Re: Mapping Sol
 

yeah, to high oxygen = bad.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Earth should be an Oxygen planet - Medium sized IMHO.

IMO, there should be 9 Planets. Quaoar is technically a Kuiper Belt Object. Although Pluto and Charon are also Kuiper belt "objects", but they've been classified as a planet for a long time, so should be treated as a planet.

The larger moons should be included IMHO: This includes The Moon, Charon, all larger moons of Jupiter and Saturn: Europa, Ganymede, Io, Titan, Etc. Deimos and Phobos shouldn't be included in the map, since they are asteroids.

Just my two cents.

[ August 14, 2003, 04:24: Message edited by: TerranC ]

Re: Mapping Sol
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You could always make a random map and just move the systems around and rename them. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Re: Mapping Sol
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You could always make a random map and just move the systems around and rename them. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yea that would be cool. Now can someone else do it? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Re: Mapping Sol
 

Well, SE4 isn't exactly made to represent solar systems very well. There's no real sense of scale; IIRC, if you made a scale model of our solar system with the sun the size of a basketball, Neptune's orbit would be about a mile out. And in the stock files, there are only five planet sizes (Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, Huge)...

I don't recall the specifics of the atmospheres for all the major moons -- major as in they're usually noted, not because they're large; thus Phobos and Demios, and Charon would count, even if they are barely larger than an asteroid -- but it would go something like
tiny rock/none
small or medium rock/methane (orange picture)
small or medium rock/oxygen (Earth-y picture)
small rock/carbon dioxide (red picture)
huge astroid field
huge gas/hydrogen
large gas/hydrogen
large gas/methane? (not sure on Uranus' composition)
medium gas/methane? (not sure on Neptune's either)
tiny ice/none

All the moons would be tiny, and the gas giants should have asteroid fields in addition to moons (rings). That's probably as close as you're going to get.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes, I think.

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Hehe nice Will I actually tried to figure this out too. Here's what I got (with my atmosphere differences in bold although yours may me right) (PS I think my atmosphere types are right but the sizes are just a guess)

Mercury- tiny rock/none
Venus - medium rock/ CO2
Earth- medium rock/oxygen (Earth-y picture)
Mars - medium rock/ none (red picture)
huge astroid field
Jupiter - huge gas/hydrogen
Saturn - large gas/hydrogen
Uranus - medium gas/methane
Neptune - medium gas/methane
Pluto - tiny ice/none

[ August 14, 2003, 05:04: Message edited by: DavidG ]

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I thought Mars did have an atmosphere? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It does, but I guess he considers it too thin to be worthy of an atmosphere in the game. I'd say it's about 95% CO2, so I'd make it a CO2 rather than none!

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Maybe for the asteroid belt, we can have many asteroid fields arranged in a circle between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Then we'll have a complete ring of asteroids around the sun, not just a single cluster.