I love randomly generated games. They add never ending gameplay and a reason to play each time. However I have noticed that their are only four different types of stars. Which are as following, frozen star, radioactive star, gentle star, and fiery star. I think it would be neat if you were to add rare galactic formations. For example black holes, supernova stars, red giant stars, two suns rotating around one other, and many other formations, or even planetary ruins from destroyed star systems. I would also like more planet variations. planet variations I think are a very neat aspect to the game. While there are quite a bit variations in planets more will top it off. Over all the game is quite amazing. <------ this is also amazing...
Yes, I feel like 5 tiers of gameplay isn't really enough... The game currently does not feel random, as if a monster drops it or it came from a chest, its junk. Binary Stars
Indeed i feel a bit more variety would be a really nice thing to have regarding the generation of the universe. I actually really like this idea of having more various celestial objects with unique features like black holes and such but i think it would be hard to relate any mechanics of the game to a black hole . Some of these could be just a universe "decoration" on the star map while maybe others could be encountered as well. It would be really neat indeed. Binary systems would be a really nice thing to have especially because as we know they are more common and more easly formed in the universe than single star systems. Another thing which could create a nice variety which i actually talked about here earlier http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/re-to-the-developers-return.88543/ and would be related to bringing the survival aspect of the game back is a more specific and various planet temperature nature. I think this system would be tremendously more interesting if let's say the old temperature system comes back and there would be planets which like i told earlier have various temperatures based on how close they are to their sun. Here I just came up with some of the variations there could possible be. Around Gently Stars : Moderatly Low Temperature -> Sometimes snow would fall on these planets. Day time with standard clothing on you would be fine without getting too cold. Night time standard clothing on you would start to cool down after a while and would need a heat source. ( Lust and Forest planets ) Moderate Temperature - > These planets could have season so sometimes you would get cold in winter and get a little hot in summer but you would be fine with standard clothing 80% of the time. ( Lust Forest and Desert Planets ) Moderatly High Temperature -> Sometimes dusk storms would appear on these planets. Day time with standard clothing on you would start to heat up after a while and would need an air-conditioned place to cool down. Night time with standard clothing on you would be fine without getting too hot. ( Forest and Desert Planets ) Around Eccentric Stars : All of the previous temperature variations would appear around these stars depending on their distance to their sun but mostly you would find planets : Moderatly Cold -> More snow would fall on these planets sometime with heavy storms. Day time with standard clothing on you would get cold after a while and would need a heat source. Night time with standard clothing on you would get cold quickly and would require a continuous heat source. ( Forest and Snow Planets ) Moderatly Hot -> More dusk stroms would appear on these planets. Day time with standard clothing on you would get hot qiuckly and would require continuous air conditioning. Night time with standard clothing on you would get hot after a while and would need and air-conditioned place to cool down. ( Desert Arid and Ocean Planets ) Around Radioactive Stars : All of the previous temperature variations would appear around these stars depending on their distance to their sun but mostly you would find planets : Here you would encounter the Tropical flora Alien and Poisinuous Ocean Planets and somtimes stumble to any of the previuous variation of planets with their appropriate temperature. Also these new "radioactive" planets could have any of the previous temperature natures depending on their distance to their sun. Around Frozen Stars : Just like previously sometimes you could stumble into a planet with Moderatly Low Temperature or Moderatly Cold but mostly you would find planets : Cold -> Heavy snow would fall on these planets with more storms. Day time with !!! appropriate clothing !!! on you would be fine without getting too cold. Night time with !!! appropriate clothing !!! on you would start to cool down and would have to find a heat soruce. Exrtemely Cold -> Extreme amount of snow would fall on these planets with frequent heavy storms. Day time with !!! appropriate clothing !!! on you would get cold after a while and would need to find to find a heat source. Night time with !!! appropriate clothing !!! on you would get cold quickly and would need a continuous heat source. Around Fiery Stars : Just like previuosly sometimes you could stumble into a planet with Moderatly High Temperature or Moderatly Hot but mostly you would find planets : Hot -> Heavy dusk storms would appear on these planets sometimes with meteor rains and earthquakes. Day Time !!! with appropriate clothing !!! ( naked ? or with a heat shield ) on you would get hot after a while and would need ti find an air-conditioned place to cool down. Nightime with !!! appropriate clothing !!! you would be fine without getting too hot. Extremely Hot -> Heavy dusk storms and frequent meteor rains hot liquid rains and earhtquakes would appear on these planets ( a true hell ) Day time with !!! appropriate clothing !!! on you would get hot quickly and would require continuous air-conditioning. Night time with !!! appropriate clothing !!! on your would get hot after a while and would need to find an air-conditioned place to cool down. Creating some good algorithms and teaching the engine how to generate the universe using different planet overlays with different temperature natures depending on sun-planet distance might be a task but i think this is a pretty reasonable layering of the tiers and nicely spreads the difficulty around the game as the player progresses. I think replacing the temperature system would be the most effecient with a system like this or a very similar if we want to create more content challange and diversity with one hit. This little system could change and pump extreme amount of life and realism into the game. P.S.: i will collect some of my ideas i gather around the forums and mix up with mines and update that link i posted above http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/re-to-the-developers-return.88543/ with things related to it so this little section might will be found there too.
What if we had it on some of the hotter planets, being in the sun itself starts hurting you as if you were in poison. Kind of like the planet in chronicles of riddick.
