Gas Giant Planets

[ilovehorrorcats]

It would be cool if there are gas planets where you can fly but can't land since there is no surface.

Edit: I have an idea how HG can implement it. They can add new a stellar class that has 2 gas giants and four moons for each system.

[POPO Sandh]

its fine this is a non realistic game after all, gas giants can have floating islands or plateforms or any other floating things, it will be similar to water planets except the water is replaced by huge clouds, they can even add new missions where you need to go deep into the gas clouds for a mission like how they did with water planets

[NZ.Zero]

here we go again

[Spoodie Bob]

Originally posted by ilovehorrorcats:

It would be cool if there are gas planets where you can fly but can't land since there is no surface.

you need to do your research, all gas planets have a solid rocky surface with very thick atmospheres made up of various gasses.

[UNBREAKABLE]

It's scifi, I'm sure they could come up with upgrades and an excuse to fly inside a gas giant. Go too deep? Start damaging the ship's life so they don't have to answer the question of what's at the center.

It would also be cool if a system contained nothing but a gas giant surrounded by a bunch of moons.

[ilovehorrorcats]

gas giants can have floating bases as well

[ilovehorrorcats]

Originally posted by UNBREAKABLE:

It's scifi, I'm sure they could come up with upgrades and an excuse to fly inside a gas giant. Go too deep? Start damaging the ship's life so they don't have to answer the question of what's at the center.

It would also be cool if a system contained nothing but a gas giant surrounded by a bunch of moons.

That would be cool

[jsauce]

Originally posted by Spoodie Bob:

Originally posted by ilovehorrorcats:

It would be cool if there are gas planets where you can fly but can't land since there is no surface.

you need to do your research, all gas planets have a solid rocky surface with very thick atmospheres made up of various gasses.

Actually, you are incorrect. Gas Giants lack any kind of surface as we know it. Most have some kind of core, that is likely molten rock and metal, but they do not have a surface. What happens is that the deeper you go in the atmosphere the more intense the pressure becomes until you reach a state where the pressure exerted on hydrogen gas forces the gas into a pressure-ionized state referred to as metallic hydrogen. The individual hydrogen molecules get compressed so closely together that electrons become unbound and are free to move between atoms. This results in a fluid state.

If you could survive the pressure of a Gas Giant enough to reach its metallic hydrogen layer you would find its density about that of rock. The buoyancy force of the metallic hydrogen would counteract gravity causing a yo-yo effect until you were left floating somewhere in between reaching an equilibrium. At that point, you would be unable to escape no matter what you did.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

This has been asked for so many time for so long it has become a joke for the regulars. HG may introduce them at some point, but that means some planet type will have to greatly reduced or eliminated. Even then, it could create some problems for players because sure as shooting someone will have a base on a planet that is selected for pruning.

Even Worlds Part 1 end up creating a lot of gnashing of teeth by players. HG is going to think long and hard about the advantages of a gas giant versus the pain and anguish it will undoubtedly cause some or all players.

They can't just place them they actually have to fiddle with the procedural generation for the entire universe. They have gotten a lot better at doing it without a lot of casualties, but there are always trade offs.

[1P27]

ehh as long as we can get floating cities and some exclusive gas resources that are important then I don't see why not but they would probably have to add 7 planets to a system

[jsauce]

For me, if they finally hang it up and finish this game and they don't include Gas Giants it will be a huge disappointment.

I remember that they didn't want to include Gas Giants because you couldn't explore them, but that's not really correct, you just can't land on them. A ship could enter a Gas Giant's upper layers and in theory Gas Giants could have lifeforms that developed in the upper Gas layers.

[ilovehorrorcats]

Originally posted by jsauce:

For me, if they finally hang it up and finish this game and they don't include Gas Giants it will be a huge disappointment.

I remember that they didn't want to include Gas Giants because you couldn't explore them, but that's not really correct, you just can't land on them. A ship could enter a Gas Giant's upper layers and in theory Gas Giants could have lifeforms that developed in the upper Gas layers.

I would find it cool to fly on a planet with no solid surface

[Lindy Bomber]

Floating islands would have been better in gas giant planets. But I think we're too far down the development path to make a change as big as this.

Maybe if HGs does another sci Fi game they will make gas gaints. Murray was pretty adamant that they don't want to do sequels so there will never be a NMS 2, but they could do a different space game. Maybe someone else will make a better NMS, given how much NMS has made in slightly surprising no one has tried yet.

[Happy Monkey]

Just go to a planet with extreme storms, and fly around during a storm. Low visibility, occasional glimpses of flying animals.

[Chirico Cuvie]

Originally posted by ilovehorrorcats:

It would be cool if there are gas planets where you can fly but can't land since there is no surface.

Lol it will probably destroy your ship.

[Spocks Toupee]

Fast forward a couple of years

New Topic in the forum:

"Can HG PLEASE get rid of Gas Giants?"