No Man's Sky

No Man's Sky

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Red Earth 9 Oct, 2024 @ 4:16pm
A planets with a very shallow atmosphere
I found this planet with deep pits and high mountains. So high that just flying my ship across the surface I'll skip back and forth from moving 200 u/s to over 1000 indicating I'm leaving the atmosphere and going into high altitude speeds. Birds fly low enough to clip through the ground. If I pulse engine to it, I can see trees as soon as I arrive. Also, it has storms with gravitational anomalies allowing for unlimited flight (with mid-air recharge) and I got high enough that it drained my environmental shields and life support. I'm pretty sure that means SPACE.

So, it that rare? I actually spent a week trying to re-find this planet. I noticed it's oddity, dropped a save beacon, and went back to my business. Weeks later I went looking for it. I at least knew it wasn't in the first galaxy but I had to go through several systems and many planets, and I can't resist exploring a little, and if I scan all but one animal I have to get the last right? That stretched out the task time. Finally found it. The system with chonky planets seemed familiar so seeing a planet with a save beacon I was optimistic I found it. Surprised to realise I'd found the system 11 months ago. I thought the whole place was a recent discovery, but I guess I just hadn't looked at all the planets back then.
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Mr. Bufferlow 10 Oct, 2024 @ 4:37am 
The planets with really steep and high mountains and incredibly low valleys are not super uncommon. Also, it is typical that traveling over the mountain versus sticking to the valleys will take you out of the atmosphere of the planet.

Not sure if the tops of mountains actually are above the atmosphere but they are right at the line if not.

They are super annoying to explore because of those features. It can be really difficult to find a POI and as often as not it is in the next valley over the mountain range so you lose the icon if you jump over the range in your ship because you move into space during the travel. You then have to reacquire it.

They are interesting, but annoying in general. One of the expeditions was based on such a planet and it was the one where you spend most of the expedition on that one planet while trying to find the parts to fix your "special" ship parts that are complicated to repair.

I hated that expedition and even named my base there "I hate this planet".:steamhappy:
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