will landing on planets be a thing?

[ximslammin]

is that in the works?

[Wantoomany]

I seriously doubt it. It is beyond the scope of the game and would undermine the lore. If you could land on a planet why bother continuing on to Eden?

[ximslammin]

Originally posted by Wantoomany:

I seriously doubt it. It is beyond the scope of the game and would undermine the lore. If you could land on a planet why bother continuing on to Eden?

Maybe to mine for stuff.

[Sam Look]

Originally posted by Wantoomany:

If you could land on a planet why bother continuing on to Eden?

Who said it had to be a nice planet....

[TomCat86]

Theoretically it would be easy to implement. First, you would use a shuttle with the desired crew, fly it to the planet icon, click explore or land. It will do a cut scene, and pause' the other part of the game where your big ship is currently. Your shuttle will do a quick cinematic and when the cinematic is over it would show your shuttle already landed on the surface with the crew outside of the shuttle. Your crew could technically move as if they were on one large ship, only the sprites are different and it appears you are on a planets surface or inside a mine, cavern, alien hive, whatever new sprites and backrounds they wish to draw up. It would honestly be pretty simple to do but add a lot of replayability and story.

[ximslammin]

Originally posted by TomCat86:

Theoretically it would be easy to implement. First, you would use a shuttle with the desired crew, fly it to the planet icon, click explore or land. It will do a cut scene, and pause' the other part of the game where your big ship is currently. Your shuttle will do a quick cinematic and when the cinematic is over it would show your shuttle already landed on the surface with the crew outside of the shuttle. Your crew could technically move as if they were on one large ship, only the sprites are different and it appears you are on a planets surface or inside a mine, cavern, alien hive, whatever new sprites and backrounds they wish to draw up. It would honestly be pretty simple to do but add a lot of replayability and story.

\Good idea

[TomCat86]

Originally posted by Wolf:

Originally posted by TomCat86:

Theoretically it would be easy to implement. First, you would use a shuttle with the desired crew, fly it to the planet icon, click explore or land. It will do a cut scene, and pause' the other part of the game where your big ship is currently. Your shuttle will do a quick cinematic and when the cinematic is over it would show your shuttle already landed on the surface with the crew outside of the shuttle. Your crew could technically move as if they were on one large ship, only the sprites are different and it appears you are on a planets surface or inside a mine, cavern, alien hive, whatever new sprites and backrounds they wish to draw up. It would honestly be pretty simple to do but add a lot of replayability and story.

\Good idea

Thank you

[TomCat86]

Originally posted by Wantoomany:

I seriously doubt it. It is beyond the scope of the game and would undermine the lore. If you could land on a planet why bother continuing on to Eden?

Because not every planet is hospitable for humans, some may be too hot, too cold, barren, or even have hostile aliens.

[Nebelbiber]

I think it would feel a bit odd to only land on one specific spot on a planet. A planet is huge and has A LOT to explore, in contrast to asteroids or ships.

It would also break the gameplay to have a crew on a planet as in the game you see everything happening at once. I don't know how it should work to have a crew on a planet while simultaneously your ship is in orbit. Pausing that part of the game would break the immersion imo, because the ship should still be needed to run, resources should deplete and other ships might enter the sector.
If anything I think that either the whole ship should land on the surface, or you send pods down on the planet without direct control over them.

I don't know what the devs are planning in regards to finding Eden/beating the game, but I think part of it could be to scan/probe/analyze planets that look promising and may be able to support life, now or in the future. Terraforming could be a late-game technology required to make a planet truly hospitable.

[ximslammin]

You could treat it like Starflight. Scan planets and send a drone down to mine for minerals, etc.

[jje64]

And just like that... you're playing the original X-Com, but in reverse.

[MonkehMaster]

Originally posted by Wantoomany:

I seriously doubt it. It is beyond the scope of the game and would undermine the lore. If you could land on a planet why bother continuing on to Eden?

isnt out of the "scope" of the game and would not undermine the "lore", landing on planets was part of their kickstarter...

[Wantoomany]

Originally posted by MonkehMaster:

Originally posted by Wantoomany:

I seriously doubt it. It is beyond the scope of the game and would undermine the lore. If you could land on a planet why bother continuing on to Eden?

isnt out of the "scope" of the game and would not undermine the "lore", landing on planets was part of their kickstarter...

Well then clearly it will happen anytime now. Probably right after they add multiplayer.

Anytime now.

[Oz270]

Would be nice if you can land multiple times on a planet but it's all randomised unless you "bookmark" the coordinates.

[Nebelbiber]

Originally posted by MonkehMaster:

isnt out of the "scope" of the game and would not undermine the "lore", landing on planets was part of their kickstarter...

Thanks for pointing that out. But it wasn't "part of their kickstarter" it was just a possible module that might get implemented, but would require a lot of work:

"Landing on Planets - This would be a big task, and would require a lot of time. It is something we dream of though. With enough funding we could give it a serious thought."