EleSigma Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Oooh, a bog planet would be niceJeb Skycrasher travels to the bog planet to learn the way of the great explosion under the tutelage of the hermit rocket master, Soda-Mentos Kerman.But a bog planet/moon would be awesome, though I think it should be saved for another star though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voleurinconnu Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 When it comes to the gas giant's color, I actually don't mind it. Though I'm generally on the side of realism in these manners, a green gas giant just kinda works for this. Plus it's a nice departure from our own system's color palette. Though I think it will look much better with Nova's planned changes, as it really needs a more banded appearance, (like Jupiter) I think.Though I don't really care for adding large continents to the blue moon, having a mostly oceanic world sounds rather appealing. The small islands will make it a challenging landing. You could even say successful landings would only happen once in a blue moon. Wow that was a lame joke, sorry about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoot Knight Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Jeb Skycrasher travels to the bog planet to learn the way of the great explosion under the tutelage of the hermit rocket master, Soda-Mentos Kerman.Now I know I'm not the only one that keeps thinking of Dagobah when "bog planet" is mentioned. Anyway, the revisions to the new bodies should be interesting. I wasn't even aware that the blue moon had any visible land at all...unless those islands weren't included in that dev screenshot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckunlimited2 Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 That's an awesome idea. And in reply to someone else I think that the gas planet should have bands of yellow-green or yellow-blue. I can't quote the person, replying from my phone.Sorry if this is off-topic but I can't resist pointing this out. A band of yellow-blue is just green. But thanks for replying to my suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AeroPelican Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 (edited) Guys, I know this is a discussion thread, but why argue about a colour of a planet? The game its self doesnt need to be realistic, E.g, Minmus: Not realistic because it's not in our solar system and how can it be frozen when it's closer to the sun than kerbin is at times. So the green gas giant can be anything HarvesterR or all the other devs want. Talking of realism, we havent got humans in the game have we? We have green little people that fly rockets for a living.So minmus isn't realistic because it isn't in our solar system? Minmus is possible, there are threads discussing it. Just to recall a few: kerbol is not a very luminous, hot star like our own, and Kerbin could be heated by it's core. Ice on minmus could be made of a different substance with a much higher melting point. And humans?!? How on Kerbin are we going to get humans to a different solar system, maybe spiral arm, maybe galaxy, maybe even UNIVERSE! Case closed To recap, ksp isn't a carbon copy of our solar system, in fact, it isn't even close, and that is how the devs want it. If you want to play around with our solar system, look up Orbiter (not saying it is a bad game.) Edited August 10, 2012 by AeroPelican Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfree97 Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 (edited) I wonder how many planets there will be in the final 1.0 solar system. I hope it's more than 8.EDIT: Also, http://imgur.com/a/2ixXn - Squad released 2 pictures of the new sun model on kurtjmac's FLOBathon part 1 livestream. Edited August 10, 2012 by dragonfree97 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Potato Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Wow, going from the demo to 0.16 was mind blowing but 0.17 looks like its going to be even a larger jump. If the stepping stones are this huge how expansive is the final game going to be :eek:. Can't wait to get to the new planets! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanoog Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 The gas planet's green color is going to be toned down a bit, as well as re-painted with more detail. The blue moon is going to be redone to include continents, instead of tiny islands.Please dont change the water planet too much Nova.By adding continents, it will become another Kerbin...At least with islands, equivalent to (Ireland/England/Japan - In proportion to Earth) there will be land masses' but they would be small, an landings would require pilots to be pin-point accurate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoot Knight Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Please dont change the water planet too much Nova.By adding continents, it will become another Kerbin... That assumes that the continents have the same area of land as what we have on Kerbin. If these continents are the Kerbalverse equivalant of Australia in size then they'll still be small without being tiny.We'll just have to see what happens when the revisions are done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EleSigma Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Please dont change the water planet too much Nova.By adding continents, it will become another Kerbin...At least with islands, equivalent to (Ireland/England/Japan - In proportion to Earth) there will be land masses' but they would be small, an landings would require pilots to be pin-point accurate! Considering that it is close to Meander and heated by tidal forces, I would imagine it will only be Kerbin-like in appearance only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryphonus Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 For huge spoilers