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Maybe another place for onionhead lol 
Heh, that's actually kinda cute.
Now I am wondering if you found a very rare planet skin or if I have just overlooked one like that in my travels. If I ever even had the luck to run into one, that is.
But this leads me to another question:
The skins for stellar bodies are fixed, right? Or is there some procedural generation involved as well?
I mean, based on my experience there are only a limited number of skins for each body type but... the happy world is making me question my observations.
Anyway, nice find and thanks for sharing!
Now I am wondering if you found a very rare planet skin or if I have just overlooked one like that in my travels. If I ever even had the luck to run into one, that is.
But this leads me to another question:
The skins for stellar bodies are fixed, right? Or is there some procedural generation involved as well?
I mean, based on my experience there are only a limited number of skins for each body type but... the happy world is making me question my observations.
Anyway, nice find and thanks for sharing!
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Just minding my way on the way out to a far Destination.
Upon doing the routine System Map check, I see this :
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Thinking I'm going crazy, I naturally check it out. Turns out I'm not crazy
Who said Discovery was boring
I found a new stellar category : The Happy Planet! http://www.falconfly.de/img/chatt.gif
Still think it's boring...
sorry, the happy planet category has already been discovered before - just have a look at my avatar
^^ this planet has to chill, dude
Nice areola
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I'd love to find me a happy planet. The ones I find tend to be more like this:
Places like that are why we hear so much about planetary landings, but so little about planetary take-offs.
Yeahhhhh, think it'd be best to just fly right on by and never go there again.
I named this planet "MEH"
There is a certain amount of PG, but it is the cloud layer that seems to be unique to each planet.
This highlights something which I often feel I want to bring up, but never do... but it's the way in which planet surfaces are displayed in the galaxy map (down to details like smily faces) before they've even been properly scanned. Wouldn't it be better to display a holographic proxy image first of all (like as shown on the target HUD), and reveal the actual planet surface once a detailed scan has taken place?
That all visual information is displayed before any scanning happens gives the impression that scanning is just a 'state' which signals a bit more money for the person who scanned it, rather than a process of actual discovery. The visual representation of an object on the map (from simple holographic outlines through to full shading) could help convey how thoroughly it's been explored/scanned.
That all visual information is displayed before any scanning happens gives the impression that scanning is just a 'state' which signals a bit more money for the person who scanned it, rather than a process of actual discovery. The visual representation of an object on the map (from simple holographic outlines through to full shading) could help convey how thoroughly it's been explored/scanned.
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I've often thought that myself, but I said nothing as I quite like cherry picking and running
The pictures are the most plausible part of the scan. You can take pictures like that from earth with a telescope. Surely in 3001 a space ship can easily take pictures of the furthest planets.
It goes a bit fast, shouldn't be able to see the planets behind the star, and certainly the orbit lines and exact weight shouldn't be obvious after a 2 second observation.
Besides you should not need to fly over there to find out the composition of the atmosphere. Makes more sense to get that at the ADS level than the exact weight.