Hello, I would like you to focus on planets after Panther Clipper MK II. Because it's already boring to look at desert rocks: without vegetation and rivers, and also without an atmosphere (clouds and other natural phenomena).There are so many planets in space and all of them without it, it's not the right decision. The fact that you planted 3 bushes with the trimmings does not look attractive.
Giving shape to planets
- Thread starter Arhangel
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It's got nothing to do with attractive or wrong decisions. It's a massive amount of technical work that would be needed to procedurally fill billions of systems with credible looking planets. They sure as hell can't do that by hand.
Yes, they may not be able to do it manually, but we need to automate this process. If they could create such a universe. Then we have to figure out how to do it. They also figured out how to fill the world with stations, this allows the player to build them himself. Here you can come up with the same scheme. To activate terraforming.After some action, where the player had a station on the planet, landscaping began, water began to appear, etc. Or through an event, the first traces of river formation appeared on a God-forsaken planet, etc.
I don't see it talked about much, but I think there's an important stepping stone first: gas giant atmospheres. Braben talked about this back in 2013, and the reasons it's an interesting next step are:
1. It'd be visually incredible.
2. It'd let them figure out all the atmospheric physics before having to face challenges like widespread vegetation and human population.
3. Like asteroid belts, it allows for ship combat with a twist – inclement winds, turbulence, moving regions of poorer visibility and perhaps even lightning strikes.
4. If you then get around to adding some floating extremophile life (relatively simple compared to other forms of wildlife), you can 'tick off' this whole type of environment as being feature complete quite quickly. Again, err, relative to the huge challenges posed by living rocky worlds.
1. It'd be visually incredible.
2. It'd let them figure out all the atmospheric physics before having to face challenges like widespread vegetation and human population.
3. Like asteroid belts, it allows for ship combat with a twist – inclement winds, turbulence, moving regions of poorer visibility and perhaps even lightning strikes.
4. If you then get around to adding some floating extremophile life (relatively simple compared to other forms of wildlife), you can 'tick off' this whole type of environment as being feature complete quite quickly. Again, err, relative to the huge challenges posed by living rocky worlds.
Yes/
