[Discussion] Does Garden of Eden make sense on Asteroids?

Yes, certain anomalies don't make sense on every planet type.

No, just let it be randomized any way.

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Marthnn

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Marthnn

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Jun 5, 2012, 4:45:56 PM

In cases when even the best explanations are ridiculous or irrealist, anomalies should be limited. This, while maintaining the same probability of getting good, and bad, anomalies. Ideally the anomaly message fits the body, like not calling asteroids a planet.

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Jun 5, 2012, 8:15:26 PM

I disagree. The variation that is offered by random selection is terrific, for both gameplay and for making the setting interesting. At the very least, I want a checkbox to allow random anomalies.

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Jun 5, 2012, 8:29:02 PM

i agree that you can find an explication to everything in science-fiction,could be tweaked, or left alone it is good as it is for me right now

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Jun 7, 2012, 5:47:02 AM

I don't think the 'small pockets' excuse works for ice on a lava planet, or other stupid combos. The anomalies are WIDE SPREAD, thus they have to effect most of the planet. But the planet's surface itself is WIDE SPREAD too, so it has to effect most of the planet.

If Ice-10 on Lava planets = small pockets of ice, then why does that cause the effects that Ice-10 causes? A few pockets of diamond encrusted ice shouldn't cause any problems.

This is my reasoning for why these things don't work. Okay, fine. You can keep anomalies on contradicting planets, or at least some, but at the price of severely limiting their effects or having them cosmetic. It is simply stupid to assume that small pockets of Ice on a lava planet cause wide-spread effects.

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Jun 7, 2012, 5:56:17 AM

Would more of a graphical interface help easy your trouble...IO was already described as being a frozen volcanic planet. I have a hard time imagining anything for the Gas Planets though. They are the ones with the least amount of reference. Any habitats would be in capsules and not on the actual "surface" of the gas giant. The most logical living surface would be the moons of a gas giant...which are a different category all together. Though along with the primary gas, the pulled in stellar debris could make for better or worse "soil" to use after being collected. Garden of eden on a gas planet just doesn't seem to make sense because there isn't much of a surface to set up a garden on that isn't considered another trait.

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Jun 7, 2012, 6:40:49 AM

In the case of gas giants, possible forms of life would be something along the lines of floating spores, fungi, "gasbags" and possibly jovian birds. Now, an Garden of Eden would be considered an form of environment that allows lifeforms to thrive, by giving them plenty of food and increased biodiversity when compared to their equivalents. Maybe the world is in an perfect goldilocks zone, perhaps the world itself is composed of an material that lends itself to absorbing light especially well, then there is the possibility of an Endless Artisan who wanted to make ice sculptures on a lava world, just to tweak the nose of naturalists.

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Jun 7, 2012, 1:01:25 PM

I agree with OP. Random anomalies should be controlled as some of them don't make any sense.

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Jun 7, 2012, 3:53:55 PM

Agreed, not all anomalies fit all planets. Also, asteroid belts deserve a chance to have moons. Ours does.

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Jun 7, 2012, 3:56:05 PM

Czeak wrote:
I like this anomalies on unusual planet types. All was is needed is a litte bit of imagination.

Garden Eden on Astroids?

Ice-10 On Lava Planet?

Maybe some Diamond Pockets floating on the Lava with ICE-10 in it?

Poor/Good soil on a gas giant?

Some kind of drifting (flying) Island with soil on it?

Hostile fauna on an barren?

An planet coverd with slaver sunflowers? ( Larry Niven: "bred as defense for Thrint manors, they focus sunlight using silver leaves as parabolic reflectors". Or the gaint worms from Star Wars? (they're pretty hostile)

and so on - there is always an answer

I totally agree

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All are possible or imaginationable

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Jun 7, 2012, 4:04:19 PM

Ceres doesn't count as a moon...what with it not being a satellite of anything. Ceres is actually a dwarf planet like Pluto, Haumea, or Eris.

Stargem wrote:
In the case of gas giants, possible forms of life would be something along the lines of...

NOTHING, NADA, and ZILCH

Seriously, unless you count organic compounds as life then 'life' in a gas giant is only a little less unlikely than life inside a star. Sometimes we just have to deal with the absurdities in fantasy, space based or otherwise.

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