With the day half an hour too long, or the sea being exactly the wrong shade of pink.
New Planet Tech is KILLER of Exploration (all terrain is tiling/repeating/not procedural/random)
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How many grey coloured moons do we have in our own solar system...
And why is it that IO type moons with tenuous 0.00 atmospheres appear without the atmosphere sign and are unlandable in Odyssey?
And why is it that IO type moons with tenuous 0.00 atmospheres appear without the atmosphere sign and are unlandable in Odyssey?
Now that you mentioned it:
How is there no
"Why are there no landables with surface water"
And
"We want Subnautica experience in ED!"
threads?
There are plenty. It's all frozen.
And another answer - there is not enough pressure to stop it submlimating.
Well, ELWs then...
EDIT: and I was asking about thread on forums, not "why there is now water" actually, but your answer can be useful anyway...
Not necessarily
These two photos are in the same vicinity, at Landmannalaugar in Iceland. It's a beautiful place, and ate huge quantities of transparency film when I went there some years ago
A bit extreme, perhaps, but certainly there can be significant variation in rock type and colour, even in a single location sometimes.
And the moon has orange soil in places, too
Horizons is the same sort of distribution too, some excellent, most OK and a few of the school of thought "Why did I even bother landing?". Although, one of my favourite Selenium source planets out Colonia way is a bland, beige, potato body...Kinda sounds about right then...
Thanks for this, but does it really contribute to answering my question?Not necessarily
These two photos are in the same vicinity, at Landmannalaugar in Iceland. It's a beautiful place, and ate huge quantities of transparency film when I went there some years ago
A bit extreme, perhaps, but certainly there can be significant variation in rock type and colour, even in a single location sometimes.
And the moon has orange soil in places, too
1. Earth: I assume diversity on Earth is not what we can stretch to "most" space bodies I have mentioned.
2. small "flecks" of another color do note make moon less monocolor-ish - quite the opposite, it's exactly what I suggested - one dominant color tone and a bit of others (therefore "-ish")
Still, interesting this detail about Moon, I don't remember reading about it before.
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But getting back on topic, this thread is about repeating terrain tiles, hundreds of kms in size.
Well, we were just avoiding REPEATING ourselves and other commander's content
Well, we were just avoiding REPEATING ourselves and other commander's content
I note FDev also avoid repeating themselves here. They can't repeat if they don't comment in the first place. Even with 86 pages of opportunities.
How many people in this thread are procedurally-generated? The same person but rotated and scaled up a bit,
You say that like there are no short people on the forum!
... and all a bit skewed.
Also I am pretty sure people are proc generated based on a seed algorithm.
Perhaps they should put a sign on the wall with the old engineering maxim: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".I also think it's out of whack at some places, as if the algorithm needs some tuning. I guess it's incredibly hard to get it right for billions of planets.
So far I've seen tons of amazing planets, a few legitimate boring ones and a few that didn't seem right.
Maybe also part of the generation itself is the missing bumps in craters and the repeating patterns. No clue actually.
I can imagine these things are bugging the tech team as well.
Unstable surface? Too many rocks? Too much sinkable-into soft dust? Dangerous magnetic fields that scupper your ship's landing systems? Who knows.
Well that is the thing. It was broke because it could not be scale down as necessary for Odyssey to work, and for all, according to the Devs, that they wanted to do going forward.
We have a saying in our country that translates literally as:
"Better is the enemy of good"
PS. I know it's like Voltaire's quote but his "perfect" or "the best" in the beginning make it somehow... worse, less usable
Landmannalaugar is a good example, precisely because apart from the green of the moss here and there, the colours all stem from the composition of the rocks, which are entirely igneous. (Rhyolite, mostly, if anyone is interested, though the black comes from recent magma). That type of activity and rock type of igneous has been observed elsewhere in the solar system, and would in theory be quite common throughout the galaxy given the chemical make up of the rocks. Point being, they are naturally coloured like that, and are not the product of water/ biology, which airless worlds wouldn't have - i.e there are no sedimentary rocks in those photos.
I threw the orange lunar soil in there for a bit of interest as much as anything
It certainly isn't conspicuous, and was only discovered when the regolith was disturbed.