Roughly how many planets can you land on?
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Pretty much all of the ones that have something solid to land on I suspect, so landing on gas giants might be mildly problematic but they will have atmospheres to fly around in. The older Frontier games had no limitations on surface landings.
Oh and welcome to the forums!
Oh and welcome to the forums!
Given that Frontier had 100,000,000,000 stars, with an average of 8 planets or moons you could land on, and given that ED will quite probably have a larger scope than Frontier, a conservative estimate would be somewhere in the region of 10,000,000,000,000 planets or moons available to land on.
And that's without taking space stations or large asteroids into account.
And that's without taking space stations or large asteroids into account.
Thousands, if it's anything like Frontier.
Edit: Understatement, more like tens of thousands. Or even hundreds of thousands.Welcome to the madhou.... erm forum.
More than you could actually manage to land on in your actual lifetime. And that is just going on what was already there in Frontier and Frontier: First Encounters. It will be enough for you (and your children's children).
I always wonder about these quick visit posters. No intro, semi ambiguous post and then nothing said days after.
young? so busy on-line lives? It was a question asked without knowledge of the prior Frontier games, so yeah i think a young visitor getting inspired by the prospects of what this Elite game could be for them (much as i was all dreamy over the magazine adverts for Elite back in the 80's).
Elite, and games like it, are awesome imagination feeders, something sadly lacking in many modern games, so the more of that it generates the better
And just for some perspective on how massive these games are, in nearly 20 years since Frontier was released (including playing FFE), i've only ever visited a tiny fraction of the available systems those games generated, let alone thought about how many planetary bodies i can actually land on!! Space really is HUGE, as were these games 'worlds', as will be the one in Elite: Dangerous.
Elite, and games like it, are awesome imagination feeders, something sadly lacking in many modern games, so the more of that it generates the better
And just for some perspective on how massive these games are, in nearly 20 years since Frontier was released (including playing FFE), i've only ever visited a tiny fraction of the available systems those games generated, let alone thought about how many planetary bodies i can actually land on!! Space really is HUGE, as were these games 'worlds', as will be the one in Elite: Dangerous.
Could be, at least it was on subject I agree over the imagination thing, it could be that the Cobra etc might've been the first spaceships that I doodled at the tender age of 5.
I agree over the imagination thing, it could be that the Cobra etc might've been the first spaceships that I doodled at the tender age of 5.Yeah I'm properly useless at drawing anything that's in a perspective. My dad had this old Janes Aircraft Identification book that had threeviews like the front side and top in the Elite Manual. Due to a severe lack of ability that was about my limit
Thanks for the answers!
That's more than I expected. Just recently heard about the game, I've been following Star Citizen and asked the same question there, I like the answer here better. The answer over there is a complete question mark, as no one there knows yet how many 'landable' planets will exist per system, but I'm sure they will reveal this info in the future.
So gas giants will have flyable atmospheres? That sounds cool.
That's more than I expected. Just recently heard about the game, I've been following Star Citizen and asked the same question there, I like the answer here better. The answer over there is a complete question mark, as no one there knows yet how many 'landable' planets will exist per system, but I'm sure they will reveal this info in the future.
So gas giants will have flyable atmospheres? That sounds cool.
Behind DB in this picture you can see a procedurally generated gas giant atmosphere:
Here's the YouTube video related to it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTBvpd3_Vqk
DB looks like he's asleep ... let's have a quick play on his PC ... he won't mind
"Huh? What?! Get off my PC... you bought HOW many tons of rubbish?!!!"
Behind DB in this picture you can see a procedurally generated gas giant atmosphere:
Here's the YouTube video related to it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTBvpd3_Vqk
Bit cloudy in Cambridge today
It would perhaps add to the immersion of the game if specialist ships and/or equipment was needed to access certain planets.
A waterworld? Perhaps that Moray Starboat could come in handy. Ice world? Some sort of landing mechanism to deal with it, particularly if no starbase is handy. Maybe for planets, such as Venus, only cloud cities can be visited as attempts to access the surface would get increasingly difficult due to heat and pressure factors until the shields fail and hull implodes.
A waterworld? Perhaps that Moray Starboat could come in handy. Ice world? Some sort of landing mechanism to deal with it, particularly if no starbase is handy. Maybe for planets, such as Venus, only cloud cities can be visited as attempts to access the surface would get increasingly difficult due to heat and pressure factors until the shields fail and hull implodes.
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He is a real person! Welcome to the forums Razimus. We're a pretty friendly bunch here so ask away and you'll either get an answer or an invite to sit waiting expectantly for it to turn up on Kickstarter some time soon.Good idea. I think to get the most out of that though there would need to be a facility to allow players multiple ships (perhaps keep them docked at a station for a mooring fee)... otherwise we'd be constantly selling and rebuying ships if we wanted to return to those planets.
"I need to visit Aquaplanet... hang on let me get my Moray out of drydock"