Obviously, in the long run, what we'd all like to see is lush alien forests and huge lava flows and whatnot.
But realistically, in the short term, it would be nice to see just a few tweaks to the generation of the existing biological and geological sites in the game.
The new surface scanner has brought to light just how simplistic the placement of these sites is. Every time you fly in to a location and see a roughly square patch of roughly the same number of geysers/vents/brain trees/bark mounds randomly placed on a random bit of the surface. Sometimes on a slope, sometimes in a canyon, usually on flat ground.
It would be nice if the number of objects and shape of the sites varied. For example, if we would sometimes find just a single solitary braintree in a crater, and sometimes a vast forest stretching for miles.
It would be nice if the sizes of these assets varied a lot more. That would really help give them scale and make each one feel a bit unique. If you could land at a gas vent and find a huge chimney towering above all the others, encrusted in materials, or a field of pumpkins of varying sizes from tiny to immense.
But most importantly, placement. It would be nice if lava vents were sometimes placed at the top of mountains, like they often are in real life. And if the ground around geysers was stained by the chemicals being released.
It would be cool to see a bit more variety in the materials clumps based on the type of object, and maybe more "traits" to be discovered, like the void life has (for example, brain trees releasing a gas when you attack them or whatever).
I don't know how complicated it would be to do this, but I suggest it because it seems like a relatively small change compared to most suggestions on here, but would make a difference to exploration.
But realistically, in the short term, it would be nice to see just a few tweaks to the generation of the existing biological and geological sites in the game.
The new surface scanner has brought to light just how simplistic the placement of these sites is. Every time you fly in to a location and see a roughly square patch of roughly the same number of geysers/vents/brain trees/bark mounds randomly placed on a random bit of the surface. Sometimes on a slope, sometimes in a canyon, usually on flat ground.
It would be nice if the number of objects and shape of the sites varied. For example, if we would sometimes find just a single solitary braintree in a crater, and sometimes a vast forest stretching for miles.
It would be nice if the sizes of these assets varied a lot more. That would really help give them scale and make each one feel a bit unique. If you could land at a gas vent and find a huge chimney towering above all the others, encrusted in materials, or a field of pumpkins of varying sizes from tiny to immense.
But most importantly, placement. It would be nice if lava vents were sometimes placed at the top of mountains, like they often are in real life. And if the ground around geysers was stained by the chemicals being released.
It would be cool to see a bit more variety in the materials clumps based on the type of object, and maybe more "traits" to be discovered, like the void life has (for example, brain trees releasing a gas when you attack them or whatever).
I don't know how complicated it would be to do this, but I suggest it because it seems like a relatively small change compared to most suggestions on here, but would make a difference to exploration.
