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Alyssa SaintCroix
Leihkasse Stammheim
#1 - 2012-07-11 02:52:52 UTC
Silly question, why are they so dang bright? I mean c'mon... I enjoy PI as much as the next person (ha!) but do you have to visually assault my eyes in the process?
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Doomheim
#2 - 2012-07-11 06:05:33 UTC
Marinte
Wraith Industries
#3 - 2012-07-12 00:45:21 UTC
It's actualy accurate. A planet covered in Ice would reflect so much light it would be shiny as hell.
Abditus Cularius
Clancularius Industries
#4 - 2012-07-12 00:57:28 UTC
Well, trying to apply reality to Eve - a planet that was close enough to the nearest star to reflect a significant amount of light would be less likely to be cold enough to be ice-covered on the star-facing side.

But, this is space submarines. It's bright because some art guy wanted it to be visually striking.
Anya Ohaya
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#5 - 2012-07-12 01:26:59 UTC
Abditus Cularius wrote:
Well, trying to apply reality to Eve - a planet that was close enough to the nearest star to reflect a significant amount of light would be less likely to be cold enough to be ice-covered on the star-facing side.

But, this is space submarines. It's bright because some art guy wanted it to be visually striking.


You know that the Earth has effectively been an ice world more than once in its history? If it wasn't for the CO2 in the air, Earths oceans would soon freeze solid.
Bath Sheeba
Another Success Story
#6 - 2012-07-12 15:03:41 UTC
Anya Ohaya wrote:
Abditus Cularius wrote:
Well, trying to apply reality to Eve - a planet that was close enough to the nearest star to reflect a significant amount of light would be less likely to be cold enough to be ice-covered on the star-facing side.

But, this is space submarines. It's bright because some art guy wanted it to be visually striking.


You know that the Earth has effectively been an ice world more than once in its history? If it wasn't for the CO2 in the air, Earths oceans would soon freeze solid.



You mean mean solar output, not CO2, right?
Styth spiting
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2012-07-13 21:26:10 UTC
Bath Sheeba wrote:
Anya Ohaya wrote:
Abditus Cularius wrote:
Well, trying to apply reality to Eve - a planet that was close enough to the nearest star to reflect a significant amount of light would be less likely to be cold enough to be ice-covered on the star-facing side.

But, this is space submarines. It's bright because some art guy wanted it to be visually striking.


You know that the Earth has effectively been an ice world more than once in its history? If it wasn't for the CO2 in the air, Earths oceans would soon freeze solid.



You mean mean solar output, not CO2, right?


The problem isn't that they are so bright, is that when trying to setup extractors you have to look at a little white dot in a transparent white circle and try to get that place within another white oval area while not overlapping other transparent white circles on a big bright white ball.
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Doomheim
#8 - 2012-07-14 06:44:40 UTC
The thing with PI on ice planets is that you gotta stay cool Bear
Zaraz Zaraz
Zontik Paraphernalia Inc
#9 - 2012-07-15 14:05:54 UTC
I found it was the shader settings.

My GPU isn't so good at high shader settings, it gets pretty hot. When I do PI and go to an ice world I temporarily increase shader quality and it looks a lot easier on the eyes.
Amenotep Polo
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#10 - 2012-07-16 12:22:11 UTC
Anya Ohaya wrote:
Abditus Cularius wrote:
Well, trying to apply reality to Eve - a planet that was close enough to the nearest star to reflect a significant amount of light would be less likely to be cold enough to be ice-covered on the star-facing side.

But, this is space submarines. It's bright because some art guy wanted it to be visually striking.


You know that the Earth has effectively been an ice world more than once in its history? If it wasn't for the CO2 in the air, Earths oceans would soon freeze solid.


It's the 21st century, people don't believe CO2 being a greenhouse gas shenanigans anymore.