Will Planetary Landings Have Realistic Landscapes?

Colonel Kenney

Colonel Kenney
Our planet earth alone has so many alien like landscapes that I doubt they'll be able to procedurally create much variance. Even other games haven't come close to the reality that our planet offers..

Example http://imgur.com/gallery/I30Ij

Ethiopia
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China
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Turkey
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Nevada
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Siberia
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Ireland
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China
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Andovar

Andovar
If FD gave us atmospheric planets that look like that, people would be complaining that the landscapes look silly and unrealistic. :p


btw, rep for posting some awesome pics! :)
 
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Colonel Kenney

Colonel Kenney
This is why I think planetary landings is a couple years off.

First they should have first person in station and on airless moons. Then we'll move to big game hunting ..
 

Darth Ender

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By the time planetary landings with life is allowed we'll be using computers that make today's machines look like ti-83 calculators. So like 2-3 years
 

White Shark

White Shark
To the OP, those pictures are awesome. Almost look like fictional worlds! Our planet is truly amazing.

Colonel Kenney said:
This is why I think planetary landings is a couple years off.

First they should have first person in station and on airless moons. Then we'll move to big game hunting ..
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So this!! I'm desperate for first person in station, or even the ability to walk on a moon's surface.
 

K M Butler

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Considering the size of the earth, the odds are *by far* that anyone coming here w/o a detailed tourist guide or extensive prep-scouting, is just going to see oceans, desert, and regular *common* landscapes, assuming they didn't just home in on the obvious signs of civilization. The routine spots greatly outweigh the interesting ones, and would be difficult to differentiate from space w/o months of close investigation. I expect the same elsewhere in the galaxy.
 

Colonel Kenney

Colonel Kenney
K M Butler said:
Considering the size of the earth, the odds are *by far* that anyone coming here w/o a detailed tourist guide or extensive prep-scouting, is just going to see oceans, desert, and regular *common* landscapes, assuming they didn't just home in on the obvious signs of civilization. The routine spots greatly outweigh the interesting ones, and would be difficult to differentiate from space w/o months of close investigation. I expect the same elsewhere in the galaxy.
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Not with a good geological sensor suite .. and other sensors that can pinpoint actual areas of interest on a planet.
 

X-Terminator

Banned
X-Terminator
It'll look rubbish because all you'll get is a few bases without anything connecting them and no NPC on the ground and few in the skies. It will be "rubbish".
 
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