Planet environment idea thread

[Valiant70]

Please post your ideas for whacky planet environments here!

• Deep underground in green planets, generate caverns with bioluminescent fungi!
• Atmospheric color varies somewhat within planet types
• Water volcanoes on ice planets, complete with liquid underwater caverns to explore (kind of like exploring through lava, but colder)
• Abandoned space labs overgrown with life from a completely different type of planet (escaped specimens)
• Planets covered by weird fog at low altitude, and weird-looking swirly clouds with lightning in the upper atmosphere. Hovering/floating manta ray-like fauna that feed on lightning. Coral-like flora.
• Atmosphere that makes your vision rosy-tinted and slightly wobbly if you take your helmet off
• Planet covered entirely by water with a lush, peaceful bottom and damaging plasma storms with very little air above the water.

Perhaps these won't be explicitly programmed, but rather made as possibilities in a procedural system? In any case, this is a brainstorm thread. Go crazy!

 

[Asmodium]

Planet made up of gas (maybe possible to be mined)

some Planets have rings

Trees

crashed pirate ships

 

[Valiant70]

crashed pirate ships

Perhaps a random chance for them to be partially or completely submerged in water, lava, or other liquids.

 

[Asmodium]

Perhaps a random chance for them to be partially or completely submerged in water, lava, or other liquids.

ya i like it

 

[Dr. Whammy]

Shine teased us with that gif and hasn't said anything about planets ever since. I'm actually working on some low-lag DIY planets to bridge the gap.

It would be nice if you could have always on gravity generators for the different faces.

 

[Lone_Puppy]

These would be so cool!

On a couple PVP servers, I've been leaving random stuff on planets for people to stumble upon.

• Structures
• Factories
• Ships
• Treasure caves with loot in them. ;-)

They're nothing major, but hopefully bring a wee surprise to the players.
[doublepost=1504041185,1504041072][/doublepost]Oh, I also leave ships floating in space loaded with random stuff.
As well as leaving ships and stuff on the odd Derelict here and there. Like a ship docked to the anchor of shipyards.
If you find one of these, it's most likely left there by me.
[doublepost=1504041219][/doublepost]All unfactioned by the way.

 

[Dr. Whammy]

When I exhaust the resources of a planet or if war breaks out nearby, I sometimes evacuate the area and intentionally leave the planet with the remnants of an abandoned/ruined. city.

 

[Asmodium]

When I exhaust the resources of a planet or if war breaks out nearby, I sometimes evacuate the area and intentionally leave the planet with the remnants of an abandoned/ruined. city.

maybe they can incorporate a few of those ruins into the game so not all planets are barren

of course some planets could have a acidic atmosphere to cold or to hot making them unlivable just like the real deal

 

[nogg]

it would be interesting to have caves on planets that have large crystalline formations made of the game's already existing glowing crystal blocks. something looking like this perhaps?