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| Ryuu96 said: - 10% of planets have any life on them. Good ratio, Imo. - Fully surveying planets and systems gives a lot of money. Oh I'm going to be spending hours surveying planets, Lol. - Creatures can fight each other, you will see it - one of the development problems has been aggressive high level creatures killing off all other creatures on a planet.
- Pass on answering if there's black holes in the game. I wonder if he passed because it's part of the main story. |
Honestly 10% feels low to me from a gameplay perspective. Sure, it's alot less than 10% in the real universe, NASA has estimated that just 1% of planets in the Milky Way galaxy are orbiting their star within the habitable zone (the zone where temperatures on the planet could potentially allow water to exist in liquid form, without water a planet can't sustain life), and alot less than that 1% in the habitable zone would actually have life on them. But ignoring the science of the real galaxy, and speaking from a gameplay perspective, having over 900 planets (in a game with 1000+ planets) that are just barren rock where you can go to mine minerals and complete the surveying completion list by cataloging each mineral that can be mined on that planet, feels a bit lacking to me honestly. That kind of seems like a lot of busy work for those who like to complete games 100%, having 900 planets where the only thing to do is surveying all of the mineral that can be mined. Really hope there isn't an achievement for surveying every planet, lol, that may have one of the longest achievement completion times of any game on Xbox if there is an achievement for that.
For the average gamer, it won't be an issue at all, they will largely stick to the 100+ planets with life, and especially the ones with human settlements and side and main quests on them. I just feel bad for the completionists who will actually have to survey all of those 900+ lifeless, barren rocks.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 22 June 2023
