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M-class planet without lights?

uncle2fireuncle2fire Member Posts: 68 Arc User
edited March 2014 in The Foundry for Star Trek Online - Discussion & Feedback
The title says it all.

For a mission I'm working on, a system needs to have an M-class planet, but it also needs to be uninhabited. Unfortunately, all the M-class planets in the foundry seem to have lights all over them to show they're inhabited. Any help would be appreciated!
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  • grylakgrylak Member Posts: 1,594 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Can't you use a non light planet and call it m class in the dialogue?
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  • paxfederaticapaxfederatica Member Posts: 1,496 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    grylak wrote: »
    Can't you use a non light planet and call it m class in the dialogue?

    The problem there is that there are no non-lighted planets available that look the way a typical Class M planet looks.

    This is another shortcoming that the Foundry has had from Day One. Really, none of the planets should have baked-in lights or other signs of civilization; those sorts of things should have been made optional textures that authors could add to a planet after putting it on the map. Likewise for other planetary effects, such as varying degrees and hues of cloud cover.
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  • thegreendragoon1thegreendragoon1 Member Posts: 1,872 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    You could always keep the player sun-side of the planet. Besides, M-class look like many things, not just blue and green.
  • grylakgrylak Member Posts: 1,594 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    thegreendragoon1 wrote: »
    You could always keep the player sun-side of the planet. Besides, M-class look like many things, not just blue and green.


    Exactly. Earth and Vulcan are both Class M, but are completely different visually. Why not here? Heck, pretty sure Jeroa in my mission was not a class M planet in the list, but it fit what I envisioned, so in it went. And that one is meant to be populated.
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