Planetary Space Battles

That's not a bad idea... seeing Sophon cities being sieged below your fleets sounds cool, but I'm not sure the game engine allows a lot of background animation during fleet battles, and anything too flashy could distract from the battle itself.

Wouldnt it be against lore? i mean ships are firing nuclear missiles and other stuff, things on that scale are going to mess up with the atmosphere, at least space has the excuse of being empty so yeah, but i like the look of it so i going to upvote it anyways :P. 

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solrac137 wrote:

Wouldnt it be against lore? i mean ships are firing nuclear missiles and other stuff, things on that scale are going to mess up with the atmosphere, at least space has the excuse of being empty so yeah, but i like the look of it so i going to upvote it anyways :P. 

If that were true then planetary bombardment wouldn't exist lore-wise. And yes, it does screw with the ecosystem, and maybe that's the idea in the first place.

A great idea.

I'd love to see something like this be in the game, it would add to the immersion, not to mention it'd look awesome as heck!

ValhallasAshes wrote:

Could be interesting.  But I think these should be special events, otherwise they become just as inconsequential and generic as normal space battles (Don't get me wrong Dev's.  I still love the regular battle maps).  I think where the atmospheric battles would have the biggest impact, would be around faction capitol planets.  A kind of spectacle of a battle when fighting in orbit of faction's homeworlds.  It would make you want to watch the capitol planet battles with each faction's home planet having their own unique battle map.  Further giving factions their own unique identity and giving a sense of achievement for conquering a homeworld.

Personally I think that if they based the background scenery according to the planet's type, racial style of architecture, population and system level (IE: Colony, Settlement, etc) they could avoid those problems, although granted, it'd be a very difficult undertaking to make a background scenery generator that runs in according to these factors for only immersion and aesthetic purposes.

Either way, if they manage to make the battlefields a bit more diverse and dynamic even by just a little bit, it'd still be a major plus in my opinion!

I hope the devs find this idea as good as we do.

With the last launch trailer (https://youtu.be/QBo-4f3b90o?t=1m56s), this idea is even more appealing!

That's not a bad idea...I ike this idea

Just imagine how cool it would be to see your feels battle in the atmosphere of an Ash type Planet, with massive storms in the background, or above an Ocean Planet and see giant alien whales come out for air from time to time.

It would be so cool!

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up-voted.

There should be an option to disable planetary space battles, due to big hardware hits on low-end PCs. 

They also should be triggered on unique planets like Auriga.