HOLO ICONS CHART + Exploration values

dognosh

dognosh
drkaii said:
Just to say that the holograms are inaccurate in game. You'll get a gas giant with an "earth world" icon, for example. The metal rich and high metal ones seem to share all metal-related icons.

Earth world always seem to be the earth-world icon though, as are stars and black holes seem consistent too
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This is meant to be correct in-game, and it is. Whether FD chose the correct icon for any given body is another story :)
 

drkaii

drkaii
Nilt said:
There is a certain amount of variance, yes. It's nice to have the information, though. No sense flying to look into what will only end up being an Icy planet, for example. :)
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Yeah not knocking the usefulness of this, just saying that it should be clear that it's inaccurate so people don't fly off happily to an earth world and realise it's a gas giant
 

dognosh

dognosh
This is now getting mildly annoying, i'll repeat, that chart is accurate. The ew icon is also a gas giant icon and high metal icon and ammonia icon etc... It is the way it is
 

drkaii

drkaii
dognosh said:
haha, very sharp Cmdr :)
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Well this is all my email said, I actually got excited for a second:


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Reido

Reido
Here's the new icon for the Helium-rich gas giant planets as of 1.3:

Helium-Rich Gas Giant.jpg


CMDR Andrew Reid
 

Jackie Silver

Jackie Silver
Can you include my findings on the meaning of the different High Metal Content and Rocky world icons please, Dognosh? The "Hot" one indicates the presence of a very low pressure atmosphere and the "Dots" one indicates either Silicate Magma or Silicate Vapour Geysers volcanicity (although that isn't exclusive, you can guarantee that a "Dots" planet will have one of those kinds of volcanicity.)
 

dognosh

dognosh
Reido said:
That new helium-rich gas giant icon is also used for the class I gas giants as well.


Andrew
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Will do later or tomorrow. +1 rep :)

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Oops not allowed any more rep :D

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Jackie Silver said:
Can you include my findings on the meaning of the different High Metal Content and Rocky world icons please, Dognosh? The "Hot" one indicates the presence of a very low pressure atmosphere and the "Dots" one indicates either Silicate Magma or Silicate Vapour Geysers volcanicity (although that isn't exclusive, you can guarantee that a "Dots" planet will have one of those kinds of volcanicity.)
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Jackie, point me in the right direction as I am being thick and don't know what you're talking about :D
 
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Jackie Silver

Jackie Silver
Ah sorry, should have been clearer:

dotsnhot.png

I should probably call them something else now I know what they indicate, but that would get even more confusing. :D I used to think the "Hot" one was for very hot HMC planets, you see...
 
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CMDR RAY-ZOR'SHARP

CMDR RAY-ZOR'SHARP
A great piece, I was doing a re-jig to make your work A4 sized and add the pic's from Dubardo's Star/Planet chart when they added the Nav from the system feature, so I scrapped that. I now have your work blue tacked to the wall, It's a great aid with point and fly to close planets.

A big thanks to all.
 
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