Holy Atmospheres, Batman!!! aka stating the obvious

[Slick]

Ok, I will start this thread because there have been several times where I suddenly realized something totally obvious that everyone else probably knows and I feel like a real bonehead for not realizing it earlier. I have played SE III for a long time and upgraded to SE4G when Gold was released. If not documented in the FAQ, or if you just have a funny story, post it here.

I just realized 15 minutes ago that you can tell the atmosphere type of a planet by its color. I know that everyone probably knew this, but I just realized it. DOH! No wonder I had been finding so frustrating to move alien population to the right breathing planet.

I don't normally use neutrals, so I didn't pick this one up early either, but about 2 months ago, I suddenly realized that you can immediately tell if a race is a neutral by their "bland" flag. After that ton of bricks hit me, I noticed that the same races always seem to be neutrals. Can anyone confirm that the batch of neutral races are always neutral? or are they sometimes non-neutral?

Of course, in the beginning, made all the rookie mistakes: no engines on a ship, not loading population on a colonizer, mothballing an entire fleet in space (including the spaceyard ship) so it got stranded, etc, etc...

Anyone else care to state the obvious that they didn't notice?

Slick.

[Fyron]

Neutrals are in Pictures\RaceNeutral

Non-neutrals are in Pictures\Races

[Slick]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Neutrals are in Pictures\RaceNeutral

Non-neutrals are in Pictures\Races

DOH!

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by Slick:


I just realized 15 minutes ago that you can tell the atmosphere type of a planet by its color. I know that everyone probably knew this, but I just realized it. DOH! No wonder I had been finding so frustrating to move alien population to the right breathing planet.

Slick.

Hmm... not always, for example there's a CO2 planet that has so much blue in its green I tend to mistake it for oxygen. The map editor will show you all the pictures under on heading.

Someone made a mod a long time ago that really changed pictures. I remember some airless moons were reddish brown.

[ January 18, 2003, 22:35: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

[Fyron]

Yeah, but those Carbon planets have vastly different patterns than the Oxygen planets, and it is fairly easy to tell them apart once you've played for a while.

What mod was that? Maybe it could be looted... err... borrowed from... for the Image Mod.

[couslee]

Another good example of the woes of colorblindness. I just checked this in my current game, and the first two carbon dioxide planets look completly different to me.