pay to be able to fly within the clouds of a gas giant and you pay again to land on an Earth like...
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Well yes they definitely will be because they'll be part of a Season or DLC or whatever expansion content method FD settle on. Same deal as Horizons offering planetary landings.
 
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Thetele

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Bran Tse Mallory said:
Despite the reasons behind this thread it's made me wonder if the atmo worlds will be offered as a pay to land feature i.e. you pay to be able to fly within the clouds of a gas giant and you pay again to land on an Earth like...
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Rain? I am pretty sure atmo worlds doesn't mean you paid access to have rain on them, you know clean water is limited resource.
 

Bran Tse Mallory

Bran Tse Mallory
Martian Successor said:
Well yes they definitely will be because they'll be part of a Season or DLC or whatever expansion content method FD settle on. Same deal as Horizons offering planetary landings.
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Emperor Braben recently hinted that season may well not be the way forward. I was eluding to each planetary type being an item in the store - £10 for gas giants - £10 for Water worlds etc.
 

SaliVader

SaliVader
Bran Tse Mallory said:
Emperor Braben recently hinted that season may well not be the way forward. I was eluding to each planetary type being an item in the store - £10 for gas giants - £10 for Water worlds etc.
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Personally, I'd prefer to see expansions in the store, at maybe 10€ each, rather than single features at that price point. Each expansion would be like a patch of Horizons (2.0, 2.1. etc). This is gonna be tough for FDev, that's for sure, cos I don't think the sales of season 3 (in whatever format they make it into) will be as good as the sales on Horizons (relatively speaking, I suppose the player base when s3 launches will be larger than it was when Horizons came out).
 

RandomGun

RandomGun
SaliVader said:
What do you mean? The planets would still have shadows, and they'd look rocky/icy. It's just the colour that'd change, that's not good graphics, it's just a cosmetic that you don't need to enjoy the game.
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Well. If the color change would not give me better, more realistic, more immersive and more enjoyable HMC planet graphics, why would I want it even for free?

Now, if I could change the appearance of my home planet, that would be cosmetics. That would not be just better graphics but personalizing something that is mine (yeah, I own a planet :) ).
 

insanephoton

insanephoton
This seems to be an appropriate thread to show the Magrathea clip

[video=youtube;Gm7PwCEKv1Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm7PwCEKv1Y[/video]
 

Eymerich

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SaliVader said:
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


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.
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Having an exam near, can't hold smiling!

:D
 

Vasco Sapien

Vasco Sapien
zepisco83 said:
Is this a troll, sarcastic or real post? I hope it's just a troll post.
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Its a troll... the same Poster has created a number of nonsense 'cash for features' threads, or at least posted in those created by others on the Pro-wasting money bandwagon.
 
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Kayweg

Kayweg
That OP is probably the best piece of satire i have read on this forum, no matter how unintentional.
The ones trying to be satirical always seem to fall way short of the mark.
 
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Obsidian Ant

Obsidian Ant
SaliVader said:
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.
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This isn't actually what happened. Planets are not beige due to improved or changed lighting.

Planets are beige because Frontier changed the properties of the materials Planets are built from. They started with materials found on Earth and then applied those to metal and some rocky worlds.

The problem was that the materials they used were predominantly brown. This resulted in the beige Planets. It was an unintended change that is going to be fixed in a future version of the game.

As for the rest of your post (whether it is serious or otherwise (seems like a joke :D ) I really don't have a comment. :D I just wanted to make sure the facts were correct on why Planets are beige. :)

Edit: It is also untrue that Planets were made beige for "scientific acurracy". In fact to make the game more scientifically accurate, Frontier will be bringing a greater variety of planetary colour to the game in a future update.
 
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