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Ability to have more than three planet types in a game

Brennan Williams-Bilinski shared this feedback ago

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Thanks for all the hard work, I'm absolutely loving the console version of Space Engineers:)

Will it be possible in the near future to have more than three planet types in a game? My Xbox One X seems to handle ten Earth planets in the same game just fine with no drop in frame-rate, I'd just love to have a fully fleshed out system with all the planets present in one save.

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Chris Jones

Xbox. Star system map gone and planet spawning bugged.

On xbox the "star system" map with all the planets/moons isn't available and when trying to spawn the missing planets into a different map eg. "Home system" once you have spawned in three different planets the spawn list bugs out and only shows whichever three planets you've already spawned.

dracanta

xbox needs a stargate system or a space gate to load different save worlds with more planets

the stargate system can work best on a xbox due limetation you can have but to 3 planets but with a stargate system you can link up to a different save game with different planets this can help players to travel the starsystem the stargate or spacegate can be found in space just like the monolith a alien origins even on pc it can work but on pc travel faster and further then the jump drive 1 gate for star system but on the xbox for singe players worlds or multyplayer world this can help the gate needs to be bigger then the monolith and made of the same stuff as the monolith

Niels Kubel

3 planet types limitation question

So probably already discussed. But you say the game is limited to 3 planet types due to performance. Please check this link of a universe I created

https://gamerdvr.com/gamer/kubel83/screenshot/16764139

What you see here is 6 planets I put in on the Xbox one x.

There are 6 planets. Two Mars. Two Titan and two Alien.

Plus I’m having ships and buildings in that world spending over 80.000 PCU without performance drop.

So if the game can handle all that and six planets in various sizes, then surely it should be able to handle more than 3 types.

Now I’m no math guy. But if it can handle 6 or more planets of the same type, then one would think it could handle 6 planets but with one of each planet type. I don’t see how that would be more complicated. They are all the same voxels, but with different colors.

Just thought I would let you know ;)

Yikster Saunders

Supergrid and unlimited planets option

I see some workshops from steam pc what their have a option "supergrid" that can build a large grids stuff into a small grid and viceverse, can add this from xbox please?

And second, add The unlimited planets option to get more fun the world obtain all the planets in one please? Thank you and gretings

Connor wilkes-ryan

Planets

Whats the possibility of getting a earth planet ?? Not earth like but actually earth, i realise it would be 70-80% ice but i could easily ignore that for the ability to fly around earth from say the uk to american, also planets rotating around each other i.e the moon and earth, this would also efect space stations or satalites, also can we get more planets in the universe ? 3 planets are really not that great after weeks of gameplay..... Any increase to the pcu and player count would be great aswell

But still love the game and please keep up the good work

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Keen Support ●

Hi Niels,

every planet type has to load its definitions (topology, bioms etc.) and it takes huge amount of memory. Currently, we can fit only 3 of them in the Xbox One's memory.

Planet's instances on the other hand are re-using the same definitions in the memory, so taking as little memory as just information about their position plus some caches.

TLDR: currently, it is not possible. We will work on improving the Xbox One version going forward regarding the memory management though, so you never know :)

Keep voting. Thank you for your feedback!

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Keen Support ●

Hi Francesco,

this is a memory limitation. There is not enough memory on Xbox to fit more then 3 planets.

Sorry about that.

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Francesco Foresta ●

I know that some games with a very big open world and difficult mechanics have a sort of system where the world is divided into server and when the player pass the limit of the server, he is moved to another server with different biomes or in this case planets.

Is this possible to recreate for the xbox version?

An example of game with this mechanic is Atlas

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POLUX47 ●

what ? does it mean that we cant play all the planets on the same save on xbox one X ?? thats anoying

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POLUX47 ●

so 3 planets are the max, but i played on a custom star system with 10 planets earth, what is the issue to have 3 planets and 3 moons at the same time?

