Barren Worlds

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

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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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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

There is mods such as celestial bodies, and the distant stars mod that has planets that is suited for your purpose

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

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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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

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.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

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.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Exactly! The only way you'd ever want to colonize a dead asteroid is a strategic point.