I'm sure you got a lot of these, but ignore them as they would probably change the gameplay a lot. I, however have an idea that would make absolutely no impact on gameplay, but would make the game a bit better :)

Anyway, landing on planets is a feature that simply MUST be included. Why? Well, imagine whole nations living in space, building space stations, but totally ignoring planets... Seems a bit unnatural (as much as space colonisation can be (un)natural), doesn't it?

Interacting with planets doesn't have to be too much of a job, I suggest that planets are treated as any other space station. No walking on them, no nothing :) . Just like space stations. This is done in Freelancer, and works quite well, so I believe it would work here too, and make the game a bit more fun, without much work...

So, will you PLEASE add the feature to use planets, at least like ordinary stations?

PS : Sorry if my English is a bit rusty, it's not my native language.

Are you a troll?

Your suggestion has been made before. I think that sometime in the distant future they'll do what you suggest. If you read the backstory you'll see that the current situation isn't all that unnatural.

Also having millions of planets in the universe, a very minute percentage of a fraction of a percentage would be inhabitable, dispite pop culture.

however, in the backstory, terraforming is mentioned. This would allow for the slow transformation of an uninhabitable planet, into a habitable one.

This would allow for planets to slowly make their way into VO. Such as a terraforming progress meter, until people are able to dock on the planet.

you can land on planets and actually can also build your own.

when you want to fly, vo's the portal.

I just load doom2 to simulate landing on planets. it has perfect examples of lecter and miharu already built in.

I just load doom2 to simulate landing on planets. it has perfect examples of lecter and miharu already built in.

I lol-ed. I sometimes wonder if Rode-a is Arolte returned to annoy us, but then I remember that Rode-a's a halfway decent combat pilot.

He's just suggesting we have some kind of "planet stations" separate from "space stations". I actually pushed for something like this back in 2002, there's nothing that infeasible about it (no engine changes, the planet is just another menu, but can influence gameplay in some ways).

So, anyway, I don't think it's a bad idea, but it's not my biggest priority right now.

we know inc. we're yanking tails. because it's a dead horse issue.

Yeah, I know, I just feel badly for enthusiastic newbies making.. not unreasonable suggestions. Oh well.

i don't think landing on a planet with the ships available now is a good idea... they don't look like they have and heat shields... :D