Will it be possiable in a future/final version of Vendetta to go completly planetside, via flying thru the atmosphere of a planet? It would be interesting how dogfights would turn out using different planetary physics. This could also allow for groups of players to set up bases with defence systems. Even the planets themselves could have defence systems (haven't got the game downloaded yet, but the screenshots seems to indicate that there are some types of planet defences).

It's not likely that planets will be included due to the extreme size difference between them and everything else in the game. The planets you see in pictures are in the skybox, and are always the exact same distance from you no matter where you go (though I'm not sure anyone's ever gone far enough in the direction of a planet that they'd be able to tell the difference)

[Celebrim]This has been discussed many times before and if implemented, would require the development of a new engine.[/Celebrim]

Simply put, not likely to occur.

[some n00b]But we could use the ${engine_name} engine instead![/some n00b

[Everybody Else] too much work, too much time, no![/Everybody Else]



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Did anybody else think he was asking for Vendetta to be more like Planetside? :P

ya

nope, didn't mean Planetside the game. never even played it or seen screenshots of it.

Didn't you guys see my padlock icon?


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It would not require a new engine, it would simply require a function that limited where your ship could fly. A planet surface could simply be a sector reached like any other, but with a "reentry" animation instead of a "wormhole" animation, and a plane that served as the "ground", which would in essence be a very large, flat asteroid with ground textures. If the devs were really clever, you could add gravity. Not hard, it's just that you guys are thinking too big. Instead of whole planets where you land from space, you could simply have "surface sectors" with blue sky and green grass (or red lava or whatever).

How's about just make a ¨very big roid¨...like 20 km in size or something. Add a bunch of cities on top of it, some atmosphere or something like that and voilá a ¨planet¨.

I really would appreciate giant roids. With tunnels and junk inside.

There are no plans to be able to land on planets.

What Tempest suggested might not be out of the question, however.

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