about 0.17, Nova and Harvester are on the livestream. I know there is a topic for this but wanted to inform here. Check out http://www.twitch.tv/kurtjmac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panichio Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 That assumes that the continents have the same area of land as what we have on Kerbin. If these continents are the Kerbalverse equivalant of Australia in size then they'll still be small without being tiny.We'll just have to see what happens when the revisions are done.Yeah, I agree, I wouldn't mind small continents, partly due to the fact that I'm useless at KSP, but a mix of continents and islands would be nice, but I'd like it to be mostly made up of that bog-ish murky water, with dark, muddy land... That would make a very mysterious atmosphere along with something to replicate fog... Oooooh... I think I'm getting a little ahead of myself now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aceassasin Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Just a quick question to the devs could you guys add a time acceleration button the the tracking station view since now we get planets it will make it easier to wait for launch windows to the planets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadownailshot Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Just a quick question to the devs could you guys add a time acceleration button the the tracking station view since now we get planets it will make it easier to wait for launch windows to the planetsJust go to launch your ship (but leave it on the pad), hit m, zoom out, and time accelerate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfree97 Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Nova just referred to the purple planet as Eve. Is that a name confirmation, do we think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoot Knight Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 He posted before that Eve has a good chance of being the name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxMurder Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Yeah, I agree, I wouldn't mind small continents, partly due to the fact that I'm useless at KSP, but a mix of continents and islands would be nice, but I'd like it to be mostly made up of that bog-ish murky water, with dark, muddy land... That would make a very mysterious atmosphere along with something to replicate fog... Oooooh... I think I'm getting a little ahead of myself now... Jeb! you must go to the Degobah system! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karolus10 Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 (edited) Of course I didn't think that KSP should be an realistic game , but also believe that some simplifications and change in kerbal universe are "okay" if it's a reason to do like improving game experience/reducing unnecessary complexity or simply be less "boring" - like desaturated version of red planet that simply looks dead without some color.Mentioned before issue with gas-planet (green) color was not because I don't like it or something, but because it's there so plenty of cool (and beauty) plausible colors and patterns, so it's no reason of don't using them . And please guys, stop repeating again and again: "It's only a game, and it should be fun not realistic". Yes you're perfectly right, but answer like that could counter all other argument's and also, using this way of thinking we could imagine planet with woods made from candybars... Point is about finding golden mean between good (and fun) gameplay experience and plausible physics and technology, witch IMHO KSP already deals whith this issue better than many other games and this made it so special. Maybe it looks I'm overreacting about some color, but it's more about my opinion and personal taste, where is the line between nice/awesome looking world and a candyland. That's all from my side . Edited August 10, 2012 by karolus10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 http://i.imgur.com/UYuSo.pngPretty cool looking IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoot Knight Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 That is nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pykoh Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Pretty sure the first planet is confirmed as Charr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncientAstronaut Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Can't wait to go to Eve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMoog Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Pretty sure the first planet is confirmed as Charr.This would be a pretty good name for a Mercury-like planet. A charred rocky world.The Venus-like planet, the purple one, have been sort of confirmed by Nova to be called Eve, which I find very fitting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOROWY Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 eve looks sweet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 I agree with Karolus, the colour green is a bit too out of place.Additionally, I think the planets should also be aesthetically pleasing, which, quite frankly, the purple and green planets are not at all. I would even go as far as to say they look somewhat ugly, no offence to Nova as he has done some amazing designs and modelling in the past and I acknowledge that these designs aren't finished at the moment. I, personally, don't want KSP's Solar System to become some sort of grotesque rainbow-type monster, which it is starting to become with the insanely saturated and bland colours.One thing I think would maybe improve the overall look is if maybe a bit more detail was added to the planets, then maybe the colours wouldn't need to be as saturated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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