when reaching a gas planet, you will float in it, and there will be other floating solid objects all around.
That's not how gas planets work. You cannot land on a gas planet particularly because the intense gravity would crush you, as well as them usually having incredibly toxic atmospheres, and violent weather. Even orbiting bodies get torn to shreds by them if the get to close (Saturns rings). I don't want that to come across as douche-y, so i'm sorry if it did.
going into the atmosphere directly doesn't make sense. you'd need a cloudbase in the upper atmospher you could walk around.
You can't land on a gas planet because it's surface is covered in a ocean of molten metal Edit: at least that's the current theory
Lol, the laws of nature will still apply in a billion years. Until the universe itself breaks down and collapses, I'm sure science will persist ...and even when that happens, if life is still around, it'll have bigger issues that "How do I fly to that planet....?"
What is scientific "fact" will be proven wrong later and after that something else. It is a never ending progression of theory, discovery, and realization. Believing that anything can be certain is the ultimate hubris of man, a species that has never left his own planet but to visit the Earth's moon. More often than not these days I see where scientists are perplexed by the "impossible" things they are observing out in our universe, planetary bodies and such that under their laws of physical understanding, shouldn't exist at all.
Here's an idea. I do think they should have some use. Maybe you can skim the surface for fuel or other resources? Just because it lacks a solid surface doesn't mean it's useless.
I can assure you it is more plasma, then metal. (Not that I have been to one getting taht deep would completely squash someone, even if they arent deep at all it would still squash you, not to mention the electirical storms, violent weather, the odd toxic cloud of ammonia and what have you), but I am really into this astronomy stuff.
I understand what you are saying Niviman, but personally I like that you can't go on gas planets.. It would probably feel very weird in terms of game play because there would be no solid land for you to step on. Plus no real solid minerals to mine : )
I think gas planets should have an use, no matter if they are filled with seas of molten metal or plasma having a giant planet that nobody can use for anything does not make sense.
Yeah something like that or just something that would be useful for everybody without being unrealistic.
I would love gas planets on which you could land , as end game planets. Although putting this would require the addition of a pressure hazard. It could be a planet that could only be accessed with durasteel and up armor. It would be composed of many floating shards of rocks with many minerals. The deeper you would go , the better the minerals would get , however the pressure would also increase , and would kill you if you went too deep. Getting better armor would allow you to go deeper , with impervium armor allowing you to go the deepest where you could maybe have a new ressource of some kind ( not a new tier of armor / weapon , but i'm sure someone can come up with a good idea) . Also people who think that you shoudn't be able to land on planets because " it's not realistic " should get out. This game is as realistic as the average holywood action movie. (also it's a game , where you have the added benefits of doing whatever you want.)
I think it would be great to go skulk around a gas planet! Maybe this is something that Avians would have a knack for later in the game? While I'm aware that there's not a whole, whole lot to see and do in a gas giant, it is my understanding that at least some of them are said to have liquid or solid cores, and as someone else said earlier, super high gravity. Maybe dealing with gas planets could be more like a high-stakes minigame; beam down to a sky platform from your ship, and then freefall down to the core in an environmentally-sealed suit. Along the way you'd have to dodge storms, lightning, acid clouds, and all the little aliens that are happy to see you. Then when you get closer to the core you have to use some kind of jetpack or something to slow down so that you don't hit it at terminal velocity. You know, kind of like that old game Lunar Lander? If you pull off the maneuver successfully, you get to reap the rewards; maybe there's some kind of tech or blueprints left down there that have somehow survived, or perhaps the core itself is made of some valuable material that you can exploit.
Actually, that would be a neat planet to go to. Clouds you have to leap across or else you fall into the deadly gas planet below.
