Jack Mcslay Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Anyone else hoping to be able to create things like fuel ducts, power lines, as well as flattening spots for landing rockets and spaceplanes safely? Having remove bases have a quasi-city management feel would be very cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcwaffles2003 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 10 minutes ago, Jack Mcslay said: as well as flattening spots for landing rockets and spaceplanes safely Terraforming will not be present in the game. Instead elevated pads will be built Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 17 minutes ago, mcwaffles2003 said: Terraforming will not be present in the game. Instead elevated pads will be built That's not terraforming, it's landscaping. Terraforming is when you transform an uninhabitable planet into an inhabitable one. That they have explicitly ruled out. If they've said something equally categorical about landscaping I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Aziz Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Well they did say that working your way around the terrain is one of the challenges in base building. Not working the terrain out of your way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 2 hours ago, The Aziz said: Well they did say that working your way around the terrain is one of the challenges in base building. Not working the terrain out of your way. Truth told most likely you're right and there won't be landscaping either. From where I'm standing it's squarely in the "nice to have" category, and it might be tricky depending on how they're implementing surfaces. And even if it's technically feasible it would need a whole set of technologies, UIs, and other features that would be pretty labour-intensive to implement. So most likely it's a no-go and we'll just get platforms instead. Even so, landscaping if properly implemented could be a very nice tool in the box for working your way around the terrain -- and AFAIK they haven't explicitly ruled it out, so we can always hope! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starcaptain Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 I think Terraforming is something a bit beyond the scope of the game's core experience. It sounds like something that would fit more with Spore or Surviving Mars or something like that because they're more about the grand colonization efforts and not about the nitty gritty of engineering or space navigation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcwaffles2003 Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 1 hour ago, starcaptain said: I think Terraforming is something a bit beyond the scope of the game's core experience. It sounds like something that would fit more with Spore or Surviving Mars or something like that because they're more about the grand colonization efforts and not about the nitty gritty of engineering or space navigation. I think it would fit well just it would require a new map type that would probably use up much more memory to hold and processing to render and those resources are better to be preserved for rockets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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