Weird planets in lore? - Page 7

theBOOCH

United States832 Posts

November 02 2011 20:12 GMT

#121

Blizzard is typically lazy with research and accuracy on things like that, but not because they're unaware, they just like to do things that way. They like to take a "creative" approach to their games, rather than a realistic one. I't definitely not my favorite style, and I think it detracts from the suspension of disbelief in some of their games, notably wow, but in SC2 as well. It would be cool if SC2 had a 2001:A Space Odyssey-esque realness to the art design, but oh well. They have other things to do I guess.

Signum

Canada99 Posts

November 03 2011 21:00 GMT

#122

Atmospheric water vapour contributes heavily to the greenhouse effect, so its one solution that solves both the lack of water and the distribution of heat without ocean currents problem.

United States417 Posts

November 04 2011 08:11 GMT

#123

Earth once had little ice at the poles and was perfectly habitable (by these big dinosaur things no less), is it so much to assume that a planet could be just a few degrees warmer and have no ice caps? There have also been periods of extensive forest cover on the continents, so a "jungle" world really isn't far-fetched at all since we kinda live on a former jungle world. I think it's really less actual single-biomes than a simple lack of details given out.

MaV_gGSC

Canada1345 Posts

November 04 2011 18:45 GMT

#124

It's a game.

Geovu

Estonia1344 Posts

November 05 2011 07:01 GMT

#125

On November 02 2011 12:57 Amel wrote:
we should just go check the warhammer 40k lore, i bet the answers were looking for are there

All of the 40k lore is amazingly detailed and flushed out, and makes sense (Relatively speaking). There's a bit more to everything then "Let's make this planet a big factory, ooh and this one can be an apartment complex. Cool beans! Oh and sometimes you spontaneously combust or get permanently lost while traveling through space"

On the other hand, that is Blizzard's exact mindset.

"Hmm, we haven't had any missions where we used our jungle preset yet, let's make a jungle planet. Hmm... we don't have much Protoss enemies either, how about we just through in some "traitors" that the player won't feel bad about fighting? Oh and don't forget to throw in a space mission or cutscene with that cool planet backdrop Samwise thought up."

tsango

Australia214 Posts

November 06 2011 00:52 GMT

#126

depending on the number of suns around it and its rotational path, anything is possible with respect to the poles and equatorial boundaries

Ashes

United States362 Posts

November 06 2011 06:15 GMT

#127

On November 06 2011 09:52 tsango wrote:
depending on the number of suns around it and its rotational path, anything is possible with respect to the poles and equatorial boundaries

This exactly, I was going to type the same thing. depends on the number of suns present which might be equidistant from all points on the sphere! :D

SoniC_eu

Denmark1008 Posts

November 17 2011 20:11 GMT

#128

Wow lotsa comments

hehe