A12 EXP - The Galaxy

I noticed 3 things that bothering me in maps:
1. Waypoints not always show in index, and after reloading game they random dissapers from map or index. Plus in alpha 11.5 when you don't checked "waypoint" box it was still visible on hud but white. That function disappeared too.
2. Lack of ore names in other planet/moon description only icons.
3. Maybe I did not understand some info correctly in Spanj's stream. But restriction in warp lines should be gone. I mean you should get ability to warp from every point to every point in system.

 

Okay, so, first off, the galaxy is amazing.

Right now we're trying to figure out how to adjust the default distance that the 'warp in zones' are set for each star type. 0.2 for dim stars, 0.4 for medium, and 0.7 AU for the large hot stars. Basically, we want to reverse that. Since solar panel output is only calculated by the distance to the star and doesn't take into account the luminosity class, we're looking to invert the ranges so that right up close and personal to a O class will give you much more power than you'd get from an M class.

Unfortunately, I can't find the table or data point in any of the config files where I can set that warp zone distance...

 

It's not able to be set in the random galaxy as far as I know. I think it's automatically adjusted based on the size class of the star.

 

@downwood0 I saved that star chart you posted to my custom scenario.

 

I would suggest our energy being better put towards lobbying eleon for this behaviour to change to solar panels being related to radiation at that point in space calculated from star output and distance from star. It is any easy calculation so they just need the will to do it.

 

What will we find there? Little Green "Friends" of Course

 

Unstable metal supergiant stars with a core of copper.

 

You're joking, right?
My question was in reference to what the Star Description was asking...

 

Yes... probably.
Green stars realistically would be made of copper, boron, barium, niobium, tellurium, thalium or tungsten. But at stellar densities heavier than copper the radiation in the system would be insane.
We're also in the Andromeda galaxy, where there are reported stars made of promethium.

 

I would be surprised if the amount of copper (or others you list) in a star is sufficient to make it actually appear green and probably at most a barely detectable spkike in a spectrograph (no idea if even TBH). In a supergiant I guess there is a higher chance of some copper, but I guess not boron.

AFAIK the apparent color of a star is I believe entirely determined by its color temperature - so you wont get green. I expect a 'green star' (really a blue one I guess) would appear white to us due to the broad spectrum emitted via black body radiation due to its surface temperature.

I would guess If the light of a supergiant is analysed, then I would expect to see spectrum lines resulting from heavier elements, but at such a level as to have little or no impact on the perception of the star by our eyes.

So probably no green stars (at least not to our eyes) - has to be a super massive alien construct - dyson sphere that lets green wavelengths out

 

are all the other planets supposed to be empty at the moment?

 

What do you mean with empty?
Each Planet I have visited/explored was "populated".

 

I have found quite a lot of empty planets as well - no POIs, no resources, but oddly sometimes enemy group spawns.

 

Just perfect for safe base.

 

I have yet to come across anywhere on any planet that isnt an easily defensible base location. I even tried building a build on a difficulty 5 planet (alpha 11.5) in the middle of zirax territory with loads of their bases all around (closest being just out of weapons range) and there were even NPC spawn locations in base weapons range (kind fo amusing when all hell break loose every few minutes and they all go boom).

Still didn't exactly give any sense of a perilous location for having the audacity to put down right next to them despite that by that stage they were max hostile and it was a huge base and pretty much anything else I could think of to actively piss them off

If 5 is the highest, then I feel we need a 10 or 15. Maybe lots of heavily armed patrol vessels instead of things that I can take down easily with my first SV by level 10 or so (ie as soon as I can find some magnesium for the rockets).

I appreciate part of the problem is some people have a hard time on easy starter planets with the drone base attacks, but for people who know what they are doing, I would be quite happy to start on a difficulty 5 planet with a dozen patrol vessels of varying levels of armament in the sky.

Its one of the reasons I like the swamp starter planet in project eden - there is something that can hurt you from the start including a poorly armed patrol vessel (which I feel was about right for a starting location - hurts, but evadable and killable relatively early) while it isn't grindy because resources are readily available.

In general I feel we need way more options for start locations so for eg a co-op team on a private server can choose a diabolical, but none grindy start of they want to that still has the right basic resources.

 

yea, sorry, by empty, i did mean no POI's and no resources. also, can't find any titanium. i'm not suggesting its broke, just wasn't sure if it was just me or if there was some kinda problem on my end. oh, and also the space near other planets besides the starter one are mostly empty as well, just a few no resource asteriods