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RestlessMind
RestlessMind
Join Date 06/2009
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Barren Worlds

Seems like there's pretty much every environment but no environment...

July 23, 2009 6:28:30 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

Seriously... no barren worlds in Sins? I mean, like the moon, with no atmosphere.

This came to mind as I was making a map of the Solar System with Venus, Mars, and Mercury. Mars is obviously a desert, Venus a cloudy planet (another thing we should have, that I had to settle with desert) and Mercury is a barren planet, but I had to use Volcanic.

I also wish we had planetoids or "dwarf planets" in Sins. Like Pluto, Ceres and Eris. Instead, I had to settle with Ceres as an asteroid and Pluto as a way to large ice planet.

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RestlessMind
Nuttygamer
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Reply #1 July 23, 2009 6:35:59 PM
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There is mods such as celestial bodies, and the distant stars mod that has planets that is suited for your purpose

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Darvin3
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Reply #2 July 23, 2009 10:34:09 PM
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I thought the same thing.  I went to create our solar system, and I realized that there was no good representation of Mercury and the Moon (as well as Ceres and many of the other dwarf planets).  From a game-design perspective, though, it's not really necessary.

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mja5000
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Reply #3 July 23, 2009 11:25:00 PM
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There is a reason for that. While Barren worlds and dwarf planets might be useful for making a map of the solar system, they have pretty much no other use. It would cost a huge amount of resources and time to terraform a barren world, and a dwarf planet would probably be to small to be useful.

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Darvin3
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Reply #4 July 23, 2009 11:58:56 PM
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Eh?  That doesn't really float mja.  We have dead asteroids in the game which are colonizable, and really truly worthless to your economy.  A barren planet could be a varient of dead asteroid that allows for logistic slots.

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Reply #5 July 24, 2009 2:23:58 AM
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Exactly! The only way you'd ever want to colonize a dead asteroid is a strategic point.

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