Is 100% Planet Viability Earned to Easily?
I returned to Eos and once the viability was at 100% it seemed I kept "raising" the viability after that. Repeatedly and this is wrong to me.
These numbers need to be re-calibrated so that you ne...
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Having a reward for reaching it was a good idea, but viability ends up being more an abstract term than anything else. It is tied to generally making the galaxy a better place to live. I wonder if originally it had actual visible results.
I know originally they were going to go with procedurally generated maps and ended up being disappointed with the quality of that and instead using the drawn ones. Don't get me wrong, the vistas pop and they made the right choice, but if it were procedural a little tweaking of the algorithm would gradually add more life to each planet as you changed viability. I think that's why you don't see the deserts blooming like in the final cutscene - because they would of had to render everything in the game again, and again, and again (or at least once more if you just want to do it post finale). Changing the color of the sky is easy. Re-rendering everything is not.
@jpcerutti1 wrote:
Having a reward for reaching it was a good idea, but viability ends up being more an abstract term than anything else. It is tied to generally making the galaxy a better place to live. I wonder if originally it had actual visible results.
I know originally they were going to go with procedurally generated maps and ended up being disappointed with the quality of that and instead using the drawn ones. Don't get me wrong, the vistas pop and they made the right choice, but if it were procedural a little tweaking of the algorithm would gradually add more life to each planet as you changed viability. I think that's why you don't see the deserts blooming like in the final cutscene - because they would of had to render everything in the game again, and again, and again (or at least once more if you just want to do it post finale). Changing the color of the sky is easy. Re-rendering everything is not.
There's always ideas thst sound good in theory but don't work so well in practice or take too much work to implement etc. As far as the planets go - I will settle for seeing the results in the next game as I am sure we will - its something to look forward to seeing all that hard work into practice.
I just hope that it's with Ryder.
