Orbiting Moons

posted on December 25th, 2004, 1:50 pm

I was making some map, and it occured to me that it would be so great if You could make resource moons orbit slowly planet or planetoid. The speed of that would have to be very slow, because the collectors must be able to move faster than the moon itself. You could also go back to original idea from A1 and make asteroid belts move . Tell me if You liked the idea.

posted on December 25th, 2004, 2:40 pm

i like this idea but i think the orbiting moons whood need to look difran more like lorge rocks than planits.

posted on December 25th, 2004, 7:39 pm

It would be cool if you could colanise the planet and then afterwards colanise the moon

posted on December 26th, 2004, 3:49 am

i whood think it whood be cool so after we colinised a planit/moon it whood look difrant. and ech race whood have a difrant look.

posted on December 26th, 2004, 5:36 am

or after you colonize the planit you get the recorese on the moon wiht out mineing it. this was a good idea.

posted on December 26th, 2004, 5:58 am

You could also get some kind of bouns for colonizing a planet or moon.

posted on December 26th, 2004, 2:21 pm

orbiting moons might be possible but i dont thing if done this way you could mine from them, you have a planet sod for your planet and also one for your moon, but with the moon you have the moon animated to orbit around the center of the sod at a certain distance or summat.

posted on December 26th, 2004, 2:52 pm

yep, think so too

[Azraael]

posted on December 26th, 2004, 8:25 pm

Last edited by Azraael on December 26th, 2004, 8:34 pm, edited 1 time in total.

What i really ment, was that it is not neccesary to put together a planet and a moon. Only to make moon moveable like any object in game,and set it on "patrol" around any object on many waypoints to make the impression of circle. Maybe it would requier change in making patrol routes - a way between two point could be not only a line but also a curve( this way it is possible to make perfect circle without many waipoints and stopping on reaching one). Tell me if this is possible in any way, or the whole concept is junk. mg:

posted on December 26th, 2004, 8:26 pm

well u might but going to the idea of making it one object it could work as u could set the Hp for the mining beams to be the moon it could work but i dunno