Posted by: Paul
« on: February 10, 2010, 01:59:46 AM »Quote from: "Steve Walmsley"
Quote from: "Paul"Most of the moon sizes and gravities in Sol are kinda funky. Titan shouldn't have near as high of a gravity as it does (it should be lower than Earth's moon). Callisto shouldn't have as much as it does either. Ganymede should have a bit more (but still not habitable in terms of Aurora). The inner planets are right, but I assume Steve just didn't bother looking up the correct gravities for all the little moons in the outer solar sytem.I thought I had looked them all up but I have just checked and you are correct. I am not sure where I got the incorrect information. At some point I need to update the Sol system anyway to add the various dwarf planets and newly discovered moons so I will sort it out then
Steve
Ah, Callisto. I shall miss thee. Heh, I've been making Callisto a major colony in every game. With the proper gravity it won't be suitable. Oh well, guess I'll have to settle for Mercury and Mars.
It's just aesthetic, but if you happen to have the time and the inclination when you do get to working on the Sol system it would be pretty cool to have the planets set to appropriate pictures too. I've been going in my games and setting the planets and major moons to real life pictures. Maybe I'm weird, but I find those blue blobs that everything is set to a bit unnerving (except in the case of Uranus, it fits that one very well).