Overlapping Planets

Any plans to fix this?

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Two nights ago while playing version 1.11, I ended up having two volcanic planets that almost completely overlapped one another.  It would have been almost impossible to place structures in them or to coordinate a battle.  Are there any plans to fix this problem?  Perhaps the random maps could be modified so that no planet can be less than a radius of 5 or 10 Galaxy Forge units away from one another?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

we did this once in galaxy forge for shits and giggles. We put 5 star systems on top of eachother, and needless to say, the engine did not like rendering 90 tactical grids at the same time.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

The random map generator does this to me all the time. Usually its a colonizable being overlaped by an uncolonizable on my maps. I like to make really small maps with lots of stuff in it, so that might be my problem.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Basically it can happen, but is very rare - its a quirk of the random map generator thats been there since version 1.0.  I've only ever once seen it in any of my games

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

I've seen it in a few - its hard to get to the bottom planet with a fleet, let alone colonise and put stuff on it..

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

at least if you could be able to build things on it easly, it would be easy to defend two at once

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

I've seen a wormhole right in the middle of a planet!  At first I couldn't figure out why that planet was hazy? And why it sorta glowed?  I thot, for sure, that the other player had hacked the map... somehow.  I didn't trust him, and since it was my first game online, I was freaked out.

Untill we both finally figured it out together.  It made it a very memorable game.

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