Holy Atmospheres, Batman!!! aka stating the obvious

Fyron · #1 January 19th, 2003, 01:07 AM

Play se4 a lot, and you'll memorize whatever they look like to you, and be able to tell at a glance what the planets are.

tbontob · #2 January 19th, 2003, 01:23 AM

I guess that is my problem...

I haven't played SE4 a lot!

Slick, you are not alone...

Will · #3 January 19th, 2003, 01:29 AM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Play se4 a lot, and you'll memorize whatever they look like to you, and be able to tell at a glance what the planets are.

Even after not playing for long periods of time. I don't play at school, and when I came home for winter break, I had (almost) no problem. There are two tiny planets that I mix up sometimes, the Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen tinies that have rings. CO2 is a tan color, and H2 is a reddish-brown. Usually if I give it more than a cursory glance, I can tell, but just scanning through systems, sometimes it fails to register.

But in stock SEIV, I'm pretty sure there's only about 200 planet pictures. Make a large map game, and play it from the afternoon until the wee hours of the morning. You'll know what all the planets are after that

Ed Kolis · #4 January 19th, 2003, 01:41 AM

I always mix up the two nearly-identical tiny planets with the squigglies all over them - one's hydrogen and one's CO2 I think... then there's the medium CO2 rock planet that looks like a gas giant, and the fact that some CO2 planets are green and some are brown...

Arkcon · #5 January 19th, 2003, 02:51 AM

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Originally posted by Imperator 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.

Was a long time ago, maybe the other oldtimers remember.

These old, overwired, memory neurons of mine seem to recal it was a husband and wife team? Or I could be delusional.

Slick · #6 January 19th, 2003, 03:18 AM

Anyone else not notice something obvious in the game for a year or so?

Or maybe you haven't noticed yet... Now I got ya thinking, don't I...

Slick.

primitive · #7 January 19th, 2003, 12:44 PM

I played a lot of games almost withouth using Waypoints. The amount of mouse-work (I thought it) required made it seem like a waste of effort. Then I accidentaly pushed Ctrl-1 while I had a ship selected and the ship moved to Waypoint 1.

primitive