Scudhawk

Planets and ships have never been to scale. If anything I think the scale looks a bit better in Rebellion, maybe only because we can't zoom in as much.

What's this about not being able to zoom in as much??

Don't even get me started on the scaling.... you cant have a playable game with correct scaling. 

Maybe I wasn't clear? I just would like to see bigger planets, without shrinking anything else. A Large portion at the end of a gravity well isn't used since it's outside of the minimum jump distance. I don't know all of the mechanics outside of visual representation so I'd assume you could make the planet model larger and just move the minimum jump distance to the edge of the well.  This way nothing is effected gameplay wise, and research that shortens the minimum jump radius wouldn't be bugged either.

I don't see how, no stats are affected, just the physical representation of the planet.

It's not about realism, just would make it feel more epic. Anyway all I've seen is negative feedback, thanks for the comments.

Well, everyone of us from time to time has said "hey, this isn't realistic scaling... It'd be cool to have it realistic"

Trouble is, nobody has any freakin idea as to how big things would have to be in order to reflect true scaling. I see that your post is limited to planet scaling...

well, you realize that it would make gravity wells bigger, right? If you leave ships the size they are, and say that fighters are the size of aircraft carriers, you would need a planet about as big as most Sin's solar systems....

If you wanted to downscale ships so that it better matched realistic sizes, I think we could save alot of processing power because frigates and fighters you wouldn't see at all and capital ships would be dots. Titans, I think you could actually see the model, but it would be pretty small. Maybe the size of the current game's fighter?

On the other hand, if you're just saying you want the planets a little bigger, that's doable. I think the trend towards bigger and bigger ships/structures has caused this feeling, however. When vanilla came out, you really felt the ships were these tiny things compare to the planet.

In my view the planets are the essential focal point of the game.  Holding planets, or not can greatly alter the course of an encounter...planets should have more "personality" that makes them more unique.  The planets in sins never felt like they were really worth fighting for...aside from the logistics slots and economic income.

Improving planets in some small ways could lead to interesting planetary invasions that wouldn't require much more then some small graphical changes to the planets themselves.  I for one am against lobbing nukes at planets and then recolonizing immediately..i mean come on!  Space based amphibous assaulst would be awesome...