We need to talk about settlement placement.

[Ydiss]

Just add it to the pile, mate. Might as well. Keep up the hunt for minutae. And make sure every thread starts with "we need to talk about..." because that'll over-inflate its importance.

 

[Old Duck]

Gee I dunno... maybe that it's entirely implausible for a settlement to be that extremely close to a star for one?

You do know that all stars are not created equal, right? A small red dwarf is actually "cold" compared to our star.

 

[Northpin]

Because things like this are just stupid.

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Are these settlements randomised or are we really supposed to believe people would work in a place like this?

Image file is called "gettinghotinhere" so I think it's the temperature and direct sun exposure without an atmosphere. I've seen some settlements in which the temperature was so high that you couldn't disembark on the landing pad - how can an Odyssey settlement function that way? They don't have underground paths or structures which would seem like the only way it could work.

FD just need to allow us get out in really hot environments, just increase the battery consumption in such conditions
It could be just another difficulty level

The too hot to disembark restriction is just meh
Same for high G planets


Edit: this also reminded me about Crematoria from the Chronicle of Riddick

 

[rootsrat]

It's a game, and it looks cool.

I LIKE the settlements being at the foot of mountains, up on high plateaus, or surrounded by cliffs.

This!

I'm all about immersion, but this is not my immershun you're looking for, OP!

 

[SlickPBW]

I don’t know anything about picking a good spot for a settlement. But if I had to, I would be looking for a nice ELW.

 

[Elfener]

Dav (The Person Who Can Reboot The Galaxy) talks about settlement placement in this livestream:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L55r0QQ3nEg

 

[varonica]

The opposite is true, too. I have done missions in settlements on the moons of a gas giant at a brown dwarf. The temperature in those settlements was some 22-25K. How can anything work at these temperatures?

Like, the equipment on the outside of the ISS you mean? Solar panels, transmitters with bearings and hatches that open and close, all suffering extremes of temperatures from the low single digits in shadow to, well, quite hot in direct sunlight. Stuff works at those temperatures because it's been designed to work at those temperatures.

 

[Vardaugas]

Like, the equipment on the outside of the ISS you mean? Solar panels, transmitters with bearings and hatches that open and close, all suffering extremes of temperatures from the low single digits in shadow to, well, quite hot in direct sunlight. Stuff works at those temperatures because it's been designed to work at those temperatures.

Now move the ISS to a moon, touching the ice that siphons heat away instead of having it float isolated in a vacuum.

 

[elrogarddublanc]

We can sit in our ships beside a star indefinitely.

In theory you could land a bunch of T9 transports in a circle, remove the engines and call it a settlement.

When we get ship interiors (!), this would actually be really realistic and quite cool. A case for them? Also like the idea of underground/caves settlements.