I saw this a while ago, but I wanted to bring it back up now that the expansion is in full swing. Would people like to see all the improvements visible on the planet view? Basically having a 3D artistic representation of the progress of your colony. I thought of how in Sins NPC ships fly between planet and planet.

Yeah, i noticed the small shuttle flying, but didn't know it was a new thing...

meeeeeller wrote:
I saw this a while ago, but I wanted to bring it back up now that the expansion is in full swing. Would people like to see all the improvements visible on the planet view? Basically having a 3D artistic representation of the progress of your colony. I thought of how in Sins NPC ships fly between planet and planet.

In my opinion, the planet's massive city lights and the huge space stations orbiting a very populated planet are already satisfactory. But sure, I would love to see even more 3D visual effects in my systems.

For example:

- industry exploitation would make planet's atmosphere (and oceans, if available) visually more polluted (despite that industrialisation doesn't necessarily always mean pollution);

- food exploitation would add great green/brown/golden/alien fields to the planet's surface (and 'kelp'/'fish' farms, if oceans are available);

- commercial exploitation would add higher (visible from SPACE!) buildings to the planet's aglomerations;

- science exploitation would add some kick-ass radio telescope arrays, particle accelerators (again, visible from SPACE!) etc.

Eh? Eh?

I wonder why no one had offered to make visible improvemets?

It will be great! I dream of it.

Divine_Moments_of_Truth wrote:
For example:

- industry exploitation would make planet's atmosphere (and oceans, if available) visually more polluted (despite that industrialisation doesn't necessarily always mean pollution);

- food exploitation would add great green/brown/golden/alien fields to the planet's surface (and 'kelp'/'fish' farms, if oceans are available);

- commercial exploitation would add higher (visible from SPACE!) buildings to the planet's aglomerations;

- science exploitation would add some kick-ass radio telescope arrays, particle accelerators (again, visible from SPACE!) etc.

Eh? Eh?

Perfect concepts. However, I think that if you have an very advanced industrial exploitation technology, it wouldn't generate pollution on the planet.

Pollution probably would not factor in, what with all the 'dust' about. Haha, but I personally love the idea of more visual improvements. As I stated in my thread, there should be a better visual experience to your empire. I really like the idea with ships going between planets in a system. That might require some changes to the system view, however. It would need to look more solar system-ish.