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SkyRex94

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Oh i remember this thread ;)

Little update to what i posted earlier: I did a little research and had to erase the GP3 as Super-Earth idea from my plan as it is unrealistic.

If a heavy enough planet is further away than a certain distance it will form a Gas Giant for sure since there is nothing pushing away all the gas it will collect.

So as Jool is a Gas Giant this distance has to be closer than Jools Orbit in the Kerbol System. ANd this space is already pretty dense populated.

So i changed my plan to make GP3 as a GP and maybe when all other ideas are finished i will add a Super Earth in close Orbit(But then it would probably capture Eve and Kerbin or Duna if they are in range (realisticly thinking) so chances are i will erase Super-Earth Idea completly) After all it would just be a heavier Eve (no one would explore the hole surface) and so totally impractical for anything but a speciallized mission just for that and after all not a great loss for the gain of being plausible and realistic (which is my aim and which is what i like for gameplay feeel)

If your aim is to be realistic too maybe think about it and google for SuperEarth-Class Planets and how they form and where. If you just want it for the challenge or looks not caring realism than feel free to do so and never mind what i just said.

I really like Felsmaks drawings but i forgot where to find his thread, do you have a link? Did he made these after a request from you? Do you know if he can make .png textures for planets to (especially for gas giants) ? I got better in designing Syterion with my self made texture with Gimp but its not looking as awesome as his drawings.

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Nicholander

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SkyRex94, here is the link: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/88962-Drawings-of-planets-Anyone-have-any-requests?p=1344906#post1344906

I'll still have Hypat as a large super-Titan, because though realism is considered (Like Flark has faint rings, which is the only type of rings that could be possible for a moon), I still think it should fit the KSP style. For example, as pointed out in this thread (http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/89678-Why-doesn-t-Tylo-have-an-atmosphere), Tylo should have an atmosphere. But this is KSP, so non-realistic things can be done now and a then, so I think Hypat would fit well as a KSP style planet.

EDIT: Porkjet, since Hypat is pretty much a super-Titan, I don't think we need any more planets/moons that are like Titan. Though, early on when I was brainstorming this, I thought that the "Eeloo substitute" (What came to be Mania) should be the color of Jool, and you can barley see the surface from space, so it'd be a mini-Jool with a surface, though I still think the "Iopa" (Io and Europa), is still more interesting.

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SkyRex94

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Okay i see your point. But the argument with Tylo is invalid as i also posted in the related thread: Atmosphere isn't only dependent on gravity. It matters what stuff is available their and in which conditions it is in gaseous form: Example: Ganymede is huge but hasn't an Atmosphere, BUT, although smaller and lighter than Ganymede, Titan has an Atmosphere which is thicker than our own one at the Earth. So Gravity ALONE doesn't matter and Tylo is indeed pretty realistic as an analoge to Ganymede.

But i see your point in having a Super Earth in Gas Giant Orbit for Gameplay reasons although I won't do this in my own Pack because it doesn't fit my KSP-plausible-feeling.

Pictures look good besides.

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tychochallenge and Sylandro, I both see your points, but I still think I'll stick with Prominatus, though I do think it's a bit long. Titania? Sounds way to close to Titan, which has a planet which looks like it, Hypat. Anyway, there's already a body in our solar system named Titania, it's a moon of Uranus. Maatius? To me, it sounds good, but also to me it sounds like the name of a small asteroid moon or just a plain simple asteroid.

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I've been working on exactly the same. I eventually even planned to name it Kerbol Plus(!!!)

Wasn't doing nova's ideas, but stock-ish version of our solar system was the plan, so its similar.

I stopped work on it because Planet Factory just has to many limitations and I'm waiting for a better alternative.

here's what I have so far:

http://imgur.com/a/1G7Vj

That looks great! Are you planning to continue it when Kopernicus comes out?

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_Augustus_

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1. Bumped yet again!

2. _Augustus_, what do you mean? Have you made the planets in Kerbol+ in a 0.23 game using PlanetFactory or something?

3. I'll have to rename Fut because, well... It means something which I'll not mention in German...

He gave me a download. Although I can't get the clouds working for the pack (Other cloudpacks work fine)

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