There appears to be a glitch in the matrix. Anyone else seen it? Is there an issue already in the issue tracker?
Why are IO like planets not landable?
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There appears to be a glitch in the matrix. Anyone else seen it? Is there an issue already in the issue tracker?
Looks like a bug - notice the planet is tidally locked, yet there is only a single temperature given.... Don't most tidally locked Planets give a hot-side temperature and a cold-side temperature?
Also with an Apoapsis of 0.00AU's, it appears to be orbiting inside it's parent Planet.
An orbital inclination of (-)77.7° suggests in was once a rogue Planet, that has been captured from outside the solar system and pulled in to the orbit of the parent Planet, backed up by a huge Arg of Periapsis, indicating an extremely eccentric orbit!
There is more to worry about here than just being unlandable - it seems its orbit is bugged too (or at least the Planet info).
Also with an Apoapsis of 0.00AU's, it appears to be orbiting inside it's parent Planet.
An orbital inclination of (-)77.7° suggests in was once a rogue Planet, that has been captured from outside the solar system and pulled in to the orbit of the parent Planet, backed up by a huge Arg of Periapsis, indicating an extremely eccentric orbit!
There is more to worry about here than just being unlandable - it seems its orbit is bugged too (or at least the Planet info).
Technically, an apoapsis of 0.00 AU could well mean that the orbit is less than 0.01 AU, which is 1.5 million kilometers, since the measurement is only in AU which gives a fair amount of room for interpretation.
Very true! The scale of it never crossed my mind - I need coffee!
Because it looks and reads like this:
And it ain't the only one. Every planet I find that looks like this has the same problem: The parameters read like a landable with a tenuous atmosphere. They are not, and their atmosphere (even if no landable) should still show the atmosphere symbol in the local map.
Because it looks and reads like this:
And it ain't the only one. Every planet I find that looks like this has the same problem: The parameters read like a landable with a tenuous atmosphere. They are not, and their atmosphere (even if no landable) should still show the atmosphere symbol in the local map.
But what does IO stand for?
Io (moon) - Wikipedia
Possibly. But all other non-landables have their atmospheric status marked in the system map. These do not!
The confusion is from it getting autocorrected by phones belonging to geeks as IO (as in Input Output), rather than left as Io, the name of a Priestess of Hera (and lover of Zeus) in Greek mythology.
Input/Output.
But presume people are talking about Io-like planets. That is, planets like the moon Io.
It's an Input Output moon - programmer back doors. You land on this planet, and take off anywhere else in the galaxy?
Nah, the confusion here was genuinely getting it wrong! I thought it was written (and pronounced) IO (I-O), when it should be Io (Aye-oh).
Thanks for correcting me!
Maybe they just don't like visitors?
Yes - them pesky random capitals...
Unstable surface? Too many rocks? Too much sinkable-into soft dust? Dangerous magnetic fields that scupper your ship's landing systems? Who knows.
Well okay - but all the other non-landables with atmosphere have their atmosphere marked in the System Map, but these do not.
What atmosphere? It says 0.00 atmospheres. What is the atmospheric composition?