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Niels Kubel ●

I just tried the beta patch. I found out that I could place more than 3 planets. But once I had placed 3 different planets ,Titan, Alien and triton the game would only allow me to place the same type. So it seems strange that game can only have 3 different types of planets, yet I can place like 6 Mars planets or 8 alien worlds. Seems more like a strange coding than a limit restriction. Cause if I can place 6 huge mars planets then I don’t see why I can’t place 6 smaller and different planets.

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Niels Kubel ●

PS. One of the planets is out of the picture frame so you actually only see 5. But there are 6. I took this picture from a poor angle sorry :)

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Keen Support ● ●

Hi Niels,

every planet type has to load its definitions (topology, bioms etc.) and it takes huge amount of memory. Currently, we can fit only 3 of them in the Xbox One's memory.

Planet's instances on the other hand are re-using the same definitions in the memory, so taking as little memory as just information about their position plus some caches.

TLDR: currently, it is not possible. We will work on improving the Xbox One version going forward regarding the memory management though, so you never know :)

Keep voting. Thank you for your feedback!

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Brennan Williams-Bilinski ●

Thanks for responding, I love how involved you guys are in the community!!!

Would it be possible to have the other planets instanced, while using the Jump Drive to enter other systems (Distant Moons/Alien System?

For example, In order to reach the distant moons from Home System you have to jump into what will essentially be a separate map containing those 3 planets? Maybe give the Home system a set radius of 20,000-40,000km, and when you jump outside of that radius it gives the option to load into (Jump into) the Distant Moons or Alien System:)

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NOT MYNAME ●

Spawning in multiple planets in a creative world/ lone survivor works fine although I'm sure the planets were incorrect sizes, This could also be achieved by setting a "load other map at this cords function" a similar way Atlas uses its map grid transference. Please dont use any code from wildcard its garbage mad and messy

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Niels Kubel ●

Thank you, that makes sense. I can’t wait to see how the game evolves, cause I’m having a blast with it.

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Keen Support ●

We will consider this feature. Keep voting.

Thank you for your feedback!

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shadowtim3 ●

That would be an awesome mechanic. Have a save game where you completely mess up and the base in ruins, another where you were successful and travel to the Ruin world and have an interesting role playing experience. =D

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QA KeenSWH ●

Hello, Engineer!

This is not a bug but intended feature. It was moved to Feedback so you can vote for changing it.

Kind Regards

Keen Software House: QA Department

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Darren Lynch ●

Agreed this is a bit of a shame, I currently run a dedicated server with crossplay, went to spawn more planets in... nope :( I know Xbox memory is limited, and I am no programmer so I won't pretend I know how easy or hard this would be to fix, but it would defiantly slow the stagnation factor, i.e. what do we do know? Why would we go discover a new planet that is the same as the other 3?

Thanks for reading.

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Waffles The Wolf ●

This brings up the question of the series x and s being able to handle way more than the xbox one why are they still so limited with regards to what they can do?, i play on pc alot of the time and find my pc (similar spec to the xbox series x) being able to handle in excess of 12 planets without it taking up more than 8gbs of my ram at anytime of which the series x has double(probably has 12gb available to use) i understand that the xbox one is limited but in all fairness the fact it runs on that console alone is a miracle and i find it extremely frustrating that games just cannot progress because of that console. kind of went on a rant towards the end there but i seriously am hoping that you take a look and upgrading the series console version even more than just pcu that people will never even get close to filling.

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Stephen Aronson ●

Some how No Man's Sky can do it ?? you can warp, break orbit, warp to whatever planet, barely or little screen loading.

perhaps upgraded game engines? just thoughts

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Sean child ●

Hi Keen,

As consoles like the series X become more prominent in the Xbox user base, and since Microsoft have released the direct storage API to windows, is multiple planets a more likely to come to consoles? Or even dedicated servers for consoles? I was incredibly disappointed that even dedicated servers didn't have the 'star system' start considering the 'current' console generation has been out for a year now and many games have taken advantage of the new technology available

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Brad L. ●

KeenSWH,

Adding this improvement for the Series X/S consoles that have more available memory would be a great addition. I understand the need to limit features for the previous generation of consoles, but the new gen consoles have been out for over a year now. Removing the restriction for next gen would quickly resolve this issue.

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