Dear Frontier Developments , A Question about Horizon

psefergr · Dec 30, 2015

We were told that in HORIZONS we would be able to land on airless planets-moons.That is the case but why Earth's Moon is not land-able ? why aren't there any ports , stations , bases or anything there ? Do you plan something about it and keeping it a surprise for us?

Brother Sabathius · Dec 30, 2015

That's exactly what they are doing. They are hand-crafting it as it's a special place for Humanity.

CMDR Kantos Kan · Dec 30, 2015

psefergr said:
We were told that in HORIZONS we would be able to land on airless planets-moons.That is the case but why Earth's Moon is not land-able ? why aren't there any ports , stations , bases or anything there ? Do you plan something about it and keeping it a surprise for us?

The moon is well known so they can't use procedural generation to randomly create stuff on it. We're supposed to be able to land on it at some point.

Szyslak22 · Dec 30, 2015

CMDR Kantos Kan said:
We're supposed to be able to land on it at some point.

But not just any riff-raff. I believe that's how Eddie phrased it. Expectation is that it will be permit only.

mbar · Dec 30, 2015

I'm hoping to see a Tranquility Base Museum with the whole landing site under a clear dome.

Thetele · Dec 30, 2015

If i remember right according to elite lore Moon have large military shipyard for Federations capital ships. And we don´t have those in game yet. So if we could land there now it wouldn´t look anything like they want it to look like. Like before patch x.x its empty after patch x.x there is huge shipyard. Easier to say that you can´t land rather than try to get believable story how they build that in couple hours.

Engadine · Dec 30, 2015

psefergr said:
We were told that in HORIZONS we would be able to land on airless planets-moons.That is the case but why Earth's Moon is not land-able ? why aren't there any ports , stations , bases or anything there ? Do you plan something about it and keeping it a surprise for us?

I might be wrong, but I think you will be able to one day with the correct Permit.

Arjin · Dec 30, 2015

NASA said they can't otherwise it would reveal.....

Kristov · Dec 30, 2015

Luna is a permit restricted moon, as most of us expected it would be, considering what it is and it's importance in Human history.

Currently, in the Elite universe, Luna is an industrialized moon, lots of factories and such, producing, among other things, Federation capital ships as already mentioned.

CMDR Kantos Kan · Dec 30, 2015

Anybody knows what "permit" will be required?

Kristov · Dec 30, 2015

CMDR Kantos Kan said:
Anybody knows what "permit" will be required?

FD hasn't given any information on that so far, might be the Sol permit is enough when they actually get Luna completed, but no one knows currently.

DCLXVI your God · Dec 30, 2015

Wolverine said:
That's exactly what they are doing. They are hand-crafting it as it's a special place for Humanity.

And God bless them for that!

CMDR Kantos Kan · Dec 30, 2015

DCLXVI your God said:
And God bless them for that!

Amen! (8 chars...)