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Kain Spero Imperfects Negative-Feedback 1037	Posted - 2013.03.06 21:52:00 - [1] - Quote Beren Hurin wrote: I'm taking this as a hint that this next build will contain atmospheric processors. And we will be able to terraform planets. This would be amazing and give a tangible benefit for owning a district or planet for a long duration. Basically allow Dusters to establish structures that can modify and enhance the resource yield. In the long run it could even be where we can change Barren planets to temperate. Heck maybe even go the other way.
Buster Friently Rosen Association 68	Posted - 2013.03.06 21:57:00 - [2] - Quote That was quick. +1 to the general idea of terraforming.
Shledder Valor Coalition RISE of LEGION 4	Posted - 2013.03.06 21:59:00 - [3] - Quote Support this fully. Halo has forge mode which gives people easy ways of making their own maps, possibly Dust could be similar. If you own the district, you get to make changes to the map which represents it.
Canari Elphus Pro Hic Immortalis RISE of LEGION 22	Posted - 2013.03.06 22:04:00 - [4] - Quote Kain Spero wrote: Beren Hurin wrote: I'm taking this as a hint that this next build will contain atmospheric processors. And we will be able to terraform planets. This would be amazing and give a tangible benefit for owning a district or planet for a long duration. Basically allow Dusters to establish structures that can modify and enhance the resource yield. In the long run it could even be where we can change Barren planets to temperate. Heck maybe even go the other way. Be careful with them though.. they are multi-million dollar installations and create quite a show if you damage their cooling systems.
Buster Friently Rosen Association 68	Posted - 2013.03.06 22:09:00 - [5] - Quote Shledder wrote: Support this fully. Halo has forge mode which gives people easy ways of making their own maps, possibly Dust could be similar. If you own the district, you get to make changes to the map which represents it. This supposedly is coming. Terraforming is something different. It might not make sense if you aren't exposed to Eve, but terraforming involves changing the climate of a planet. For game purposes, this could translate into being able to move the planet type back and forth over time. For instance :temperate to barren and vise versa. Oceanic to storm and vice versa. Plasma to lava and vice versa.
Kain Spero Imperfects Negative-Feedback 1037	Posted - 2013.03.06 22:18:00 - [6] - Quote Yeah, with the right balance this could be really awesome. Allowing players to change the face of New Eden through terraforming would be awesome.
Canari Elphus Pro Hic Immortalis RISE of LEGION 22	Posted - 2013.03.06 22:29:00 - [7] - Quote Aliens reference fail... going back into my cave
Rhapsodyy Darkforce SyNergy Gaming 2	Posted - 2013.03.06 22:36:00 - [8] - Quote Nope sorry disagree. We already have in new eden a number of differant types of planets, we are just fighting on temperate planets atm. There are also, gas, plasma, lava, ice, barren, oceanic and prob a cpl more im forgetting. And eventually these planets will also be opened up to us hopefully. Also each type of planet is used in eve to extract resources for production, terraforming a planet or changing the type of planet it was would then change resources all around the planets in eve which i dont think would go down to well.
Buster Friently Rosen Association 68	Posted - 2013.03.06 23:03:00 - [9] - Quote Rhapsodyy Darkforce wrote: Nope sorry disagree. We already have in new eden a number of differant types of planets, we are just fighting on temperate planets atm. There are also, gas, plasma, lava, ice, barren, oceanic and prob a cpl more im forgetting. And eventually these planets will also be opened up to us hopefully. Also each type of planet is used in eve to extract resources for production, terraforming a planet or changing the type of planet it was would then change resources all around the planets in eve which i dont think would go down to well. The fact that terraforming would change what could be produced on a planet is precisely the point. Now there's something to fight about that dust can actively contribute to. I assume, that as time goes on, the two games will have many modes of interaction that aren't entirely voluntary by all parties. This is a great example of one such way.
Kain Spero Imperfects Negative-Feedback 1038	Posted - 2013.03.06 23:07:00 - [10] - Quote Rhapsodyy Darkforce wrote: Nope sorry disagree. We already have in new eden a number of differant types of planets, we are just fighting on temperate planets atm. There are also, gas, plasma, lava, ice, barren, oceanic and prob a cpl more im forgetting. And eventually these planets will also be opened up to us hopefully. Also each type of planet is used in eve to extract resources for production, terraforming a planet or changing the type of planet it was would then change resources all around the planets in eve which i dont think would go down to well. There would have to be time and cost associated with it to give it balance. I'm not talking flip a planet type in a day. Also, I see this more for making barren planets into temperate ones or just upgrading a temperate planet to a new tier. Even if you don't change the type of the planet, terraforming could be a more for increasing the the PI yield of certain resources over time. I understand that it would impact PI as i have been involved with PI for close to 18 months now. That is kind of the point.

Thrillhouse Van Houten Expert Intervention Caldari State 17	Posted - 2013.03.07 04:44:00 - [11] - Quote Even futuristic terraforming would take many years, I reckon. I like the idea of making a desert planet more fertile (Arrakis ring any bells?) or causing extreme cooling at the poles of a lava planet, making it cheaper in the long run to harvest ores in the cool patches. There are already a host of Planetology skills in Eve that could easily carry over to Dust. I'm fine with SOME terraforming ops not being excruciatingly expensive but basically any futuristics of sci-fi themed terraforming in any novel or game has one thing in common: time. Time, time, time. It can be really freaking cheap to alter the climate of even an entire planet if the science and motivation is there. Again, thinking planet Arrakis in the Dune novels. It just takes several generations and the conscious effort of the entire populace of the planet. Basically, all they do is cache water from dew collectors for 15 years, slowly letting it build until enough exists to plant massive oases, which collect more water on their own and on and on... Cooling a magma planet would probably be much, much more expensive. Solar blockers in orbit or some kind of massive tubes that draw frigid air from space down into the crust of the planet or something. Pricey. Maybe still cheaper than the brutal expense of mining on shield protected platforms floating in lava? Very interesting, fun and expansive idea that is hardly infeasible from an Eve or Dust standpoint. Love to be the guy on the ground floor selling THAT tech in New Eden.


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